Fiction

Dorothea Dodds, who has spent 59 years unnoticed while caring for her family, decides to escape her life by house- and pet-sitting across the English countryside. With her cousin Mary’s help, Dorothea starts a journey of self-discovery through others’ lives, uncovering clues about her...

Oscillating between disappointment and insecurity, between disenchantment and despair, Ileana struggles to hold on to the idea of seeing her seriously ill mother again, who has left her in the care of her aunts. But her fear grips her, her dreams return pieces of...

Effervescence and nostalgia: a novel about friendship in a world doomed to collapse... Rita lives in the Colony, at the top. From there, she contemplates the town sunk in the valley, and the forests that, suddenly, begin to burn. Liton, who grew up in...

In 1863, at the most critical moment of the North American Civil War, the members of the diplomatic mission that President Lincoln sent to Santiago de Chile became the unexpected heroes of one of the most overwhelming tragedies in contemporary world history: death of...

Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of...

This book imagines a hypothesis: what happened during the year and a half in which Benito Juárez, who would end up being the first indigenous president of Mexico, lived in exile in New Orleans? Accompanied by a small group of political exiles, Juárez landed...

A triptych from the 20th century. Each of the three parts of This book stars a real character. He First is Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian physicist, friend of Einstein. Fearful for the fate of his son with syndrome Down when the Nazis came to power,...

There is no work comparable to The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil steps out of the shadows towards Moscow, dragging fire and chaos with him. Bulgakov's fantastic, funny and devastating satire of Soviet life is combined into two distinct but intertwined...

A family of playful kittens jump, slide and splatter paint everywhere in this entertaining introduction to numbers and colors from award-winning author of Me and My Monkey, Dogs and The Mysterious Egg. Little readers won't stop laughing and pointing from page one to the...

This is not a novel. It is not even a story. It is a history. It begins with a man who travels the world. The man’s name is Hervé Joncour. You could call it a love story, but if it was only this it...

Magic is serious business, but all the unicorns hang around here, have picnics, and leave everything covered in glitter. They are nothing compared to the practical and hardworking goblins, who use magic for good. Unicorns are no help at all.

A disturbing novel about uncertainty, memories, fears, loneliness, family relationships and longing for the future... The narrator of these pages lives five thousand kilometers from her native country, works for an advertising agency, wants to apply for a scholarship to write in the Netherlands...

After finding a mysterious, handmade field guide in the attic of the ramshackle old mansion they’ve just moved into, Jared; his twin brother, Simon; and their older sister, Mallory, discover that there’s a magical and maybe dangerous world existing parallel to our own—the world...

Thanks to the mysterious field guide left behind by their long-lost great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick, life for the Grace kids—Jared, Simon, and Mallory—is beyond weird. When Simon goes missing, Jared is convinced creatures from the faerie world have something to do with it. Mallory is...

The story is about Kate, a sporty and happy girl who uses her strong mind to tackle her daily challenges with a good attitude. Teach your children about confidence, resilience, and a positive growth mindset. With this book your children will be introduced to...

First published in 2014, Facsimile accumulated accolades, editions, and translations at unexpected speed, demonstrating that its unique blend of sharpness and tenderness resonates on various scales, becoming one of Alejandro Zambra's seminal titles. "Funny, melancholic, surprising ... It may change how you think about...

This is a novel in which human beings, women of water, ghosts and dogs live in Camprodon and Prats de Molló. An area of high mountains that preserves the memory of centuries of struggle for survival and persecutions fueled by ignorance and fanaticism and...

Pipe Metaphysics tells the story of the first three years of life of a being obsessed with water that, dissatisfied with its environment, adopts the inert form of a pipe as its existential condition. With the cruelty, humor and realism, the author recalls, through...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize, this novel follows Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, as he contends with his past. He has built a life for himself; he has a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter. But when he...

A girl digs up bones that turn out to be not from an animal; a girl feels attraction for sick hearts; a boy who filmed couples making love receives a proposal that will change his life... Twelve stories sinister stories, unfolding a disturbing eroticism....