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It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is instant....

If you could talk one last time to someone you've lost forever, what would you say? In front of Kotoko, steam rises from the bowls full of rice and miso soup on the table. He took the train from Tokyo to reach Chibineko Kitchen,...

Sensitive Anatomy is a celebration of the body in all its breadth. A defense of imperfection and its alternative beauties, through a poetic, political and erotic journey through the matter that we are. A book that humorously reveals how we see ourselves or how...

This volume includes two short novels, the first of which, The South, gave rise to the script for the film of the same name directed by Víctor Erice. Both this story and the one told in Bene are characterized by their narrative magnetism, based...

Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday--and Dennis gets drawn...

Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfield at a party. Two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves, they go in search of Mrs. Copperfield who visits Panama with her husband, where she finds solace among the...

It is generally agreed that the story is the narrative form par excellence within contemporary North American literature and that Raymond Carver is the indisputable master of this register. In each story of Cathedral the latent presence or intrusion of “extraordinary terrors within an...

This is set in the fascinating city of Oporto, although we suspect that it could be about any other city in Europe. We also suspect that the problems of police abuse, torture and social prejudices form the seed of this story, and the expressive...

The shocking thing of the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them...

Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a...

Antonio is a Galician businessman with excessive ambition. When he finally takes over the management of the coffin factory founded by his father, until then reluctant to hand over the baton, he makes a radical change to the business. He wants to place it...

This international literary phenomenon—the title inspired by William Blake’s poem The Tyger—is a forensic exploration into how to speak about the unspeakable. Repeatedly exposed to sexual violence as a child, Neige Sinno tells of a family life built around lies and deception. She was...

Josephine Perkins wakes up one morning and finds herself in bed with a stranger. She thinks that her dream betrays her, that perhaps she has consumed something that produces strange hallucinations. However, she feels the heat of that body and the flow of her...

When the young millionaire Jacob Blunt shows up at the office of the prestigious Doctor George Matthews, a psychiatrist with a bland and placid life, he will completely change the course of his existence. Suddenly, the respected psychiatrist is swept into a strange, surreal...

Laird Koenig (The Girl Who Lives Down the Road) returns alongside Peter L. Dixon in a terrifying thriller. It's the last week of summer. The blinding Californian sun scorches the beaches of Malibu. In a huge house by the sea, all the curtains are...

Halfway between fiction and reality, between novel and memoir, Sleepless Nights travels along a dazzling and expressly undefined path, reserved only for masterpieces. A woman reviews her entire life - with an unforgettable gallery of characters and a varied range of backdrops - and...

Bruce Pike is eleven years old and lives in a logging town near the wild coast of Western Australia. Loner by nature, he hates the quiet customs of his family, but everything changes when he becomes friends with Loonie, an impulsive and rebellious boy...

Like many of Jim Harrison's books, "Dalva" was written in a tin-roofed cabin surrounded by dogs and horses roaming around at their leisure. One even has the feeling that while writing with one hand (Harrison used a fountain pen to the end) with the...

The concept of superfluous man, as an intelligent, sensitive and idealistic but nihilistic and indecisive man, became popular thanks to the publication of this work by Ivan Turgenev in 1850. This is a typical character in 19th century Russian literature and his recurring presence...

On the eve of the birth of his son, a young man decides to reconstruct the story of his father, who died years ago ravaged by illness and poverty after a long process of mental decline. To do this, he turns to the only...