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The biological decoding of diseases offers a new understanding of the role played by the symptom. This therapeutic approach allows the patient to deal with the conflicts that give rise to it. In his first three books, Christian Flèche studied the transition to the...

A therapeutic manual method of progressive recovery of the verticality of the organism, Rolfing allows, through personalized work and touch on the fasciae (the connective tissue that connects muscles, bones, viscera and meninges), to restore flexibility and ease to the body.By teaching us to...

David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together, and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything...

When world-famous artist Hanna Stiltje presents her latest work of art at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, murmurs of disappointment run through the room. Instead of a painting or a beautiful statue like the ones she is known for, she shows the...

Dynamiting magical realism from the base, but nourishing, in a certain sense, its absolute freedom of fiction, the Dominican writer Rita Indiana builds in this prodigious novel, which surpasses the achievements of her previous book, Papi (Periférica, 2011), an edifice narrative governed by an...

An excited girl waits for her father, a Dominican gangster whom she idolizes and who always arrives without warning, like monsters in horror movies. Daddy appears, disappears and reappears, loaded with dollars and endless cars, girlfriends and gifts. He embodies, as the critic Juan...

Can the irreversible be stopped? Can anyone become a theorem without a solution? Is it possible to escape from a destiny that does not belong to us? Is it social media that drives us into battle? Can a fictional character write a mission statement?...

In 1994, Grace Paley collected all of her story books into a single volume. Her exuberant characters, her unmistakable and singular voice, her eccentric and radiantly biting temperament, as well as her use of language of uncommon richness, strengthened her position as one of...

This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one...

Grady McNeil is seventeen years old and has convinced her parents to leave her alone in their Central Park apartment while they go on a summer cruise. No one explains why she disdains the delights of Europe for the hot summer of New York,...

Modiano Territory: the narrator evokes experiences, people and places he knew when he was twenty. The narrator of Memory Lane remembers how he entered the circle of people he frequented in his youth, and with whom he spent the summer in an old mansion....

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez distilled into seventeen Cuban stories full of vitalism, rawness and sex. Seventeen stories that function as a succession of Cuban prints, like a portrait of life on the island over three decades. Carlitos makes his way through adult life, experiencing excitement...

This is the second Compendium dedicated to one of the house's distinguished authors and brings together the works in which Nothomb exploits her extraordinary capacity to reveal the darkest and most disturbing part of our daily world, even in the areas where we most...

Seduction and murder, beauty as a mortal danger, individual talent as a cursed part, to put it in Bataille's words, are the constants in Nothomb's work since his surprising first novel, Murderer's Hygiene (1992); Since then he has continued to have a central place...

One night, during his stay in Buenos Aires for the filming of his film Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola told María Gainza: «The artist comes into the world with a quiver that contains a limited number of golden arrows. He can shoot all his arrows...

The publication of Dorothy Allison...s Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event that won the author a National Book Award nomination and launched her into the literary spotlight. Critics have likened Allison to Harper Lee, naming her the first writer of her generation...

Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore who just wrote the world...s first comprehensive encyclopedia of faeries. She...s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Ones on her adventures... and also from her fellow scholar and former rival Wendell Bambleby. Because...

A woman awoken in air, a soldier forged by fire, a weapon risen from blood. Vhalla Yarl has made it to the warfront in the North. Forged by blood and fire, she has steeled her heart for the final battle of the Solaris Empire...s...

On April 14, 1955, at the luxurious Crillon hotel in Santiago, Chile, the writer María Carolina Geel shot her lover several times and killed him instantly. The reasons were never known (there were those who said it was out of jealousy; others, an extravagant...

Killers hiding in plain sight. Small-town secrets. A girl who knows too much. From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Unspeakable Things and Bloodline comes a nerve-twisting novel inspired by a shocking true crime. Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer...