anagrama

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...

What does the man who has everything―fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby―want for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his approaching demise, Frédéric tries every possible procedure to ward off...

This book by Norbert Bilbeny philosophically explores the human place in the vast universe and our relationship with it. It reflects on topics such as the infinite, the sublime, extraterrestrial life and its ethical implications. Through existential and emotional questions, the author invites us...

Between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, Michel Houellebecq became the center of two controversies. On the one hand, the philosopher Michel Onfray did an interview with him: in it the author expressed opinions about the Islamization of Europe and the...

Friday, December 13, 2015. Jihadist attacks take place in three different parts of Paris. The most serious is that of the Bataclan Room. The result is more than a hundred dead and almost half a thousand wounded. Years later, for nine months, the trial...

Professor Pierre Aronnax goes to sea in search of an unknown creature that terrifies all sailors. One day, the terrible sea monster hits his boat and throws him into the depths of the waters. But there a big surprise awaits him: the ferocious beast...

In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect-a minority with its own rich culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication. /...

This, the narrator tells us, is the real life of famous author Sebastian Knight, the inside story. After Knight's death, his half-brother sets out to penetrate the mystery of the famous English novelist's life, but he is impeded by the false, the distorted, the...

From the opening lines of Winter Journey, Amélie Nothomb’s singular microcosm pulls us in. The protagonist’s blunt declaration — “I’m going to blow up the 1:30 p. m. plane” — suggests terrorism, but his cause is neither political nor religious; it is love, total...

Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity"; (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It tells the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with Ingrid...

In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent. He was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Travels...

Ajay Mishra is 8 years old when his father gets a new job in New York that makes him, his older brother, and his parents leave Delhi and move to New York. This is an emotional novel with a sense of humor that speaks...

In 1881, without speaking a word of English and with $ 40,000, the Valencian architect Rafael Guastavino traveled to New York with the intention of patenting the medieval technique of the partitioned vault. But that eventful journey is more than the umpteenth version of...