anagrama

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...

A fascinating journey to the bottom of the sea, a powerful novel about the enormous weight of loneliness in a hyperconnected world. A journalist in crisis embarks on a ship departing from Cape Town to write a report on the repair of submarine fiber-optic...

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...

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...

Julius is an intelligent boy who has been favoured by fortune; he is what threads together this portrait of a happy and untroubled segment of the oligarchy in Lima, a portrait that reflects the world of oligarchies in many other cities. This book was...

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...