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The last years of Maurice Ravel occurred between1927 and 1937. With a writing that channels jazz and cinematographic narrative, Echenoz undertakes a fictional portrait of the composer full of biographical truths: the epic events in Verdun, the sixty shirts, the twenty five pairs of...

Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. The text of Hammad’s seminal speech and her afterword, written in the early weeks of 2024, together make up a searing appraisal of the...

In a Paris somewhere between reality, memories, and daydream, a young man encounters several enigmatic women. The corpse of a man appears, apparently accidentally killed by one by one of these women. All these encounters are evoked, fifty years later, by the mature man...

This is the story of a one man guerrilla operation, against a manager who seduces women with jokes about his digestion. It is also about two women, one from Human Resources and the other from Finance, understood to be political objectives. Throughout these pages,...

Cesar Rendueles analyzes how technological fetishism has served to conceal the extractive and de-democratizing logic of a digital ecosystem subordinated to the market and, faced with the inertia of depoliticization, defends the urgency of recovering the capacity for agency to reduce the alienating and...

Lampedusa's childhood stories and memories. An essential complement to The Leopard. This book is composed of four short pieces that illuminates the intimacy and literary cuisine of Lampedusa. Four luminous jewels that show the immense author’s literary wisdom. / Los relatos y recuerdos de...

The reader will discover in these stories the characteristic elements of the Highsmith universe: the crime that breaks into the everyday, the evil that lurks in any corner, the cruelty that emerges where it’s least expected, the suspense handled with a master hand. /...

Bukowski always wrote out of vital necessity, with the urgency of someone who only finds meaning on a blank page. This volume brings together Wine-Stained Notebooks, Absence of the Hero, and, for the first time in Spanish, The Mathematics of Breath and the Route,...

The arrival of thirty-two violent children of unknown origin completely disrupts the life of San Cristóbal, a small tropical city. Twenty years later, one of its protagonists wrote the Luminous Republic, a chronicle about how the city was forced to reformulate its ideas of...

The arrival of thirty-two violent children of unknown origin completely disrupts the life of San Cristóbal, a small tropical city. Twenty years later, one of its protagonists wrote the Luminous Republic, a chronicle about how the city was forced to reformulate its ideas of...

The kiss is the image that, perhaps more than any other, encompasses the beauty and poetry of love. Every love is required to maintain the kiss, to make it last. When they kiss, lovers carve out their hiding holes, finding their peace from war....

Truman Capote was a master of the short form (as shown by some of the most beautiful and perfect stories he contributed to contemporary literature) and a sharp observer and chronicler of his times. The portraits reunited in this volume are a reminder of...

The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the...

One Friday in May, a strange explosion takes place in a building. On one of the building's floors, which is reduced to rubble, lived a group of students who threw a party that night. Through five storytellers we learn what happened that Friday night....

With a strong influence from German Expressionism, Nabokov constructs a cinematic satire about a prudish, provincial young man who bursts into the cold paradise of a nouveau riche Berlin couple. He becomes the wife's lover, and she convinces him to kill her husband. According...

Here is the expected return of one of the most attractive psychopaths in contemporary literature. Tom Ripley is living very happily with Heloise, his charming French wife, enjoying a refined and peaceful life in the little French town where he has settled, when the...

Déodat is the ugliest baby in the world, but as he grows up he will prove to have a privileged mind. However, he will have serious difficulties to understand the mysteries of love and what girls want. Trémière, on the other hand, is a...

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. An elegantly sardonic, irresistibly ironic novel...

We are in Madrid in 1963. Pelayo Pelayo, full of doubts and illusions, obsessively rewrites a script that is about to roll. And in this Madrid in the midst of developing Francoism, Pelayo Pelayo ends up retouching his script in a brothel and having...

Viv Albertine is a pioneer. As lead guitarist and songwriter for the seminal band The Slits, she influenced a future generation of artists including Kurt Cobain and Carrie Brownstein. In Clothes, Clothes, Clothes.., Albertine delivers a unique and unfiltered look at a traditionally male-dominated scene....