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Nothing is simple for the men and women in Andrés Barba's stories. As they go about their lives, they are each tested by a single, destructive obsession. A runner puts his marriage at risk while training for a marathon; a teenager can no longer...

The reader will discover in these stories the characteristic elements of the Highsmith universe: the crime that breaks into the everyday, the evil that lurks in any corner, the cruelty that emerges where it’s least expected, the suspense handled with a master hand. /...

The portentous portrayal of a character controlled by an unhealthy obsession that, in an unstoppable crescendo, results in the domain of things typical of the darkest thriller. / El portentoso retrato de un personaje arrastrado por una obsesión enfermiza que, en un imparable crescendo,...

The narrator of this story, a painter from Madrid, recalls the steps that have led to the last journey of his relationship with Michel. Michel, the man who took this painter in to his home, to his bed, and in his life when this...

In this sumptuous offering, one of our premier storytellers provides a feast for fiction aficionados. Spanning four decades and three prize-winning collections, these twenty-one vintage selected stories and thirteen scintillating new ones take us around the world. / Los cuentos de Pearlman son una...

This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture. / Los adjetivos...

Tabucchi’s most beautiful book and one of the most beautiful of the literature of these times: how the great Italian critic Pietro Citati talked of The Game of Reverse. The most beautiful stories in this book are "A Letter from Casablanca" and "Little Gatsby",...

Written in his characteristically beautiful, sharp, and surprising language, exploring themes both familiar and fresh, these stories provide new insight into the bold and uncompromising arc of Fitzgerald’s career. I’d Die For You is a revealing, intimate look at Fitzgerald’s creative process. / Empresarios atrapados en...

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. An elegantly sardonic, irresistibly ironic novel...

Three generations of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears that move in human society. In chapter one, the grandmother matriarch accidentally writes a bestselling autobiography. The rest of the book covers the lives...

Saint Francis of Assisi is generally identified with the love of nature, with the service to the poor and with the strictest practice of evangelical poverty. The Saint of Assisi was not a tormented man, but he suffered greatly. In this novel, Father Santiago...

The subject of this book is the figure of William Walker, a disproportionate, almost implausible, but real character, whom the New York Tribune once called "the Don Quixote of Latin America" and about whom the narrator of the Novel writes from a hotel in...

Déodat is the ugliest baby in the world, but as he grows up he will prove to have a privileged mind. However, he will have serious difficulties to understand the mysteries of love and what girls want. Trémière, on the other hand, is a...

Set in the American South, at the crossroads of a world that is both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson’s stories mine the inner lives of young women and men navigating sexual, emotional, and spiritual awakenings. In the title story, Jake grapples with...

Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother's unexplainable illness. She is frustrated with Rose and her constant complaints, but utterly relieved to be called to abandon her own disappointing fledgling adult life. She...

After noticing that human beings continue to suffer despite the advances and comforts of modern life, Buddha decides to return to Earth two and a half millennia later. He will be incarnated in Sid, a young taxi driver who will try to solve the...

Lola, a well-known and attractive executive, dedicates herself for once in her life to her family: her husband and their small children. Her stay in the Arab Emirates would allow her to devote herself to what is really "important". The exotic Dubai is the...

The discovery of chess is for Luzhin the revelation of an order of impeccable harmony in which he takes refuge from his unhappy adolescence and develops a brilliant career as a champion, which will end up becoming a dangerous obsession that absorbs every minute...

Daniel is a Martian who doesn’t fit into the world. Or is it the world that is weird? This is a novel, and as in any training novel, there is a search; in this case it is not the Holy Grail, because what Daniel...

An unknown Argentine historian discovers a mysterious book that may contains the foundational myth of his country. The historian decides to dedicate his life to study and copy the text, which tells of an unknown people. This chronicle, The History, presents in detail the...