Anagrama

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...

This is a book about the body. A body that loves and is loved. A body that is also abused, violated through sex and childbirth, abortion and blood, filth.Non-artistic materials in the hands of a painter who writes, a writer who watches. The eel...

Tara Selter and her husband Thomas live in Clairon-sous-Bois and are antiquarian booksellers. On November 17, Tara travels to Bordeaux to attend an auction and then takes a train to Paris. On November 18, she visits a second-hand bookshop and then goes to bed...

Tara Selter, the antiquarian bookseller trapped in a time loop of November 18th from which she cannot escape, continues in this second volume writing down her reflections on the peculiar situation she is experiencing. And she continues asking herself questions about who she is,...

The third installment of Solvej Balle’s ambitious narrative project, in which the time loop opens up to the possibility of community and collective action... Tara Selter is no longer alone. After living through the same November 18th more than a thousand times — repeating...

Neil, the narrator, is a middle-aged man who hasn't been doing too well either personally or professionally. If there is something that he remembers with enthusiasm, it is the Culture and Civilization classes that he received from an exceptional teacher: Elizabeth Finch. Intelligent and...

Neuroscientist Shane O’Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits that walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to appreciate the advantages of this uniquely human skill. Walking is good for our muscles and posture; it helps to protect and repair organs, and...

Our obsession with success is hard to overlook. Everywhere we compete, rank, and measure. Yet this relentless drive to be the best blinds us to something vitally important: the need to be humble in the face of life’s challenges. In Praise of Failure explores...

The Saint, Luca, Bobby and the narrator are four teenagers living in an indeterminate space and time, but who vaguely belong in a city in the North of Italy in the seventies. They belong to the middle class and are profoundly catholic. The appearance...

Paris, 1960. Poets, situationists, and students gather at the Café Condé. Despite the nostalgia, Modiano gives us a mystery novel about the enigmatic Louki, the daughter of a Moulin Rouge employee. Louki deals with invented identities and struggles to build a perpetual present.

Paris, 1960. Poets, situationists, and students gather at the Café Condé. Despite the nostalgia, Modiano gives us a mystery novel about the enigmatic Louki, the daughter of a Moulin Rouge employee. Louki deals with invented identities and struggles to build a perpetual present. /...

On the Road, a book that was the bible and manifesto of the beat generation, has become a “cult novel” and a North American classic. With its unmistaken bop style, this novel is a portrait of an underground America, authentic and uninhibited, far from...

Soledad Puértolas demonstrates her refined mastery in observing and narrating life, delving into the human soul with an apparent lightness. Two old friends, estranged by time, share their bewilderment at a world they understand less and less; an unanswered phone call has marked a...

When feminist writer Susan Faludi learned that her seventy-six-year-old father?long estranged and living in Hungary?had undergone sex reassignment surgery, the revelation would launch her on an extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga....

The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first...

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other PartiesIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse....

In the Mountain is a book about the author's experience with the Zapatista movement, from its beginnings to the present day.

The story opens with the discovery of a body in the Olba marshes. This novel forces us to look into a murky space that has always existed. It is at once a useful space and an abyss where crimes have been hidden and both...