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"An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him. Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city...
2) Lolita
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With an Introduction by Martin Amis. When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love...
4) Lolita
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Los adjetivos de escandalosa, inmoral, decadente y ultrajante acompanaron largo tiempo a Lolita, hoy ya considerada una obra maestra de la literatura. La historia de la obsesion de Humbert Humbert, un profesor cuarenton, por la doceanera Lolita es una extraordinaria novela de amor en la que intervienen dos componentes explosivos: la atraccion perversa por las ninfulas y el incesto.
Poet and pervert, Humbert becomes obsessed by 12-year-old Lolita...
5) Zarzut
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"Joanna Chyłka is approached by a priest to whom the lawyer and her sister owe a lot - it was he who extended a helping hand to them years ago when they needed it most. Today, however, he is charged with pedophilia - and although they are convincing, Chyłka is not ready to believe in his guilt. Together with Kordian, he undertakes to defend him, although he has serious doubts about the priest's innocence. The case puts not only their relationship...
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