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A fun reflection on ambition, adulthood and the complexities of today's world. Tracy Flick is the hard-working assistant principal of a public high school in a quiet, small New Jersey town. At forty years old, she leads a peaceful life and, although her ambition...

Winter is coming, the nights are longer. There are those who gather under the mistletoe with their family and friends while others advocate the abolition of the Christmas spirit under the slogan "Ban Christmas or Die." Among the pages of this collection of stories...

Francesca's placid existence, married with two children, is completely shaken by the arrival of Robert Kincaid, a free and generous nomadic photographer, who transforms all his energy into tenderness. Fate inexorably unites them when they meet in the autumn of their lives. Their love,...

A poor and desperate fisherman travels the kingdom in search of an honest man who will agree to be the godfather of his newborn son. He rejects God (too unfair), rejects the Devil (too cruel), and is about to give up when a shadowy...

A novel about the epic founding and heyday of one of the most mythical bookstores in the world. An exciting hymn to the bookseller's trade and to universal literature. A novel about the epic of the founding and heyday of one of the most...

Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes from ella, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment from ella. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her...

Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel is buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before this Act of God - or Man? Over the week before the landslide,...

The Dinosaur is Still Here, the complete work of Augusto Monterroso, brings together for the first time in a single volume all the stories of the master of the micro-story, each one more brilliant, arranged chronologically: those collected in his first Complete Works (and...

Bolivian National Award. A novel that will leave you breathless. The clash of two cultures is elevated exponentially by unprecedented suspense. Banished from her own home and deprived of seeing her son, Lea, a Bolivian immigrant in Toulouse, finds herself on a “desert journey”....

Controversial Dialectic is the art of disputing, as to hold one’s own, whether one is in the right or the wrong. A man may be objectively in the right, and nevertheless in the eyes of bystanders, and sometimes in his own, he may come...

An unexpected event tarnishes the routine of Saint-Louis: an influential lawyer in the city has died in an accident on the A-35. Inspector Gorski, in charge of the investigation, will have to deal not only with his Strasbourg counterpart, but also with a young...

What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the enemy of memory not time but other memories? How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue, or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? Might...

The kidnapping of the beautiful Greek queen Helen by the Trojan prince Paris triggers a war between the two people. The Greeks send their fleet and besiege the city of Troy. The conflict will last ten years, and will cause much suffering and many...

What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) for Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. What...

What is Messi going to do when he no longer plays football? What will football be like when he retires? How will we be after Messi? Since Leo Messi arrived at FC Barcelona at the age of thirteen, his football dimension has grown to...

In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, infamous dictator, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled virtually overnight. From...

Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He...s then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank...

Consent has become a key concept in sexual relationships. At first glance, it seems clear. But is it really like that? This text reflects on the nuances, fissures and paradoxes that accompany it. Can the desire be verbalized with absolute clarity, without any ambiguity?...

The arrival of thirty-two violent children of unknown origin completely disrupts the life of San Cristóbal, a small tropical city. Twenty years later, one of its protagonists wrote the Luminous Republic, a chronicle about how the city was forced to reformulate its ideas of...

This novel places us in the future world of Land in Blue (Rhapsody). There, a mature woman lives with Flor Azul, a drone through which she holds conversations with her friend Bibi, who is actually the voice of an actress. The woman, lonely and...