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In love with a woman but afraid of what might happen at the moment of truth, Cal Stephanides decides to reveal a secret. Cal has lived as both a man and a woman. It all began in 1922, when Cal’s grandparents escape to America...

Katie Carr is a mother to two sons, practices medicine and she would like to think that she is a good person because she helps others. On a trip to Leeds, she has an affair with a man younger than her and from that...

Upon his death in 1994, Charles Bukowski left behind abundant archives of unedited material or material published in underground magazines. What has been brought together here is that which, according to John Martin, his editor from Black Sparrow Press, constitutes “the missing link in...

A literary revelation in the fifties, Kenzaburo Oé was considered the best Japanese novelist of the generation after Yukio Mishima. A Personal Matter is one of his best and most cruel novels, animated by a strange interior violence. It tells of the odyssey of...

Inspired by the author’s own childhood, this is the story of a girl with a birth defect of the eye. Her life during the seventies is heavily influenced by her scant vision, but also by the dominant ideology of the time: her parent’s open...

The ex Rock Star Mario Müller discovers a visionary possibility in the Caribbean: the pleasures of fear. On the banks of an enormous coral reef The Pyramid is built, a resort that offers controlled dangers until a diver dies outside of the water. Reflecting...

Naked Lunch, one of the most mythical novels of North American literature, is a descent into the hellfire of drugs, and a horrified, sardonic, dreamlike and hallucinatory denouncement of today’s society, a world with no hope and no future. Burroughs fires his arrows against...

Tochtli likes sombreros, dictionaries, samurais, guillotines, and the French. But Tochtli is a child and now what he wants is a new animal for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. His father, Yolcaut, is a drug trafficker at the pinnacle of power...

The main protagonist of this novel, branded as the emblem for its generation, is an antihero who has given up the fight. He is a thirty-year-old IT engineer who is fed up with his job and bored of his fellow human beings, and thinks...

This extraordinary revelation of a book became an instant classic and established Sacks as “one of the greatest clinical writers of the century” (The New York Times). Sacks narrates twenty case studies of patients lost in the strange world of neurological diseases, individuals who...

Charles Bukowski, an eminent autobiographical author, offers us in this work another chapter of the life of his alter ego Chinaski. In Post Office he describes the 12 years he spent working in the sordid post office of Los Angeles. The book ends when...

Manuel Roca and his two sons live on an old isolated farm. One day, an old Mercedes with four men inside drive up the path leading to the house. As if he had always been waiting for this moment, Manuel Roca calls for his...

A rich man who works in construction organizes a party in his new residence at the heart of Rome that will go down in history as the greatest party ever. Bulgarian chefs, black talent scouts recruited in Termini station, plastic surgeons, actresses, footballers,and even...

This is Nabokov's penultimate novel, a literary tour de force whose protagonist is Hugh Person, a young North American editor who goes on various trips to Switzerland over the years. It was here that his father travelled to for the last time in his...

What is earthling Arthur Dent doing as a Sandwich Maker on a remote planet whose habitants adore Bob Almighty? How has the Transgalactic reporter had a child with the earthling without taking part of the carnal council? How is it possible that a robot...

On January 9th, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children, his parents, and then tried, unsuccessfully, to kill himself. The investigation revealed that he was not a doctor and had been lying since he was 18 years old. He was given a life...

Roberto Brest is a militant of mediocrity who is used to sadness, a being consumed by boredom, a graduate of medicine stuck as a factory worker, a writer who does not write… Until one night, upon returning home, he remembers an event that took...

What is the price of affection and in what currency do you pay for it? In the end, it is inevitable that we discover that some currencies weigh much more than what we have been given in exchange. This brave novel speaks of our...

During the day and with the windows shut, for the neighbours. That’s how Elizabeth likes it the most. She slips her hand into Georg, her husband’s, XXL yoga leggings, and from that moment onwards she betrays her mother, who always tried to teach her...

The great city of Los Angeles is once again present as it always is in the writing of Charles Bukowski. Despite being located within the Californian paradise with its oranges, sunshine and wine, this is a hellish city. Bukowski has the attitude of a...