anagrama

A pioneering work of narrative nonfiction in which Carrère turns a real case into a chilling literary investigation.

An invitation to build a habitable world beyond the walls of our house. Literature committed to the present: an accurate view that, from the intimate, illuminates the social. In first person, he reflects on the growing stratification of life in the cities of Latin...

Naked Lunch, one of the most mythical novels of North American literature, is a descent into the hellfire of drugs, and a horrified, sardonic, dreamlike and hallucinatory denouncement of today’s society, a world with no hope and no future. Burroughs fires his arrows against...

A writer unexpectedly loses her best friend and mentor and is forced to take over his Great Dane. She’ll have no choice but to take it to her tiny apartment, risking eviction because they don’t allow animals. A unique and beautiful story of friendship...

Jonathan is an honest man, living a quiet life with his wife and son. Why then, does Tom Ripley ask him to kill two mobsters? Because Jonathan has nothing to lose: he is a near-death leukemia patient. The money his wife and son will...

At fifteen I knew I was gay. I swore no one would ever know. Years later I married a man. In those years, I had suffered a metamorphosis. The author tells of his discovery and contact with the gay world and the "exact value of...

Winner of 2021 Herralde Novel Prize… This is a novel about four artists from a generation without luck who, after having lost their dreams and ideals, find themselves confined in a garage where one day a strange creature appears and offers them a sinister...

Roberto Calasso explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people, who lived over three thousand years ago in northern India: They left behind no objects, images, or ruins. They created no empires. Even the soma, their likely hallucinogenic...

The book explains how to create group dynamics, how to generate a good environment, how to encourage teamwork, how to make yourself understood, how to manage time, how to manage new digital technologies and more... A manual which incorporates practical information. A fundamental tool...

Thirteen stories in this book where the author combines episodes of childhood, portrays the old age of parents, ponders on the romanticism of disappointment or the panic of living up to the expectations of his children. / Concebidos como un concentrado de memoria, emoción...

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he’s a...

Written over more than forty years, the fables collected in this volume have no animals, sentimentality and exemplary intent. They are, rather, a series of notes, aphorisms, or puns that serve the author as a tool of analysis and satirical criticism of the contemporary...

Finalist for the Herralde Novel Prize 2021… In Cuernavaca, after years without seeing each other, three friends who met in adolescence intersect: Natalia, Erre, and Conejo. The trio's reunion brings out the past and confronts them with their present: friendship and desire, the distant...

Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban London, enduring his teenage years with good humor, always on the lookout for adventure—and sex. Life gets more interesting, however, when his father becomes the Buddha of Suburbia....

An unorthodox, provocative and controversial book from the most influential literary critic of our times. A canon of western literature which studies at depth the works of 26 key authors (from Dante to Beckett, stopping at Shakespeare, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Proust, Virginia Woolf and Borges...

Myths, rites, constellations, poetry: Roberto Calasso travels through forms of communication between humans and "the invisible", and traces a journey through the future of European culture. This is the novel of things that seem far away and yet are among us, by the time...

Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. This is the story of...

Philippe Lançon's memorable book, a mixture of chronicle, memoir and great literature. With a flat prose and a very refined style, Lançon offers us in The Flap a vast portrait of his life - from Paris, France, the world - after having survived the...

Marco Carrera, who had a growth disorder as a child, has been called 'the hummingbird'. But in a sense Marco is a hummingbird: he lives a dramatic life, full of love and heartbreak, but remains in perfect balance. His movements enable him to survive...

One morning in January 1913, G. H. Hardy - thirty-seven years old, eccentric and charismatic, and already considered one of the greatest British mathematicians of his time - receives a mysterious envelope bearing abundant Indian stamps. Inside is a somewhat incoherent letter from a...