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PutinHow did Vladimir Putin go from being a simple KGB officer in the German Democratic Republic to becoming the most powerful figure in the new Russia, which is moving further and further away from Westerners? Hubert Seipel was the only Western journalist to accompany...
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Historia de los abuelos que no tuveIvan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were perfect strangers, When he set out to uncover their story, Jablonka had little to work with, Neither of them was the least bit famous, and...
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La chica de la mafiaArlyne Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the daughter of a Jewish mobster who ran an auto sales business as a front. From a young age she idolized Virginia Hill, the girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel, and aspired to have...
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Los papeles de HerraldeAlthough the profession of an editor is enigmatic, these papers offer a hectic and at times explosive collection of clues to show how Jorge Herralde exercised it.From the purchase of a typewriter, a table and a chair in 1968 to the decision to hire...
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El bar de las grandes esperanzasJ. R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J. R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J. R. would...
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En veranoThe conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short vividly descriptive essays with emotionally-raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly...
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En primaveraSpring is the recommencement of Knausgaard’s fantastic and spellbinding literary project of assembling a personal encyclopedia of the world addressed directly to his newly born daughter. But here Knausgaard must also tell his daughter the story of what happened during the time when her...
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En otoñoFrom the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons.
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En inviernoThe second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first...
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Desde dentroThis novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest...
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Amazon desatadoAlmost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation...
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DiariosAn essential document to understand the ins and outs of a great writer… Six years after his death, the reader has in his hands the diaries that the author reviewed and prepared for publication. With forewords by Marta Sanz and Fernando Valls. "Rafael Chirbes...
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En la prisión de SiberiaYoann Barbereau was a promising official at the head of the Alliance Française in Irkutsk, in Siberia, when he was imprisoned on charges of a crime he had not committed. The FSB, heir to the KGB, created a set of false evidence to incriminate...
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El último vals de SissiEmpress Sissi is best known for the idyllic life that has been transferred from the cinema and some romantic novels, but it is very far from reality because we have a document that is unpublished: the diary of Lucheri Louis, who murdered the empress....
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Emilio CastelarIn this biography, Manuel Serrano delves into the figure of Emilio Castelar, the most important Spanish republican of the 19th century. He was a convinced Europeanist who with his word and his writings contributed to forging European consciousness and the need to face the...
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Diálogo con mi sombraThe visceral and carnal Pedro Juan Gutiérrez reviews his busy life and his provocative work, his influences and his working methods… Pedro Juan interviews Pedro Juan. The writer makes an agile and exhaustive review of his life and his work in which nothing is...
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Parte de míThe reader is holding in their hands the diary of a writer during the first year of the pandemic. A peculiar diary, since she wrote it in successive Instagram entries, under the hashtag #ParteDeMí. The first entry is from April 17, a month after...
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El hombre que salvó los cerezosEach year, the flowering of cherry blossoms marks the beginning of spring. But if it weren’t for the pioneering work of an English eccentric, Collingwood “Cherry” Ingram, Japan’s beloved cherry blossoms could have gone extinct. Ingram first fell in love with the Sakura, or...
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En la casa de los sueñosA revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other PartiesIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse....
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LobasIn the tradition of Antonia Fraser, David Starkey, and Alison Weir, prize-winning historian Helen Castor delivers a compelling, eye-opening examination of women and power in England, witnessed through the lives of six women who exercised power against all odds - and one who never...
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