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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,...

This book brings together nine dazzling stories that present a meticulous catalog of human attitudes and emotions. It starts with some pioneering scientists in the field of artificial intelligence in communist Germany, with the Stasi and regrets in the background, and other stories follow:...

A theatrical group who become political actors decide that reality can only be portrayed through ridicule, and to be effective, must begin with oneself and reach our teachers. The fighters are like boxers in training, members of a university theater company, and young people...

Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated and left to bleed in an empty Leith warehouse. Vicious, racist and corrupt, many thought he had it coming. But nobody could have predicted this. After the life Gulliver has led, the suspects are many: corporate rivals, political...

This volume gathers Ricardo Piglia’s monumental project: the three volumes of The Diaries of Emilio Renzi. Emilio Renzi -writer and recurring alter ego in Piglia’s fiction- emerges from a mirror game rooted in the author’s full name: Ricardo Emilio Piglia Renzi. Acclaimed by critics...

This volume covers the period from 1968 to 1975. A passion for literature is embodied in sketches of stories and novels by fellow writers, the worsk of classic authors and novelists. Included are Peron's death, the rise of guerrilla groups, and the military coup....

A self-portrait of Piglia through the interposed character of his alter ego. The exploration of a creative journey, the investigation into writing, and the reflection in literature through very diverse readings. This book covers films and the convulsive Argentine political situation, among other topics....

Eight powerful stories about characters confronted with the unknown and with their own fears... In one of these stories, the protagonist explains her encounter with an albatross, that solitary bird with majestic flight to which Baudelaire dedicated a poem. She and her father come...

The time is October 21, 1967. The place is Washington, D.C. Protestors are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is a writer...

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet...

Through brilliantly imagined characters and stories with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer and a body in motion through space and through time. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer. / Autora Premio Nobel...

A captain of Franco’s army, who, on the same day as the Victory, renounces the winning of the war; a young terrified poet who escapes with his pregnant friend, and lives a dizzying story of maturity and death in the short period of a...

Introducing the Ancient Greeks is the exploration of the spirits of those who inhabited ancient Greece, from the shores of the Black Sea to the colonies of North Africa and the westernmost of today's Europe. With the rediscovery of art and classical Greece literary,...

In the rice paddies in front of a campsite in El Saler, mysterious circles appear. They're what occult and alien enthusiasts call crop circles: large geometric shapes that suddenly appear in a cultivated field. Are there UFOs in the area? Or is the campsite...

«What we believe protects us. What we know leaves us adrift.» This is a novel of drifts, uncertainties and transitions. A girl, the narrator, is ceasing to be one. Ricardo, her father, behaves less and less like a father and more like an alligator....

With her hands trembling with grief and shock, Elizabeth Jameson leaves her cat's pristine corpse on Rita’s kitchen table, her tenant, also a doctoral student of her son, Florian. The animal had exhausted its seven lives the night before, but, once buried, it reappeared...

The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues...

Marta Sanz reflects on writing and the profession of a writer, with mentions of book fairs, readings from childhood and adulthood, meetings with famous writers and colleagues or her collaborations in El País. She has in her hands the reader a very free, combative...

In The Intruders, Carlos Manuel Alvarez dives into the recent protest organized in Havana by the San Isidro Movement, which brought together more than two hundred Cuban artists, intellectuals, and activists. In November 2020, the island's regime imprisoned rapper Denis Solís, which led to...

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences,...