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With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinct twentieth-century acuteness to her prolific body of fiction. In her more than twenty novels, psychopaths lie in wait amid the milieu of the mundane,...

As a child, Roland Baines's parents sent him to boarding school. There, far from family protection, he took piano lessons with a young teacher named Miriam Cornell, with whom he had a fascinating and traumatic experience that would mark his life forever. The years,...

Jeanette lives in Miami and struggles with addiction. The daughter of a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history; a story that her mother, Carmen, does not want to tell her. That is why she makes the sudden decision...

At the beginning of the 21st century, a man obsessed with invisibility takes the same boat trip that his grandparents did in the middle of the last century on their honeymoon. In Patagonia they met a unique woman, Graciela Pavic, whose mysterious story contains...

Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly....

Master of story and verse, Rudyard Kipling transports us through these Jungle Books to the wonderful and ruthless world of Mowgli, Bagheera, Baloo, Kaa and Shere Khan. From India to the Labrador peninsula, passing through Alaska, characters like Rikki Tikki Tavi, the young Inuit...

Everything contained in this book that you hold in your hands is a literary game, created by Patrick Modiano and his accomplice, the exquisite illustrator Pierre Le-Tan. Everything is fictitious, starting with the supposed author of the piece. Well, the book includes some winks,...

It’s 1960, and the world teeters on the edge of cultural, political, sexual, and artistic revolution. On the Greek island of Hydra, a proto-commune of poets, painters, and musicians revel in dreams at the feet of their unofficial leaders, the writers Charmian Clift and...

This book is part of a true story: that of two people who grew up in dusty towns and closed environments but decided to go off to conquer the big city. They, Jorge and Simón, seduced Buenos Aires of the early 1970s and made...

Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks...

Allergic to all kinds of group activities, Serenata Terpsichore, the protagonist of this novel, is a voice-over artist who has dedicated her life to exercising, running, swimming, and bicycling. Now, when she turns sixty, so much of her activity takes a painful toll on...

Tom and Louise meet in a pub before their couple's therapy appointment. Married for years, they thought they had a stable home life--until a recent incident pushed them to the brink. Going to therapy seemed like the perfect solution. But over drinks before their...

Twenty years after her incisive first book, Sex and the City," which redefined the landscape of pop culture and relationships by examining the mating rituals of Manhattan's elite, pioneering Candace Bushnell offers a new book about the ins and outs of sex and dating...

In a small coastal town just a stone's throw from Tokyo, a prestigious piano competition is underway. Over the course of two feverish weeks, three students will experience some of the most joyous—and painful—moments of their lives. Though they don't know it yet, each...

One morning, a man wakes up to discover that he has been transformed. During the night, Anders' skin has turned dark, and the image returned to him by the mirror is that of a stranger. At first, he only shares his secret with Oona,...

New York, 2007. Demetrio, a twenty-four-year-old, works as a pastry chef at the French restaurant Le Bourrelet. This would be his seventh year as a pâtissier, but the stern but fatherly chef-owner feels the young man should continue to advance his career. When Demetrio...

1957: Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper in the southeast suburbs of London. Clever but with limited career opportunities and on the brink of forty, Jean lives a dreary existence that includes caring for her demanding widowed mother, who rarely...

A ten-year-old boy is orphaned in the unedifying America of the 1920s and is placed under the control of an eccentric lady, obsessed with being à la page, vital, capricious, seductive and adorable. Together with her, he will spend the next thirty years in...

This is a diary about sad days and happy days − "Euphoria and absolute happiness are a millimeter away from a panic attack." Written following this premise: One writes only in the face of danger, there is no other honest way to do it,...

When Emile Maugin, a famous veteran actor, discovers that a heart problem seriously threatens his health, he decides to reflect on his life. Arrogant, brusque, and cynical, yet at heart generous, he reigns as a tyrant over the small group of devoted subjects who...