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Sonja is ready to get on with her life. She’s over forty now, and the Swedish crime novels she translates are losing their fascination. She sees a masseuse, tries to reconnect with her sister, and is finally learning to drive. But Sonja is unable...

He came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and he lived three blocks down that street. He was cold and there were holes in his shoes. That morning he had patched the holes on the inside...

The literary testament of Sam Shepard, written in the last months of his life, when a degenerative disease was taking over his body. Faced with this situation, the writer stood up, in a last gesture of resistance through writing. The result was this short,...

Richard Novak is a modern-day Everyman. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one- except his trainer, nutritionist, and housekeeper. He is functionally dead and doesn't even notice until two incidents-an attack of intense pain...

Richard Novak needs no one- except his trainer, nutritionist, and housekeeper. He is functionally dead and doesn't even notice until two incidents-an attack of intense pain that lands him in the emergency room, and the discovery of an expanding sinkhole outside his house- hurl...

Pedro Juan arrives in a cold winter in Madrid with a book already published and an incipient literary career in progress, and there he will live vital and sexual adventures without restraint. With this visceral, sexual narrative, Bukowski tells us about his adventures in...

When misfortune kills citizens by stripping them of their material well-being, this discomfort is called poverty." In the current landscape, populism spreads across America and Europe. A lucid and argued warning about the discontent in which we live and the one that awaits us....

This novel is an inspiring autobiography that has been enormously successful in France. The book tells the story of a young Belgian girl who goes to Tokyo to work for a large Japanese company. But in a country so deeply hierarchical, the girl is...

With dystopian settings and characters caught between nostalgia and boredom, the stories feature overwhelmed parents, young people facing personal crises, and scientists confronting the collapse of reality. Europa reveals how advanced technologies, rather than liberating us, deepen boredom and alienation: a meditation on the...

A short and shocking novel set in a small port deep in the Orinoco jungle... The tense calm of life at the Port is broken when the rumor spreads that there is a huge vein of gold in the local mine. And the protagonist...

In the Tallis family home, everything appears to be peaceful. A more attentive ear might notice subtle discord, a rising tension that explodes when Cecilia, the oldest Tallis daughter, emerges from a fountain wearing only her underclothes, while Robbie, the much loved son of...

An extensive and colorful compilation of the best beautifully illustrated Aesop's fables that continue to teach us the eternal vices and virtues of human nature... Wolves and kids, foxes and frogs, snakes and donkeys, are just some of the many animals that are the...

First published in 2014, Facsimile accumulated accolades, editions, and translations at unexpected speed, demonstrating that its unique blend of sharpness and tenderness resonates on various scales, becoming one of Alejandro Zambra's seminal titles. "Funny, melancholic, surprising ... It may change how you think about...

This beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, his day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his...

A story about the fear of losing your place, generational change, and aging. About what it means to be reactionary today, the disparagement of culture, the possibility of art to change reality, and the art of writing as an act of malice. Marta Sanz is...

Tochtli likes sombreros, dictionaries, samurais, guillotines, and the French. But Tochtli is a child and now what he wants is a new animal for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. His father, Yolcaut, is a drug trafficker at the pinnacle of power...

This book includes more than sixty essays focused on songs by other artists, ranging from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, passing through Hank Williams or Nina Simone. Dylan breaks down what he calls the easy rhyme trap, breaks down how a single syllable can...

Zambra takes us to Chile in the 1980s seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It speaks of a generation that learned to read and draw while their parents became the victims or accomplices of the Pinochet dictatorship. It describes how their lives...

Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a...

Upon his death in 1994, Charles Bukowski left behind abundant archives of unedited material or material published in underground magazines. What has been brought together here is that which, according to John Martin, his editor from Black Sparrow Press, constitutes “the missing link in...