Beauty is a kind and gentle soul—beautiful not only to look at, but pure of heart. Her father, once a rich merchant, loses his fortune at sea and the family comes upon hard times. A strange twist of fate bring beauty closer to a man who looks like a beast, but is he really one? Read his enchanting fairy tale about a most unlikely love, about how the beauty of the heart conquers all that is bad and evil.
HIS FATHER STILL warm in the grave, Bartholomé de Ménibus leaves his traditional farming village in a bucolic valley and sets out to discover what lies behind the only mountain he has ever known: endless other mountains. Behind each, fantastical Swiftian worlds inhabited by Quixotic characters all convinced that their lifestyle is the only way to face the future. Dairy cows with portholes sewn into their rumps offer consumers 'a window on the product'; elderly folk are abandoned by the roadside as their families drive on through traffic jams to holiday destinations; pigs are farmed in 125-storey skyscrapers. In this quirky, satirical novel, sparkling with surreal humour and inventiveness, Marie-Jeanne Urech adopts the codes of epic medieval quests and epistolary tales of the past as she skips lightly but purposefully towards the essential question: What kind of Earth are we leaving for future generations?
In "X wie Dictionnaire" wird die Geschichte von Simon erzählt, dem Laternenanzünder einer Stadt, die vom Urwald überwuchert wird. Während die Menschen nach Belgador fliehen, bleibt er zurück und findet ein stummes Kind im Seemeer, das ihm die Bedeutung von Liebe und Hoffnung in einer scheinbar untergehenden Welt näherbringt.