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A virus has spread around the world. It has a special feature: it only kills adults. Children incubate it but aren't affected until they age. Anna, thirteen, must rescue her little brother and take him to Palermo and then to Messina. The goal: reach...

The story opens with the discovery of a body in the Olba marshes. This novel forces us to look into a murky space that has always existed. It is at once a useful space and an abyss where crimes have been hidden and both...

After the death of his younger brother, Rent's life falls apart. He starts hanging out with his old pals and is drawn irresistibly into their wacked-out plans. Gritty, moving, and exhilarating, Skagboys paints their dizzying downward spiral with scabrous humor and raw language. / Edimburgo, inicios...

This quartet of novels tell of Fante's fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. Though his physical escape is complete, the psychological damage remains. / El cuarteto de novelas protagonizadas por Arturo Bandini –álter...

The Weight of the Soul presents detective Milton Vertebra, a character full of excesses; a loser who has always thought that winning is another-perhaps the most cruel- type of defeat. Milton is a radical protagonist who seduces the reader from the very first line...

The protagonist of this novel was born in China, grew up in Argentina, returned home and as a teenager, went to America as an interpreter for businessmen. This novel hides a story of initiation and also a story about identity and culture shock; and...

The story of a city that is suddenly abandoned by its inhabitants. Dr. Tejada arrives to care for the nursing home New Life. Tejada is looking for a place to hide himself and his shady past, but his plans for isolation will soon be...

What is offside in Offside? Things that should not happen, happen. Martin Kohan's detective novel has a plot with the usual elements of the genre: actions, clues, facts, and consequences. But clues and consequences appear unexpectedly, in the places one would least expect. /...

During a flight, Marta Sanz feels pain somewhere she has never felt it before. From that moment grows the comic discomfort that triggers Clavicle: "I will tell what has and what has not happened to me. The possibility that nothing has happened to me...

Daniel, a successful musician, takes his father's corpse to bury him in his hometown in a hearse driven by Jairo, an Ecuadorian driver with whom he engages in a long conversation about life, remembering his past at school with friends, with whom he assembles...

Stories about family, hidden desires, hatred and the fear, violence, and latent threats. A girl who works as a waitress in Los Angeles meets a contestant on a reality show and begins a relationship that his sister watches from a distance. A grandfather worries...

Francisco and Diego meet ten years after leaving Peru. The memory will bring back their summer adventures in the Europe of the new millennium: trips full of drugs, sex, and alcohol. A traumatic episode in Berlin between Francisco, a prostitute, and a band of...

"A writing that works with the senses, a legend at ground level, wild and fierce ... Something radically new in literature in Spanish, original and unusual" (Manuel Rivas)."Memorize this name: Cristina Sánchez-Andrade. She is, without more, one of the most powerful female voices that...

Amparo Miranda, a successful fashion designer that lives in New York, returns to the city she left forty years ago. She hasn’t returned for nostalgia, nor to show her triumphs: she comes to recompose a speech that was interrupted. But during the week she's...

In this elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir, Julian Barnes has written about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and tearing them apart. Powerfully rendered, this searing work confirms the author as an unparalleled magus...

Bergen, 1988. A young novelist becomes socially and literarily inept. His texts are made of clichés. After his frustrated romances he discovers love: Tonje, whom he marries and soon becomes the author he had always longed to be. / Tiene que llover arranca en...

Leonardo Villalba, just released from prison, tries to get his life in order. He encounters the figure of his dead father and stumbles on a puzzle: who is the mysterious lady in the white house? A beautiful contemporary parable about the power of memory....

Memory does not follow a chronological order: it goes forward and backward. This third volume of My Struggle is narrated in this way, with spasmodic accuracy that results in a spectacular exercise of autobiographical realty. Boyhood Island is the Tromøy Island of 1969, where...

The calm life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he sees a man die in a freak hot-air balloon accident. A stranger named Jed Parry joins Rose in helping to bring the balloon to safety, but unknown to Rose, something passes between...

Pierre Angot, a sophisticated Parisian who doesn’t even think about marriage, and Rachel Schwartz, a modest Jewish girl, have a relationship, leaving a daughter, Christine. The girl grows up with her mother, but her father, who has formed another family, will eventually contact his...