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Stories that explore situations, characters and worlds that, although they may be inspired by reality, are not limited by it.
French medieval work written by Chrétien de Troyes in the late 12th century. It is one of the first Arthurian romances, which focuses on the adventures of King Arthur and his knights. The story follows the life of Erec, a gentleman at the round table, and his wife Enide.
Count Lucanor is a narrative work of medieval Spanish literature written between 1331 and 1335 by Don Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena and grandson of King Fernando III of Castilla. Its full and original title in medieval Spanish is the Book of the Enxiples of Count Lucanor et de Patronio.
It is one of the most ambitious and scholarly works of Giovanni Boccaccio, composed at the end of the 14th century. It is not just a compilation, but a vast treaty and systematic encyclopedia of classical mythology, covering the genealogies, stories and attributes of the gods, semigods, heroes and legendary figures of the Greek and Roman traditions.
It is a comedy of captives or chivalry comedy of Moorish environment and epic features work by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.1 It was printed as the first of its eight comedies and eight new months never represented (1615). It is usually related to a journey that Cervantes made to Oran as a spy in 1581.
The more or less explicit references to the various sexual encounters and, above all, the depraved character of its two main characters, the Marquesa de Merteuil and the Viscount of Valmont, provoked the sour suspicion of the more puritan sectors of French society and caused, four times, throughout its century but also the 19th century, the courts to prohibit the publication of the novel by immoral.
Jacques the fatalist puts into play several stories within history, some parallel, some convergent, but all masterfully articulated. All of them are inserted into a universe where there are paradoxes, humor, irony, criticism, philosophy of daily life and universal philosophy. Jacques's love story is the starting point of a delusion novel, an essential literary piece, considered the French satirical novel par excellence.
In the years of the French Revolution, the French-German struggle generates thousands of fugitives. They are the displaced who have "long drunk the bitter cup of this century." The marriage that governs the plateau of a German people is driven to help those poor people who wander sick, hungry and almost naked, and sends their son Hermann with food and coat.
Bitter Sátira or philosophical dialogue, a portrait of a Bohemian Paris, is a unique, personal and lucid work as few.
Dr. Benassis, a philanthropic doctor, carries out a gigantic task of improving the living conditions of the population in the Delfinate. He is a great character in his sense of goodness and justice, a human archetype but also a creature with his weaknesses and shortcomings.
The Duchess of Lanageais brings together in her person the triple prestige of beauty, birth and misfortune. With illustrious blood, Antoinette de Navarreins was born in 1794, under the Terror.
Cesar Birotteau, an honest perfumer, falls into the trap prepared by an employee who Birotteau fired for embezzlement.
It tells the story of a young man from provinces with artistic ambitions who dreams of success in Paris. The odyssey of Lucien Rubempejé from the innocence of his native Angulence to the mud of failure is one of the most bold, embellishing, and imposing narrative of the 19th century.
Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet twilight of the old curious shop with her sick grandfather, whom she takes care of with selfless devotion. But when they can't pay their debts to lender Daniel Quilp, atrophy, lascivious and demonic, the store is confiscated and forced to flee.
Martin Chuzzlewit's writing of Life and Adventures was the result of a trip to the United States that Dickens undertook in 1842, a disappointing journey, in which the English author would discover the enormous distance between the ideals that proclaimed and defended American citizens and their daily conduct. Among other things, Dickens was anonymous about the violent manner in which conflicts were usually resolved, as well as the derogatory treatment of outsiders.
The story develops in three days and is divided into three songs. The cricket, a symbol of peace in the humble homes, is the axis of the story: in the first song, the cricket is happy; in the second, it is silent; in the third, it is resung.
Mr. Projarchin, an enigmatic character who lives an extremely poor life, eating leftovers and sleeping on a bad-death pension. His landlady and the other tenants feel sorry for him, but he will finally discover that that guest was hiding a secret he would never reveal.
One night, Goliadkin is expelled from a dinner at his boss's house that he had allegedly been invited to and this fact gives him a deep shock. The next day he stumbles into the street with an individual completely identical to him: the other Lord Goliadkin. Although they are physically the same, their character is totally opposite, as the false Goliadkin is a joyful, safe, triumphant and always surrounded by friends.
After his landlord experiences a break-in and a robbery, Astafy Ivanovich tells the man the tragic story of a man named Emelyan Ilyitch, an honest thief he once knew, and from whose livelihood Astafy was once responsible.
It tells the story of the triumph and the misfortune of a young woman with a beautiful voice, Gaviota, who achieves a resounding success in the stages of Madrid and Seville and falls in love with a bullfighter who dies in the square.
Memorias de ultratumba is an autobiography of François-René de Chateaubriand in 42 volumes published in 1848. Although the work has features that bring it closer to the literary genre of 'memories' (in the classic meaning of the term, such as the 'Memories of Saint- Simon'), the 'Memories of Ultratumba' are also inspired by the Confessions of Rousseau, in the sense that Chateaubriand (in addition to the political and historical events it attends) deals with details of his private life and his personal aspirations.
Esther Summerson, abandoned at birth by her parents, is the protected one of John Jarndyce, a powerful gentileman of good heart who has been pleading for years because of an inheritance. Esther lives in the residence of Jarndyce, Casa Desolada, from the age of 18, together with Ada and Richard, John's teenage cousins, orphans and destitute because of the disputed inheritance, which he tries to guide in life.
Through the history of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who, due to family circumstances, is forced to move to the north, Elizabeth Gaskell embodies the social and political conflicts arising from the industrial revolution in England in the mid-19th century.
Difficult times are critical of the most radical utilitarianism and address the issue of marriage as a reflection of his unhappy personal experience.
After more than twenty years in China ("I have so few roots that the current takes me down"), Arthur Clennam returns to London convinced that he has wasted his youth and that the moment of love has already passed for him. His mother, an invalid and sinister old woman, greets him in the room of which he has not gone out for twelve years, and in which, at the bottom, in the gloom, he sews a misplaced girl.
Environmented in a remote hacienda, history is about a home completely under the control of the despotic charlatan and phony Fomich Opiskin.
He tells us the story of Maese Pérez, a very old man who played the organ in the church of Santa Inés. He played the organ, as no one had done before; art inherited it from his father, for when he died he left his organ, and Maese Pérez decided to follow his steps. Everyone knew him for playing the organ, for how good he was. I used to play it on Christmas Eve, because it meant a lot to him that night. Besides, he was blind, but he knew that one day he would get to see God.
Collect the experiences of the character Aleksandr Petrovich Goryánchikov in Siberian prison for killing his wife in the first year of his marriage. Each chapter of the work describes the anecdotes, the different themes and conversations or experiences that prisoners live, their feelings about Christmas, summer, attempts to escape and other details of Russian society, administration and culture. This book, which was published in chapters in a magazine that the author founded together with his brother Mikhail, reflects his own experiences in prison, lack of freedom, cold, loneliness, hard forced labour, the kind of people he lived with and who, despite being criminals, describe with a great humanity. In this work, a deep reflection is made on criminal psychology. He transmits his knowledge of the Bible, a book that the author himself read daily in prison and from which he derived his idea of the use of suffering as liberation and spiritual salvation.
A novel of Andalusian rural environment that revolves around three simple-life characters, full of popular and folklore elements.
Epistolar collection written by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and published in the Madrid newspaper El Contemporáneo
In the angry and vitriolic tone of the misanthrops and without any prior order, the narrator of the subsoil, a revolting average official of the city of St. Petersburg, reports, at his forty years, certain aspects of his life in a convulsive lack of memories. His speech is dedicated to the entire humanity and ranges between the philosophical essay and the representation in sequences of his pusilanime and sick personality.
A realistic novel focused on the vicissitudes of the young bourgeois Renata and how she faces limitations for a woman in France in the mid-XIX century.
Tartarín vive en el pequeño pueblo francés de Tarascón. En ese lugar, es presidente de la asociación de caza local y muy admirado por todos sus vecinos.2 Un día se desplaza a África para cazar un león. En el viaje conoce a un supuesto príncipe de Montenegro, que en realidad es un timador que espera estafarlo. Adquiere un camello para buscar al león y cazarlo. En el transcurso de su viaje salva de unos bandidos a una diligencia. Finalmente, cazará un león. Aunque se encontrará con que era un animal ciego y manso que un par de mendigos usaban para ganarse la vida exhibiéndolo, por lo que es linchado por esto. Sin embargo, sí puede conseguir la piel del animal y demostrar a sus vecinos que dio caza a un gran león.
The National Episodes are a collection of forty-six historical novels written by Benito Pérez Galdós, which were written between 1872 and 1912. They are divided into five series and deal with the history of Spain from 1805 to 1880, approximately. The First Series analyzes the ten titles, written between 1873 and 1875, as if it were a single work. With the exception of Gerona, all the episodes follow the adventurous and loving walks of the boy Gabriel de Araceli through the Spain dominated in principle by France and then in the war of independence, from the battle of Trafalgar to the defeat of the French armies (1805-1814).
It all begins when the great Muscari, a very young poet, who is staying in a hotel with a view to the Mediterranean, meets Miss Ethel Harrogate, who is the daughter of a powerful and rich banker who also stays in the same hotel, Ethel is a very young and beautiful girl, but of adventurous ideas, who loves adventure and risk very much, is enthusiastic about the idea of living a great event when she learns that they are going to travel and that on this journey you can find many dangers and risks that you can face, so that you will feel the things that you will be very interesting and that you will take away.
The essential entries of the entire Dostoievski Journal, called its most bold experiment in literary form, are now available in this short edition; it is a unique encyclopedic forum of fictitious and non-fictitious genres. A writer's diary began as a column in a literary magazine, but in 1876 Dostoievski was able to remove it as a full monthly publication with himself as an editor, editor and only collaborator, suspending work in The Karamazov brothers to do so.
n The four stories that form The dream of a ridiculous man is condemned the creative universe of Dostoyevski. In them is the irreversibility of man's destiny. But at a time, the individual voices of the protagonists seem to invoke, with painful solidarity, the collective liberation of this great human mass subjected to pain and misunderstanding.
Felite, a French maid, addresses a life of servitude with an angelic aplomer but on a human scale.
After publishing an immense number of stories, Chéjov decided to write a novel, but not a traditional one but a police one, perhaps the first in Russia. The title was A Hunting Drama and was published for deliveries in a newspaper. In the form of a book he appeared in 1923. For his readers it was, for several reasons, a surprise. That, Chéjov's first novel, reveals to us a different writer, different from the one that was before and also the one that was later. It shows us a Russia in darkness, an evil spirituality, an atmosphere of latrine and a brutal subbackground. His characters and circumstances are made of delusions, cruelty, complex frustrations.
The Maia tells the story of the deterioration of a great Portuguese family through two of its members: the old Afonso de Maia, the patriarch and an admired man and his grandson, the young Carlos de Maia, idealist, dilettant and romantic, representative of finisecular elegance and authentic protagonist of the story. In the thread of detachment, the conclusion of time and a way of life, the characters live their time and their life and the novel echoes the rites of love (and the hidden bourgeois sex of the 19th century, of adulterer or of payment).
In Jude Fawley's periphery - the abandonment of his wife, in her forced renunciation of university studies, in the illegal, tortuous, and vagrant relationship she is undertaking with her cousin - Thomas Hardy wanted to base "a tragic fable" with the purpose of "showing that, as Diderot says, civil law should be only the wording of a natural law.".
The work tells of the decline of the humble clan of the Doves, embodied in the tragic figure of his last stem, Tonet, an abulic individual with a weak personality.
A British military officer must prove that the cowardice charge of some of his companions is being immersed.
Lucy Honeychurch, joven perteneciente a la buena sociedad inglesa, intenta abrir camino a su personalidad superando el obstáculo de las convenciones sociales.
The action of "The Last Romantics" began in the spring of 1866 with the arrival in Paris of the protagonist, Mr Fausto Bengoa, who wants to visit an old friend of his mother, who seems to have the intention to make him and his family heirs of his property. During his stay in the city, Bengoa comes into contact with the Spanish emigrants in the French capital.
The novel follows the evolution of Pelagia Nilovna, a woman aged prematurely because of her husband's blows and the misery of a Russian industrial city. After becoming a widow, he was afraid to see how his son Pável began to bring banned books and to organize clandestine meetings in his home.
It tells the life of Martín Zalacaín, a kind of classic hero who fights against adversity and fate in the Basque Country of the Carlist wars. The childhood of Zalacaín is in a medieval corner full of traditions and legends, along with an old relative. His spirit of combat already from a child, of struggle against everything and against all, will lead him in his youth to enlist in the Carlist ranks with the sole objective of overcoming.
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez published "Oriente" in 1907, after a trip through Europe that will take you to Constantinople. In the chronicle of this trip Blasco combines with master the description of the curious and picturesque with the history of each place he visits, anticipating in his reflections many of the changes that would take place as a result of the Great War.
on las guerras napoleónicas como fondo romántico de esta historia, se narra en ella la contienda entablada por dos oficiales de distintos regimientos de húsares a lo largo de sus respectivas carreras militares, cuyos destinos discurren, de modo misterioso, paralelamente.
Ruth Wilcox is a friend of a young woman named Margaret, who is left to inherit her country house, Howards End. Margaret's sister, Helen, falls in love with a Porfirius employee who leaves his job for the wrong and hasty advice of Ruth's widower, Mr. Wilcox, with whom Margaret agrees to marry. Helen gets pregnant.
In Gertrudis, the first person narrates the misfortunes and alternative waves of a painful experience of love. The protagonist speaks of his childhood and his predisposition for music. In adolescence, he suffers from the attraction of Liddy, a frivolous girl, and on the return of a cheerful excursion, "the dumbest day of my foolish youth," the sled in which they go hastens, a terrible accident comes, and the young man is left semi-detached forever.
Written in his creative maturity, the author chose the sea as the protagonist, Baroja's favorite scenario for every kind of action, in return for life on the ground inside.
The protagonist of history, the Russian Sacha Savarof, thus sums up her theme: "Life is this, cruelty, ingratitude, unconsciousness, disdain of force for weakness... And what to do? You can't stop living. You can't stop..." Rebel and unable to adapt to reality, Sacha is offering us his life in the most different environments: the student world of Geneva, the refined spirituality of Florence, the monotonous life of a Spanish people...
Martin Howe, a young American, volunteered in the medical service during World War I. It boils the ship in which it travels to France and the environment around it is festive, but very soon, Martin will live his learning of the fear and disasters of war.
The novel recounts the life of the son of a brahman (priest), Siddharta, a young Hindu, who eagerly and on the most diverse ways seeks his own life.
Three soldiers are a novel that strongly criticizes militarism and portrays the generation of young Americans who, like the author himself, participated in World War I and saw their dreams trampled.
The young Dos Passos spent a season in Spain in the 1920s and took advantage of that trip to write some journalistic prints in which he was approaching Iberian reality. In their pages appear taverns, trade travelers, barrios, along with celebrities such as Pastora Imperio or Blasco Ibáñez. The reader may even accompany the novelist to the funeral of Galdós, or attend a conference of Valle-Inclán.
After a two-year break in October 1924 and being in Biarritz, Baroja ends the wax figures that, within the Memories of an action man, constitute a kind of trilogy with the ship of the Locos and the bloody masked. The action remains focused on Bayona, with the main figures being the Trappero Chipiteguy and the young Alvaro Sánchez de Mendoza, in love with the granddaughter of the first. The way to combine the novelesque action with the aviranean intrigues reflects great mastery and can be affirmed without fear of making mistakes, that these three novels are among the best in the series.
Three are the characters in this book: a man, a woman and a car. This is Francis Scott Fitzgerald, a talented writer whose first novel, on this side of paradise, has just become a bestseller. She is Zelda, her young wife, a charming and unpredictable flapper, with short melon and golf pants. And the car - the real protagonist of the story - is an old sports coupe of the Expenso brand, a second-hand Marmon 1917 to which its owners, for reasons that the reader will become obvious, call the Rolling Slayer.
The action takes place in Madrid, around the date of the king's death, in an atmosphere of political, courtesan and sentimental intrigues. This gives the novelist a chance to make a considerable number of curious types, from Father Chamizo to the theosophical midwife.
< div class = "p-3" > Manhattan Transfer has passed to history as the first great success of the influence of film assembly on literary narrative and as the best and most experienced portrait of the convulsive city of New York in the 1920s. < / div > < div class = "p-3" > An impressive gallery of characters, with their illusions and frustrations, pass before the eyes of the reader; each one stars a scene, each puppet makes his own cabriola and disappears, sometimes to not return, as a fire that illustrates an aspect of the rich, complex and changing reality that is the Great Apple; on other occasions they reappear, they relate to each other, and the various episodes, subject to an heir assembly of the cinematographic techniques, make up a fresh, daily language, in which they combine very different accents and that manages to transmit with extraordinary force the simultaneity of actions. < / div >
Faulkner tells with great originality and beauty the story of the return home of a wounded veteran, Donald Mahon, the central axis on which the life of three soldiers revolves, and the impact that his return from the front causes on those who left behind, especially women.
Mr. Haslitt's firm receives a letter from France from one of his clients - Betty Harlowe- requesting advice because he has been charged with murder by a relative - Boris Wabersky -, a more than likely blackmailer in need of money.
A happily married bourgeois finds an alternative to her life boredom with an activity far away from her world.
Dona Bárbara, the cacica of Arauca, represents the barbarity in the world of the plain that resists civilization.
Jake is madly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with a sensual and abandoned nature that she cannot change. When the couple travels to Spain in the midst of the dazzling of the party and the intoxicating atmosphere of bullfighting, their relationship is tense by new passions, new jealousy, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.
In addition to being a technical and thorough description of a cumshot seen from the eyes of a profane, an uncompromising essay on the art of risk and the close relationship between life and cruelty, it also takes up, once again, the subject of Hemingway's work: the tragic feeling of life and the instinct of self-destruction.
With the blessings of his late father resonating in his head, young farmer Joseph Wayne leaves the family house in Vermont to start a new life in California. There he will realize his dream of building a farm in a fertile valley, while increasingly obsessed with an imposing tree that grows next to the house, he will end up convinced that the spirit of his parent dwells in him. Prosperity decides to bring his brothers and families with him, but one of them, frightened by what he considers to be Joseph's pagan beliefs, will cut down the tree. And everything will change forever.
After winning in European cabarets, the flamenco dancer Juan Martínez and his partner Sole were caught in Russia during the 1917 revolutions and the subsequent civil war, surviving between St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kiev in the midst of chaos, violence and misery. Manuel Chaves Nogales, to whom Martínez reported his experiences in Paris, transformed them into El maestro Juan Martínez, a novel based on real facts that portrays with human intensity a world populated by artists, Russian aristocrats, spies, chechists and opportunists, and that confirms Chaves as one of the great voices of Spanish narrative journalism of the 1930s.
Relato semiautobiográfico de la vida bohemia de Henry Miller en París. Su tono directo, erótico y fragmentario desafió durante décadas la censura y abrió un camino decisivo para la narrativa confesional moderna.
Peter Kien, sinólogo obsesionado con su biblioteca, se hunde en una espiral de aislamiento, matrimonio destructivo y delirio. Canetti construye una novela feroz sobre conocimiento, poder y ceguera moral.
Quentin Compson, a stem of the lineage that appears in "Noise and fury," recites, with the help of his Harvard roommate, the stubborn efforts of Thomas Stupen to govern a large plantation and build a dynasty.
The big money, the final book of the US trilogy of John Dos Passos, presents an America that lives the industrial boom of the post-war: the stock market emerges, Lindbergh makes its flight around the world, Henry Ford opens his car factory... From New York to Hollywood, between loving adventures and business covenants, the country is unfettered to the Great Depression of 1929.
"The years" follows the history of the Pargiter family over several decades of England's history. Virginia Woolf weaves an impressionist and emotional narrative, exploring the social, political and cultural evolution of the country, as well as the personal transformation of family members. Through this introspective prose, Woolf captures the complexity and beauty of life in constant change.
Janie Crawford reconstruye su vida y sus tres matrimonios en busca de amor, autonomía y una voz propia en la Florida de comienzos del siglo XX. Zora Neale Hurston combina oralidad, naturaleza y una poderosa celebración de la libertad individual.
As her second marriage approaches, a brilliant, independent sculptor faces tensions between her art and daily life.
This work narrates the feelings and attitudes of human beings on issues such as interpersonal relations, difficulties, abandonment and loss and introduces us into the unfortunate love story between Harry Wilbourne and Carlota Rittenmeyer.
The four narrations that make up this volume are set in the Spanish Civil War, in whose decisive battles Hemingway participated as a correspondent.
In a poor and remote area of southern Mexico, the paramilitary group Los Shirts Rojas has taken over. God has been outlawed and priests have been systematically persecuted and killed.
Among the most representative of Faulkner's impressive work are the novels known as "Yoknapatawpha cycle," developed as a fable on life in the south of the United States and on human destiny anywhere in the world.
It tells the guerrilla life of a group of Republicans during the Spanish Civil War.
Adventures by Sergeant Lamb, a man from Dublin at the service of His Majesty's army. the story begins with the first days of Lamb in Dublin and ends with his arrival in Boston as a member of the regiment made prisoner after Burgoyne's surrender in Saratoga.
El joven oficial Giovanni Drogo llega a la remota fortaleza Bastiani esperando una gran ocasión que dé sentido a su vida. Los años pasan frente a un desierto vacío y Dino Buzzati convierte la espera en una parábola sobre tiempo, ambición y destino.
El veterano revolucionario Rubashov es encarcelado y sometido a interrogatorios por el régimen que ayudó a construir. Arthur Koestler examina la lógica del totalitarismo, la culpa y el sacrificio del individuo ante una idea.
In this wild and ingenious parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht reformulates Hitler's rise as taking control of the city's summer business by a small-time Chicago gangster.
The day his older and wealthy friend asks him to marry, Mary Leonard hesitates and decides to postpone his answer for a few days. But that same afternoon, by driving alone through the hills that dominate Florence, Mary offers to take in her car a handsome stranger. And suddenly, his life is completely and irrevocably altered.
Closed field is the first novel of The Magic Labyrinth, the cycle of novels that Max Aub conceived with the intention of retaking the genre of the historical novel of the immediate past, and with the determined will to testify to the Spanish Civil War.
It tells the first years of the life of Francie Nolan, a daughter of emigrants who grows in poverty in Williamsburg during the first two decades of the 20th century and who dreams of becoming a writer.
Desde la prisión, un narrador transforma el encierro en una fantasía lírica poblada por marginados, amantes y criminales del París nocturno. Jean Genet convierte la exclusión, el deseo y la invención de uno mismo en una prosa de belleza provocadora.
Cela considers the Lazarillo a critical book, a book that points to a time of crisis. And it is, indeed. But from that crisis it was not depauperated, but strengthened. The Lazarillo is a masterpiece that today has a long history of editions. It's not a current picaresque novel essay. The word essay does not respond to its condition or merits. It is simply a Picaresque novel that does not dishonor or break the branch from which it was born.
Collection of twelve stories by the author of "The Stepparian Wolf" in which Hesse's experiences are mixed with his personal vision of the world, culture, art, society. Some distil the typical lyrism of their novels, others enclose a unique irony, in others it overflies a certain magic, in some it refers to myths of the past, in others it travels to remote lands.
First novel by the famous Trilogy USA in which John Dos Passos (1896-1970) drew the huge tapestry of American society from the early 20th century to the Great Depression.
Un joven intelectual contrata al exuberante Alexis Zorba para trabajar en una mina de Creta. La convivencia entre ambos enfrenta pensamiento y experiencia, prudencia y deseo, en una celebración trágica y vital de la libertad.
En un país gobernado por un dictador invisible y omnipresente, una acusación manipulada destruye vidas y lealtades. Miguel Ángel Asturias combina denuncia política, pesadilla y lenguaje poético.
Lucas Beauchamp, a black old man accused of the murder of a white man, is in danger of being lynched. Gavin Stevens, an eminent local lawyer, is committed to justice, but the old stubborn rejects his help. Instead, it is Chick, Gavin's 16-year-old nephew, whom Lucas confesses the truth to.
In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and just man of modest means enlisted to secure the borders.
We are in a fictional town called Boscaccio, just after World War II. Boscaccio has a mayor named Peppone who wants to realize his communist ideals, and the Roman Catholic priest Don Camillo is desperate to avoid it. Despite their different views, they both work together in the fight against social injustice and abuse.
Pablo Castel, an obsessive and lonely painter, confesses from the beginning the murder of Mary Iribarne, the only woman who, according to him, was able to understand. From that crime, Castel rebuilds his relationship with Mary, marked by incommunication, jealousy and progressive paranoia. His need for possession and his inability to accept the ambiguity of the other lead him to an ever deeper isolation, symbolized by the inner "tunnel" in which he is locked.
En un remoto balneario nevado, la relación entre Shimamura y la geisha Komako se desarrolla entre belleza, distancia y melancolía. Kawabata compone una novela de atmósfera contenida y delicadeza extrema.
One of the main inspiration themes of Divertimento, dated in the 1949 carnival, is that intertwining of musical, plastic and literary themes that make up one of the central knots of Cortázar's work.
Sebastián Ferrón lives with his mother and sister in a cold, uprooted house in a city district. Dependent on ultramarines, dream of getting to work in a department store.
Tired of her husband, Sarah Miles often disappears from home without anyone knowing where she spends her time.
Holden Caulfield abandona el internado y deambula por Nueva York entre recuerdos, rechazo de la hipocresía adulta y deseo de proteger la inocencia. Salinger firma una de las voces juveniles más reconocibles de la narrativa moderna.
After the American Secession War, and after his wife's suicide, Cyrus is in the care of his newborn son, Adam, which will lead him to enter into a new marriage from which his brother Charles will be born. After the years, the belief that Adam is too weak and needs to be strengthened will lead Cyrus to force his firstborn to enlist in the army. Meanwhile, his brother will stay in the care of the family estate and his mother, who will die shortly after tuberculosis.
With an unmistakable bop style, which was awarded to Kerouac the title of "heir to Charlie Parker," this novel narrates the crazed trips, on board of Cadillacs borrowed and Dodges lost, by Dean Moriarty, the mythical hipster, the hero of all the Beatniks, "a madman, an angel, a cheerleader" and the narrator Sal Paradise, walking the continent, from New York to New Orleans, Mexico City, San Francisco, Chicago and back to New York.
Un narrador afroamericano recorre el sur y el norte de Estados Unidos mientras descubre cómo la sociedad lo vuelve invisible. Ralph Ellison mezcla realismo, simbolismo y crítica racial en una de las grandes novelas estadounidenses del siglo XX.
Hazel Motes regresa del ejército decidido a fundar una iglesia sin Cristo, pero su feroz rechazo de la fe lo mantiene atrapado en ella. Flannery O’Connor combina humor negro, fanatismo y extrañeza en un retrato incisivo del sur estadounidense.
Divided in three parts, he portrays the love triangle between Miguel, Alicia and Lucas.
The plot revolves around Montag, a fireman in charge of burning the books by order of the government. It all changes when you meet Clarisse, a girl who raises doubts about her happiness, and love for her wife.
The work again faces the two protagonists of the author's previous novel; Don Camilo, the people's clergy, and Pepón, the communist mayor, both of whom are recalient and inflexible.
This chronicle of the Second Republic is the most read Spanish novel of the 20th century. José María Gironella recounts the life of a middle-class family, the Alvear, and from here on goes deeper in all aspects of citizen life and the various social strata.
Millán, a priest of a small town, commemorates Paco's life as he prepares to give a mass of réquiem on the anniversary of his death. The fragmented narrative shows different events in Paco's life, from his birth to his death.
For some it is a parable that is structured around the limit situation of a thirty single boys on a deserted island represents an illustration of the theses that place criminal aggressiveness among man's basic instincts, for others it is a moral necessity against a repressive education that does nothing but prepare future explosions of barbarity when the controls relax.
Published in 1954, it is a departure from the surreal current and the beginning of a new stage in which the poet contemplates man not from the reality of the cosmos but in a more human way, where love, child memories, the serene observation of the daily work or other men can be found. "Go down, go down slowly and look among the others. There are all of them, and you among them.".
In the middle of the Civic War, young Abel decides to escape from his grandmother's house, with whom he does not get along, to emphasize at the house of his grandmother aunt Estanislah, who lives in El Paraíso, a decadent house of worship, located in the Catalan Pyrenees, which symbolizes the failures of that family. Abel has become an orphan and at his grandmother's aunt's house they welcome him for mercy, although he really doesn't get much attention.
The first book by Gabriel García Márquez - 1955 - contains the stylistic germ and the ideas that would nourish its vast production. The hojarasca is the infamous count of a quiet collective revenge that takes place in Macondo, at the time when the people receive the disorderly stream that follows the exploitation of the banana, and its disastrous wake after the bloody rebellion of the workers. Prefiguration imbued with a supernatural aura and at the same time unquestionably realistic, this three-voice account is the fundamental stone of the splendid kingdom of the universal Colombian.
In the stormy political environment of the Indochina of the 1950s - an Indochina that claims its independence against the French army - three characters form a fragile love triangle: Thomas Fowler, a war correspondent who has led a life full of sentimental failures and who reviews his experiences with distance and scepticism; Alden Pyle, the impassible American, an extremely naive American secret agent, and Fuong, a young woman of whom the two men are in love, and who has not just recognized her feelings.
A ten-year-old is orphaned in the unedifying America of a thousand nine hundred and twenty and is placed under the authority of an eccentric lady, obsessed by being at the page, vital, capricious, seductive and adorable. Next to it, he will spend the next thirty years in an incessant spiral of parties, loves, adventures and various blows of fortune.
En el París de los años cincuenta, David recuerda su relación con Giovanni mientras intenta encajar en las expectativas que pesan sobre su identidad. James Baldwin narra el deseo, la culpa y el autoengaño con una claridad emocional extraordinaria.
In the city, the second part of the "Trilogy of the Snopes," initiated by El villorrio (Alfaguara, 1987) and concluded with La mansion (Alfaguara, 1990), the author follows the development of the Snopes through three points of view. The first of them is that of K. V. Ratcliff, a sewing machine salesman who had already appeared in Sartoris and while agonizing. The second is that of his friend Gavin, to a large extent against the good judgment of the former. And at last, that of Charles Mallison, incarnation of hope in the virtues of a new South of the United States, and protagonist of his own history of initiation.
Who has not fantasized about being a secret agent or has not been captivated by the mysterious tradition of espionage? From the words of William Blake, D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann, all suspected of spying on three major wars, to the classic espionage stories of Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and Graham Greene himself, this fascinating compendium of all Things Spy is the perfect partner for the armchair agent we all have inside.
In a city of provinces - probably Salamanca - among the visicles, it tells of life, full of routine, conservatism and hypocrisy. Through the seemingly banal talk of a group of girls, we know their daily occupations - the walks and first boyfriends, the exits of the institute, the sessions of cinemas, the dances at the Casino - their anguish, their fear of the lone, the unsaved sadness that it is after boredom and lack of imagination.
Cuando tenía doce años, Cosimo Piovasco, barón de Rondó, en un gesto de rebelión contra la tiranía familiar, se encaramó a una encina del jardín de la casa paterna. Ese mismo día, el 15 de junio de 1767, encontró a la hija de los marqueses de Ondarivia y le anunció su propósito de no bajar nunca de los árboles. Desde entonces y hasta el final de su vida, Cosimo permanece fiel a una disciplina que él mismo se ha impuesto.
Los excéntricos Wapshot viven en una localidad costera de Nueva Inglaterra mientras los hijos intentan abrirse camino fuera de casa. John Cheever combina tradición familiar, sátira social y melancolía.
In the country of Cora-Cora everything was prepared the great celebrations on the occasion of the king's birthday, and all its inhabitants were very happy waiting for the great day. But happiness was going to last a little, because a terrible tragedy was on the palace. One morning, when I was making a long sum, the princess disappeared. Everyone was alarmed, until four brave children snuck into the palace determined to find it would cost what it cost..
In this work Max Aub presents us with the imaginative life of Jusep Torres Campalans, a Cuban painter invented by the author and who managed to pass as true to criticism as a literary joke. The character admires Picasso and detests Juan Gris. The author accompanies the biography of Jusep Torres with bibliographic data, chronologies, even photographs of the artist and samples of the work he was preparing for an alleged exhibition at the Tate Gallery.
En Ilhéus, una ciudad marcada por el cacao, el deseo y la política local, la llegada de Gabriela altera la vida de Nacib y de toda una comunidad. Jorge Amado combina sensualidad, humor y crítica social en un retrato de Brasil en transformación.
Borja and her cousin Matia live at her grandmother's house in a naive and mysterious island world at the same time. Through the very particular vision of the girl - without mother and with a missing father - we see her awakening to adolescence, when, broken the shell of childhood, blind and astonishing and even sometimes the strong glow of reality hurts.
Dr. Edwin Spindrift, a professor of linguistics at the University of Moulmein, suffers a fall that will have a negative impact on his sexuality. After the loss of desire for his wife Sheila, Edwin contemplates the progressive disintegration of his marriage,
Purchased by the demons of drink and madness, Branwell Brontë created a private world that was infernal. As a bold and talented child, he promised to be free from the government that his three sisters exercised over him, even though they adored him. But as an adult, the flame of the early genius twisted and turned off. Unable to sell his paintings or publish his books, and without the strength and resources to fight rejection, Branwell became a ghost in pathetic contrast to the amazing achievements of Charlotte, Emily and Anne.
Scout Finch is a six-year-old girl, an orphan of a mother, who lives with her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus - a respectable lawyer - in the imaginary southern village of Maycomb. The children also have a friend, named Dill. The narrative takes place during a summer in the middle of the Great Depression and revolves around two episodes: on the one hand, to the fascination and terror that the children feel for the figure of Boo Radley, a mysterious and fermented neighbor; and on the other, the trial in which Atticus decides to act as a defender, in which a black man is accused of raping a white woman.
As the cruel battle of Stalingrad bleeds the Soviet and German armies, the protagonists struggle fiercely to survive the terror of the Stalinist regime and the horror of the extermination of the Jews.
Yasha Mazur, célebre ilusionista ambulante, viaja por la Polonia del siglo XIX mientras intenta conciliar ambición, deseo, fe y responsabilidad. Isaac Bashevis Singer convierte sus prodigios y contradicciones en una historia moral llena de vitalidad.
Yungo is a child who has lost something very important: his voice. To recover it, he will embark on a magical journey in which he will cross with a grasshopper that will lead him to the Beautiful Country. A new edition of Ana María Matute's children's stories, with texts revised by the author and new illustrations by Albert Asensio.
A million dead are the continuation of the trilogy that began with "The cypresses believe in God" and continues with "Peace has broken out." An immense historical fresco that takes place in the Spanish civil war, treated in both its human and the sociological and the military aspect, and that covers the two sides in struggle.
Mohun Biswas lucha durante toda su vida por tener una casa propia y escapar de la poderosa familia de su esposa en la Trinidad colonial. V. S. Naipaul combina humor, frustración y ternura en una historia sobre autonomía y pertenencia.
It tells the story of three unusual car robbers from the rural Mississippi area. Lucius Priest, 11, is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's servants, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis.
The "bad time" of the peasants has come to the people, the time of misfortune. The region has been "pacified" after so much civil war. The Conservatives have won, who are engaged in cruel and persecute persecution of their liberal adversaries. At dawn in the morning, while Father Angel is preparing to celebrate Mass, a shot in the village sounds.
A group of young people who "educate" in an relentless and violent military discipline learn to survive in an environment in which racial prejudices and differences between social and economic classes are very rooted; where all are shown to be not really and the transgression of established norms seems to be the only way out.
Anna Wulf intenta ordenar su vida, su escritura y sus contradicciones políticas y afectivas en varios cuadernos. Doris Lessing construye una novela fragmentaria sobre conciencia, crisis personal, feminismo y siglo XX.
Manuel and Marta are forced to accept the end of their childhood and must accept the loyalties and betrayals of the hard world of adults. During the fascist attack on Barcelona, the two young people are forced to choose sides. Your decisions will change your lives forever.
Esther Greenwood llega a Nueva York como una estudiante brillante, pero las expectativas sociales y una creciente crisis mental van cerrando el mundo a su alrededor. Sylvia Plath retrata con ironía y precisión la asfixia, la identidad y la recuperación.
Bird recibe la noticia del nacimiento de un hijo con una grave malformación y queda atrapado entre huida, vergüenza y responsabilidad. Oe aborda una crisis moral íntima con intensidad psicológica.
Moses Herzog, un intelectual en plena crisis sentimental y vital, escribe cartas que casi nunca envía a amigos, enemigos, figuras públicas y muertos. Saul Bellow convierte su torrente mental en una novela lúcida, cómica y profundamente humana sobre el fracaso y la posibilidad de recomenzar.
August 25, 1944. In a last gesture of madness, Adolf Hitler orders the destruction of Paris. Only a miracle can save the capital of France. Arde Paris? is the overwhelming account of that miracle and the spectacular release of five million Parisians. Arde Paris? describes the days and, in great detail, the hours that preceded the liberation of Paris during the Second World War. This work is characterized by showing from different points of view the conflict: that of the inhabitants of Paris, the soldiers of Leclerc, Eisenhower, Hitler or General Dietrich von Choltitz. To this end, the authors interviewed dozens of witnesses and protagonists.
Un grupo de jóvenes intelectuales nigerianos regresa al país tras formarse en el extranjero y se enfrenta a sus contradicciones políticas, culturales y personales. Wole Soyinka ofrece un retrato coral de una sociedad recién independizada.
Rosamund Stacey, joven académica en el Londres de los sesenta, afronta sola un embarazo inesperado. Margaret Drabble observa maternidad, independencia y convenciones sociales con inteligencia y sobriedad.
Three men are on a ship to Haiti, a world in the hands of the corrupt "Papa Doc" and the Tontons Macoute, their sinister secret police.
The green house takes place in two very remote places, Piura, in the desert of the Peruvian coast, and Santa María de Nieva, a factory and religious mission lost in the heart of the Amazon.
Travesía de Madrid es una novela de carácter autobiográfico en la que Francisco Umbral retrata el Madrid gris, marginal y literario de los años del franquismo. A través de un protagonista muy cercano al propio autor, la obra describe el proceso de adaptación a la gran ciudad, la precariedad intelectual, las pensiones, los cafés, el periodismo y la bohemia madrileña. Más que una trama lineal, el libro funciona como una sucesión de escenas, ambientes y personajes que componen una crónica poética y social del Madrid de mediados del siglo XX.
Oedipa Maas debe ejecutar el testamento de un antiguo amante y descubre indicios de una red postal clandestina quizá centenaria. Thomas Pynchon mezcla conspiración, cultura popular y entropía en una búsqueda tan cómica como desconcertante.
Oliver is 18 and wants to have fun before going to college. But we are in the 1920s and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English rural city where everyone knows what others do, and where love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and shame.
The broken woman is the stupid victim of the life she herself chose: a conjugal dependence that leaves her stripped of everything and her self when love is refused her.
Su debut. Ya están casi todos los temas que luego perfeccionará: pueblos pequeños, mujeres observando el mundo desde márgenes invisibles, tensiones familiares y revelaciones silenciosas. Aún menos sofisticado que sus libros posteriores, pero extraordinario para ver cómo nace su voz literaria.
ulio Cortázar ha empleado en los breves textos que componen Último Round, la técnica del collage, con recortes periodísticos, comentarios, y mezcla de poesía y prosa. Todo con un predominio humorístico: la ironía en búsqueda de una nueva expresión de la realidad.
On the basis of the question about what life is, which makes Oriana Fallaci his five-year-old little sister, the journalist begins to reflect. He does so from his foreign correspondent post covering the bloody Vietnam war and the naive question ceases to be in the middle of one of the most barbaric historical episodes of recent years. The response will take a long time to come and be much more complex than you can imagine.
The preparations for a feast to celebrate a centenary are the starting point of a plot that is articulated around the unbeatable and vibrant monologues of the four protagonists. All of them are discussed between family interests and the affirmation of their own personality, between love and fear of loneliness, between desire for revenge and acceptance of reality; a breath of secrets from the past that illuminate the present revealed with echoes of great intensity.
The personal stories of Anselmo and Amalia are intermingled with those of Santiago Zavalita, his father, in a scenario marked by the political situation and the abuses of those affected by the dictatorship.
"I was just ten years old when I was taken with my grandparents to the mountain house. First we took a very long trip, which lasted about three days. We had to take two trains, and to the end, came the car, painted in blue, which led to the mountains. Of course, it was a long trip. Sometimes I felt a little tired, but I generally liked it."
New pages of my life is an extremely representative work of the Ramonian style, metaphorical and intuitive even when it does not use the greguery, and in search of a new vision - dramatic in the background, humorous in the form and poetizing of things and of men.
Published for the first time in 1970, nine years after the author's death, the Drifting Islands tells the story of an artist and adventurer, Thomas Hudson, whose personality reminds a lot of that of Hemingway himself.
By protecting Charity in her desperate escape, the only reason that led the Viscount of Desford was to prevent a young woman as attractive as her from suffering any harm. But the lofty gallant is very soon in a bulldozer, as the scoundrel father of Charity and his stingy grandfather imbued him in such a way that all his efforts to help the young woman lead him only to new hardships and misunderstandings. Even Henrietta Silverdale, friend of the viscount since she was a child, He's sorry to wake up his suspicies.
The three short novels gathered in this volume under this title reveal a common technique in William Golding: the careful reconstruction or plausible conjecture of the past are sometimes relativized by the paradox that outlines an intentional anachronism or an impossible event, perhaps to emphasize that the historical distance has no other purpose but to facilitate the deployment of the symbolic and moral dimensions of the fable.
Located in the dark, magical and sensual world of the Middle Ages, made of heroism and superstition, violence and barbarism, this novel is, in fact, a true book of cavalry written in autobiographical form, in which the years of formation and learning of a young cavalry hero are narrated from within in the light of modern sensibility.
Su única novela propiamente dicha, aunque estructurada como historias enlazadas. Sigue a Del Jordan mientras crece en un pequeño pueblo de Ontario, descubriendo la sexualidad, la ambición intelectual y los límites sociales impuestos a las mujeres. Es quizá el libro donde mejor se entiende el origen de todo el universo de Munro.
Henry Chinaski sobrevive durante años al trabajo repetitivo del servicio postal de Los Ángeles, entre rutas agotadoras, jefes absurdos, apuestas y relaciones caóticas. Charles Bukowski transforma la rutina laboral en una novela seca, cómica y abiertamente irreverente.
Gustavo el Incongruente, an aggravated case of the evil of the century, slips through life by dissolving laws and breaking the logic of things. Persecuted by his incongruence joker he will travel through an absurd world, entangled to life as in a riddle, trying to solve the mysteries that hide paintings and mirrors, facing tragic extravagances and objects with human soul. But luckily for the disoriented Gustavo, his fate will draw him the ways where a female voice will be the guide in this maze of the nonsense.
Memorias de un niño de derechas es una novela autobiográfica en la que Francisco Umbral reconstruye su infancia y adolescencia en la España de posguerra. A través de una mirada irónica, lírica y muy personal, el autor retrata el ambiente social, moral y político de la época, así como el despertar de la conciencia, la educación sentimental y las contradicciones de una pequeña burguesía conservadora. El libro mezcla memoria, crítica social y evocación poética, y está considerado una de las obras más importantes de la narrativa autobiográfica española del siglo XX.
Laurel regresa al sur de Estados Unidos durante la enfermedad de su padre y debe convivir con una madrastra imprevisible. Tras la pérdida, objetos y espacios familiares le permiten comprender el pasado y recuperar su propia vida.
A group of revolutionaries plans and carries out a kidnapping with the intention of obtaining the freedom of their imprisoned co-religionists; but they are wrong as a man. The victim is Charles Fortnum, a man of no interest to the British government: he is only an honorary consul who lives mainly on whiskey and his status as an English diplomat.
The complexity within the Reciento pages is increasing. On the basis of objective realism, the narration is gradually intractions up to a second half composed of multi-purpose symbols and covers different levels: particular experience, political recapitulation, erotic, satire, moral reflection and metaphysical research. A rich proposal within European novelistics, a challenge for demanding readers.
The theme of the patriarch's otono, which by its structure and language has no precedent in Latin American literature and not even in the author's work, are the illusions and irmediable loneliness of power embodied in an anonymous and mythical figure that is that of many Latin American patriarchs but also, in some way, the exemplary protagonist of the human calamities and tribulations that here manifest themselves as representations of an omnipotent and lonely delusion, of destruction and nightmares.
John without land marks a definitive break in relation to Signs of identity and to the Reivindication of Count Don Julián, works in which some values of the traditional novel remain. In the present, Goytisolo no longer only adjusts accounts with the land of origin, as well as its official literary and critical tradition of the country established over the last centuries. By entering the territories of Islam, their new abode accordingly. The only palpable reality in the text is the commitment to a topology of the discourse, thanks to which that no place of the discourse takes a figurative by its pure surface.
In a period of political neutrality (Barcelona 1917-1919), a weapon-making company that is committed to economic disaster by labour conflicts is the backdrop of the story of Javier Miranda, the protagonist and narrator of the facts. Catalan industrial Savolta, the owner of that business that sold weapons to the allies during World War I, is killed. Humour, irony, the wealth of nuances and experiences, parody and satire, the pastiche of popular subliterature, the recovery of the narrative tradition from the Byzantine novel, the Picaresque and the books of cavalry to the modern detective account, make this novel an intelligent and fun tragicose, which placed Eduardo Mendoza among the most outstanding Spanish narrators of recent decades.
Mortal y rosa es una obra profundamente autobiográfica y lírica en la que Francisco Umbral reflexiona sobre la enfermedad y muerte de su hijo pequeño. Más que una novela tradicional, el libro es una mezcla de diario íntimo, poesía en prosa y meditación sobre la infancia, el dolor, el amor paterno y el paso del tiempo.
The protagonist, Joan Foster, is a novelist who has spent her life running away from difficult situations. The novel alternates between past memories and present scenes. Thus it is seen first as an overweight child whose mother constantly criticizes him, and later, hiding his career, his past as the lover of a Polish count, and some other romance.
Dee, a young art historian, discovers the possible existence of a rare picture of Modigliani that can be found in an Italian village, from which he informs his uncle Charles, a London galerist. But Cardwell, a wealthy collector of paintings, is launching an operation to take over the Modigliani...
The novel follows Raúl Ferrer Gaminde and his wife when they move from Barcelona to Rosas to start a new life.
Las ninfas es una novela de formación en la que Francisco Umbral recrea, de forma autobiográfica y muy literaria, su adolescencia en la España de posguerra. Más que una trama lineal, la novela funciona como una evocación nostálgica y sensual de la juventud, escrita con el estilo barroco, lírico y exuberante característico de Umbral. La obra ganó el Premio Nadal en 1975 y está considerada una de sus novelas más importantes.
The loving relationship of the young writer Varguitas with a woman of his family older than him, Aunt Julia, and the unbridled presence of the journalist Pedro Camacho on the same radio station where Varguitas works are the two stories in which the argument of Aunt Julia and the writer is reversed.
Jorge Ibargüengoitia's masterpiece is the extraordinary recreation of a real case that shocked Mexico in the 1960s, when several bodies of prostitutes appeared in different properties of the two madame, owners of three brothels. The dead are built from various testimonies, voices that gather to shape a unique literary universe.
La noche que llegué al Café Gijón, de Francisco Umbral, es un libro autobiográfico y memorialístico en el que el autor narra su llegada al Madrid literario de los años 50 y 60, tomando como eje el mítico Café Gijón. A través de recuerdos, anécdotas y retratos de escritores, periodistas, bohemios y personajes de la época, Umbral construye una crónica muy personal del ambiente cultural madrileño y de su propio aprendizaje como escritor.
It is 1944 and weeks before D-Day. The Allies are disguising their invasion plans with a phoney armed of ships and plans. Their plan would be scupped if an enemy agent found out... and then, Hitler's prize agent, "The Needle," does just that. Hunted by MI5, he leads a murderous trail across Britain to a waiting U-Boat. But he didn't plan for a storm- battered island, and the remarkable young woman who lives there.
Novela de formación y sátira social centrada en T. S. Garp, hijo de Jenny Fields, una enfermera independiente que desafía las convenciones de su tiempo. Entre la escritura, la familia y la violencia inesperada, John Irving construye una historia sobre identidad, deseo, miedo y las contradicciones de la vida estadounidense.
Un tal Lucas no es un libro de cuentos, ni es una novela, ni es una obra miscelánea. Es un libro de Julio Cortázar. Es decir, se trata de un itinerario espiritual de lo cotidiano, de una carta de navegación ciudadana llena de guiños, de picardías, de señas dirigidas al lector como una invitación a participar en el juego. Un juego que aquel podrá comenzar por donde quiera, abriendo el libro por donde lo desee, saltando sus páginas. Quizá porque este Lucas -trasunto asistemático de un tal Cortázar- ha hecho todo lo que tenía que hacer y se detiene de vez en cuando para dejar, benévola o malignamente, constancia de algo de lo que ha hecho. Caprichosamente, sí, pero también con el admirable rigor de quien fue, en verdad, un maestro.
It tells the life of several people whose life seems to be connected in some way. Matty, who appeared in the middle of a fire caused by an attack on London during World War II. Sophie, a beautiful woman who will use her beauty for her benefit and Mr. Pedigree, who, because of her homosexual status, suffers from the rejection and loss of pride.
The narrator refers to her loving devanees and the day to day of a Catalan bourgeoisie that is idle in Cadaqués.
First delivery of an overwhelming series, this novel tells of the terrible experience experienced by four children who, innocent victims of prohibited passions, grow in a gloomy confinement, isolated from the world by a cruel mother...
Siete relatos enlazados exploran la memoria, el exilio, el amor y la manipulación política en la Checoslovaquia del siglo XX. Milan Kundera combina reflexión, ironía y fantasía para mostrar cómo el poder borra el pasado y cómo la risa puede liberar o destruir.
Alex Wolff, a German citizen whose stepfather was Egyptian, makes a strenuous journey through the desert in order to reach Cairo. Thanks to its contacts in the city and its mastery of the Arabic language, it has great qualities to become one of the main German spies in the battle in North Africa. Wolff, a fervent nationalist, dreams of contributing to the victory of Nazi Germany in World War II and the expulsion of the British from Egypt.
It is the story of the humiliated beings, subjected to the whim of a master who believes himself to own their lives.
At the end of the 19th century, in the pauperrime lands of northeastern Brazil, the spark of the harasses of the Councillor, a messianic and enigmatic character, will open the insurrection of the disinherited. In extreme circumstances such as those, the achievement of life dignity can only come from religious exaltation - the fanatic conviction of the divine choice of the world's marginalized - and the radical breach of the rules governing the world of the powerful.
An English aristocrat, Lord Walden, married to a woman of the Russian nobility, receives a private message from the King of England in which he calls for his collaboration on a matter of vital importance. We are in the early 20th century, just before the explosion of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. The King of England and the Zarist Empire want to establish mysterious and secret covenant covenants. The collaboration is carried out through Prince Orlov who is located in London par
The house of the spirits tells the family saga of the Trueba, from the beginning of the century to our time.
Aquí aparece una Munro más introspectiva y melancólica. Los cuentos giran alrededor de padres e hijas, enfermedades, matrimonios gastados y el paso del tiempo. Tiene algunos de sus relatos psicológicamente más precisos y devastadores.
A través de sus cartas, Celie cuenta una vida marcada por el abuso y el silencio en la Georgia rural, hasta encontrar afecto, independencia y una voz propia. Alice Walker construye una historia de resistencia, vínculos entre mujeres y emancipación.
Ross Perot, American billionaire, orders Bull Simons, retired Colonel of the Green Boins and veteran of World War II and Vietnam, to rescue two important leaders of his company imprisoned in the revolutionary Tehran of Jomeini
Erika Kohut enseña piano en Viena y vive bajo el control asfixiante de su madre. La llegada de un alumno altera su disciplina y expone deseo, poder y violencia en una sociedad obsesionada con la respetabilidad.
After the triumph of the Sandinista revolution, Julio Cortázar travels repeatedly to Nicaragua and is closely aware of the Nicaraguan and Latin American process and reality. These experiences will result in a series of texts that will be collected in the book Nicaragua, so violently sweet.
It is the story of a woman and a man who loved each other in full, thus saving themselves from a vulgar story.
Un analista de la CIA intenta comprender la deserción del comandante de un submarino soviético y evitar una crisis internacional.
Tomáš, Teresa, Sabina y Franz viven el amor, el deseo y la política bajo la sombra de la Primavera de Praga. Kundera combina narración y reflexión filosófica sobre peso, ligereza, azar y compromiso.
Many years ago, so many that it's not worth counting, there was a girl named Gabriela, who often used to lose a shoe.... There was a door that could only be crossed by anyone wearing a single shoe, a door that was about to take her to a magical world where everything was possible.
A man who is in a firewall of a mountain uncovers a celtiberic treasure with bracelets, rings, straps and earrings of gold and silver, all locked in a tincture.
This novel describes the relationships between two families in California in the middle of the last century with the clarity of a film. The cross-adultery, the deepening of the psychology of its characters, reveal a mature Dick, who could be handled very well in daily situations.
History of the loves of Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza over the years.
En los páramos desolados de una región rural húngara, azotados por vientos implacables y lluvia incesante, los últimos miembros de una cooperativa agrícola en ruinas subsisten en un pueblo casi espectral. Atrapados en la monotonía de sus días, aguardan con impotencia resignada un milagro que redima su futuro arrebatado.
Carta a mi mujer es un libro íntimo y confesional en el que Francisco Umbral reflexiona sobre el amor, la convivencia, el paso del tiempo y la relación con su esposa, María España Suárez Garrido. A medio camino entre la carta personal, el ensayo y la autobiografía, la obra muestra un Umbral más emocional y vulnerable, manteniendo al mismo tiempo su estilo literario brillante, irónico y poético.
Un padre marroquí decide criar como varón a su octava hija para asegurar la herencia familiar. Tahar Ben Jelloun explora identidad, género y poder mediante voces cambiantes y una narración que se transforma como la memoria oral.
In the period between the two Universal Exhibitions of Barcelona of 1888 and 1929, with the backdrop of a tumultuous, agitated and picturesque, real and fictitious city, we attended the walks of Onofre Bouvila, a pauperrime immigrant, distribution of anarchist propaganda and street-selling of crepella, and its ascension to the top of financial and criminal power.
It is a posthumous work, which Hemingway ended in life, which deals with the complexity of love and artistic creation through an atypical love triangle between the protagonist, David Bourne, his wife Catherine and a young woman Catherine herself puts on her husband's path.
History of two twins who must go to live in a village with their grandmother in times of war.
A lieutenant and a civilian guard try, in the midst of the hot surroundings of the Peruvian coast, to solve the mystery after the death of an aviation recruit.
Una escalada militar entre la OTAN y el bloque soviético amenaza con convertir un conflicto regional en una guerra mundial.
In Yesterday and tomorrow, Mario Benedetti confirms the virtues of his direct language, endowed with daily cordiality and a deep reflective tone. Starting from a game and apparent exclusions, it rescues both the territory of nostalgia and that of the future. Benedetti builds a new book that, as always, sums up humor, emotion and commitment.
"Nothing looks as much like hell as a happy marriage!" Thus begins Graciela - the wife of a man who is comfortable, in the front of the silver wedding of his marriage - his monologue, his frustrated dialogue rather, about bliss and intimate unhappiness, about the parallelism between social ascent and the growth of dislove.
In "School and prisons of Vicentito González," Juan Eslava Galán recreates the world of priests, nuns, spiritual exercises, Domund, Di Stéfano, Kubala and chocolate bread that marked the school days of a generation of Spaniards. Many will be identified and will continue to rejoice in the misfortunes of the little Vicentito: "Holy Virgin, pure Virgin, make him approve this subject.".
Sethe, antigua esclava que logró escapar a Ohio, vive años después marcada por los recuerdos del horror sufrido en la plantación Sweet Home. Cuando una misteriosa joven llamada Beloved aparece en su vida, el pasado que intenta olvidar regresa con fuerza, obligándola a enfrentarse al trauma, la culpa y las heridas de la esclavitud.
Una sátira corrosiva del Nueva York de los años ochenta, donde finanzas, prensa, política, raza y ambición chocan tras un accidente en el Bronx. Tom Wolfe retrata la ciudad como un escenario de vanidad pública, oportunismo y caída social.
Jack Ryan se enfrenta a una organización terrorista tras frustrar un atentado contra la familia real británica.
This is a small great book: entertaining, affectionable, that is enjoyed with the five senses; or the six, as is often said, because there is a great sense of humor in their pages. And that usual simplicity and closeness of Delibes, the mark of the house, when it comes to telling stories that makes us feel that he is still at our side, smiling just like us.
The literary release of Gonzalo Hidalgo Bayal and the first glimpse of the city of Murania, which will appear in the rest of his novels as a literary and imaginative reflection of the province.
La inteligencia estadounidense trata de proteger a su agente más valioso dentro del Kremlin mientras la carrera armamentística llega a un punto crítico.
Santiago, un joven pastor andaluz, viaja hacia Egipto siguiendo un sueño de tesoro y una búsqueda interior. Paulo Coelho narra una fábula espiritual sobre destino, señales y transformación personal.
General Simón Bolívar, "El Libertador" of the countries of South America, gives, for the last time, a nostalgic journey along the Magdalena River in which he revisit cities on its shores where he revives his triumphs, passions and lifelong betrayals. He has a great personal charm, prodigiously lucky in love, in war and in politics, he still dances with so much enthusiasm and skill that those who see him cannot believe how sick he is. Passioned by the memories of the power he had, and his dream of continental unity he never achieved, Bolívar is a moving example of how much he can gain - and be lost - in a life.
A city council of culture in Barcelona City Council aims to give a new air to the city's cultural policy so that it can compete with the atmosphere of Madrid de la movida. For this, he has an adviser who only aims to unload his anger on his fellow men. The project of a macroconcert in which the various urban tribes spend a night in harmony becomes a calvary for the official, as among melodic singers and singers a terrorist is camouflaged to sabotage the act.
Stevens, the butler of Darlington Hall for 30 years, makes a journey in which he reflects on his life.
Jack Ryan descubre una guerra clandestina contra un cártel y debe enfrentarse a operaciones que escapan al control del Gobierno.
Gregorio Olías, empleado gris y soñador, inventa por teléfono una vida artística para impresionar a un compañero. La ficción crece hasta obligarlo a confrontar sus deseos aplazados y la posibilidad de cambiar.
The Pillars of the Earth is a historic novel by Ken Follett published in 1989 about the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, England. It is set in the middle of the 12th century, primarily during the Anarchy, between the time of the winding of the White Ship and the murder of Thomas Becket. The book traces the development of Gothic architecture out of the preceding Romanesque architecture, and the fortunes of the Kingsbridge priority and village against the backdrop of h
Carmen Martín Gaite recreates the red capperutita tale and adapts it to the society in which we live, with a capperutita that is a girl today and that moves in a very different forest (Manhattan).
Un viaje por regiones remotas de China se convierte en búsqueda interior, memoria fragmentaria y exploración de mitos, paisajes y voces. Gao Xingjian construye una novela meditativa sobre identidad y libertad.
A prestigious painter, in a serious creative crisis, sheds his most intimate memories to his daughter in a monologue who is both homage and exorcism.
It tells the story of Gregory Reeves, a white man raised in the Latin neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Una conspiración intenta provocar un enfrentamiento nuclear entre Estados Unidos y Rusia aprovechando las heridas de la Guerra Fría.
The corridor of the imposing Roman palazzo is short, but we will never reach its end. The zaguan of the magnificent villa is wide, and there we have it, inviting us to enter, deceiving us with an offer of ease. If you throw yourself into the world to learn admiration, where should you go.
In Barcelona, a prostitute who is entering old age trains her dog to cry at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman takes advantage of her gift of seeing the future to become the fortune teller of a rich family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife welcome the abandoned and apparently dying former president of a Caribbean country, only to discover that their political ambitions remain intact.
The protagonist and narrator, Juan Ranz, a translator and professional interpreter, is now the newly married, and on his own journey of boyfriends, in Havana, looking at the balcony, is confused by an unknown woman waiting on the street, and unintentionally listens to a hotel conversation. From then on, "disaster presences" will involve your marriage. But the key to that discomfort may be in the past, because his father had to marry three times so that he could be born.
An old teddy bear sits on his couch in a banana until one day a fly questions his identity and disrupts his tranquility. He embarks on a journey that he expects reveals to him the true meaning of life.
Geralt de Rivia, a sorcerer and a superhuman mutant, makes a living as a monster hunter in a land of magic and wonder: with his two swords on the shoulder - of steel for men, and of silver for kisses - he realizes stripes, manticoras, taps, vampires, chimeras and dragons, but only when they threaten peace.
La historia de John Clark antes de convertirse en agente de la CIA, marcada por una misión de venganza y una red de corrupción.
A diabolical Prince able to grant any desire... at a high price. The new Carver home is surrounded by mystery. In it is still the spirit of Jacob, the son of the former owners, who died drowned. The strange circumstances of that death only begin to be clarified by the appearance of a diabolical character: the Prince of the fog, able to grant any wish to a person at a high price...
On October 26, 1949, reporter Gabriel García Márquez was sent to the former convent of Santa Clara, which was to be demolished to build a five-star hotel on him, to witness the emptying of the funeral crypts and to cover the news.
Olga, at the gates of death, explains to her granddaughter how to get that every way we take in life is guided by our heart, and that every step we suffer can be mitigated by bravely fighting against chance.
Psychological and magic novel, mixing history and fantasy
Jack Ryan debe afrontar una crisis internacional y asumir responsabilidades inesperadas cuando un enemigo golpea el corazón de Estados Unidos.
Cuatro jóvenes unidos por la amistad intentan preservar su libertad bajo la dictadura rumana, sometidos a vigilancia, miedo y traiciones. Herta Müller convierte objetos cotidianos y recuerdos fragmentados en una prosa poética sobre opresión y exilio.
A burning train runs through the city. A spectrum of fire sows terror in the shadows of the night. But that's just the beginning. On the eve of his 16th birthday, Ben, Sheere and his friends must face the most terrible and deadly enigma in the history of the city of the palaces.
It tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last priestesses to prophesy in Delphos, in the dark years when the Romans assured their control over the tribes and cities of Greece.
A mysterious toy maker who lives in a gigantic populated mansion of mechanical beings and shadows of the past... An enigma around strange lights that shine between the fog surrounding the lighthouse islet. A nightmare creature that is hidden in the depths of the forest... These and other elements weave the plot of the mystery that will unite Irene and Ismael forever during a magical summer in Blue Bay. A mystery that will lead you to live the most exciting of the oats
It is the first of the two volumes of the monumental work of Tom Clancy. The starting point of Executive Orders coincides with the end of Debt of Honor, in which an attack in Congress ends the life of the President of the United States and that of most of his ministers. Now, the whole weight of the nation lies on the shoulders of Jack Ryan, the man who had sworn in the post of vice president of the government a few minutes earlier.
A replete of fables and fantasies, he recounts the birth and expansion of the Kingdom of Olar, with a plot full of characters, adventures and a symbolic landscape: the mysterious North, the inhospite steppe of the East and the South, rich and exuberant, which limit the expansion of the Kingdom of Olar, in whose destiny the cunning of a Southern girl, the magic of an old sorcerer, and the rules of the game of a subsoil creature participate.
Misha had appeared 'chez' Viktor a year ago, when the zoo was distributing hungry animals to anyone who could feed them. Viktor had passed by and returned with a king penguin. His girl had left him a week ago and he was lonely. But Misha had brought him his own solitude and now the result was two complementary solages, which gave more impression of interdependence than of friendship.
At the age of 35, Águeda is discussed between his own memories and the vicissitudes of a singular 18th-century adventurer on whom he wishes to base his doctoral thesis.
The book recounts the famous 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper and lover, Nancy Montgomery, in western Canada. Two servants of the house, Grace Marks and James McDermott were arrested for the crime. McDermott was hung and Marks, the protagonist of this story, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Through the look of the child who was, McCourt narrates with a mixture of crudely, ironic and tenderness the little daily dramas, social humiliation, strict religious education and his mother's struggle to keep the family afloat. Despite the hardness of experience, the book is through a deep humanity and an unexpected mood, which turn the memory of suffering into a powerful witness of resistance and survival.
What would you do if, on a flight, 33,000 feet high, you heard a voice inside you that identified itself as God? An old and half-deaf God, who speaks half-in-joke, half-in-earnest and, between games of words and metaphors, makes some interesting revelations...
Don Rigoberto fills notebooks with notes, comments, diatribs and fantasies to defend himself from banality. Also to bear the nostalgia he feels for his wife, Lucrecia, of whom he has been separated for a few months for something that happened between her and Don Rigoberto's son. Don Rigoberto's notebooks are much more than an erotic novel. It is also a novel about reality and desire, about how the life of imagination can compensate the narrow gestures of real life.
The life of the Lingord, a liberal marriage in South Africa, is overturned when his son Duncan kills one of his roommates. The young man has confessed his authorship, but not the motive of the crime. To face the process, the Lingord resort to a newly returned black lawyer from exile, a risky choice in a country where racial discrimination has only been formally put to an end.
Isabel Allende brings her magical powers as a storyteller to a very personal level and with a special charm to the intertwined and sensual arts of food and love. By mixing personal memories with the folklore of the world, historical legends, and memorable moments of erotic literature and other types, Allende enriches his narrative with similar portions of humor and insight. Combining a banquet of fascinating facts about the aphrodisiac powers of food and drink, Allende serves them with convincing admiration and due irreverence. She offers suggestions, both old and modern, to attract a lover, light the sexual burning, prolong the sexual act, reactivate the decadent virility. In the caldero of history, she informs us about the lascivious appetites of all, from Emperor Nero to Catherine the Great to the notorious Madame du Barry of France.
At first sight, Margrave seems one of those peaceful peoples where nothing ever happens. Jack Reacher, a former military man turned into trotamonds, just got there and it takes less than an hour to check that appearances are being misled.
Ambientada en el Imperio otomano, la novela sigue la vida de Pinhan, un joven derviche que emprende un viaje de autodescubrimiento marcado por el misticismo sufí y la búsqueda de su propia identidad. En su recorrido conocerá personajes excéntricos y escenarios cargados de simbolismo que lo obligarán a enfrentarse a las convenciones sociales y espirituales de su tiempo.
Seymour Levov parece encarnar el ideal estadounidense de prosperidad y armonía, hasta que la radicalización de su hija destruye esa vida perfecta. Philip Roth explora la familia, la violencia política y las ficciones sobre las que se construye un país.
In the mouth of the dragon is a police novel by British author Ken Follett set in California. The translation of his title is too free because the original title, The Hammer of Eden, could be translated by "The Hammer of Eden.".
In 1517, Martin Luther set his ninety-five thesis against indulgences at the door of the Wittenberg church, an event that will provoke the schism of the Roman Church of the West. That same year he was born in Valladolid Cipriano Salcedo Bustamante. In a moment of political and religious agitation, this mere coincidence of dates will fatally mark its destiny.
John Clark reúne una unidad multinacional para combatir el terrorismo mientras una amenaza biológica se cierne sobre el mundo.
The story of Griet, a teenager who works as a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer.
En una Estambul multicultural del siglo XVII, personajes pertenecientes a distintas religiones y comunidades ven cómo sus vidas se entrecruzan. A través de sus historias, la novela explora la convivencia entre culturas, la identidad y el peso de la memoria en una ciudad que actúa como auténtica protagonista.
Marina reveals to us the secret of the character Oscar Drai, who after years of fleeing his great adventure as a young man, decides to return to his hometown Barcelona to tell us a love story that will never stop tormenting him. The story goes on in a short space of time, to be more accurate from the end of September 1979 to May 1980, but the character does not decide to tell us his adventure until 15 years later, when he realizes that he cannot escape his past.
Austin, Texas, in 1885 is a place of dust and dreams, quick rich, and wild dreams. But "the Servant girl Annihilators" are also making it a city of fear. The first victim, a mulatto housekeeper, is born from her bed and murdered. Six more women will die, including pretty blond Eula Phillips, who is bank Clerk's Will Porter's love. Over a decade later, living in New York as O. Henry, Will cannot escape his memories--or a blackmailer's merciless demands. Then a mysterious letter invites him ba
Aranmanoth is a novel of initiation to life and love, starring a half-human, medium-magical boy, son of the Lord of Lines and a fairy of the waters. In a Middle Ages overshadowed by infinite wars, Aranmanoth leaves in search of his destiny, moving away from other mortals and obeying mysterious signs of the leaves of the trees or of the birds that cross the sky. Aranmanoth and Windimanoth, their beloved girl, their father's wife, travel in pursuit of a dream of fullness, to the promised land of their childhood which, gradually, reveals itself within. On that journey through the symbolic lands of a mythical and sensual Middle Ages, you will learn that beauty and love involve pain, and that reality always asecutes to desires and dreams.
While landing at a European airport, Toru Watanabe hears an old Beatles song that makes him back to his youth, to the turbulent Tokyo of the 1960s. He then remembers with melancholy the mysterious Naoko, the bride of his best friend of adolescence.
The greatest heroes of adventure novels (Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Jekyll and Allan Quatermain) join an unprecedented group in the history of literature: the League of Extraordinary Men.
Varga Llosa masterfully recesses the dictatorship of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic during the first half of the 20th century.
La obra sigue la vida de dos primos: Joe Kavalier, un joven escapista y artista que logra huir de la ocupación nazi en Praga, y Sammy Clay, un escritor inseguro pero brillante que vive en Nueva York. Esta novela mezcla aventura, historia, cultura popular y drama personal para retratar el nacimiento de la industria del cómic en Estados Unidos, el impacto de la guerra y el precio del éxito artístico. Tiene un tono épico y nostálgico, lleno de referencias al ilusionismo, los superhéroes y la identidad americana.
Una mujer con obesidad mórbida vive prácticamente recluida mientras reflexiona sobre la forma en que la sociedad observa y juzga los cuerpos. Paralelamente, un extravagante espectáculo ambulante protagonizado por una mujer de extraordinaria belleza plantea una profunda reflexión sobre la obsesión por la apariencia, el deseo y la identidad.
Una crisis entre Rusia y China pone a prueba la diplomacia y la estrategia militar de Jack Ryan, ya convertido en presidente.
Dos familias londinenses, los Jones y los Iqbal, entrelazan durante décadas sus historias de migración, amistad, religión, ciencia y pertenencia. Zadie Smith retrata con humor y energía una ciudad multicultural donde el pasado familiar nunca deja de actuar sobre el presente.
Un narrador rastrea a escritores que dejaron de escribir o construyeron su obra alrededor de la renuncia. Enrique Vila-Matas mezcla ensayo, ficción y diario para investigar el silencio literario con inteligencia y humor.
A young journalist, by chance, comes across a fascinating and very significant history of the Spanish Civil War, and aims to rebuild it. When the Republican troops withdraw to the French border, the way of exile, in the disorder of the disbandade someone makes the decision to shoot a group of Franco prisoners. Among them is Rafael Sanchez-Mazas, founder and ideologist of Falange, perhaps one of the direct leaders of the fratricidal conflict.
At the age of 13, Momo, a Jewish boy from a working-class neighborhood in Paris, is found only in the world, with the only support of the Muslim grocery shop in which he usually buys and the affection of street prostitutes.
Uno de sus libros más elegantes y contenidos. Explora cómo pequeños malentendidos, cartas, silencios o manipulaciones terminan definiendo destinos enteros. El relato “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”, sobre memoria y envejecimiento, fue adaptado al cine en la película Away from Her.
After a recent marriage separation, Jaime Deza is living in London and working for the BBC. He sometimes frees Sir Peter Wheeler, Professor at Oxford University, whom he met by a common friend, Professor Toby Rylands, in turn friend of Deza during the time he worked at that university.
Eight stories through which the author transports the reader of the African coast to the lush pine forests of Montana and the moist plains of Lapand, drawing a vast geographical but also emotional itinerary. Doerr explores the human condition in all its forms - metamorphosis, pain, broken relationships, hearts that slowly feel like their healing wounds -, evoking nature on its two sides: that of the beautiful abundance and that of the fearful power it hosts and sometimes shows.
Near the wild heart is the attempt to build the biography of Joana, not the central character, but one of them, from childhood to maturity, seeking the inner truth, studying the complexity of human relations, trying to forget the death, the death of the father, which Joana will never accept.
Los habitantes de un antiguo edificio de apartamentos en Estambul conviven con secretos, manías y conflictos cotidianos. Cuando una invasión de basura y malos olores altera la vida del inmueble, las historias personales de sus vecinos salen a la luz, componiendo un retrato coral de la sociedad turca contemporánea.
Jack Ryan participa en una operación de inteligencia durante la Guerra Fría para ayudar a un alto dirigente soviético a escapar.
He portrays life in Tehran from the years before the 1979 revolution to the present through the look of Masumeh, a restless and intelligent woman raised within a traditional Iranian family.
Una nueva generación de agentes se enfrenta a una amenaza terrorista desde una organización secreta vinculada al presidente Ryan.
Amir recuerda su infancia en Kabul, su amistad con Hassan y una traición que condiciona toda su vida. Años después regresa a Afganistán buscando una posibilidad de reparación.
Oxenford Medical is a Scottish biological experimentation company. The extreme and modern security measures to avoid any incident fail when Christmas night under an intense snow season, a very dangerous virus disappears. The theory that it can be an act of terrorism is being confirmed to become a certainty. Family problems, debts, gambling, loves and extreme weather events are the ingredients of this police thriller that develops the plot in just two days around Christmas.
The novel begins when the protagonists are already adults. María José Sánchez works as an art taster in a Madrid auction house. One day he received a call from a former partner and lover, Jaime González, announcing that his common friend, the famous painter Molina Schulz, had committed suicide. But this is not the important thing about the novel, the news returns the narrator to her time as a student of Fine Arts, specifically 1984-1985, the time of the move. Through a love triangle, Almudena tries to transmit the geist or spirit of those years. They were flashes of intense, true happiness, which only ended up overshadowing the jealousy of lovers and the unjust negotiation with the talent of the three artist apprentices.
Comfortable story about the last inhabitant of the planet in a disturbing post-apocalyptic world.
Historias sobre matrimonios asfixiantes, decisiones pequeñas que cambian vidas enteras y personajes atrapados entre deseo y costumbre. El relato que da título al libro, “Runaway”, es una obra maestra sobre una mujer joven que intenta escapar de una relación tóxica. También incluye la trilogía de Juliet, uno de los grandes personajes de Munro.
Tres estudiantes extranjeros comparten piso en Boston mientras intentan encontrar su lugar entre dos culturas. La amistad, el desarraigo, el choque cultural y la búsqueda de identidad se mezclan con el humor y la gastronomía en una novela que reflexiona sobre lo que significa sentirse extranjero incluso en uno mismo.
At the end of the 16th century a man named Alonso de Quesada, a manco writer who fought in the battle of Lepanto, arrived in Seville, and whose biographical circumstances coincided with those of Miguel de Cervantes. In the city he renews his relations with an old lover who is a widow, wakes up loving feelings in the Aldonza maid and meets some low-ground rogue.
Mr. Linh is an old man who left his people devastated by the war, taking only a small suitcase containing worn clothes, a yellowish photo, a handful of land from his country. In his arms lies a newborn baby. The child's parents died and Mr. Linh decided to seek a new life with his granddaughter Sang diù.
In the village lived a girl who wanted to read, a man who played the accordion and a young Jew who wrote beautiful stories to escape the horror of war. After a while, the girl became a thief who stole books and gave away words. And with those words, a beautiful and cruel story was written.
Benjamin Chaparro decides to write about the murder of Liliana Coloto and her husband's obsession with her memory.
En un país que no se menciona, la muerte ya no ejerce su trabajo y las personas dejan de morir. Eso provoca más problemas de lo que pueda parecer a primera vista y surgen soluciones creativas.
November 1945: Nahum Márquez is going to die in the shack. November 1975: Lucia returns to Barcelona from exile with her father's ashes and the ghosts who enslave her. Franco agonizes, and with him a Spain that embodies Commissioner Ulises, ready to a last battle with his own decredities, at the hands of an emerging Spain, that of Gilda and his friends who owe nothing to the past except, perhaps, a patina of romanticism.
nés Suárez is a young and humble seamstress who embarks on the New World in search of her husband, lost on the other side of the Atlantic. Inés, who longs for a life of adventures, will not find her husband but a passionate love: Pedro de Valdivia, field master of Francisco Pizarro, with whom he will face the risks and uncertainties of the conquest and foundation of the kingdom of Chile.
Mauricio, an idealist dentist, returns to Barcelona after years of absence. A meeting leads her to participate in the election campaign of the Socialist Party and to establish a loving relationship with two women: Clotilde, a feminist, radical, who wants to succeed in the world of business and the courts, and Porritos, an activist in a working world.
Un libro muy distinto dentro de su obra. Reconstruye la emigración de sus antepasados escoceses hacia Canadá y mezcla documentos familiares, recuerdos y ficción. Más autobiográfico y reflexivo que narrativo.
La vida de Asya Kazancı, una joven que crece en una peculiar familia de mujeres en Estambul, cambia cuando conoce a Armanoush, una adolescente estadounidense de origen armenio. El encuentro entre ambas destapa viejos secretos familiares y abre una profunda reflexión sobre la memoria, la identidad y las heridas aún abiertas entre Turquía y Armenia. La novela se convirtió en una de las obras más reconocidas de Elif Shafak y generó un intenso debate en su país.
The novel covers a 34-year period of the 14th century, between 1327 and 1361, almost at the end of the Middle Ages and is mainly set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge in the southwest of England. It shows the importance of wool manufacturing and trade first and after the cloth in the development of Europe and especially England. How, around these activities, cities flourished and trade developed through the formation of trade unions and fairs. He also describes the institutions and life of the feudal era, the power relations between the nobility and the clergy and these with the members of the flat state
Yuna López is raised as part of a family out of the ordinary and forms a strange tandem with her cousin Petra.
"The vegetarian" tells the story of an ordinary woman, Yeonghye, who by the simple decision not to eat meat again turns a normal life into a disturbing nightmare.
This story begins with the adventures of two children at the school of the herdexian parents in the city of Murania and concludes with the fortuitous encounter on the street, many years later and also in Murania, with a man who is taciturous and desolate who awakens in the narrator the memories of those past days.
"I was born when my parents no longer loved each other," Adriana recalls, long after everything happened. The girl therefore creates her own paradise, populated by imaginary friends and a family of her choice. This custom happiness is disturbed when Adriana must start the school trip and enter definitely into the adult world, an environment that is alien to her when not hostile. However, there is always a shelter under the shining stars hidden in the glass of the living room lamp.
In the first century of our era, Pomponio Flato travels through the confines of the Roman Empire in search of waters with portentous effects. The chance and precariousness of his fortune take him to Nazareth, where the carpenter of the people will be executed, convicted of the brutal murder of a rich citizen. To his regret, Pomponio is immersed in the solution of the crime, hired by the most extraordinary of the clients: the carpenter's son, a candorous and unique child, convinced of the innocence of his father, a man in peaceful appearance and tacitre, who hides, however, a great secret.
Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher, deplores the changes in her small town of Crosby, Maine, and the world in general. As people in the people deal with their problems, mild and terrible, Olive acquires a deeper understanding of himself and his life, sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty.
The angel's game is the second delivery of a cycle of four interconnected and set novels in the mysterious and Gothic Barcelona that goes from the age of the industrial revolution to the years after the Spanish civil war. The four independent and self-sufficient stories will share some characters and scenarios, focused on the cemetery of forgotten books, the Sempere family and its bookstore, Mr. Barceló, Isaac Monfort, the guardian, and Don Anacleto
The story of a young man trapped between two religions and two loves, in search of his freedom and that of his people, in the Andalusia of the 16th century.
Lisbeth Salander has survived and remains in a hospital ICU. His life hangs by a thread, but he wants revenge. She wants to show that she did not commit the three murders she will be tried for if she survives and wants to take revenge on her own father and the government institutions that have destroyed her life.
This book is a chronic test or a test-form chronicle. This book is not a fiction. This book is the anatomy of a moment: the instant in which Adolfo Suárez sat on the afternoon of February 23, 1981, while the bullets of the coup courts were buzzing around him in the Chamber of the Congress of Deputies and all the other parliamentarians - all but two: General Gutiérrez Mellado and Santiago Carrillo - sought refuge under their seats. This book is the chronicle of that gesture and the chronicle of a coup and the chronicle of a few decisive years in the history of Spain. This book is an ineligible book. A single book.
The young modesty Sira Quiroga left Madrid in the months before the Civil War, carried away by the love of a man. Together they set up in Tangier, a worldly, exotic and vibrant city where everything unthinkable can become a reality. Even betrayal and abandonment.
Aomame and I have, two lonely characters, are united by an extraordinary destiny. In the 1Q84 universe, two moons appear in the sky and the world seems to have changed. Aomame, a professional killer, and I have, a math teacher, are dragged into a dangerous plot where nothing is what it looks like. As they enter into this parallel reality, they discover dark secrets and a deep connection that threatens to alter their lives forever.
Sophie Duguet, the protagonist of this novel, does not understand what happens to her: she loses objects, forgets situations and is arrested in a supermarket for small robberies she does not remember having committed. And the bodies begin to accumulate around them..
An eminent dystopic fiction about the friendship of two women who survive the extinction of the planet.
Munro en modo más oscuro y despiadado. Hay asesinatos, abusos, relaciones deformadas y personajes emocionalmente fracturados. El relato final recrea la vida de la matemática rusa Sofia Kovalevskaya y es uno de los textos más extraños y ambiciosos de toda su obra.
Ella Rubinstein, una ama de casa estadounidense de cuarenta años, acepta leer un manuscrito para una editorial. La novela narra la relación entre el poeta sufí Rumi y el derviche Shams de Tabriz en el siglo XIII. A medida que avanza en la lectura, Ella comienza a cuestionarse su propia vida y descubre una nueva manera de entender el amor, la espiritualidad y la libertad. Ambas historias terminan entrelazándose en una reflexión sobre el poder transformador del amor.
This novel gives a review of the important events and characters of the 20th century, from the Spanish civil war to the fall of the Berlin wall, through the Second World War and the Cold War.
Alain Delambre, un directivo de cincuenta y siete años en paro desde hace años, recibe la oportunidad de optar a un puesto de trabajo que podría cambiar su vida. Sin embargo, el proceso de selección exige superar una serie de pruebas cada vez más perversas, obligándolo a traspasar límites morales que jamás imaginó cruzar.
Jack Ryan y sus aliados persiguen a un terrorista conocido como el Emir en una operación que conecta varios frentes internacionales.
a action takes place between 22 June 1911, the day George V was crowned in Westminster Abbey, and the end of 1924, several years after the end of World War I. They mix real historical characters like King George V himself, Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of the Foreign Office) and Winston Churchill, with other fiction characters like Billy Williams, who has been working in the coal mines of Wales since the age of 13, and his father David Williams, a prominent member of the mining union.
Extremadura 1941 / Barcelona 1981 Two trams are developed in parallel; one in Extremadura in 1941; the other in Barcelona in 1981. A crime committed during the Spanish post-war period has consequences for three generations of the Alcalá family and for those who have crossed their lives for forty years.
A mute, intelligent, bold girl. A violinist father who works writing epitaphs. A life of little congratulations, love and games. A missing mother. A totalitarian and invisible government. A couple of old puppies.
Jack Reacher must investigate the murder of a young woman in which soldiers from a nearby military base might be involved.
En el Nueva York de finales de los años treinta, Katey Kontent, una joven secretaria de origen humilde, ve cambiar su vida tras conocer a un carismático banquero. Entre fiestas, amistades y oportunidades inesperadas, la novela retrata la ambición, las diferencias de clase y las decisiones que marcan el rumbo de una vida.
Criados en una pequeña aldea kurda, Pembe y Adem emigran a Londres con la esperanza de construir un futuro mejor. Sin embargo, el choque entre las tradiciones familiares y la vida occidental genera tensiones que desembocan en una tragedia. A través de varias generaciones, la novela explora los conflictos entre identidad, inmigración, religión y el llamado honor familiar.
Un agente de inteligencia debe detener una conspiración internacional mientras las amenazas llegan desde dentro y fuera de Estados Unidos.
Description It is 1953 and Kilian leaves the snow of the Oscense mountain to begin with his brother, James, the one-way trip to an unknown, distant and exotic land, the island of Fernando Poo. In the bowels of this lush and seductive territory, his father, a veteran of the Sampaka estate, is waiting for him, the place where one of the best cacaos in the world is grown and tasted. In this eternally green, warm and voluptuous land, young brothers discover the lightness of the social life of
August "Auggie" Pullman is a 10-11 year-old boy born with Treacher Collins' Syndrome, a genetic disorder characterized by craniofacial malformations. His parents overprotect him and treat him like a little boy, which makes his older sister, Olivia, sometimes feel displaced. Due to several surgical interventions and the required care, he has never attended school, receiving domestic education from his mother.
In the summer of 1978, when Spain has not yet left Franco and does not end up entering democracy and social and moral borders seem more porous than ever before, a teenager named Ignacio Cañas by chance knows the Zarco and Tere, two criminals of his age, an encounter that will change his life forever. Thirty years later, a writer is commissioned to write a book on the Zarco, which by then became a myth of the juvenile crime of the Transition, but what the writer finally finds is not the concrete truth of the Zarco, but an unexpected and universal truth, which concerns us all. Thus, through a story that does not grant an instant of truce, hiding its extraordinary complexity under a transparent surface, the novel becomes a passionate inquiry into the limits of our freedom, the inscrutable motivations of our acts and the inasible nature of truth. It also confirms Javier Cercas as one of the indispensable figures of contemporary European narrative.
The often stormy relationship between Lila and Nanu has around it a chorus of voices that give shape to its history and show us the reality of a poor neighborhood, inhabited by humble people who simply abide by the law of the strongest, but the great friend is much more than a work of social realism: what we have here are some characters of flesh and blood, who intrigue the reader and dazzle us by the strength and urgency of his emotions.
harlie is 15 years old and has been left alone after the suicide of his best friend. She lives with her parents, her popular and beautiful sister and an older brother who is a football star and is about to start college. His language teacher is convinced that Charlie has a great intellectual capacity. After meeting Sam and Patrick begins to understand what it's like to be a teenager, and begins a journey to maturity that will lead him to go on new and unexpected paths.
She's a beautiful, crazy woman, and her name is Lila. She's the same girl we met in The Great Friend, the first take of this splendid trilogy and now, just after the age of 16, she just married a man she despises. The other, who listens, follows her and unintentionally imitates her, is Nanu, a brilliant student, determined to learn from the books everything Lila learns from life to dry.
Unable to reclaim her own pieces, Professor Blanca Perea accepts the desperate what she anticipates as a tedious academic project. His personal stability has just collapsed, his marriage has jumped through the air. Confuse and devastated, the flight to the insignificant California University of Santa Cecilia is their only option. The campus that hosts it is, however, much more seductive than expected, agitated in those days by a civic movement contrary to the destruction of a legendary site in order to build a huge shopping center in it. And the work that absorbs it - the cataloguing of the legacy of his old compatriot Andrés Fontana, who died decades ago - is far from being as insubstantial as he promised.
Desperation leads a normal person to hold eight hostages in an apartment for sale, after failing to hold a bank.
History of a child who, in the late 1960s, lives in San Sebastián with his uncles, observing the family and social tensions of the time, marked by religion, politics and indoctrination. Through memories and reflections on the transformation of personal experience into narrative, the novel offers a deep portrait of a family trapped in a turbulent historical context.
It runs the year 2012. Iago del Castillo, a charismatic longevum of 10,300 years at the head of the Museum of Archaeology of Cantabria, is forced, against his will, to conduct a genetic research: his brothers Nagorno - a conflictive spate of almost 3,000 years - and Lyra - a 2,500-year-old Celtic flight -, tired of burying their ephemeral families for centuries, are obsessed with identifying their rare mutation and having long-term children.
In 1933, Berlin was a focus of political and social unrest. Lady Maud, now Walter von Ulrich's wife and mother of two children, publishes articles in a weekly magazine that ridicule the Nazi party while her husband expresses opposition in the government. However, it seems that nothing can stop the ascending power of Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
For Eduardo, life has made no sense since he lost his wife and daughter in a tragic car accident. From then on, he spends the days immersed in a depressive state, unable to close the deep wound that torments him. He left the painting and went from being a respected artist to becoming a victim of alcohol and self-compassion. But his life is a new turn when he gets an unusual assignment. Gloria Tagger, a famous violinist, asks her to paint the portrait of Arthur Fernand
you know, you know, you know, if your husband had written you a letter to open it after his death. Imagine also that the letter contained its darkest and best kept secret, capable of destroying your life together and also other lives. Imagine, then, that you would find the letter while your husband was still in full power...
When Tsukuru Tazaki was a teenager, he sat at the stations for hours to see the trains pass. Now, at thirty-six, he is an engineer who designs and builds railway stations and who leads a quiet, perhaps too lonely, life.
The story that begins in 1929 tells us the story of Niamh, a girl who goes out with her parents and brothers from Ireland to the United States for a better life. But when they come to their destination things are not so easy and their life is complicated. It ends up being part of the so-called "orphan trains.".
Lila married the most wealthy man in the neighborhood very young and soon left him. He now lives in a miserable neighborhood, between four wet walls where he shares how little a worker's salary provides with his son and a friend, but his ingenuity has not diminished; he has only become rabies. It is perhaps this hatred of itself that will lead her to capitalize on the riots in the factory and to refuse to a peaceful and modest coexistence with her partner. Elena, on the other hand, has continued the studies and even written a novel. He now lives between Naples and Pisa, and marries a professor at the University of Florence.
At the age of 13, Theo Decker, the son of a devout mother and a reckless and largely absent father, survived an accident that would otherwise destroy his life. Alone and undirected in New York, he is welcomed by the family of a wealthy friend.
A fascinating story of two former French combatants in World War I and how France dealt with the post-war armed conflict that caused millions of deaths.
En el Estambul del siglo XVI, Jahan, un joven procedente de la India, llega al palacio del sultán como cuidador de un elefante blanco. Su destino cambia cuando entra a trabajar junto al legendario arquitecto Mimar Sinan, con quien aprenderá el oficio mientras presencia las intrigas de la corte otomana. La novela combina aventura, historia y una profunda reflexión sobre el arte, el conocimiento y el legado humano.
There was once a people of simple people, where everyone lived from their work. But there came a bad and miserable time for them, and there was an old man who started lending money, tools, beings and even food. And so the whole town fell into his hands. He was getting richer, and the people getting poorer. But the mysterious arrival of a little apprentice was about to change everything, even the old usurper.
Gonzalo Gil is a lawyer in a life that is alien to him, in a misguided career that tries to avoid the constant manipulation of his omnipresent father-in-law, an almighty character of very long shadow. But something's gonna shake that monotony. After years without knowing about her, Gonzalo is told that his sister Laura has committed suicide in dramatic circumstances. His death forces Gonzalo to strain to unsuspected limits the fragile thread that sustains the balance of his life
Madeline is a force to consider. She is fun, cheeky and passionate; she remembers everything and does not forgive anyone. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and look, but is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. Jane, a single and new mother in town, is so young that another mother will confuse her with a nanny. It comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond your years. These three women are at a different crossroads, but they will all end up in the same shocking place.
The lost girl puts an end to "Two Women," the story of two friends who were born in the mid-20th century in Naples and from little ones were sharing a complex friendship, with moments of doubt or absence, but always accomplices. Lina and Elena are now adults and have taken different paths: Elena left Naples to marry and become a successful writer in Milan.
Marta is a woman trapped between the Spanish post-war pacata society and an unhappy husband.
Maia tiene cinco hermanas. Todas ellas han sido adaptadas por un misterio hombre de negocios que tras su muerte, les hace saber sus distintos orígenes.
Family demons is the novel that Ana Maria Matute was writing when she died. It was therefore unfinished.
The lives of a German soldier who specializes in electronics and a blind French girl are intertwined during the Second World War.
There was nothing to suggest to Mauro Larrea that the fortune he raised after years of tenderness and creek would collapse with a strenuous setback. Drowned by debt and uncertainty, he puts his last resources into a reckless move that opens up to him the opportunity to resurrect. Until the disturbing Soledad Montalvo, wife of a London wine marcher, enters her life wrapped in the dark to drag him to a future he never suspected.
Bride is a young black woman of just over twenty years who has had to overcome many obstacles in her life to become the successful business woman she is today.
In the near future, in France, just before the presidential elections of 2022, the political landscape is radically transformed. The traditional parties suffer a fall in the polls, and Mohammed Ben Abbes, a charismatic leader of a moderate new Islamist formation, succeeds in the second round with the support of socialists and right-wing members, leaving behind the candidate of the National Front.
With its unparalleled touch of humor and melancholy, Berlin echoes its life, astonishing and convulsive, to create true literary miracles with daily episodes. The women of his stories are disoriented, but at the same time they are strong, intelligent and, above all, extraordinarily real.
On the day ETA announces the abandonment of the weapons, Bittori goes to the cemetery to tell her husband the Txato's grave, killed by the terrorists, who has decided to return to the house where they lived. Can you live with those who harassed you before and after the attack that disrupted your life and that of your family? Can you know who the hooded one rainy day killed your husband, when he returned from his transport company? The presence of Bittori to
Germinal Ibarra is a disenchanted cop who is following the rumors and his own conscience. Three years ago he decided to drag his melancholy to a police station in La Coruña, where he requested the transfer after the resolution of the sound case of the murder of little Amanda made him the hero he never wanted or felt like he was. But the shelter and anonymity that Germinal thought he had achieved is truncated when one night a woman in the hospital claims it
The protagonist works for hours in a convenience store that is your whole world.
El conde Rostov se adapta a las nuevas circunstancias que trae la revolución bolquevique.
En un pequeño pueblo francés, la desaparición de un niño altera para siempre la vida de sus habitantes. Antoine Courtin, de doce años, guarda un secreto que lo acompañará durante décadas, mientras el peso de la culpa y el miedo condicionan cada una de sus decisiones.
Peri, una mujer turca acomodada, viaja a una cena en Estambul cuando un incidente inesperado la obliga a recordar sus años de estudiante en Oxford. Allí conoció a dos amigas con visiones opuestas sobre la religión y la libertad, además de a un carismático profesor que marcaría su vida. Entre el pasado y el presente, la novela aborda cuestiones como la fe, la identidad, la política y el conflicto entre Oriente y Occidente.
Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere and his friend Fermin, the heroes of The Wind Shadow, return to the adventure to face the greatest challenge of their lives. Just as everything began to smile at them, a disturbing character visits the Sempere bookstore and threatens to reveal a terrible secret that has been buried two decades in the dark memory of the city. In knowing the truth, Daniel will understand that his destiny will inexorably drag him to face the greatest of the shadows
Very young people met Berta Isla and Tomás Nevinson in Madrid, and very early was their determination to spend their lives together, without suspecting that they were expected an intermittent coexistence and then a disappearance. Tomas, half Spanish and half English, is a supergifted for languages and accents, and that makes, during his studies in Oxford, the Crown put its eyes on him.
It is 1946, and Laura McAllan, a city woman, tries to raise her children on her husband's Delta of Mississippi farm, a place she finds strange and terrifying, when two young people return from the war to work the land. The first, Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is all her husband is not; charming, handsome and tormented by his combat memories.
Four friends attend the last course of theatre at a prestigious specialized academy in Shakespeare.
The story follows Ernesto, a Cuban engineer who lives in Lisbon, who has grown up in the shadow of his father, a military man who died as a war hero in Angola, but whose figure is blurred between myth and family silence.
Eleanor ha conseguido encontrar una vida estable minimizando las interacciones sociales. Sin embargo, conocer al informático de su empresa le abre un abanico de posibilidades.
What links more to two people, love or pain? Is laughter more liberating than aggression? These are the terms between which the tales of the strange world, tender or lacerating, fun or ferocious, go with the loose from the intimate to the desaphorate, from the daily to the absurd, often within the same history.
New York, 1936. The small food house The Captain starts his walk on 14th Street, one of the enclaves of the Spanish colony that at that time resides in the city. The accidental death of its owner, the tarambana Emilio Arenas, forces its indomitable twenty-year-old daughters to take over the business while in court the collection of a promising compensation is resolved. The temperamentals Victoria, Mona and Luz Arenas, who have been harassed and harassed by the urgent need to survive, will make way between skyscrapers, compatriots, adversities and loves, determined to make a dream a reality.
The day that Lucia loses her job as a computer programmer is also the day that her life is going to take a final turn, perhaps for a succession of casualities or maybe because that was the fate that was waiting for her since her tenth birthday.
The banker Marcel Péricourt has died. All of Paris goes to the exequities and is shocked by the fall of his grandson Paul.
Es 1982 y Curro, un niño frágil de doce años envuelto en tics y fobias, lucha por superar los traumas de su vida. Curro y su mejor amigo Priu, raros de nacimiento, sobreviven como pueden en el extrarradio urbano.
Second book of the adventures of Rufo Batalla. In the spring of 1975 Franco has the numbered days. Instill and stimulated by the new air of change and hope that begin to breathe in Spain, Rufo Batalla plans to return to Barcelona,
A terrible crime shakes the peaceful region of the Terra Alta: the owners of their largest company, Gráfica Adell, appear killed after having been subjected to heinous torture. He is in charge of the Melchor Marín case, a young police and voracious reader who came from Barcelona four years ago, with a dark past that has made him a legend of the body and who believes he has buried under his happy life as the husband of the people's librarian and father of a girl named Cosette, as well as the daughter of Jean Valjean, the protagonist of his favorite novel: The Miserable.
Florent- Claude Labrouste, whose name detests, is forty-six years old and is medicated with Captorix, a powerful antidepressant that discloses serotonin and carries three adverse effects: nausea, libido disappearance and impotence. Despite working at the Ministry of Agriculture, his life seems to find no sense and, after discovering some pornographic tapes of his Japanese girlfriend, he will decide to abandon her and give up her trade in the search for her idealized past. It will go through a France in crisis that goes through an economic critical period of agribusiness revolts, while also commemorating its failed relationships while its masculinity and sexual desire fades.
It tells the adventures of an unconventional family: the father is a spy, the mother is a paid killer and the daughter is actually a ester who can read the mind, and none of them know the reality about others.
The protagonist tells what the relationship with his mother is like during the summer he finds out he's sick.
A mother; a daughter; a grandmother. The neighbors from above; those from the front; those from below. Parents; brothers; friends.'A house full of people 'is immersed in the private and common spaces of a small building and its inhabitants to rebuild; it depends on who counts and looks at it; a secret; an ambition; a guilt; a dangerous game; a failure; a disappointment; a life experience.
From the voice of Marie, a girl with whom she had a very special relationship in the past, and Jérôme, her logopeda, we attended the last moments of an old woman suffering from afasia.
The history of four sisters between the Buenos Aires district of Palermo and Mendoza, in Argentina in the early and mid-20th century.
Emile is diagnosed with early Alzheimer's and decides to start a caravan discovery trip along with an unexpected partner.
Tras ser asesinada y abandonada en un contenedor de basura de Estambul, Leila Tequila permanece consciente durante diez minutos y treinta y ocho segundos. Mientras su mente se apaga lentamente, revive los momentos más importantes de su vida y recuerda a las personas que le ofrecieron amistad y afecto. A través de esos recuerdos, la novela retrata a los marginados de la sociedad y celebra el poder de la memoria y de los vínculos humanos.
Four retirees living in Cooper's Chase founded the Thursday Crime Club and decided to engage in the resolution of old crimes.
Year 997, late Dark Age. England faces the attacks of the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Life is difficult and those who have some power exercise it with an iron fist and often in conflict with the king himself.
Nora Seed appears, not knowing how, in the Library of the Midnight, where she is offered a new opportunity to do things right. Until that moment, his life has been marked by unhappiness and repentance. Nora feels she has let everyone down, and she has. But this is about to change. The books of the Midnight Library will allow Nora to live like she did things differently. With the help of an old friend, you will have the option of dodging everything you regret having done (or not doing), in pursuit of perfect life.
Linus Baker is a meticulous official who works by supervising orphanages for children with magic skills and receives a secret mission to evaluate an isolated orphanage on a remote island, where six children are considered extremely dangerous. There he knows Arthur Parnassus, the enigmatic caregiver of the place, and finds that both children and the island hide truths that will change their way of understanding the world, the family and their own place in it.
En mayo de 1940, la invasión alemana provoca el colapso de Francia y desencadena un éxodo masivo de millones de personas. Louise Belmont, una joven maestra, se ve obligada a abandonar París y emprender un peligroso viaje en el que se cruzará con soldados, civiles y personajes marcados por el miedo, la desesperación y la esperanza. A través de sus historias entrelazadas, Pierre Lemaitre ofrece un retrato coral de uno de los episodios más dramáticos de la historia francesa y pone el broche final a la trilogía Los hijos del desastre.
Third book of the adventures of Rufo Batalla. Rufo Batalla's adventures seem to be moving towards the remanding when he is married to a rich heiress, but he cannot forget Prince Tukuulo and his exquisite wife.
How to face those who handle power in the shadows? How to take revenge on those who hurt you most? Melchor Marin comes back. And he returns to Barcelona, where he is claimed to investigate a glare case: they are blackmailing the city's mayor with a sexual video. Carried with his regret for not having found his mother's killers, but also with his inflexible sense of justice and his rocky moral integrity, Melchor must dismount an extortion that is not known to pursue the simple economic benefit or political destabilization, and to do so, he enters into the circles of power, a place where cynicism, unscrupulous ambition and corrupt brutality reign. Over there, this absorbing and wild novel, populated by a pleade of memorable characters, becomes a demolishing portrait of the political-economic elite of Barcelona, but above all in a furious argument against the tyranny of the owners of money and the masters of the world.
Five protagonists live in the heart of Cloud Cuckoo Land: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the city walls during the siege of Constantinople in 1453; adolescent idealist Seymour and Zeno octogenary in an attack on a public library in the present Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship to an exoplanet, in decades.
Casandra tells his story, and that of his brothers Caleb and Calia, the children of a stampede military man who only shines medals and decides to recreate his own home dictatorship. There is also (or not) a mother who walks in heels and sees butterflies when she closes her eyes. Far away some guys, who disappear because they are normal; and finally, and "Grandfather Bigotes," the country's leader, who uses a rifle as an extension of his arm.
When Yuri Santacruz attended the appointment as Chancellor of Adolf Hitler, he could not imagine how much his life would change in Berlin. He had arrived there a few months ago, after having fled, along with part of his family, from St. Petersburg, suffocated by a revolution that had left them with nothing. Yuri was also deprived of his mother and little brother, who were not allowed to leave the country by the Russian authorities.
A rumor circulates in Tokyo... Hidden in one of its alleys is a small cafe that is worth visiting not only for its excellent coffee, but also because, if you choose the chair to sit in, you can go back to the past.
Viaje iniciático de cuatro jóvenes por el corazón de Estados Unidos durante la década de los años cincuenta, contado desde múltiples puntos de vista y poblado por un variado elenco de personajes magnéticos.
Su último libro y, para muchos, el más emocional. Los relatos mezclan memoria, pérdida, culpa y reconciliación con una claridad brutal. Las últimas piezas del libro son casi autobiográficas; Munro llegó a decir que eran “las primeras y últimas cosas” que tenía que contar sobre su vida. Tiene una sensación de despedida muy poderosa.
Mathilde Perrin es una anciana aparentemente inofensiva que lleva una doble vida como asesina a sueldo. A medida que la edad comienza a jugarle malas pasadas y sus encargos se vuelven más caóticos, la organización para la que trabaja empieza a verla como un problema del que quizá sea necesario deshacerse.
En el Chipre dividido de los años setenta, el amor entre una joven grecochipriota y un turcochipriota nace en medio del conflicto. Décadas después, su hija intenta reconstruir la historia de sus padres mientras un antiguo árbol de higuera se convierte en el inesperado testigo de varias generaciones. La novela reflexiona sobre el desarraigo, la guerra, la memoria y la capacidad de la naturaleza para conservar las huellas del pasado.
Esta colección reúne catorce relatos breves escritos por Domingo Villar a lo largo de varios años e ilustrados por Carlos Baonza. En ellos conviven el humor, la nostalgia, el misterio y la ternura, mostrando una faceta diferente del autor de las novelas del inspector Leo Caldas.
Paul Raison is a French official who collaborates in the presidential campaign while meeting the needs of his sick father.
The wide world tells of the adventures, misfortunes, perispecia and secrets of the Pelletier, a family that owns a boar factory in Beirut, a city under French influence, with the War of Indochina and the Paris of the post-war and reconstruction as a backdrop.
A girl sitting in a bank. The day is over and the havoc of yesterday's party is still in the atmosphere. The transit of those who will work is mixed with that of those who return home by dragging the drunk under the portals. On the way to the bus stop, Tallie suddenly stops at the Boulevard. He seemed to recognize his friend Miriam sitting on the bench with her hair turned and her face disfigured by rivers of rimel.
The story of the Pelletier family continues. Hélène faces her first great work as a photographer and reporter, while Bouboule launches a new business model and Geneviève gets pregnant for the second time.
Esther has been working as a cleaning girl on large surfaces for a long time, until she gets a job as an assistant to a retired actress.
The eagle claws point to political corruption, global warming, crime in northern Sweden, the rise of ultra-right and violence against women, among other issues.
The skin removed from a woman's face and her scalp appear adjusted to the bow masquerade of the Sovereign, the warship that heads the Indian Fleet and was about to sail.
The appearance of a body in a villa in San Lorenzo de El Escorial is the starting point of an intricate investigation with multiple unanswered recorders that must be clarified by Blecker with his partner, the Cano Brigade.
On this occasion, Battaglia will have to investigate disappearances that all indicate are the work of a dangerous serial killer. It will be just another serial killer, imprisoned decades ago by Battaglia, who will help the police station catch him.
Workers in a railway line find the bones of men and women buried in a mass grave. The case falls into the hands of Arcadipane, who sees as in just a few hours a group of personnel specialized in historical analysis takes over claiming that the remains go back to World War II.
For almost a century, Biloxi has been known for its beaches, tourist complexes and fishing industry. But it also has a dark side. This city of Mississippi is equally famous for crime and corruption: from game, prostitution and smuggling to drug trafficking and murder by hit men.
Hilda Bustely is a 79-year-old girl who comes out of her grave and returns with her family, where she rereceives the love of her husband Alvaro and her granddaughter Amelia.
Ironic novel about two young fans who enter ETA in the postrimonies of the terrorist band.
Environmented in the south-eastern beauty of western Colorado, the novel tells the story of Victoria Nash, a seventeen-year-old girl facing personal and social challenges in the 1940s.
In the Apulia of the 1930s, Anna, a woman from the north who moves south for love, breaks the rules of a small town by becoming her first portfolio. Independent and determined, it challenges social conventions and the weight of traditions in a community that looks at it with suspicion.
Juniper Hayward and Athena Liu are two writers called to become the new literary promises. Athena is celebrated as a brilliant author while June remains anonymous. When June is in the presence of Athena's accidental death, she makes an impulsive decision: to steal the manuscript her friend had just finished, an experimental novel about the forgotten contribution of Chinese workers during World War I. June reviews it, sends it to an agent as if it were his and accepts that his editorial relates it to a new identity: Juniper Song.
Theo, un anciano de 84 años procedente de Portugal, llega al pequeño pueblo del sur de Estados Unidos llamado Golden, con un manera especial de mirar el mundo.
Black comedy and detective research from Franco to democracy
ongju has spent his whole life doing what was expected of her: studying, getting married and having a respectable job. Until one day, tired, he leaves his office work to pursue his dream: to open a bookstore in a quiet and charming neighborhood of Seoul.
La Tuerta, daughter of the dry cleaners, leads a miserable life during the post-war Spanish.
Century I B.C. After rioting on the ship on which the Romans moved them, a group of African prisoners of war and their women are dragged by the currents to the island of Tenerife. For a thousand five hundred years, his descendants create a civilization there, isolated from the rest of the world, until the nine kingdoms that make up the Guanche territory become the goal of the Catholic Kings.
En una España marcada por las heridas del pasado, varias generaciones de una misma familia quedan unidas por secretos, pérdidas y silencios. La novela explora la identidad, la memoria y el peso de las decisiones familiares a lo largo del tiempo, combinando drama íntimo e historia reciente.
Una simple gota de agua conecta tres historias separadas por siglos y continentes: la de un niño de la Inglaterra victoriana fascinado por la antigua Mesopotamia, la de una niña yazidí amenazada por la violencia en las orillas del Tigris y la de una hidróloga en el Londres contemporáneo. A través de sus vidas, la novela explora la memoria, el patrimonio cultural, la destrucción provocada por la guerra y el poder de las historias para sobrevivir al paso del tiempo.
Maria Dueñas offers a history of reunions, resilience and love, with unforgettable characters that cross oceans and generations.
Sofia was born in the fall of 1939, grows in the rural Galicia of the post-war, in an environment of silences and secrets carefully kept. Her paternal grandparents raise her under severe, almost suffocating surveillance, while her father - a librarian condemned to live in the dark - becomes her intimate refuge: it is he who, through fantastic stories, awakens in Sofia an imagination that allows her to escape the reality surrounding her.
Sybil Van Antwerp se comunica con familia y amigos a través de cuidadas cartas en las que se va desvelando el mayor secreto de su vida
Cuando Paula regala a su hermano un antiguo reloj de pared fabricado por su bisabuelo, un hecho inesperado lo cambia todo: su madre sufre un infarto nada más verlo. Convencida de que no se trata de una simple coincidencia, Paula examina el reloj y descubre en su interior un misterioso mensaje: «Está lloviendo y te quiero».
Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a modest apartment block in a small Hungarian town. A secret relationship with a married neighbour sets in motion consequences that will shape the rest of his life. After juvenile detention and military service in Iraq, he moves to London and rises from precarious jobs into the worlds of wealth and power. In spare, elliptical prose, David Szalay explores how the body, desire, money and social class propel a life that often seems to unfold beyond its protagonist’s control.
En 1976, el padre del narrador reabre una casa familiar que llevaba veinte años cerrada. Entre sus objetos aparecen un piano, una cómoda de mármol desconchado, una Legión de Honor y fotografías con un rostro recortado. A partir de esos rastros, la novela reconstruye la historia de varias generaciones —marcada por dos guerras mundiales, la vida rural y los silencios familiares— para devolver a la luz a quienes fueron borrados y comprender la sombra que su pasado proyecta sobre el presente.
Tras la muerte de su padre, la madre de Sofía decide desvelar el secreto que durante tantos años ha ocultado: tiene otra hija fruto de una aventura con un hombre de su pasado.
París, entre 1960 y 1964. Un incendio, un bebé abandonado y un crimen marcan el comienzo del desenlace de la saga de los Pelletier. Mientras Francia cambia a gran velocidad, la familia deberá afrontar las consecuencias de las decisiones tomadas durante años y enfrentarse a los secretos que aún permanecen ocultos.
Granada, 2025. Todos conocen a la inspectora Barea por su apellido, pero casi nadie sabe su nombre ni que padece una cardiopatía que podría apartarla de su puesto. Cuando la ciudad se ve sacudida por una serie de crímenes, Barea debe enfrentarse al caso más importante de su carrera, que pone en peligro las vidas que ha jurado proteger, su entorno más íntimo y su propia supervivencia. Lo que parece un ajuste de cuentas con tintes políticos se convierte en un ritual cada vez más perturbador: junto a cada cadáver aparecen mariposas. Mientras intenta detener la oleada de crímenes, la inspectora tendrá que actuar contrarreloj y lidiar también con un corazón maltrecho y con la relación que la une a un hombre al que ama, pero que está acabando con ella. Un thriller trepidante que inicia el universo de la inspectora Barea.
Elías, a respected television production director, sees his career shaken by an absurd strike just as his father dies and he must return to Ferrol. In the attic he finds an explosive device his father built. An enigmatic neighbour, an indomitable octogenarian and an angry rondalla turn his life into revealing comic chaos.
