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Three Times at Dawn explores this question while leaving greater mysteries in its wake. A man and a woman -the same couple in each case- meet in a trio of hotels; first she is a seductress, he a traveling salesman; on another night she is...

This trilogy brings together three works by author Sergio Pitol: The Art of Escape, The Journey, and The Magician from Vienna. In The Art of Escape Pitol proposes a new form, in The Journey Pitol writes of a return to the Soviet Union, and...

This volume collects the first three novels of a key author of contemporary French literature. Three novels that received numerous awards: they represent brilliant novels, social complicity, organized crime, and parties in this black period of twentieth century France, specifically occupied Paris. / Este...

The three novels that make up this Passion Trilogy openly ally against labels and market trends and, since we are talking about painting, we quote Degas with Harwicz when he warns that "the artist must begin his work with the same spirit as a...

A testimony of a skeptical man from Havana who returns from a long journey which leads nowhere. Pedro Juan Gutiérrez carries out some much needed catharsis in this book, which is tough and in large part autobiographical. Pedro Juan lives on the edge of...

This international literary phenomenon—the title inspired by William Blake’s poem The Tyger—is a forensic exploration into how to speak about the unspeakable. Repeatedly exposed to sexual violence as a child, Neige Sinno tells of a family life built around lies and deception. She was...

Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the...

The kidnapping of the beautiful Greek queen Helen by the Trojan prince Paris triggers a war between the two people. The Greeks send their fleet and besiege the city of Troy. The conflict will last ten years, and will cause much suffering and many...

Cortés enters Mehxicoh-Tenoxtitlan with his nine captains, his two translators –Friar Aguilar and Malinalli, interpreter and lover–, his troops and their horses. There the princess Atotoxtli, sister and wife of Moctezuma, accompanied by the priests, entertains them with a meal, and later the emperor...

Ambitious, solid, risky: Sara Mesa returns with a novel in which the most unsuspected impulses of its protagonists are emerging while the community builds its scapegoat.«Mesa's writing vindicates in each line its strict literary aspect» (Manuel Hidalgo, El Mundo)."A very solid writer. A serene...

Pierre Angot, a sophisticated Parisian who doesn’t even think about marriage, and Rachel Schwartz, a modest Jewish girl, have a relationship, leaving a daughter, Christine. The girl grows up with her mother, but her father, who has formed another family, will eventually contact his...

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly...

The artist Masuji Ono besides devoting his art to the celebration of physical beauty, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Memories from youth and the "floating world" offer him escape and redemption....

In this collection of short stories, Federico Falco portrays a series of characters who confront the bewilderment of everyday life amidst rural landscapes, shaky beliefs, and shifting relationships. From the construction of a cemetery that symbolizes a village's pride, to the spiritual and sexual...

In 1990 Román Gubern met Enrique Planas who turned out to be the leader of the Vatican Film Library. When Gubern settled in Rome as director of the Cervantes Institute, the Catalan priest contacted him and proposed to participate in the Vatican preparations to...

On February 16, 2012, an accident occurred involving a school bus that was transporting a group of children on a field trip. A tragic event. But the place where it happened added a Kafkaesque dimension to the tragedy, an unbearable degree of unreason. The...

This book starts with the meticulous description of a day in the life of an editor. And, from there, a complete journey through the secrets of the publishing sector and the evolution and the entrails of Anagrama since founded in 1969 until the present....

The story of a city that is suddenly abandoned by its inhabitants. Dr. Tejada arrives to care for the nursing home New Life. Tejada is looking for a place to hide himself and his shady past, but his plans for isolation will soon be...

Stories of ghosts, of possession, of murderous clothing and jewelry, stories about the transformation of the body or about the cult of a girl who drowned in a water tank, or about the hyenas that can still be heard in a place where a...

Hannah is a sixteen-year-old teenager who leads a boring and monotonous life in front of the computer and social networks. But everything changes when she receives a message on Facebook from a boy named Alex Crowell. Hannah accesses her profile, to see who she...