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Hormonal explores everything from contraception to PMS, in relation to anxiety, depression and taboos about hysteria and the 'hormonal' woman. It is a compelling portrait of the modern landscape of women and health, showing us how to navigate stigma and misinformation. Combining her own...

If every war needs its master chronicler, Ukraine has Serhiy Zhadan, one of Europe’s most promising novelists. Recalling the brutal landscape of The Road and the wartime storytelling of A Farewell to Arms, The Orphanage is a searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the ongoing...

Installed in chronic fatigue, the result of a non-specific ailment, the narrator of this novel decides to enter a luxury clinic effectively designed to restore sick bodies. There she surrounds herself with a select group of patients who, like her, give themselves over to...

A real estate agent is preparing an empty house for buyers to visit when she finds herself in the kitchen with a seven-year-old boy who doesn't blink an eye. The apparition will be repeated, and the woman will leave her everyday world behind. What...

September, 1962. A young teacher with a dubious vocation and little ability to communicate orally reaches first place in a school in the Ribagorza Pyrenees. Thus, she fulfills her wishes: to have a town, a job and a house from which to watch the...

Hadji Murad is a short novel written by Leo Tolstoy. It was Tolstoy's final work. The subject matter is one Hadji Murat, an Avar rebel commander who, for reasons of personal revenge, forges an uneasy alliance with the Russians he had been fighting.

One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: “A miracle!” Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with gray-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumor,...

Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Dolores Ayala, owner of an old photographic studio that has run out of clients, receives the most unusual assignment of her entire career: to photograph a deceased person on the day of his burial. Accepting...

On the first page of this book we find a man facing a firing squad. We are in the Congo, in 1964. That man, kidnapped by the rebels along with fifteen hundred other Westerners, is the young Belgian consul in Stanleyville. His name is...

Kai hates his job, shares a flat with his two best friends and doesn't know what to do with his life. Denis lives controlled by a dictatorship marked by technological and futuristic advances. Bahari aspires to become the best sentinel for her promotion in...

The story of a man and the houses he has lived in. A character whose name we do not know –it is simply Me–, but we do know all the details of his life. It is reconstructed in a succession of fragments: the complex...

On an August night in Norway, a glow suddenly lights up the sky: it is a huge new star that rises dizzyingly, without anyone being able to explain it. Magnetized, restless, some characters observe her amid their own crossroads. A novel full of threatening...

Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather’s long-ago...

2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect...

In a first-person voice as droll and irreverent as it is wise, Nothomb narrates Jesus’s final days, from his trial to his crucifixion to the resurrection, Amid asides about his relationships with his mother and Judas, his love for Mary Magdalene, and his many...

People go to Huntington Beach in search of the endless parties, the ultimate highs, and the perfect waves. Ike Tucker has come to look for his missing sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In that place of gilded surfers...

It's unbelievable, but it's true: a first-class international museum −the Reina Sofía− commissioned a work from a sculpture star, the North American Richard Serra, for its inauguration in 1986, The sculptor delivers a piece created ad hoc for the room in which it was...

The old woman Lucha is about to be killed by her husband before the astonished gaze of her granddaughter. The origin of the rancor accumulated for decades dates back to the early morning of January 2, 1921. The young Lucha experienced the shipwreck of...

The power of Emerson's writing is an incontrovertible fact. Of few modern authors can it be said as emphatically as of Emerson that their books "read" their readers, rather than being read by them. Renewing the meaning of its pages means, therefore, renewing our...

Brushing your teeth, eating everything, or picking up toys, are habits that boys and girls learn from a very young age. Carlota the groundhog or Martin the chick will remind you here how to do it. It's very easy!