anagrama

Florent-Claude Labrouste is forty-six years old, he hates his name and he takes Captorix, an antidepressant that releases serotonin and that has three adverse effects: nausea, disappearance of libido and impotence. His journey starts in Almería – where he meets two girls at a...

Florent-Claude Labrouste is forty-six years old, he hates his name and he takes Captorix, an antidepressant that releases serotonin and that has three adverse effects: nausea, disappearance of libido and impotence. His journey starts in Almería – where he meets two girls at a...

A homeless woman, disabled, sick and in a situation of absolute precariousness that tries to request the minimum income to which she is entitled, according to the optimistic messages from the administration and the media. But the bureaucratic labyrinth that she must go through...

When observing the postmodern individual, we could say that, of all the transformations they undergo, one of the most relevant is their loss of narrativity, the increasingly acute difficulty in telling their own story and creating a narrative. An illness that, despite its common...

Manuel Roca and his two sons live on an old isolated farm. One day, an old Mercedes with four men inside drive up the path leading to the house. As if he had always been waiting for this moment, Manuel Roca calls for his...

Shurik Korn is a modern Casanova in the guise of a boy from a good Moscow family. Fatherless from the cradle, his education is carried out by his energetic grandmother - the French teacher Yelizaveta lvánovna - and his weak mother, Vera Aleksándrovna, a...

After the death of his younger brother, Rent's life falls apart. He starts hanging out with his old pals and is drawn irresistibly into their wacked-out plans. Gritty, moving, and exhilarating, Skagboys paints their dizzying downward spiral with scabrous humor and raw language. / Edimburgo, inicios...

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom’s long star turn...

Dr. Michael Beard’s best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned institutions, and halfheartedly heads an initiative tackling global warming. Can a man who has made a mess of his...

No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. This book explores the insecurity behind the formidable public face: the relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives....

Lisbon, 1938. In a Europe haunted by the ghost of totalitarianism, a journalist who has been dedicated to the news pages all his life is put in charge of the culture section of a mediocre newspaper. In need of a collaborator, he calls the...

A reflection on sexualities that transgress the normative, An exploration of perversion or alternative sexuality, Am I normal? asks the author, What is normality in the practice of sexuality? What is out of the normal, is it a paraphilia, a perversion, a depravity, or...

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror. In this electric, provocative debut, Machado presents narratives that map the realities of women’s lives to the violence visited upon their bodies. /...

Paris, 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics....

Deville explores the history of his family and that of France and the world. Taba-Taba joins his cycle of "real novels" that he started with Pure Life.

The protagonist of this novel was born in China, grew up in Argentina, returned home and as a teenager, went to America as an interpreter for businessmen. This novel hides a story of initiation and also a story about identity and culture shock; and...

With his proverbial lucidity and the beauty of his style, Cups of Broth is the most personal work of Vicente Verdú and a sample of the philosophical and sociological thought that he propagates through pills. With this book, Verdú becomes the embodiment of the...

Hidden between distant cliffs, in some remote place visited by wolf hunters, bandits, ambushers, Carlists, sorceresses, maquis, rally drivers, ghosts, beasts and demons, the Clavell farmhouse clings to the earth like a tick. It is a house inhabited by women, and where a single...

Now a major motion picture. Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities....

In this book the author traces the path of the digital insurrection. It is not a mere technological revolution, but the collapse of the paradigms of twentieth century. In just over three decades, computers, smartphones and other devices, have become essential and have changed...