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Stories that traverse love, obsessions, friendship, and desire. Also, the fear of motherhood and the frustrations that accompany it; the moves that reconfigure a personal map... Confronting the much-vaunted — navigating, instead, the most complex nooks and crannies of a memory that is as...

On the first page of this book we find a man facing a firing squad. We are in the Congo, in 1964. That man, kidnapped by the rebels along with fifteen hundred other Westerners, is the young Belgian consul in Stanleyville. His name is...

A mother and her teenage daughter go on holiday to Sicily, taking with them an ancient mosaic that the protagonist’s grandmother stole decades earlier from an archaeological excavation. While the mother struggles to write a new novel that resists her, she watches with bewilderment...

Slavoj Zizek analyzes the social and political movements which reject the false dichotomy between liberal capitalism and religious fundamentalism. Epignosis, which proposes new organizational forms to combat what has turned the economy into a gigantic casino, is also covered. / El «paraíso» del título...

Wu Ming narrates the Russian Revolution from another planet. Can the motto of Marx and Engels fly beyond Earth's orbit? And what can we learn from intergalactic socialism? A fantastic adventure from the general rehearsals of the revolution, through interplanetary travel around the Red...

In this autobiographical account, which in its final section approaches the form of a literary essay, Amélie Nothomb relives the most painful episode of her life: the abuse she suffered at the age of twelve, which led to prolonged anorexia throughout her adolescence. Based...

In Los Angeles a very strange rumour abounds. A certain Celine, who wanders around bookshops inspecting the competition and looking for first edition copies of Faulkner, is none other than Louis Ferdinand, who escaped death in 1961 in Meudon. Nick Belane, a private detective...

The subject of this book is the figure of William Walker, a disproportionate, almost implausible, but real character, whom the New York Tribune once called "the Don Quixote of Latin America" and about whom the narrator of the Novel writes from a hotel in...

A rich man who works in construction organizes a party in his new residence at the heart of Rome that will go down in history as the greatest party ever. Bulgarian chefs, black talent scouts recruited in Termini station, plastic surgeons, actresses, footballers,and even...

David Trueba invites us to join an electoral caravan: a vibrant novel about politics and politicians. This is the story, from the point of view of a writer, of the electoral campaign of a new candidate for a conservative party, let's say the PP....

In this book, which is an x-ray of the state of Latin America, eight journalists describe the fissures that have opened up in their territories in recent years. The chronicles show, with the turns, sayings and expressions of each country, the entrails of their...

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...