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In her youth, Paula Krast went to Brussels to study art. There she met Jonas, whom she desired but it was not always reciprocated, and Kate, a Scottish sculptural. The trio sealed their friendship in those years full of enthusiastic creativity and dreams that...

Paris, October 1942. A couple meets during the city's occupation. He’s Jewish; she's Belgian. They marry and have two children; one of them is Patrick Modiano. They lived for twenty years in Conti, among strange characters: businessmen whose jobs are always mysterious, actresses willing...

One night, during his stay in Buenos Aires for the filming of his film Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola told María Gainza: «The artist comes into the world with a quiver that contains a limited number of golden arrows. He can shoot all his arrows...

The narratives included in this book are about science, its searches, attempts, experiments and hypotheses, and the changes it introduces in the world. Benjamin Labatut has written a book which speaks of discoveries that are the result of chance and the exploration of the...

Here, in a magical parade that walks through the confused universe of Russian exiles, we see Olga. She's pretty and bored thanks to the cosmic boredom of her suitors; to the bundle of nerves called Romantovski, who is not guilty of anything but invites...

Alessandro Baricco constructed a library and selected the fifty best texts read during the decade. A selection of books that came to his hands as recommended by a friend. And that is why the review of each of the texts gathered here is preceded...

The protagonist in this novel searches for a definitive date with the Lady. The white powder. At the end of the night he takes a trip where he encounters disturbing characters, ghosts of dead friends on their way, and memories of the great city...

A literary revelation in the fifties, Kenzaburo Oé was considered the best Japanese novelist of the generation after Yukio Mishima. A Personal Matter is one of his best and most cruel novels, animated by a strange interior violence. It tells of the odyssey of...

Emilio Sánchez lived in Bahrain for two years. When he returned to Spain and finished writing this book, he knew that he could no longer return there because journalists are not welcome in a country that ranks 167th out of 180 in the press...

Winter has arrived, and for the protagonists of this dance it is the time of maturity. Nick Jenkins is now forty years old and has returned to Oxford to write a book on Richard Burton. Pamela Flitton, the fatal, irresistible Pam, who leaves behind...

The dance of the music of time continues and spring and summer are followed by autumn. If the previous volume closed with the war in the making, the three novels that make up this third installment of Anthony Powell's extraordinary narrative fresco are set...

A dance for the music of the time is a monumental literary fresco with more than three hundred characters, whose action takes place between 1914 and 1970, and whose title is inspired by a famous painting by Poussin. It is considered one of the...

The dance of the music of time continues and spring is followed by summer. The three novels that make up the second volume of this great historical fresco on 20th century England are located between 1934 and 1939, with long flashbacks to previous decades....

Between essay and narrative, this book proposes a way of thinking against our fears, which according to Lucretius, clouds the mind and distances us from a good life. Through classical philosophy, it shows how fear exaggerates threats, multiplies sad passions like anger, shame, or...

A Heritage and Its History tells the story of 69-year-old Sir Edwin Challoner and his extended family. Unmarried, and with no direct issue, Challoner’s closest relation, and business associate, is his younger brother, Hamish. When Hamish dies of a heart condition, his son Simon prepares...

What is the price of affection and in what currency do you pay for it? In the end, it is inevitable that we discover that some currencies weigh much more than what we have been given in exchange. This brave novel speaks of our...

A chilling anonymous diary details the looting of Berlin by the Soviets in 1945 and the courageous role of women... To find out what really happened in the final days of World War II, you have to ask the women. That's the perspective of...

Michael Holme is a very talented violinist, whose teacher foresaw a promising career as a performer in his future, and yet who has ended up as the second violin in the Maggiore Quartet, a position as comfortable and without prospects as his life, which...

Madness and horror have both being an obsession in my life, says the author. All the books that I have written talk about nothing but that. I tried to escape. I did a research on my paternal grandfather who, after a tragic life, died...

What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the enemy of memory not time but other memories? How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue, or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? Might...