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In Better than Life, Daniel Pennac shares the secrets that all book lovers treasure. Delving into his experiences as a parent, a writer and a teacher, he asks, how does the love of reading begin? How is it lost? This remarkable book explores simple ways to...

This is the second Compendium dedicated to one of the house's distinguished authors and brings together the works in which Nothomb exploits her extraordinary capacity to reveal the darkest and most disturbing part of our daily world, even in the areas where we most...

With the books included here, Emmanuel Carrère took a giant step in a career that had already stood out for its uniqueness, daring and radicalism. The author explored the non-fiction novel, and the result was three masterpieces of unmatched power. / Con los libros...

The first three novels by Michel Houellebecq, which launched him into literary stardom and placed him at the center of the polemic. The three are characterized by resentful and lethargic shipwrecked beings of our consumer society. / Las tres primeras novelas de Michel Houellebecq,...

This book brings together four of the author's fundamental works and their themes: Angola’s struggle for independence, his experiences on the African continent over four decades, and the intense relationship he had with it and its history and ideas. / Este libro reúne cuatro...

A relationship between two people that inevitably leads to a multiplicity of possible bonds. The revelation of what seems obvious but is often ignored: that the other person is sovereign and unfathomable. In this work, the voice doubts, trusts, constructs the mutual, and celebrates...

As a very young child, Mario Obrero, from a Spanish-speaking family, asked his parents to buy him a Galician-Spanish dictionary so he could understand the language of the place where they went on holiday. Later, he immersed himself in Catalan - in its Valencian...

In this illuminating collection of essays on art, Barnes turns his narrative gifts toward some of the most important paintings in the Western canon, eloquently voicing our reactions to these images—what they cause us to think and feel, and why. These essays are a...

Sara Torres opened with an “unofficial” trilogy that she would later complete, already published, and which is now being closed with the reissue of its definitive version on our label. What is invoked here is the possibility of tenderness and vulnerability, of desire, of...

How should the cities of the future be? How has planning evolved throughout history? How does the urban environment in which we live affect our lives? What urban values should be strengthened? Rethinking the city is the ultimate goal of this book. Cómo deberían...

In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is...

During the Inter-Alliance Games of Berlin, the World laughed when they saw Émil Zapotek. But after two Olympic Games he seemed invincible, not even the Czechoslovakian regime could stop him. Émil runs against decadence, and he smiles, even in the Uranium mines where he...

This is Nabokov's penultimate novel, a literary tour de force whose protagonist is Hugh Person, a young North American editor who goes on various trips to Switzerland over the years. It was here that his father travelled to for the last time in his...

Jérôme Angust, a bussiness man, is waiting at the airport gate for his delayed flight. He starts reading a book to kill time until an unknown man, Textor Texel, tries to start a conversation with him; despite Jérôme's lack of interest in the conversation,...

In the mid-eighteenth century, Alister Cox, the most prestigious watchmaker in Europe, arrives on the shores of China invited by the all-powerful Emperor Quiánlóng, who wants to make him some very special watches. As the artisan shapes his precise machinery, he begins to realize...

At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidservant has for its subject the domestic life of Horace Lamb, sadist, skinflint, and tyrant. But it is when Horace undergoes an altogether unforeseeable change of heart that the real difficulties begin. Is...

This book reveals the author's struggle with her recurring themes—injustice, moral ambiguity, the blade of cruelty at the heart of human relationships—much more nakedly than in her novels. Bestial Crimes presents a handful of revenge stories, in which subdued dogs, goats, elephants, and pigs...

Highways, cars, loneliness and adventure soak these Motel Chronicles, a book of “broken histories”, autobiographical fragments, stories and poems that are all gifted with a fast paced and concise writing style. / Las carreteras, los coches, la soledad y la aventura empapan estas Crónicas...

Grady McNeil is seventeen years old and has convinced her parents to leave her alone in their Central Park apartment while they go on a summer cruise. No one explains why she disdains the delights of Europe for the hot summer of New York,...

In the august of 1963, Oé headed to Hiroshima to cover the ninth world conference against nuclear arms. He was immediately drawn to the testimonies of those forgotten souls of August 6th 1945. The very old condemned to loneliness, disfigured women, and doctors that...