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In this monumental novel, Maaza Mengiste investigates the erased lives of the women who participated in the war of resistance against the fascist Italian invasion that began in 1935 in her native Ethiopia. Through the characters of "The shadow king" –complex and full of...

Walks through the Prado Museum. For its classics and its forgotten ones. For its history, its stories and its nooks and crannies. Following in the footsteps of the classic Three Hours at the Prado Museum by Eugenio d'Ors, Estrella de Diego offers us a...

Written in 1928, this novel tells the true story of the conflict between the inhabitants of the town of Gjøl and a group of fishermen who moved there from the North Sea coast. The newcomers, who practice a very strict form of Christian faith,...

Women, just like men, are also capable of killing, of planning the criminal act for reasons as emotional as revenge, greed or jealousy. The motive is rarely aggression or self-defense: physical inferiority places women at a disadvantage in a situation of direct confrontation, which...

In July 2021, Roberto Calasso, editor, writer, intellectual, man of letters, essential figure of Italian and European culture, passed away. Jorge Herralde, accomplice editor and friend of many years, since the youthful meetings in Frankfurt in the seventies of the last century, pays tribute...

Written in 1920 (five years before "The Great Gatsby") "The IOU" remained an unpublished story until The New Yorker discovered and brought it to light in 2017. Apparently, it was meant to be published in Harper's Bazaar, but Francis Scott Fitzgerald kept it for...

Most forms of meditation ask us to be still and quiet, to take time away from our busy lives and forget about our ever-growing to-do lists. Myung Sung, the peaceful art of Korean mindfulness, does the opposite. Myung Sung is active, dynamic, a connectedness...

A girl discovers that, behind the woman who looks at her sternly from the dark family portrait, lives a red-haired girl, who runs free through the Cantabrian mountains, along with her Danish dog. She decides to draw to find out who that girl and...

Memoirs of a Novelist is one of Virginia Woolf's best stories. A wonderful story about the nature of biography, something that Virginia Woolf would continue to explore throughout her life. The complexity comes from the writer's skillful handling of the layers of fiction within...

Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years—good years—but now they're not sure why they're...

In The Light Beyond, Dr. Raymond Moody, the world's leading authority in the field of near-death experiences, investigates fascinating new case studies. Common patterns emerge from these reports, such as meeting loved ones in the afterlife, being surrounded by a bright beautiful light, reviewing...

No abstract can convey the quality of its opening and closing pages,' Isaiah Berlin once said about the 'Manifesto'. The revolutionary pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is still surprisingly relevant today. Of course, history has made some of its parts obsolete...

I was eight years old when my grandfather took me by the hand and did not let go until we found my parents in Athens. Who knows what might have happened if I had stayed in the village. It was 1946. Early spring 1946....

This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili,...

An initiatory novel about trauma and the search for identity. A compelling, bewitching, cruel and disturbing reading that questions motherhood, love and the links that unite us with our past... The elderly Tamara Pavlovna rescues little Lastochka from an orphanage during the grayest years...

This book offers a selection of the adventures of Achilles that occurred in the last year of the famous Trojan War. For fifty-one days the demigod was the most cunning of the Achaean warriors in his fight against the Trojans. Achilles' anger and his...

A girl received a book from her grandmother as a gift so that she could store her memories. She was in charge of taking care of her, and also of showing her all the colors that became threads to weave a beautiful dress for...

Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" (1890) is possibly the most influential Norwegian novel in history. A true classic of modern literature and a precursor to the psychologically focused fiction of Franz Kafka, Albert Camus and José Saramago. Now comic book artist Martin Ernstsen has turned it...

An exceptional novel, a modern classic of extreme elegance and frankness and one of the most brilliant x-rays of the United States in which women began to speak in the first person. "The Group" is considered the best-known —and controversial— work of the North...

Ever since the Neolithic revolution, although interpreted in different ways, a belief has remained unchanged in its essence, that someone of a non-human nature instructing men on how to face the multiple challenges that have been raising over time. This is the magical part...