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During the pandemic, many young people popularized a strange virtual phenomenon: reality shifting, a practice in which thousands of millennials claimed to have transported themselves to parallel universes, while interacting with their idols or favorite characters and experiencing, through their consciences and beliefs, an...

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...

In The Iridium Platinum Metro, Alvaro Pombo deploys an astonishing wealth of registers to portray the emotions and conflicts of a group of characters in 1980s Madrid. Love, humor, and tragedy intertwine in this exceptional novel, which won the Critics' Prize and established Pombo...

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and...

Acclaimed historian Philipp Blom reveals how the European landscape had suddenly changed by the mid-seventeenth century. A timely examination of how a society responds to profound and unexpected change, Nature’s Mutiny will transform the way we think about climate change in the twenty-first century....

Allergic to all kinds of group activities, Serenata Terpsichore, the protagonist of this novel, is a voice-over artist who has dedicated her life to exercising, running, swimming, and bicycling. Now, when she turns sixty, so much of her activity takes a painful toll on...

Is happiness possible? The author is a lucid and radical pessimist. In this forceful and provocative essay, he addresses the reality of human beings and the myths we create to support it. / ¿Es posible la felicidad? El autor es un pesimista lúcido y...

It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, and that we should reconsider having...

An island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around its coastline?the Wall. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect the Wall from the Others, the souls trapped amid the rising seas outside. The Wall is a suspenseful...

This is a book made of looks. Looks at pictures, the artists who painted them and the intimacy of the narrator and her surroundings. In these pages The Greek braids secret ties with a walk through a redwood forest near San Francisco, disease and...

As a boy, Miguel Angel Tobar fled to a small town in El Salvador torn apart by warring guerrillas and US-backed death squads. As a teen in Los Angeles, he faced discrimination and beatings by joining a gang, MS-13. By the time the US...

This book collects the articles that Alessandro Baricco has published in various journalistic media in the last twenty years. The title refers to the famous businessman PT Barnum, creator of the show based on "geeks" phenomena, since Baricco approaches contemporary culture as if it...

The hell with it ...let chaos reign ...louder music, more wine ...All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It's anybody's ballgame ...' Tom Wolfe introduces and exults in his generation's...

In the essays that comprise the first part of this book, Tom Wolfe offers a provocative analysis of a phenomenon that convulsed the American literary landscape: the emergence of the so-called New Journalism — a movement which, according to the author, wrested the spotlight...

Set in Russian emigration in pre-Hitler Germany, the story follows Smurov, a failed suicide, Bolshevik spy, and war hero. In love and homosexual at different times, he lives among an expatriate bourgeoisie. With elements of a mystery novel, the narrative explores shifting identity. Nabokov's...

In times of social media, the art of conversation is in decline. Struggling against the tide of celerity, authors use the Internet to converse unhurriedly about literature, as if they were in a café. The differences in their backgrounds and the fact that they...

Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of...

We find in these pages from an interview with the legendary Argentinian rocker Charly García to a text about the fixation with the author's low-cut dress. Poignant personal pieces of hers about her beginnings as a writer, the first time she was called "ma'am"...

Marco Stanley Fogg is entering the world of adulthood when astronauts set foot on the moon. He was educated by eccentric Uncle Victor. At the dawn of the lunar era, his uncle dead, Marco begins to fall into destitution, loneliness and a kind of...

This book is developed around a modest stew that the protagonist is preparing to eat at home. And, from that humble and traditional dish, the consecutive chapters tell us about the neighborhood store that sells prepared food, about the ingredients of the stew –meats,...