Anagrama

This book brings together a collection of unsettling stories about obsessive characters and rarefied atmospheres. Love, pain, strange and incomprehensible realities, lives on the brink of collapse. An exploration of the boundaries that separate logic and knowledge. The book constructs a system of mirrors:...

One day in 1624, a father takes his daughter to the beach of Santa Severa to see the remains of a stranded whale. The father, Giovanni Briccio, treasures in his desk a tooth from that whale, which later his daughter, Plautilla, will keep all...

Modiano in his purest form: a dance through memory and lost time. A Parisian becomes a narrator upon stumbling across an old acquaintance — a fleeting reunion that evokes a city now vanished: the Paris of the years following the Occupation. The memory of...

Naples, modern day. A gang of ten led by the Maraja wants to take over the drug trafficking and extortion business. Their power is strengthened by applying violence: a Facebook like on another's girlfriend can become a death sentence. A novel about the daily...

In a city marked by religious fanaticism, a teenager watches as his family's life crumbles when his father loses his job and can no longer contribute to the church, making them outcasts. Neon Bible, written by John Kennedy Toole at 16 for a literary...

The main objective of this book is to definitively dismantle from a neurological perspective, the rationalist conception that human beings take decisions based on the exclusive use of reason separated from their bodies. Through multiple scientific experiments, by the author and by others, as...

Ana tells her son fragments of a story of a life made up of small miseries with which personal and family relationships have been woven. The author avoids narrating great historical events in order to focus on the intimate and everyday in the lives...

The reissue of a masterpiece. A memory woven of silences, betrayals and wounds that never heal. A moving, sober and truthful story, where the author renounces narrating the great historical events to focus his attention on the intimate and everyday, on the set of...

This is set in the fascinating city of Oporto, although we suspect that it could be about any other city in Europe. We also suspect that the problems of police abuse, torture and social prejudices form the seed of this story, and the expressive...

The story of Gary Gilmore, a man in the State Penitentiary of Utah who chose death over endless appeals and an anguished wait on death row. The incredible story, based on hundreds of interviews, focuses on the nine months from the day Gilmore is...

A man moves from a lonely Hungarian adolescence to London's upper circles, driven by forces beyond his control.

This book travels through places such as New York, Havana, several Argentine cities, and Madrid, while the poetic voice simultaneously journeys through various stages of motherhood: the birth of a first daughter, hope and also danger, illness, then a second pregnancy, miscarriage, grief, and...

In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, her struggles with her sexuality and identity. Born and raised in Germany,...

Writers, Chefs, and all apprentices, Would you like to spy on a writer? Well come on in to my kitchen! Here you will find a fridge full of food: dirty drafts, unfinished fragments, examples, exercises and ideas for preparing a sofrito. It is a...

Written in the 60's, the author was unable to publish this captiving novel, believing himself to be a frustrated writer he committed suicide in 1969 at the age of 32. His mother tirelessly continued to try and get it published, which she finally succeeded...

Written in the 60's, the author could not publish this novel; he committed suicide in 1969 at the age of 32. His mother tirelessly tried to get it published, succeeding in 1980. Set in New Orleans, this book follows Ignatius Reilly as he is...

The right to be oneself has reached the zenith of its social projection: we live in the phase of the historical consummation of the culture of authenticity.

Jim Sams woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature… Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain--and it is...

The discovery of chess is for Luzhin the revelation of an order of impeccable harmony in which he takes refuge from his unhappy adolescence and develops a brilliant career as a champion, which will end up becoming a dangerous obsession that absorbs every minute...

What to do in the face of a global political crisis like the one we are experiencing? Expansive democracy reviews the foundations of current democracy to propose a new, renewed and global paradigm that distances us from political disaster. Against cynicism in politics, and...