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Bolivian National Award. A novel that will leave you breathless. The clash of two cultures is elevated exponentially by unprecedented suspense. Banished from her own home and deprived of seeing her son, Lea, a Bolivian immigrant in Toulouse, finds herself on a “desert journey”....

Controversial Dialectic is the art of disputing, as to hold one’s own, whether one is in the right or the wrong. A man may be objectively in the right, and nevertheless in the eyes of bystanders, and sometimes in his own, he may come...

An unexpected event tarnishes the routine of Saint-Louis: an influential lawyer in the city has died in an accident on the A-35. Inspector Gorski, in charge of the investigation, will have to deal not only with his Strasbourg counterpart, but also with a young...

What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the enemy of memory not time but other memories? How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue, or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? Might...

The kidnapping of the beautiful Greek queen Helen by the Trojan prince Paris triggers a war between the two people. The Greeks send their fleet and besiege the city of Troy. The conflict will last ten years, and will cause much suffering and many...

What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) for Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. What...

What is Messi going to do when he no longer plays football? What will football be like when he retires? How will we be after Messi? Since Leo Messi arrived at FC Barcelona at the age of thirteen, his football dimension has grown to...

In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, infamous dictator, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled virtually overnight. From...

Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He...s then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank...

Consent has become a key concept in sexual relationships. At first glance, it seems clear. But is it really like that? This text reflects on the nuances, fissures and paradoxes that accompany it. Can the desire be verbalized with absolute clarity, without any ambiguity?...

The arrival of thirty-two violent children of unknown origin completely disrupts the life of San Cristóbal, a small tropical city. Twenty years later, one of its protagonists wrote the Luminous Republic, a chronicle about how the city was forced to reformulate its ideas of...

This novel places us in the future world of Land in Blue (Rhapsody). There, a mature woman lives with Flor Azul, a drone through which she holds conversations with her friend Bibi, who is actually the voice of an actress. The woman, lonely and...

For Recalcati, Jesus...s reckoning in the Garden of Gethsemane is at once an instance of human weakness and an encounter with the Divine. It is the story where the Divine and the Human meet most forcefully, first in company, then in solitude, and where...

A corpse on Christmas Eve, an albino, an African witch... A surprising and masterful detective novel... On the eve of Christmas 2000, the end of the millennium, biology professor Aníbal Cardevaro is found murdered in his home in Buenos Aires . The crime ruins...

This is a true story, full of edges and shadows, about the human condition. The protagonist is Silvia Labayru, an Argentine woman kidnapped in 1976, during the military dictatorship in her country, due to her membership in the Montoneros organization. She was nineteen years...

A portrait of current Peru and the human condition through a group of characters who intersect in the so-called "Chinese bar" Tito. A waiter whose father was murdered by a paramilitary squad at the time of Fujimori's all-out war against the Shining Path; a...

In Canoes seven stories orbit a central novella, creating a collection that resonates with the vibrations and frequencies of women's voices. Daughters, friends, sisters, young and old, talkative or daydreaming ... in this moving and poetic collection, Maylis de Kerangal casts light on them all, exploring...

The culmination of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy saga. Second part of the saga... After the appearance in this collection of The Galactic Hitchhikers, which brings together the initial trilogy, this volume adds the other two novels - "So Long, and Thanks for...

Oxford, May 1, 1956. In the solemnity of the Bodleian Library, the university faculty has met to decide whether to grant an honoris causa to former United States President Harry S. Truman. One of the people present, the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, vehemently opposes it,...

A novel about the rage and restlessness of youth and about literature as the engine of the world. Amélie Nothomb's twenty-ninth novel is a kind of praise for reading, but nothing trivial, nothing predictable and, above all, nothing innocent.