Anagrama

A history of the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms and LSD from the Stone Age to Silicon Valley... They appeared here millions of years before us. Since ancient times, humans have used them all over the world. This is an account of the unusual journey...

Walks through the Prado Museum. For its classics and its forgotten ones. For its history, its stories and its nooks and crannies. Following in the footsteps of the classic Three Hours at the Prado Museum by Eugenio d'Ors, Estrella de Diego offers us a...

This work gathers material from the newspaper La Nación between 2006 and 2011, covering the great events that occurred to Liniers in that period, but also small details of his daily life. An approach full of sensitivity, intelligence, and humor. / ¿Pueden las mujeres...

A complex relationship and reckless alcohol consumption led Carrère to a period of crisis; he found refuge in Christianity. Twenty years later, he conducts a wide search on the origins of Christianity in relation to the writings of Paul, along with the gospel of...

/ Esta es la historia de un joven adolescente lanzado a las calles de La Habana de los años noventa. Una novela basada en hechos reales, escrita crudamente, sin aderezon ni adornos, en la mejor tradición del realismo sucio. Pedro Juan Gutiérrez continúa aquí...

Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on...

Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on...

Daniel is a Martian who doesn’t fit into the world. Or is it the world that is weird? This is a novel, and as in any training novel, there is a search; in this case it is not the Holy Grail, because what Daniel...

Massimo Recalcati focuses on comparing and contrasting the story of Oedipus by Sophocles and the parable of the prodigal son. Recalcati argues that common parenting strategies are attempts at sealing the fate of the sons –they ensure that the sons realize the dreams and...

In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy...

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?...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize, this novel follows Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, as he contends with his past. He has built a life for himself; he has a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter. But when he...

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...

Ania returns to Argentina on behalf of her family for the farewell of her uncle Agustín. To do so, she will embark on a journey of fifteen hundred kilometers, which is also a flight from the present towards the diffuse borders of memory. /...

Installed in chronic fatigue, the result of a non-specific ailment, the narrator of this novel decides to enter a luxury clinic effectively designed to restore sick bodies. There she surrounds herself with a select group of patients who, like her, give themselves over to...

In drought-stricken Malaysia, young Jay faces a desire he cannot easily name. A luminous novel about family, displacement, belonging and escape.

This volume includes two short novels, the first of which, The South, gave rise to the script for the film of the same name directed by Víctor Erice. Both this story and the one told in Bene are characterized by their narrative magnetism, based...

Julio Valdivieso, a Mexican intellectual in Europe, returns to his country after a long absence. With the PRI defeated, Mexico is experiencing a peculiar transition. On his return, he faces a lost love, the legend of the poet Ramón López Velarde and an episode...

In 1934, a rabbi’s son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his magic tricks...

A real estate agent is preparing an empty house for buyers to visit when she finds herself in the kitchen with a seven-year-old boy who doesn't blink an eye. The apparition will be repeated, and the woman will leave her everyday world behind. What...