Anagrama

The narrator of this story is someone who knows how to listen, because she understands that everyone needs to be listened to, and that virtue will be fundamental in the situation that she will have to face. At the center of this novel are...

This is a story that mixes goddesses, cows and first loves. The young Ludi enjoys the freedom of having no authority above him. During the summer, Ludi begins his adult life. A languid woman takes him along unexplored pathways towards an intense love without...

Born in Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that made him famous has done little to reveal the...

Four stories told in the manner of ancient tales. A work of literary filigree about love and the passage of time ... In these literary pieces a peculiar universe unfolds: a kingdom, an island, a city without a name. Characters appear with bizarre names,...

Behind the wild journey of four friends in their twenties hides a love story. The protagonist dives into the lifestyle of his inseparable friends as he tries to escape from the memories of Bárbara, but every step he takes brings him closer to her....

The reader will find in these pages various stories. A wandering former secret agent who spied on Bertolt Brecht. Stories that feature the appearance of losers who never give up, travelers without direction, storytellers. Many of the stories are philosophical; some are cosmopolitan. /...

A book of stories that unfolds like a fragmentary recollection, shot through with exaltation, guilt, desire, reconciliation, and an often painful lucidity. The beloved, inaccessible, authoritarian, powerful woman can also epitomize a moralistic and repressive Spain, whose promise of justice is never fulfilled. Memory,...

In 1994, Grace Paley collected all of her story books into a single volume. Her exuberant characters, her unmistakable and singular voice, her eccentric and radiantly biting temperament, as well as her use of language of uncommon richness, strengthened her position as one of...

This volume brings together the entirety of Ricardo Piglia's book work, organized by the author himself shortly before he died. These are his narratives that, in addition to telling stories, open paths, explore boundaries and reflect on the art of storytelling.

The sixty-eight stories by Vladimir Nabokov included in this edition, prepared by his son Dmitri, allow us to enjoy the writer's immeasurable literary virtuosity: his thematic and disturbing ambiguities, his elegant handling of the language and the many places that left a mark on...

A wide and colorful collection of stories, perfect to say good night. The indexes at the end of the book help you choose the one that best suits what you are looking for. And the cover glows in the dark!

The American writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) knew how to create a unique narrative, moving away from traditional ghost stories to include science fiction elements in his intrigues, such as time travel or travel to other dimensions. This chilling anthology chooses his best stories...

A selection of the best children's stories by the French writer Charles Perrault by Roberto Piumini.

In 1989 Anagrama published a book of North American short stories with texts by Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, T. Coraghessan Boyle and John Updike, among a varied and wide assortment of writers. The stories were only two to five pages...

Words become foreign to a woman with a serious eye disease as she tries to piece together the story of her frail body. That threatened body awakens the memory of her dead mother and the wasted years with an inconsistent lover. Why narrate? How...

En 2001 una productora de televisión argentina le propuso a Dardo Scavino escribir el guion de los catorce capítulos de una serie que tratase de responder a la pregunta «¿Qué es la filosofía?». El autor propuso matizarla y cambiarla por «¿Qué hace la filosofía?»....

/ Ésta es una novela que, contrapunteando la voz en primera persona y el falso documental, se pregunta sobre los límites del pudor y sobre qué significa la liberación de las mujeres. Habla de cómo se relacionan la realidad y sus representaciones, y de...

Algeria, 1956. Fernand Iveton, a young thirty-year-old communist worker, decides to show his support for the FNL's independence cause against France by planting a bomb. Iveton's peculiarity is that he is a pied noir, that is, a white Frenchman born in Algeria. The bomb...

In a matter of a few months, I witnessed two of the events that I most fear in life: the death of a son for his parents and the death of a young woman for her husband and children. Somebody said to me afterwards:...

This is the story of a judicial process. A cold night begins when a man prepares his tea after a long day. Soon, outside his house, a crowd and the rumor that the man is a pedophile. Some neighbors ask for his head, take...