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Nirvana del Risco is the first black Cuban woman who openly and fearlessly confronts the prejudices that many of her compatriots hide: homophobia, racism, political mistrust, fear and a certain intimacy with the enemy. A daughter of the 60s generation and a rebel in...

/ La primera noche de pasión se inicia con un cómico episodio en que profesora y alumno comparten una insípida imitación japonesa de la célebre fondue de queso francesa; le seguirán un viaje a Hiroshima y la lectura insitu de Hiroshima mon amour, un...

This biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between Gogol and his novels, especially with regard to "nose-consciousness", a peculiar feature of Russian life and...

Stephen Lewis, a young children's author, lives in London with his wife Julie and three-year-old daughter Kate. His life changes dramatically when Kate disappears in a supermarket. This event triggers a crisis between Stephen and Julie and provokes a deep reflection on parenthood and...

In this elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir, Julian Barnes has written about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and tearing them apart. Powerfully rendered, this searing work confirms the author as an unparalleled magus...

Mila grew up in the late 1970s in a remote and poorly developed neighborhood. Her parents took her to see a healer man who told her that she had a "gift". Now that she is expecting a baby, Mila tries to unravel her strangeness...

This is an inventory of phobias and whims, delicious album of dates, frustrated projects and declarations of love -to photocopies, to drafts and to Chilean poetry. This is a passionate, strange, fun and melancholic book. / Inventario de filias, fobias y caprichos, delicioso álbum...

We are already digital beings. We have gone from the Gutenberg galaxy to the digital galaxy. How does it affect our perception of reality? What is the role of books and reading in this new era? These pages show mobile devices, selfies and Twitter,...

Her father puts a brave face on, but cries in secret in the bathroom, while her mother rarely leaves the house. To escape this, Lou goes to Gare d'Austerlitz to see the smiles and tears of arrival and departure. But there she also sees...

This is a collection of five stories focused on music and musicians; it reads like a concert, introducing each story as a movement, mixing it with the others and bringing them to a resounding close. The five stories exhibit ideas common to Ishiguro's work,...

When he was thirteen, Dave Win met the Hadlows, who gave him a scholarship to an elite school. In his old age, Dave recalls this encounter that marked his life. It forms part of a piece in which he reminisces about his first loves,...

Authoritarianism, particularism, fanaticism, catastrophism, terrorism, solutionism... are the faces of a broad anti-illustrated reaction to the current crisis of civilization. Our present is caught in a radical dilemma: either condemned or saved. Behind this alternative lies a surrender. / Autoritarismo, particularismo, fanatismo, catastrofismo, terrorismo,...

Three stories that carry on the best tradition of classic horror, with the unmistakable narrative style of Mariana Enriquez and the haunting imagery of Santiago Caruso. Three children become fatally obsessed with an abandoned house that will forever mark their lives. A man witnesses...

It's unbelievable, but it's true: a first-class international museum −the Reina Sofía− commissioned a work from a sculpture star, the North American Richard Serra, for its inauguration in 1986, The sculptor delivers a piece created ad hoc for the room in which it was...

Many years ago a frigate of the French navy was wrecked. 147 men tried to save themselves by climbing up onto a huge rubber raft and entrusting themselves to the sea. Many years ago, on the shores of an ocean, a man arrived at...

Stephen Fry returns to ancient Greece to revisit The Odyssey, one of the central epic tales of world literature. Adventure, vengeance, passion, and humor bring his series on classical myths to a close.

This book explores the real threats to freedom of expression, which don’t come from minorities, feminists or offended, but from political and legislative power. Because disparagingly pointing to the offender does nothing but criminalize their right, our right as a society, to protest. /...

Considered as the contemporary American novel, its author A. M. Homes offers a sarcastic point of view about society’s paradoxes and the dirty secrets of today’s American family. This novel tells the unusual experiences of two brothers: Harry and George. Harry must take responsibility...

Olga was born in the eastern part of the German Empire at the end of the 19th century, survives two world wars and dies in strange circumstances. The story of her life spans two very different centuries. / Olga nace en la parte este...

Among the various avatars that the legendary aura of Homer and his work have known throughout the history of English letters, perhaps the two most astonishing are Joyce's Ulysses and Walcott's Omeros. As in the Iliad ("Omeros" is Homer's name "in the ancient language...