Anagrama

There are four: Nati, Patri, Marga, and Angels. They are relatives, have different degrees of what the administration and medicine consider "intellectual disability" and share a protected floor. They have spent a good part of their lives in a rural residence for people with...

One day in 1990 on the Wisconsin highway, a bomb goes off in the hand of a man. But somebody knows who he was, and with the FBI closely on his heels, Peter Aaron decides to tell his story, to give his version, before...

When she was eleven years old, Lea Ypi witnessed the end of the world. At least from the end of a world. In 1990 the communist regime in Albania, the last bastion of Stalinism in Europe, collapsed. She, indoctrinated at school, did not understand...

What is the significance of bookshops in the collective imagination? In this brilliant and accessible essay, Jorge Carrión creates a possible chronology of the development of books. How do they become cultural myths, centers of intellectual conversation, or fortresses of political resistance? / ¿Cuál...

This biographical novel or novelised biography reconstructs the life of a real character who seems as if he has come straight out of fiction. A rash and extravagant character, with an almost implausible life story allows the author to sketch a convincing portrait of...

A train traveling toward Siberia. Two strangers. An opportunity to escape… Two strangers on a train bound for Siberia seek an opportunity to escape their own fears. Shared complicity becomes their only hope for freedom. With a blinding, boreal cadence, Maylis de Kerangal’s tale—illustrated...

This unique book by Alejandro Zambra is called Children's Literature, although it includes a magnificent story that revolves around obscene language and a story in which a man tries, during a therapeutic mushroom journey, to relearn the extremely difficult art of crawling. In case...

The conception and study of literature often refer to a closed and stable system, but we no longer find ourselves in this scenario. Today, the traditional study of literature fails to explain how and why it remains a significant social and cultural activity. Literature,...

An inquiry into contemporary violence, cruelty as a political weapon, and the ethical responsibility of the spectator.

Baricco reflects on the pandemic: beyond the health figures a mythical creature emerges that expresses fear and changes... Baricco understands the pandemic as something more than a health emergency: as a mythical creature, a collective construction (very real: there is no denial here) with...

This book offers a deep reflection on art and its role in times of pandemic, climate crisis, and truth manipulation. Can art reveal what we cannot see? Graciela Speranza explores how art exposes the invisible, confronting two threats of the 21st century: environmental collapse...

A thirty-five-year-old woman who has just lost her mother and is looking for direction in life gives herself to investigate the riddles of an extravagant adventurer. This research leads her to another riddle, about the feelings that keep her increasingly attached to the singular...

This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture. / La historia...

This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture. / Los adjetivos...

During the night of the September 26th, 2015 in Iguala, Mexico, hundreds of students were victims of police aggression and were attacked by criminals. What came after that it is considered one of the biggest acts of modern brutality. In memory of the 43...

A novel about the rage and restlessness of youth and about literature as the engine of the world. Amélie Nothomb's twenty-ninth novel is a kind of praise for reading, but nothing trivial, nothing predictable and, above all, nothing innocent.

The first 3 Hitchhiker books collected into one volume: Mostly Harmless, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. / La ciencia ficción da para la distopía, la paranoia tecnológica, la metafísica, la épica, el...

The culmination of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy saga. Second part of the saga... After the appearance in this collection of The Galactic Hitchhikers, which brings together the initial trilogy, this volume adds the other two novels - "So Long, and Thanks for...

The curator Croce was one of the protagonists of one of the great novels of Ricardo Piglia, Nocturnal Target. The author rescues the character in these "cases", a succession of police stories that are a tribute to his genre. Playful and virtuous texts. /...

It would be a mistake to write about someone with whom you have not at least shared a part of your life... This is one of the central themes of A Cynic Wouldn´t suit this profession, a book about the work of a journalist,...