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Claudio Magris offers a collection of brief “snapshots” reflecting on life and culture from 1999 to 2013 through his very personal lens. The panoramic nature of the vignettes is broad in scope, encompassing a variety of subjects rendered in quick, decisive brushstrokes. It is...

Marcos, a Fine Arts student, is interrupted by the arrival of the famous Jacobo Montes, the great social artist of the present. Marcos becomes his assistant and learns to look at reality with new eyes, especially the problem of immigration. This is an experience...

Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds, he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable and often pitiless reflection of their time together, he analyses the agonies and...

It's 1562 and Teresa de Jesus, at forty-seven, is housed in the Luisa de la Cerda palace in Toledo. She dedicates herself to writing a text destined to become a decisive work in the autobiographical genre, The Book of Life, which must please its...

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days...

Amparo Miranda, a successful fashion designer that lives in New York, returns to the city she left forty years ago. She hasn’t returned for nostalgia, nor to show her triumphs: she comes to recompose a speech that was interrupted. But during the week she's...

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more. / Para escribir James Joyce,...

This book is an adaptation of the successful podcast of the same name by Amélie Nothomb produced with Laureline Amanieux, enriched with texts and quotes amply illustrated. Amélie Nothomb takes us on a journey through Japan, its myths, its rites and its traditional arts:...

This is a biography of an intellectual, editor, and columnist, who played a relevant role in Spain during the last four decades of the twentieth century. Through numerous testimonies and documents, Jordi Gracia reconstructs the vital, intellectual, editorial and political trajectory of Javier Pradera....

Annie and Duncan are approaching forty, and they have been together for fifteen years. They live in a small city on the English coast, one of those grey places where the British working classes used to holiday before the rise of low cost airlines...

Roberto Calasso dives deeply into Kafka’s work to discover why K. and Josef K.–the protagonists of The Castle and The Trial–are so radically different from any other character in the history of novels, and to determine who, in the end, is K. The culmination of Calasso’s lifelong...

East Berlin, 1986. One day in November, nineteen-year-old Katharina meets Hans on a bus, a writer in his fifties, married with a teenage son. They begin a complex and not necessarily idyllic love relationship. Meanwhile, the communist bloc begins to falter, and the GDR...

Klara and the Sun is a magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro--author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the...

Klara and the Sun is a magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro — author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in...

Koba the Fearful is a memoir, a chronicle, a meditation on Stalin and his legacy; a political book while remaining personal. It focuses on an important weak point of twentieth-century thought: the tolerance of Western intellectuals to communism. Between the personal start and the...

The death of his mother, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse — major figure of French intellectual life and expert on the Soviet world — opens the narrative toward the family’s past across four generations, tracing exiles, revolutions, wars, and remarkable contradictions. Carrère creates something rare: a...

A call from Carlos Saura that put Stanley Kubrick in contact with Vicente Molina Foix, who, during twenty years of a relationship that only ended with the death of the director, translated into Spanish the dialogues of five of his films. Una llamada de...

Why does a form of terrorism that consists of isolated, random killings break out, where the victims can be as numerous as possible? In the first part of this book, Calasso gives a brief history of the origin of Islamic terrorism, and draws an...

Carrère's literary debut: a novel about dreams, adventures, loves and a jaguar. «Due to the humor and irreverence that it displays and that are manifested in the themes addressed and in the smallest details, this first novel contains all of the author's subsequent work»...

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...