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This book serves as a journal to write down thoughts and emotions, or as an agenda for meetings and events. It's also a "stress-buster" for everyday life because the splendid graphics included on the pages allows you to color them according to your mood....

With terse and precise phrases and a fierce irony, Patricia Highsmith highlights and accentuates the most ridiculous, or most perverse, aspects of the female prototypes she presents to us in order to reveal the devastating power of those creatures that once seemed familiar to...

Human beings think they know what they are capable of. They believe that they could not escape from the police, that they would never harm a child. I couldn't kill my parents, whatever they do, they gave me life. Or I would never go...

After asking permission to live and feel, now Alfredo Bryce Echenique asks permission to retire. Divided into five parts, emerges the emotional and tragicomic evocations of their journeys: childhood in Peru, the school and family environment, the adventurous father and the sensitive mother, and...

This book is the perfect tool to help pre-schooling children learn two pets: dogs and cats. Each page is a portrait that the child can turn to choose the face that best corresponds to the question that accompanies each page. / Este libro es...

This novel places us in the future world of Land in Blue (Rhapsody). There, a mature woman lives with Flor Azul, a drone through which she holds conversations with her friend Bibi, who is actually the voice of an actress. The woman, lonely and...

As if seen by X-ray, the characters of these stories show us everything that a human being should hide, every story is filled with unmentionable eccentricities. A Parisian photographer who is interested only in eyelids, a Japanese office worker who discovers his strange affinity...

Commissar Polo arrives in Paris following Matthias Bohle, who has stolen four kg of gold from a Spanish industrialist who ordered him to get it out of Spain discretely. The man he is looking for committed suicide by throwing himself on the train tracks......

The on-again/off-again friendship between Pétronille and the main character in the book, who happens to be a writer by the name of Amélie Nothomb, gives the story its verve and the novel its heart. A literary Thelma & Louise, with a little bit of French panache and...

This very personal cartography includes disconcerting characters and enigmatic writers; the filmmaker Lucrecia Martel; Onetti's last wife; the singer-songwriter Facundo Cabral; the Argentinean editor Daniel Divinsky... the author proposes in each portrait a total immersion in the universe of a creator. The book is...

A necessary and uncomfortable reflection on our dependence on plastic. We have become plasticized human beings. We recycle, produce alarming studies and try to reduce our consumption. But global primary plastic production is estimated to reach 1. 1 billion tons by 2050. Are there...

Michel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered, Michel takes a leave of absence to go on a package tour to Thailand. Infuriated by the shallow hypocrisy and mediocrity of his fellow travellers, only the awkward Valerie attracts...

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings. /...

Afflicted with a rare genetic condition, Edward H. Gibson was born without the ability to feel physical pain. His body registered neither wounds nor accidents, and he was presented to the New York medical community as the first known case of total congenital analgesia....

Alejandro Zambra returns with a beautiful, but seriously funny, declaration of love to poetry. Gonzalo is a step poet who wants to be a poet, and a stepfather. He behaves as if he were Vicente's biological father, a child who later refuses to study...

This vigorous book by Michel Onfray exposes his libertarian political ideology. From his childhood and adolescence experiences in the cheese factory of his hometown, he develops the image of a capitalist society. He then exposes the principles of his social utopia on the basis...

In Pornotopia, Paul Preciado examines popular culture and pornographic spaces as sites of architectural production. Preciado traces the strategic relationships among architecture, gender, and sexuality through popular sites related to the production and consumption of pornography. / En plena guerra fría, el joven Hugh Hefner crea...

One of the most exciting, lucid, and disturbing texts that English literature has offered us in recent decades... Roland Michell, an obscure English literature graduate, makes a discovery that could catapult his academic career: two unfinished, never-sent letters that reveal the relationship between Randolph...

The last graphic novel by Liniers: an extensive and intense story; it should be read more than once. Liniers took years to finish this story, but readers will devour it in a short time, because it is irresistible. / La última novela gráfica de...

In the eight stories of First Love, Last Rites, depravity can masquerade as innocence and butterflies can be sinister. The author is equally capable of showing how the life of a child is devastated by the macabre and of distilling the sensations of first...