Paulino y el manto mágico es una historia que se desarrolla en las alturas de la cordillera de los Andes. En el valle donde vive Paulino y su abuelo hay una terrible sequia, esto tiene muy preocupados a los pobladores del lugar. El abuelo le contarà a su nieto que posee un manto mágico con el que pueden viajar por el tiempo. Entonces Paulino y su abuelo para saber cómo los ancestros resolvían el problema de la sequia viajaran al pasado donde conocerán al gran sacerdote que vive en una ciudad mágica, él los ayudara con sus consejos. Es una historia que está llena de aventura y de emoción, el pequeño Paulino tendrá que volar sobre un cóndor mágico para descubrir el misterio que guarda el gran nevado en la cordillera de los Andes. Emoción magia y peligro acompañan a Paulino un niño que demostrara gran valor para realizar la tarea de peligro que le es encomendada.

The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century examines magical realism in literatures from around the globe. Featuring twenty-seven essays written by leading scholars, this anthology argues that literary expressions of magical realism proliferate globally in the twenty-first century due to travel and migrations, the shrinking of time and space, and the growing encroachment of human life on nature. In this global context, magical realism addresses twenty-first-century politics, aesthetics, identity, and social/national formations where contact between and within cultures has exponentially increased, altering how communities and nations imagine themselves. This text assembles a group of critics throughout the world—the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia—who employ multiple theoretical approaches to examine the different ways magical realism in literature has transitioned to a global practice; thus, signaling a new stage in the history and development of the genre.

These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Pérez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where he witnessed the July revolution of 1830; to various commercial endeavors including a distillery, the practice of medicine, and cattle smuggling; into service as an advisor to an Argentine warlord; as a miner for precious metals in the north of Chile; as participant in the California Gold Rush in 1849; as director of the government's project for German immigration and settlement in the wild south of Chile; and also as Chilean consul and immigration agent in Hamburg. Around the world, Rosales lived through many of his era's watershed moments. His exciting memoirs offer a chance to relive the rush and chaos of these times--from a much safer vantage.

"The best introduction available for students of one of the most important philosophers of this century."--"American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly." (Philosophy)