Fiction

Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children’s program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on. But just as generations of cultishly devoted fans still cling to the lessons they learned from...

On the outskirts of Tokyo, in a small city bathed by the ocean and surrounded by mountains, is the house where Shuichi spent his childhood and to which he has just returned. Shuichi is a famous illustrator, he is forty years old and has...

In a gray Earth where colors have disappeared, the only salvation is a little girl who must be protected. To counter the enemy's attempt to get hold of the "ancestral technology" contained in TChie's body, Avidya contacts the former professor Zashew. He is a...

Will human beings end up worshiping machines? Will the machines have rights? How is people's inner landscape being transformed in the face of the mutation of the outer landscape? In The Way of the Future Edmundo Paz Soldán, one of the unavoidable references of...

Written on a scale of Homeric proportions, Herodotus' The Histories is the first and greatest work of prose that Greek Antiquity has bequeathed to us. In it, the traveler from Halicarnassus explores an entire era and a universe with an inquiring and deeply humanistic...

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones is a classic of Zen Buddhist literature of all ages. A Fundamental and essential text, it includes an anthology of 101 stories where episodes and experiences of Zen Masters composed over five centuries. It is considered so pure that its...

Among the various avatars that the legendary aura of Homer and his work have known throughout the history of English letters, perhaps the two most astonishing are Joyce's Ulysses and Walcott's Omeros. As in the Iliad ("Omeros" is Homer's name "in the ancient language...

Algeria, 1956. Fernand Iveton, a young thirty-year-old communist worker, decides to show his support for the FNL's independence cause against France by planting a bomb. Iveton's peculiarity is that he is a pied noir, that is, a white Frenchman born in Algeria. The bomb...

Juan Villoro is recognized as one of the great current Latin American writers. Journalist, novelist, short story writer, essayist and chronicler, he collected for the first time his literary essays in Personal Effects (Mazatlán Prize 2001), which was followed by That's What It's About...

Human beings think they know what they are capable of. They believe that they could not escape from the police, that they would never harm a child. I couldn't kill my parents, whatever they do, they gave me life. Or I would never go...

When darkness is not outside ourselves, but envelops us, escape is impossible. Four stories to immerse yourself in the abyss of the soul and lose yourself in the most silent torments.

The works that elevated Theodor Kallifatides as one of the great European writers of the second half of the 20th century were his three novels Peasants and Gentlemen (1973), The Plow and the Sword (1975) and A Cruel Peace (1977). They are translated for...

Mileva Einstein was not only Albert Einstein's first love, wife and mother of children, but also one of the first European women to study physics. As a scientist she collaborated in her husband's discoveries mainly in the field of mathematics, where her knowledge surpassed...

Year 2063. Earth's resources are running out. All space expeditions in search of new fuels have failed, China is a global power, the United States is dying in the hands of the mafia, and people are freezing to death in downtown Manhattan. American tycoon...

Hatoko Amemiya has just returned to Kamakura, the coastal town where she grew up in the care of her grandmother, to resume the family business of a stationery store. Theirs is a lineage of scribes, an ancient profession that Hatoko is determined to honor...

Written in 1857 and 1858, these two stories are a tribute to Tolstoy's passion for music and are inspired by episodes from his life. In "Lucerne" he offers evocative descriptions of the city by the lake and recreates in first person the conflicts of...

Although his parents are convinced that Valentino will become a great man, his sisters believe that he is nothing more than a vain, selfish and frivolous young man, more concerned with his conquests than with his medical studies. Valentino's sudden engagement to a rich...

First, the bad news: an ancient evil--you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal--is about to be unleashed. The good news? Squad 312 is standing by to save the day. They've just got to take care of a few small distractions first. Like the clan of...

Gretel, the thirty-something protagonist of this fascinating and at times disturbing novel, reunites with her mother, Sarah, who now suffers from Alzheimer's, sixteen years after she abandoned her. Gretel is a lexicographer and makes a living updating dictionary entries, so she knows well that...

Who saw it coming? is one of the fundamental questions of this book. A question about the past and the future, about identity and about that time of naivety and rebellion that is adolescence. Who are we at twelve years old? And at sixteen?...