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Tokyo. In the world's largest bookstore district, the days pass peacefully. In the alleys away from traffic, people stroll through hundreds of books, comics, movie scripts, brochures and even old maps: there is a variety to the delight of all types of readers. The...

A triptych from the 20th century. Each of the three parts of This book stars a real character. He First is Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian physicist, friend of Einstein. Fearful for the fate of his son with syndrome Down when the Nazis came to power,...

A boy is born who will be called Johannes. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, crudely compressed. Beginning with the thoughts of Johannes' father as his wife goes into labor,...

On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is...

At twenty, Lilja falls in love with a bright and attractive young university student who quotes Derrida and prepares vegetarian meals. Very soon she finds herself trapped in a dynamic of manipulation and psychological abuse, and enters a whirlwind of personal degradation and obsession...

The novel by Giovanni Falcone. Falcone died in 1992 – along with his wife and three bodyguards – when his car was blown up on the highway that leads to Palermo from the airport. Saviano is still alive – writing and denouncing – but...

Winner of the XXVII edition of the Ciudad de Getafe Black Novel Award, this novel stands out for carrying out an exciting exploration of the different faces of betrayal in the world of criminal organizations, clans and mafias related to drug and weapons trafficking...

In 1749, the French botanist Michel Adanson landed in Senegal to study the flora as part of his research to create a great encyclopedia. He will remain there until 1753, the year in which he returns to Europe. So far the strictly historical facts....

Who are we really? What makes us the people we think we are, and what happens when what we thought we were gives way to something else? What is the secret nature of the things of this world? Olivia heads to Manchester. And what...

This is the epic story of Ishi, an African elephant who faces one last, risky journey to reunite with the humans who rescued him fifty years ago. The family that raised him and subsequently lost him is made up of a famous hunting guide...

Emma Hawkins, an NBC reporter is on the run from a love scandal. What she doesn't know is that in Kennebunkport, a small coastal town in Maine, she will stumble upon a story for her next report. The Langsford Street murders, which took place...

The year is 1911 when Keyle, a Jewish prostitute, meets the love of her life, Yarme, an ex-convict. The young couple dreams of escaping the misery of the Warsaw ghetto, where they live under the constant threat of pogroms, so when Max, an old...

London, 19th century. Two men vow to achieve eternal life. Two writers seek inspiration to defeat time, to stop death. What if Dracula not only existed, but still exists? Is there a map that leads to Neverland? A journey to a lost world Murders...

The new novel by one of the most outstanding authors of the last decades. Ali Smith dazzles us with Fragua, a book that closes the famous seasonal Quartet. One day, in post-Brexit Britain and in the midst of the pandemic, artist Sandy Gray receives...

Pregnant with her second child, Sylvia Plath and her husband Ted Hughes embark on the bucolic project of renovating an old rectory in the country where they can raise their little ones. The world expands and contracts for Sylvia: her life is idyllic on...

All aboard, but attention! Sleeping passengers on this train may never wake up. In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the overnight train from London to the Highlands is derailed, along with its passengers' festive plans. With the train stuck in the snow in...

Until now it had been included in the volume Years of War. Vasili Grossman wrote three novels about World War II, each of which offers a different vision of what a war novel can be, and all of them extraordinary. Stalingrad and Life and...

On a day like any other in contemporary Colombia, a child is born with the supreme gift of immortality. In the middle of a story that can be read almost without breathing, his life will take a thousand turns: he is snatched from his...

Two themes articulate the suggestive plot of The Argon Shot: the gaze and the city. A defined space serves as a link: Dr. Suárez's eye clinic, the Mexican version of the famous Barraquer Clinic in Barcelona. House of signs, the building built by Suárez...

These pages explain the reasons for the Armenian genocide of 1915. Although Turkey denies it, in 2000, the French Parliament recognized it, and in 2016 made its denial a fined crime. Emmanuel Macron declared April 24 as Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day in France. Also...