Anagrama

A child diagnosed with tuberculosis spends a long time in bed, where his family cares for him and entertains him with stories and books. From this experience, the child, who will become writer and filmmaker Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, begins his fascination with fiction. In...

Small Lives, Pierre Michon’s first novel, won the Prix France Culture. Michon explains that he wrote it "to save my own skin. I felt in my body that my life was turning around. This book born in an aura of inexpressible joy and catharsis...

Set in the American South, at the crossroads of a world that is both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson’s stories mine the inner lives of young women and men navigating sexual, emotional, and spiritual awakenings. In the title story, Jake grapples with...

In this sumptuous offering, one of our premier storytellers provides a feast for fiction aficionados. Spanning four decades and three prize-winning collections, these twenty-one vintage selected stories and thirteen scintillating new ones take us around the world. / Los cuentos de Pearlman son una...

Oscar Tusquets was writing a book "about the pain of growing old and the acceptance of dying" when the pandemic broke out and, of course, he could not resist the temptation to include some of his reflections, always insightful and politically incorrect: the government’s...

An overly educated generation faces the persistent reality of precarious jobs, low wages and worse living conditions than their parents. Millennials vs. boomers. Where to go in the absence of economic and environmental certainties? What is the solution? This concise essay proposes to rethink...

A woman comes from abroad to the Valley where the man she loved has just died. By inquiring about his death, the novel confronts the fate of a group of friends (young people from the seventies, but also from any youth of the 20th...

In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on...

In Vulva, the author visits Japanese brothels, Irish churches and stripper bars in search of reconstructing the cultural significance of the silenced genital. This book compares the border that envelops the Virgin in medieval art with the lips of a vulva, and discusses its...

War: myths, heroism, barbarism, the dead. A deep anti-war consideration... the author reads the news in the newspaper, French planes have attacked military targets in which chemical weapons were allegedly stored. The fact impacts him because he is currently living in France, specifically in...

Do you remember the Loch Ness Monster? Something similar is happening in a little lake in Minnesota. Whether it's a monster, an unknown predator, an urban legend or just an excuse to attract tourists, this book is an amazing and crazy story that includes...

An eccentric and resentful abbess, whose mysterious death is announced from the first pages, a friar who has exhausted his life searching for God through reason, a quarrelsome marquis, his wife, Doña Hilda, who goes to the convent to swear her virginity, a strange...

In the riveting style that won accolades for The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrère's I Am Alive and You Are Dead, follows Philip K. Dick's strange odyssey from his traumatic beginnings in 1928, when his twin sister died in infancy, to his lonely end in 1982, beset by...

The author presents a psychoanalysis faced with a key decision: to continue with outdated models or open up to new approaches to political-sexual radicalism. / El autor nos presenta el psicoanálisis enfrentado a una decisión clave: seguir con los modelos caducos o abrirse a los...

This book tells ten stories centered on the most vulnerable: children. In 2016, the author interviewed ten immigrants in New York and Los Angeles who entered the United States between 2011 and 2014 with the intention of reuniting with their families. / Este libro...

Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the Africans than he realizes. Exquisitely translated by Susan Bernofsky. / A Richard,...

This book is a brazen expression of weaknesses and human torments, an immersion in personal chasms through writing. The book, which has generated controversy before even its publication, leaves no one indifferent.

Why, for what and how does a journalist write? What is his vocation made of and what gives it meaning in these times? Works Zone brings together columns, conferences and essays that the Argentinean Leila Guerriero put together around these questions and that, published...

Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days...

Lord Copper is proud of his ability to discover talented reporters. However, due to a confusion of surnames he sends the most improbable journalist possible to ‘cover’ a civil war in an African Republic. Evelyn Waugh launches a ferocious satire about the world of...