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One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. There he’s partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who’s forty-eight, confident, witty, and married,...

No one behind, no one forward. The way that the ancients opened has been closed. And the other, wide and easy, of all, does not go anywhere. I'm alone and I make my way.... This edition of Octavio Paz's poems brings together all the...

After the death of God and the dismemberment of utopias, our time seems to be thrown into uncertainty. Many of the intellectual efforts today are aimed at finding a common framework on which to base acts and speeches. And history shows us that we...

Julio is convinced that it’s better to stay in his room and watch a bonsai grow than struggling with literature. This narrative is marked by the disappearance of a woman. Bonsai is poet and literary critic Alejandro Zambra's novelist debut.

The peaceful life of Spencer Ashby, a school teacher in a small town in the state of New York, comes crashing down the morning that Belle Sherman -the daughter of a friend of his wife whom the couple had been hosting for some time-...

At a time when European citizens are increasingly detached from their political representatives while uncertainties are growing, Tzvetan Todorov makes us discover or rediscover figures who, each in their own way, have managed to reconcile moral demands and public action. They lived in different...

This book denounces that the dangers that lie in wait for Western democracies are not so much external, as we have been led to believe by invoking Islamist terrorism, religious extremism, or dictatorial regimes, but internal. Thus, the enemy is within us. Todorov calls...

The landmark modern novel Mrs. Dalloway creates a portrait of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway as she orchestrates the last-minute details of a grand party. But before Virginia Woolf wrote this masterwork, she explored in a series of fascinating stories...

Girl Meets Boy was published in 2007 and is one of his most appreciated books by critics and readers. An unforgettable revisitation of Ovid's Metamorphoses that tells us about the transforming power of love.

Dacia Maraini was one of Pier Paolo Pasolini's closest friends, with whom she shared readings, film projects and even a house, when Dacia had the writer Alberto Moravia as a partner. The three traveled the world and especially Africa, trips to which Maria Callas...

Timandra is one of the most fascinating female figures of Greek antiquity. A woman of exceptional beauty, she knew how to congregate in her house the best minds of her time, from Socrates to Euripides. But she, above all, she transcended for, as the...

Knowledge has never been so important and at the same time so suspicious. In the era of triumphant rationality, institutionalized science, technological advances and intelligent systems, a strange constellation appears: while science enjoys enormous recognition, many people distrust it, from mere distrust to extreme...

In the fourth century a. C., Aristotle founds his school in Athens, a much-improved version of the Platonic Academy, where he himself studied in his youth. Aristotle's teachings do not expire, the author tells us. Extensively tracing the work of Aristotle, inserted in the...

In 1994, Stephen Cooper, biographer of John Fante, scholar of his work and preparer of this edition, visited the writer's widow, who after many conversations allowed him to enter a secret room where manuscripts, drafts, numbers of old magazines and other papers were kept....

A terrible event took place during the childhood of the great-grandmother and the consequences will spread throughout generations. It is a book about the impact of political and family events, about the way in which memories are transmitted, about how History influences private stories......

A hypnotic narrative essay, travel book, and non-fiction novel that takes place during one hundred days of the year 2020. From mid-February, when Reinaldo Laddaga contracted the coronavirus, to the demonstrations that caused the murder of George Floyd. During those strange months, the author...

Daniel has long been lost in his drug addiction and discouragement. Claude still believes that by working hard you can achieve something. The two live in Brussels and are dedicated to emptying houses of deceased people, most of them without relatives or from homes...

Bea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the...

Victor Klemperer's will to testify to his life under Nazi terror was reflected in about five thousand pages of newspapers. Written under constant threat of death due to his Jewish status -his marriage to an Aryan woman saved him from deportation-, several decades after...

Dr. Mukwege, in his book -part autobiography and part a call against sexual violence in times of peace and war- highlights the role of the extraordinary women who shaped and inspired him. The book also denounces the rapes and sexual violence suffered by women...