anagrama

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....

Where there used to be a thermal power station, there is now a large gap. Isidorin has taken early retirement after a life dedicated to mining. His wife Milagros is looking for hope in the bachata teacher at the residence where she works. And...

Jimmy Sarano lives in a Mediterranean city in a self-imposed exile. He writes serialized novels for Radio Mundial, a small radio station with a big name. His life is all about routine, until one day he finds a girl whose face reminds him of...

Baron Otto von Wachter, lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, former governor of Galicia, creator of the Krakow ghetto, indicted as a war criminal for mass murder, hunted by many, and on the run for years. Philippe Sands pieces together, in riveting detail, Wachter's...

Sylvia turns sixteen on the day this story begins. To celebrate, she organizes a fake party, with only one guest. Hours later, she will suffer an accident that, even if she doesn’t know it yet, signals her abrupt entrance into adult life. An intelligent...

The Mediterranean is the scene of two shameful situations: the humanitarian crisis of the drifting immigrants and the legal harassment suffered by the NGOs that try to rescue them. Sandro Veronesi climbs aboard one of the rescue boats to talk with activists. / El...

A night in Madrid full of lost suburbs and bars, two losers walk nearby in search of an opportunity: Nikki and Sanchez. She asks him to help her deliver a greyhound named Cromwell to an Italian who is dedicated to the racing business. /...

Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see...

The great city of Los Angeles is once again present as it always is in the writing of Charles Bukowski. Despite being located within the Californian paradise with its oranges, sunshine and wine, this is a hellish city. Bukowski has the attitude of a...

Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great...