Fiction

In her personal / poetic essay Arqueología de un cisne, Colombian writer Juliana Rozo traces two paths where beauty, trauma and violence intersect in works of art, family lore and historical events in Colombia. One of these paths goes historically through mythological, literary and artistic places in which the swan has had a relevance: starting with the artist Hilma Af Klint, the writer Marcel Proust, and the “Swan Lake,” to Latin American musical references such as Luis Alberto Spinetta and a Colombian film, Cóndores no entierran todos los días by Francisco Norden. The other path immerses the reader in the intimate and poetic relationship that the writer finds in the figure of the swan and the porous boundary between beauty and violence.

Smol Books contributed the Spanish text and illustrations for the bilingual edition of Arqueología de un cisne. Smol Books is an independent publishing house that specializes in short stories by authors who break literary, thematic, formal, and linguistic boundaries in experimental fiction.

Fiel reflejo de la vida cortesana, en un retrato del París del siglo XIX

Esta novela narra las desventuras de Marguerite Gautier, quien, en medio de la vida elegante de las cortesanas en la París del siglo XIX, vive un romance trágico, empañado de la desgracia que conlleva tratar de conquistar el amor pleno y, al mismo tiempo, el deseo de alcanzar una vida estable. Alexandre Dumas hijo presenta en esta historia la cúspide de su obra narrativa y el germen de la clásica ópera de Verdi, con la letra de Francesco Maria Piave, La Traviata.

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A True Reflection of Courtesan Life, in a Portrait of 19th Century Paris

This novel tells the misadventures of Marguerite Gautier, who, amidst the elegant life of courtesans in 19th century Paris, lives a tragic romance. Her story is marred by the misfortune that comes with trying to achieve true love while also yearning for a stable life. Alexandre Dumas fils presents in this story the pinnacle of his narrative work and the seed of Verdi’s classic opera, with the libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, La Traviata.

En este alucinante thriller psicológico y doméstico, Santiago Roncagliolo le imprime un ritmo vertiginoso al género, a partir de la trágica historia de una madre de familia que se ve involucrada en el violento mundo del hampa.

Exitosa, madre de dos niñas y con el marido ideal, Maritza Fontana se siente realizada. Abogada en uno de los despachos más importantes de la ciudad, acaba de abrir un lujoso hotel boutique que la ha colocado además en la crema y nata de la sociedad. Sin embargo, precisamente en la noche de la inauguración, su hija Patricia no aparece por ningún lado. Al principio, Maritza lo atribuye a su carácter caprichoso, pero más tarde se entera de que un accidente automovilístico es la razón de su ausencia y el punto de partida de una vorágine de destrucción que pondrá de cabeza su mundo…

Con una Maritza que narra todo desde la cárcel, en El accidente el lector se solaza con el placer perverso de ver al otro caer, de ser testigo de cómo se desmorona la vida aparentemente perfecta de las personas que se mueven en las altas esferas del dinero y los privilegios.

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In this amazing psychological and domestic thriller, Santiago Roncagliolo imprints a dizzying rhythm to the genre, based on the tragic story of a mother who is involved in the violent world of the underworld.

Successful, mother of two girls and with the ideal husband, Maritza Fontana feels fulfilled. A lawyer in one of the most important law firms in the city, she has just opened a luxurious boutique hotel that has also placed her in the cream of society. However, precisely on the night of the inauguration, his daughter Patricia is nowhere to be found. At first, Maritza attributes it to her capricious nature, but later learns that a car accident is the reason for her absence and the starting point of a maelstrom of destruction that will turn her world upside down...

With a Maritza who narrates everything from prison, in El accidente (The Accident) the reader takes pleasure in the perverse pleasure of seeing the other fall, of witnessing how the apparently perfect life of people who move in the upper echelons of money and privilege crumbles.

EL FENÓMENO COREANO QUE HA DADO LA VUELTA AL MUNDO.
MÁS DE 3,000,000 DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS.

Una historia conmovedora sobre los momentos decisivos de la vida y de cómo los libros pueden sanar heridas y cambiar a las personas. 

En un pequeño callejón de un barrio tranquilo de Seúl se encuentra la librería Hyunam-dong. La dueña, Yeongju, ha pasado su vida haciendo lo que se esperaba de ella (estudiar, casarse y tener una carrera exitosa) hasta que, tras su divorcio y cansada de cumplir con las expectativas de otros, decide dejarlo todo atrás para perseguir su sueño de tener una librería.

A medida que lucha para que su negocio prospere, Yeongju también irá descubriendo facetas sobre sí misma que desconocía. Gracias a ella, el local se transforma en un espacio acogedor en el que las almas heridas encuentran refugio, sanan y aprenden que nunca es tarde para cambiar y empezar de nuevo. Del barista solitario a la vendedora de café infelizmente casada, todos han vivido decepciones en el pasado, pero cuando comienzan a sentirse cómodos y compartir sus historias, esperanzas y emociones, la librería Hyunam-dong se convierte en un lugar para aprender a vivir plenamente.

«Una historia que abraza el corazón» THE OBSERVER

«Bo-Reum evoca agradablemente la sensación de pasar una tarde en tu librería favorita» PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

«Una importante obra sobre el poder de los libros, la lectura y hacer comunidad» BOOKLIST

«Una historia conmovedora que todos deberían leer» THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS

«Una encantadora novela sobre libros» LIBRARY JOURNAL

«Una verdadera carta de amor a la lectura» GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

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INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER * INDIE NEXT PICK * the Month * A Bookshop Best Book of the Year So Far

The Korean smash hit, a slice-of-life novel for readers of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of AJ Fikry.

Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to school, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. In a leap of faith, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighborhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married coffee roaster-and the writer who sees something special in Yeongju-they all have disappointments in their past. The Hyunam-dong Bookshop becomes the place where they all learn how to truly live.

A heartwarming story about finding acceptance in your life and the healing power of books, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is a gentle reminder that it's never too late to scrap the plot and start again.

La faceta más romántica de Rebecca Yarros autora de la serie Empíreo

Georgia
Tras perderlo todo en un doloroso divorcio, decide regresar al lugar donde creció, la casa de su bisabuela Scarlett Stanton, una famosa escritora que murió dejando una novela inconclusa. Noah Harrison, es el atractivo y arrogante autor de bestsellers que la editorial designó para terminar el manuscrito. Aunque a ella no le entusiasma la idea, ahora él y Georgia están obligados a trabajar juntos para encontrar el mejor final de la obra.

Noah
Está en la cúspide de su carrera: es guapo, ambicioso y tiene numerosos contratos para libros y películas. Siempre admiró a Scarlett y, cuando surge la oportunidad de concluir lo que él piensa podría ser el libro del siglo, no lo duda ni un segundo. Sin embargo, lidiar con Georgia, la hermosa, testaruda y cínica bisnieta de su novelista favorita, le complicará las cosas más de lo que pensaba.

Un romance que crecerá con cada página.

Conforme leen las palabras de Scarlett, descubren por qué la talentosa escritora nunca terminó el libro: está basado en la trágica historia de amor que vivió con un piloto de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Georgia sabe que el amor nunca funciona, y aunque la química y la conexión entre ella y Noah es innegable, está más decidida que nunca a no cometer los mismos errores  del pasado, incluso si eso significa destruir la carrera de Noah.

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The most romantic side of Rebecca Yarros, author of the Empyrean series

Told in alternating timelines, THE THINGS WE LEAVE UNFINISHED examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can’t bring ourselves to see coming.

Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce—the New York house, the friends, and her pride. Now back home at her late great-grandmother’s estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing. He’s just as arrogant in person as in interviews, and she’ll be damned if the good-looking writer of love stories thinks he’s the one to finish her grandmother’s final novel…even if the publisher swears he’s the perfect fit.

Noah is at the pinnacle of his career. With book and movie deals galore, there isn’t much the “golden boy” of modern fiction hasn’t accomplished. But he can’t walk away from what might be the best book of the century—the one his idol, Scarlett Stanton, left unfinished. Coming up with a fitting ending for the legendary author is one thing, but dealing with her beautiful, stubborn, cynical great-granddaughter, Georgia, is quite another.

But as they read Scarlett’s words in both the manuscript and her box of letters, they start to realize why Scarlett never finished the book—it’s based on her real-life romance with a World War II pilot, and the ending isn’t a happy one. Georgia knows all too well that love never works out, and while the chemistry and connection between her and Noah is undeniable, she’s as determined as ever to learn from her great-grandmother’s mistakes—even if it means destroying Noah’s career.

Un amor tan intenso y cálido como una tarde de verano

El sol baña los acantilados y las aguas turquesas del mar de Cornualles cuando Jane Bellamy y Cedric Stone se conocen en el verano de 1939. No están destinados a ser una ecuación perfecta, pero son jóvenes y el amor lo arrolla todo a su paso. Así que esta historia comienza como otras muchas: él y ella se enamoran. Hay primeras palabras, primeras miradas y primeros besos. Y luego la guerra, la nada. Solo oscuridad. Todo cambia.

Años más tarde, en un hospital de Edimburgo, Margot Abbot sostiene en la mano un anillo que pertenece al paciente que dormita en la cama, Cedric Stone. Ella todavía no lo sabe, pero está a punto de abrir un baúl de recuerdos y descubrir qué ocurrió tras aquellos luminosos días de estío que quedaron atrás.

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A love as intense as the summer sun.

The sun is shining over the cliffs and turquoise waters of the Cornwall seas when Jane Bellamy y Cedric Stone meet in the summer of 1939. They’re not destined to have a perfect romance, but they’re young, naïve, and filled with passion. Their story begins like any other: there are sweet words, longing gazes, first kisses...and then, war, nothingness. Darkness. Everything changes.

 Years later, in an Edinburgh hospital, Margot Abbot holds a ring belonging to one of her patients, Cedric Stone. She doesn’t know it yet, but she is about to discover a trove of memories and find out what happened on those long-gone, luminous summer days.

En Objetos perdidos, Karla Suárez convierte la historia de Giselle en una apasionante búsqueda del lugar que ocupa una mujer en nuestro tiempo, así como de la capacidad creativa y destructiva que esconden las pasiones.

Giselle lo ha sacrificado todo por un sueño: ser bailarina. Un sueño que parece escapársele. Una agria discusión con su novio y el robo de su bolso, en el que junto con su documentación y teléfono desaparecen también objetos que tienen un gran valor sentimental para ella, la dejan sola y perdida en la ciudad de Barcelona, lejos de su Cuba natal. Su única esperanza para salir de esa situación es dar con un amigo cubano del que sólo sabe que vive en algún lugar cercano a la Sagrada Familia. Durante tres días, Giselle duerme en la calle y vaga por los alrededores de la basílica buscando el modo de recuperar su vida, mientras reconstruye su propia historia familiar y hace balance del precio que ha debido pagar por ese sueño huidizo.

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In Objetos perdidos (Lost and Found), Karla Suárez turns Giselle's story into an exciting search for the place that a woman occupies in our time, as well as for the creative and destructive capacity hidden by passions.

Giselle has sacrificed everything for a dream: to be a dancer. A dream that seems to escape him. A bitter argument with her boyfriend and the theft of her purse, in which along with her documentation and phone also disappear objects that have a great sentimental value for her, leave her alone and lost in the city of Barcelona, far from her native Cuba. His only hope to get out of that situation is to find a Cuban friend who he only knows lives somewhere near the Sagrada Familia. For three days, Giselle sleeps on the street and wanders around the basilica looking for a way to get her life back, while she reconstructs her own family history and takes stock of the price she has had to pay for that elusive dream.

Joseph Conrad, una de las cotas más altas de la literatura universal.

100º aniversario de la muerte del autor.

Joseph Conrad (Berdichev, Ucrania, 1857 - Canterbury, Inglaterra, 1924) abandonó la navegación a los treinta y siete años tras veinte de servicio en la marina mercante, se asentó en Inglaterra y empezó a escribir en inglés (su tercera lengua después del polaco y del francés).

Esta selección de cuentos incorpora algunas de sus piezas más valiosas. «Una avanzadilla del progreso» y «La laguna», escritos en 1896, pertenecen a su primera época. En el primero, Conrad hace un retrato hilarante —y trágico— de la empresa colonizadora belga, que dos años más tarde ampliaría en El corazón de las tinieblas. «La laguna» está ambientada en la isla de Borneo y consigue recrear con una maestría admirable el paisaje —tanto físico como moral— de la vida en los trópicos. «Il Conde» (1906), situada en Nápoles, surgió del encuentro con un viejo aristócrata polaco y explora el complejo tema de las mentiras con las que nos engañamos a nosotros mismos a causa de la respetabilidad. Y «La historia» (1916), inspirada por las experiencias del autor durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, plantea una reflexión moral que convierte este relato en uno de los más profundos que se han escrito sobre los límites de la responsabilidad individual en medio de una guerra.

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Joseph Conrad, One of the Greatest Figures in World Literature

100th Anniversary of the Author’s Death

Joseph Conrad (Berdichev, Ukraine, 1857 - Canterbury, England, 1924) left his seafaring life at thirty-seven after twenty years in the merchant navy. He settled in England and began writing in English (his third language after Polish and French).

This selection of stories includes some of his most valuable pieces. “An Outpost of Progress” and “The Lagoon,” written in 1896, belong to his early period. In the former, Conrad offers a hilarious—and tragic—portrait of the Belgian colonial enterprise, which he expanded two years later in Heart of Darkness. “The Lagoon” is set in Borneo and masterfully recreates the physical and moral landscape of life in the tropics. “Il Conde” (1906), set in Naples, emerged from his encounter with an old Polish aristocrat and explores the complex theme of the lies we tell ourselves for the sake of respectability. And “The Tale” (1916), inspired by the author’s experiences during World War I, offers a moral reflection that makes this story one of the deepest ever written about the limits of individual responsibility in the midst of war.

A los 15 años de su publicación, una edición conmemorativa de El hombre que amaba a los perros. Una de las novelas que sientan las bases de la literatura hispanoamericana del siglo XXI.

«Una extraordinaria novela sobre el asesinato de Trotsky.» Elena Poniatowska
«Su novela más ambiciosa.» The New Yorker
«Una grandísima novela, hábilmente construida sobre una base histórica muy rigurosa.» Jean-Claude Perrier, Livres Hebdo

En 2004, tras la muerte de su mujer, Iván, que soñaba con dedicarse a escribir, regenta una modesta consulta veterinaria de La Habana. Y es el dolor de esa pérdida que le hace volver sobre un episodio de su vida, ocurrido a finales de los años setenta, cuando conoció a un enigmático hombre que paseaba por la playa en compañía de dos imponentes galgos rusos. Tras varios encuentros, el misterioso personaje comenzó a hacerlo depositario de unas singulares confidencias que lo llevan a la figura del asesino de Trotski, Ramón Mercader. Y gracias a esas conversaciones, Iván puede reconstruir la trayectoria de Liev Davídovich Bronstein, conocido como Trotski, y de Ramón Mercader, que se ocultaba bajo el nombre de Jacques Mornard, y cómo se convierten en víctima y verdugo de uno de los crímenes más reveladores del siglo xx. Desde el destierro impuesto por Stalin a Trotski en 1929, y la infancia de Mercader en la Barcelona burguesa, sus amores y peripecias durante la Guerra Civil, o más adelante en Moscú y París, las vidas de ambos se entrelazan hasta confluir en México. Y ambas historias completan su sentido cuando sobre ellas proyecta Iván sus avatares vitales e intelectuales en la Cuba contemporánea y su extraña relación con el hombre de los galgos en la playa.

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On the 15th anniversary of its publication, a commemorative edition of The Man Who Loved Dogs. One of the novels that lays the foundation for 21st-century Hispanic American literature.

“An extraordinary novel about the assassination of Trotsky.”Elena Poniatowska
“His most ambitious novel.”The New Yorker
“A great novel, skillfully built on a very rigorous historical basis.”Jean-Claude Perrier, Livres Hebdo

In 2004, after the death of his wife, Iván, who dreamed of becoming a writer, runs a modest veterinary clinic in Havana. And it is the pain of that loss that makes him revisit an episode of his life, which occurred in the late seventies, when he met an enigmatic man walking on the beach with two imposing Russian greyhounds. After several encounters, the mysterious character began to confide in him, leading him to the figure of Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader. Thanks to these conversations, Iván can reconstruct the trajectory of Liev Davidovich Bronstein, known as Trotsky, and Ramón Mercader, who hid under the name Jacques Mornard, and how they became victim and executioner of one of the most revealing crimes of the 20th century. From Trotsky’s exile imposed by Stalin in 1929, and Mercader’s childhood in bourgeois Barcelona, his loves and adventures during the Civil War, or later in Moscow and Paris, their lives intertwine until they converge in Mexico. And both stories find their meaning when Iván projects his own life and intellectual experiences in contemporary Cuba and his strange relationship with the man with the greyhounds on the beach.

En un pueblo de pescadores de Munchkinland nace Elphaba, un bebé de piel verde y dientes de tiburón con los que arranca los dedos a la comadrona. Elphaba crecerá para convertirse en la Malvada Bruja del Oeste, una persona ingeniosa, irritable y poco comprendida que pone en tela de juicio todas nuestras nociones preconcebidas sobre la naturaleza del bien y del mal.

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The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande

With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. 

Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens.

But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. 

Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch. 

Dos viajes a La Habana, dos romances y una estrella del ajedrez

Un gélido jueves de enero de 2008, en un hospital de Reikiavik, el doctor Stoltz colocaba un alfil en la mano vencida de Bobby Fischer, quien fuera el mejor ajedrecista del mundo, para que, al apretar en ella la pieza, las venas de su brazo se hincharan y así poder inyectarle una dosis compasiva de morfina. Aunque, en realidad, esta narración arranca más de cuarenta años atrás, con un Bobby Fischer admirado por todo el mundo que visita Cuba en 1966 para disputar un torneo, y entrelaza dos historias de amor, dos pasiones vividas con una revolución como telón de fondo. La de Miriam, que a sus catorce años tiene un breve e intenso romance con el ajedrecista, y la de un misterioso cubano de origen polaco que cae rendido a los pies de la madre del gran maestro diez años antes. Dos pasiones amorosas en dos momentos históricos de Cuba, aquella que floreció al calor de los casinos y la industria del turismo que comandaban los gánsteres desde Florida, y la que quedó después de que la Revolución arrasara el espejismo capitalista. Mayra Montero recrea con maestría dos épocas de una ciudad, La Habana, que ya ha desaparecido.

Sobre La mitad de la noche:

«Mayra Montero maneja con habilidad su doble hilo argumental… el libro crece enormemente y la recreación de un tiempo y un lugar es estupenda... Una narradora de enorme pulcritud que sabe atrapar la atención del lector y conservarla. Sus libros funcionan con enorme fluidez y astucia.» Pablo Martínez Zarracina, El Correo

«Un comienzo brutal, una prosa destilada que nos adentra en la psicología de unos personajes atormentados por el secreto en la intrahistoria de una acaudalada familia donostiarra… Mayra Montero recrea con gran eficacia la atmósfera opresiva de la Iparralde ocupada, a la vez que decribe con maestría la inmersión de la protagonista en las cartas.» Íñigo Urrutia, El Diario Vasco

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Two Trips to Havana, Two Romances, and a Chess Star

On a chilly Thursday in January 2008, in a hospital in Reykjavik, Dr. Stoltz placed a bishop in the weakened hand of Bobby Fischer, who was once the best chess player in the world, so that by squeezing the piece, the veins in his arm would swell, allowing for a compassionate dose of morphine. However, this story actually begins more than forty years earlier, with a globally admired Bobby Fischer visiting Cuba in 1966 to compete in a tournament, intertwining two love stories, two passions lived against the backdrop of a revolution. One is Miriam's, who at fourteen has a brief and intense romance with the chess player, and the other is of a mysterious Cuban of Polish origin who falls at the feet of the grandmaster's mother ten years earlier. Two romantic passions in two historical moments of Cuba, one that flourished with the heat of casinos and the tourism industry run by gangsters from Florida, and the one that remained after the Revolution swept away the capitalist mirage. Mayra Montero masterfully recreates two eras of a city, Havana, that has already disappeared.

About La mitad de la noche:

"Mayra Montero skillfully handles her dual narrative thread... the book grows enormously, and the recreation of a time and place is wonderful... A narrator of great precision who knows how to capture the reader's attention and keep it. Her books work with great fluidity and cunning." Pablo Martínez Zarracina, El Correo

"A brutal beginning, a distilled prose that delves into the psychology of characters tormented by the secret in the inner history of a wealthy family from San Sebastián... Mayra Montero effectively recreates the oppressive atmosphere of occupied Iparralde, while masterfully describing the protagonist's immersion in the letters." Íñigo Urrutia, El Diario Vasco

Cerca de una aislada mansión existe un jardín donde se cultivan delicadas flores y en él, abrigada por frondosos árboles, habita una exquisita y peculiar colección de mariposas que es resguardada por el Jardinero, un hombre que desconoce los límites de su obsesión por preservar la belleza.

Maya es una sobreviviente del jardín y ahora tendrá que narrar a los agentes del FBI los horrores que vivió mientras permanecía en cautiverio junto con otras chicas que ni siquiera habían alcanzado la mayoría de edad. En su memoria viven las peores pesadillas. En su espalda, como en las de todas las jóvenes mariposas, un tatuaje le recordará por siempre un crimen imperdonable.

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Near an isolated mansion, there is a garden where delicate flowers are cultivated, and within it, sheltered by lush trees, resides an exquisite and peculiar collection of butterflies guarded by the Gardener, a man who knows no bounds in his obsession to preserve beauty.

Maya is a survivor of the garden and now must recount to FBI agents the horrors she experienced while in captivity along with other girls who had not even reached adulthood. In her memory live the worst nightmares. On her back, like all the young butterflies, a tattoo will forever remind her of an unforgivable crime.

Uno de los 10 libros favoritos de la autora.

Cada martes un grupo de personas se reúne para resolver supuestos misterios. Ninguno cuenta con la astucia de miss Marple. Menos imaginan lo que esas reuniones desatarán.

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One of the author's 10 favorite books.

Every Tuesday, a group of people gathers to solve supposed mysteries. None of them have the cunning of Miss Marple. They least imagine what those meetings will unleash.

Esta colección de relatos reúne la crónica de la colonización de Marte por parte de la Humanidad, que abandona la Tierra en sucesivas oleadas de cohetes plateados y sueña con reproducir en el planeta rojo una civilización de perritos calientes, cómodos sofás y limonada en el porche al atardecer. Pero los colonos también llevan consigo las enfermedades que diezmarán a los marcianos y mostrarán muy poco respeto por una cultura planetaria, misteriosa y fascinante, que éstos intentarán proteger ante la rapacidad de los terrícolas.

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This collection of stories chronicles the colonization of Mars by humanity, which leaves Earth in successive waves of silver rockets and dreams of recreating on the red planet a civilization of hot dogs, comfortable sofas, and lemonade on the porch at sunset. But the colonists also bring with them diseases that will decimate the Martians and show very little respect for a planetary culture, mysterious and fascinating, that the Martians will try to protect against the rapacity of the Earthlings.

Un joven publicista ha publicado, en una de sus campañas, una fotografía, aparentemente anodina, que lo ha puesto en la mira de un influyente grupo industrial. Y es que en la fotografía aparece un rebaño de ovejas y carneros en un prado, pero uno de esos carneros tiene un poder muy especial. La monótona y en absoluto extraordinaria vida del joven, fumador empedernido y recién divorciado, da una insospechada vuelta de tuerca, pues debe embarcarse en una extraña búsqueda: tendrá que viajar al norte de Japón para encontrar a toda costa a ese peculiar carnero, pues le va en ello la vida. Si a esa línea argumental se le añaden una misteriosa joven con unas orejas exquisitas, un amigo huido (el entrañable «el Rata»), un político conservador, un profesor obsesionado con los ovinos y un maniaco depresivo disfrazado de chivo (el Hombre Carnero que aparecerá en Baila, baila, baila), esta novela se convierte en una de las más singulares obras maestras del más célebre autor japonés de la actualidad.

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  An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences.

El azar, las coincidencias y la casualidad han regido la vida y la escritura de Paul Auster. El cuaderno rojo engloba cuatro historias en las que el autor cuenta la vinculación entre su obra y su vida, cómo en el origen de la creación está su propia experiencia, una inspiración que le brinda el destino. El cuaderno rojo explora los sucesos reales trágicos y cómicos que, hilvanados por el azar, revelan lo impredecible de la naturaleza humana. Ésta es la compilación definitiva del puro idioma Auster.

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Chance, coincidences, and randomness have governed the life and writing of Paul Auster. The Red Notebook encompasses four stories in which the author recounts the connection between his work and his life, how his own experience is at the origin of creation, an inspiration provided by destiny. The Red Notebook explores real tragic and comic events that, woven together by chance, reveal the unpredictability of human nature. This is the definitive compilation of pure Auster language.

La paz de México es ficticia, aparente, una alfombra bajo la cual se esconde la basura del narco y la corrupción, y donde el asesinato de periodistas es sólo una consecuencia lógica, un efecto secundario de la denuncia contra un sistema podrido desde la raíz.

Y a pesar del riesgo, la reportera Daniela Real decide enfrentar, sola, a ese sistema. Sus investigaciones la han convertido en una periodista incómoda y, por lo tanto, en el siguiente blanco de esa maquinaria indolente ante la injusticia, pero eficiente al encubrir a los suyos. Su único aliado es Fausto Letona, un expolicía desahuciado que se convierte en sombra de su sombra para intentar protegerla del monstruo que la acecha.

«Por horas, por minutos, va creciendo esta novela que empieza de madrugada y termina en la noche del mismo día. Veinte horas como un cable de alta tensión entre el autor y sus personajes. El ritmo de la prosa de Palou es el de un thriller y la indignación es el motor de una trama que jamás desmaya. Una novela necesaria en este México que se cae a pedazos.» Elena Poniatowska

The peace in Mexico is fictitious, apparent, a rug under which the trash of narco and corruption is hidden, and where the murder of journalists is only a logical consequence, a side effect of denouncing a system rotten to the core.

And despite the risk, reporter Daniela Real decides to face this system alone. Her investigations have made her an uncomfortable journalist and, therefore, the next target of that machinery indifferent to injustice but efficient at covering up for its own. Her only ally is Fausto Letona, a terminally ill ex-cop who becomes her shadow’s shadow to try to protect her from the monster that stalks her.

“Hour by hour, minute by minute, this novel grows, starting at dawn and ending at night on the same day. Twenty hours like a high-tension wire between the author and his characters. The rhythm of Palou’s prose is that of a thriller, and indignation is the engine of a plot that never falters. A necessary novel in this Mexico that is falling apart.” Elena Poniatowska

Ciento sesenta años después de su publicación, Apuntes del subsuelo sigue revelándose como una obra tan incómoda como sugestiva, sigue planteando interrogantes de gran vigencia para nuestra vida en sociedad y sigue arrastrándonos con su estilo vigoroso y rompedor. Un estilo que desarticula con ironía los pilares del pensamiento ilustrado europeo que habían penetrado en la intelectualidad rusa ya desde el siglo XVIII.

Apuntes del subsuelo puede ayudarnos a entender y a contextualizar muchos de los argumentos que subyacen en la construcción sociocultural de la Rusia contemporánea y de su relación con la Europa occidental.

Traducción de Lydia Kúper y prólogo de Miquel Cabal Guarro.

One hundred and sixty years after its publication, Notes from Underground continues to reveal itself as a work as uncomfortable as it is suggestive, continuing to pose questions of great relevance to our life in society and continuing to draw us in with its vigorous and groundbreaking style. A style that ironically disarticulates the pillars of European Enlightenment thought that had penetrated Russian intellectuality since the 18th century.

Notes from Underground can help us understand and contextualize many of the arguments underlying the sociocultural construction of contemporary Russia and its relationship with Western Europe.

Translated by Lydia Kúper and with a foreword by Miquel Cabal Guarro.

A groundbreaking new translation of the only historical novel by noted Polish writer Bolesław Prus.

“ . . . unique in world literature of the nineteenth century”--Czesław Miłosz

Imbued with poetry, leavened with humor, and graced with moments of transcendent beauty, Pharaoh offers a compelling picture of life at every level of ancient Egyptian society.  As the story unfolds, Egypt is experiencing internal stresses and external threats that will culminate in the fall of its Twentieth Dynasty and New Kingdom. The young Pharaoh Ramses learns that challenging power leaves him vulnerable to seduction, defamation, intimidation and even assassination. The ultimate lesson learned by Ramses is the power of knowledge.

Prus is a distinctive voice in world literature and was Joseph Conrad’s favorite Polish writer. This new edition of Christopher Kasparek’s translation of Pharaoh vividly brings this extraordinary novel to life. It includes a detailed foreword and annotations, based on extensive research and textual refinements, that will enhance the reader’s appreciation not only for ancient Egypt, but also for Prus’ composition process.

Pharaoh has been translated into twenty-three languages and was adapted as a 1966 Polish feature film.  

A provocative collection of interconnected tales, bridging the worlds of mysticism and heresy, faith and desire—from the award-winning author of Everything is God and The Heresy of Jacob Frank.

The Secret That Is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales invites you into a hidden world of faith, desire, transgression, and revelation. The inhabitants of its interlocking stories are pious and rebellious, mystical and queer, from a Hasidic woman tormented by her husband’s long beard to a closeted gay man repenting of his sins in the mikva. The first book of fiction by Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, The Secret That Is Not a Secret is a remarkable work of mystical fiction.

Los buenos novelistas siempre cuentan en sus historias con un personaje que acaba siendo tan importante como el protagonista: la ciudad donde trascurren los hechos. Por eso no hay mejor guía para conocer La Habana que Leonardo Padura, el autor que mejor le ha tomado el pulso, a lo largo de diferentes épocas, en cada una de sus novelas. Este libro ofrece un paseo por los barrios de La Habana en forma de historia autobiográfica del propio novelista, que va desde Mantilla hasta los diferentes barrios de la ciudad. Y en cada uno de ellos, su historia se complementa con los fragmentos de las novelas donde aparecen. A la vez, en una segunda parte, se reúnen varios reportajes sobre los aspectos más sorprendentes y desconocido de su historia. No es difícil ver en muchos de ellos el embrión de los casos de Mario Conde, o el pasado evocado en tantas novelas de Padura, que nos hace vivir la ciudad, y viajar en el tiempo.

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Good novelists always include a character that becomes as important as the protagonist: the city where the events take place. That’s why there’s no better guide to Havana than Leonardo Padura, the author who has captured its essence across different eras in each of his novels. This book offers a tour through the neighborhoods of Havana in the form of an autobiographical story by the novelist himself, ranging from Mantilla to the various neighborhoods of the city. In each of them, his story is complemented by excerpts from the novels where they appear. Additionally, in a second part, several reports on the most surprising and unknown aspects of its history are gathered. It’s not hard to see in many of them the seeds of Mario Conde’s cases, or the past evoked in so many of Padura’s novels, which make us experience the city and travel through time.

¿Cuál es la verdadera intención de Ugo Conti cuando decide tomar un vuelo hacia México? Napolitano, hijo de una prostituta, Ugo logra, con total habilidad, entrar a la aristocracia italiana y, por extrañas circunstancias, adopta el nombre y título del príncipe Conti, quien por un defecto de nacimiento permanece internado en un lugar especial.

What is Ugo Conti’s true intention when he decides to take a flight to Mexico? A Neapolitan, son of a prostitute, Ugo skillfully manages to enter the Italian aristocracy and, under strange circumstances, adopts the name and title of Prince Conti, who, due to a birth defect, remains confined in a special place.

Una historia inolvidable sobre el poder redentor de la música.

La esperada novela del creador de «This is Opera» y «This is Art»

6.ª edición

El protagonista de esta novela encuentra el piano de sonido aterciopelado que siempre ha querido en una pequeña tienda de un barrio barcelonés. Janusz Borowski, un hombre misterioso nacido en un bosque al este de Polonia, le advierte de que se trata de un instrumento muy especial, que deberá cuidar. El piano de cola, con el número de serie 31887, es un Grotrian-Steinweg construido en 1915 en la ciudad alemana de Brunsvic. El inesperado descubrimiento de un secreto oculto en su interior llevará al protagonista a iniciar un largo viaje en un relato que recorre la Europa del siglo xx.

Historia de un piano es una novela cautivadora sobre la vida de un instrumento que se convierte en metáfora del poder redentor del amor, de la amistad, de la belleza, y por supuesto, de la música.

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An unforgettable story about the redemptive power of music.

The long-awaited novel from the creator of «This is Opera» and «This is Art»

6th edition

The protagonist of this novel finds the velvety-sounding piano he has always wanted in a small shop in a Barcelona neighborhood. Janusz Borowski, a mysterious man born in a forest in eastern Poland, warns him that it is a very special instrument that must be taken care of. The grand piano, with serial number 31887, is a Grotrian-Steinweg built in 1915 in the German city of Brunswick. The unexpected discovery of a hidden secret inside it will lead the protagonist to embark on a long journey through 20th-century Europe.

Historia de un piano is a captivating novel about the life of an instrument that becomes a metaphor for the redemptive power of love, friendship, beauty, and of course, music.

"When BooBoo stabs Morris Boyle I am reading a news magazine that someone has smuggled into the wing."
Thus, the protagonist of this novella introduces us to prison, one of the several worlds he inhabits, worlds most of us would rather ignore but which inexorably, through what we see and hear and read and live on uncountable American streets, has become the one world we can no longer avoid. It seduces us with the voice of drugs and violence. Of the disenfranchised. Of those both at once outside and standing within the center of what no longer holds. It informs us of who we are today.

Un accidente real en el País Vasco de los años ochenta, la vida devastada de una familia. Una historia emocionante, adictiva y conmovedora, como solo Aramburu sabe contar.

Nicasio, ya jubilado, acostumbra a subir los jueves al cementerio de Ortuella a visitar la tumba de su nieto. Es uno de los muchos niños fallecidos tras una explosión de gas en un colegio de aquella localidad, un accidente que sacudió al País Vasco y a toda España en 1980. Por las andanzas del abuelo, una figura que se agranda hasta hacerse inolvidable, por el testimonio de la madre muchos años después, por la crónica objetiva de lo que le ocurrió a la familia, descubriremos cómo aquella tragedia lacerante y devastadora les alteró, cómo sacó a relucir aspectos inesperados, cómo trastocó sus vidas. Con la maestría habitual de Aramburu, el lector se verá inmerso en una historia de emociones inesperadas, una exploración psicológica y literaria con afilado bisturí que nos mantiene pegados al devenir de los destinos de los protagonistas. Una novela que alberga una densidad emocional tan alta que exige una lectura atenta, hasta la última línea, para entender, comprender, emocionarnos con el destino de sus protagonistas.

Nueva entrega del extraordinario friso de «Gentes Vascas», El niño es una historia desgarradora, inolvidable, un prodigio literario del mejor Aramburu. Por el tratamiento humanísimo de los protagonistas, y por los recursos literarios empleados, El niño vuelve a ser una novela memorable, llamada a convertirse en acontecimiento literario.

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A real accident in the Basque Country in the 1980s, the devastated life of a family. An exciting, addictive, and moving story, as only Aramburu can tell.

Nicasio, now retired, usually goes up to the Ortuella cemetery on Thursdays to visit his grandson’s grave. He is one of the many children who died after a gas explosion in a school in that town, an accident that shook the Basque Country and all of Spain in 1980. Through the adventures of the grandfather, a figure that grows until it becomes unforgettable, through the testimony of the mother many years later, through the objective chronicle of what happened to the family, we will discover how that lacerating and devastating tragedy altered them, how it brought out unexpected aspects, how it disrupted their lives. With Aramburu’s usual mastery, the reader will be immersed in a story of unexpected emotions, a psychological and literary exploration with a sharp scalpel that keeps us glued to the unfolding destinies of the protagonists. A novel that harbors such a high emotional density that it demands attentive reading, to the last line, to understand, comprehend, and be moved by the fate of its protagonists.

The new installment of the extraordinary fresco of “Gentes Vascas,” El niño is a heartbreaking, unforgettable story, a literary marvel of the best Aramburu. Due to the deeply human treatment of the protagonists and the literary resources employed, El niño is once again a memorable novel, destined to become a literary event.

Dos mujeres, dos épocas. Una novela que explora la identidad femenina a través del tiempo y la memoria.

Aunque soñaba con ser actriz, Sabrina terminó por estudiar Artes. Impulsada por Gabriel —su director de tesis y su amante—, decide investigar las huellas del teatro judío en la Argentina. Para eso recurre a Jaim, un viejo profesor que le sugiere revisar los restos de los archivos de la AMIA, la mutual que sufrió un atentado terrorista en 1994. “Fue en ese momento que decidí que yo me iba a dedicar a ese pasado. No es que me llamara la atención ese mundo, no más que cualquier mundo: lo que me convocaba era que hubiera desaparecido”.

La investigación resulta trabada y difícil porque la mayoría de los documentos volaron con la bomba. Hasta que un coleccionista le ofrece una caja y allí descubre el diario de Jana, una actriz del teatro ídish en la Buenos Aires de 1960. Su figura es una suerte de espejo mágico para Sabrina. Seguir sus huellas se vuelve una obsesión y todo lo demás —su familia, su carrera académica, su relación con Gabriel— pasa a segundo plano.

En La última actriz, Tamara Tenenbaum demuestra una inteligencia narrativa excepcional. Con dos personajes femeninos perturbadores y una trama tan elusiva como hipnótica, esta novela trata acerca de ser mujer, del deseo y la realización, del mito del díbuk y la posesión del cuerpo, de la tradición y la modernidad, de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y de la búsqueda de una clave existencial entre un montón de papeles quemados.

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The investigation proves to be difficult and obstructed because most of the documents were destroyed in the explosion. Until a collector offers her a box, and there she discovers the diary of Jana, an actress in the Yiddish theater in Buenos Aires in the 1960s. Her figure becomes a sort of magical mirror for Sabrina. Following her traces becomes an obsession, and everything else—her family, her academic career, her relationship with Gabriel—takes a back seat. In La última actriz, Tamara Tenenbaum demonstrates exceptional narrative intelligence. With two disturbing female characters and a plot as elusive as it is hypnotic, this novel is about being a woman, desire and fulfillment, the myth of the dybbuk and body possession, tradition and modernity, the city of Buenos Aires, and the search for an existential key among a pile of burnt papers.

El gran regreso de Mario Mendoza a la ficción después de cinco años. 

Adán Santana, un novelista con el cuerpo desbaratado y maltrecho por varios accidentes sucesivos, con un precario estado mental, que menguó sus fuerzas y su espíritu, sobrevivió como pudo al encierro de la pandemia y ahora es un náufrago inmóvil. La humanidad no cambió un ápice tras la prueba extrema que experimentó y él, en medio de ese caos, no sabe cómo retomar el rumbo, si es que aún existe alguno, después de todo lo que ha pasado.

De manera misteriosa comienzan a llegarle señales de que debe volver al corazón oscuro de la ciudad que ha alimentado sus obras. La intempestiva aparición de un viejo amigo, un bohemio músico de jazz, lo pone en marcha al recomendarlo con una joven artista que recordó en terapia, por medio de la hipnosis, su propósito al conectarse con sus vidas pasadas.

Al abismarse de nuevo, el escritor descubre que la realidad pierde su forma y que lo que cree sólido se desvanece. Sumergido en el Kairós, el tiempo sagrado, su cordura y templanza serán puestas a prueba por militares que experimentaron el horror, creyentes que esperan con fervor al nuevo Avatar, guerreros espirituales forjados tras las rejas de la cárcel, sádicos torturadores profesionales, víctimas escaldadas por un dolor que las consume y alimenta un odio atroz.

Comprenderá que “sin muerte no hay renacimiento”, que “si no hay un final no podremos tener un nuevo comienzo” y que al dejar “esa pose de escritor pulcro y cuidadoso, que calcula cada paso que da como si temiera hundirse en el abismo. Cuando quizás de lo que se trataba era, justamente, de dejarse caer en el vacío y de disfrutar el viaje por el precipicio”.

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The great return of Mario Mendoza to fiction after five years.

Adán Santana, a novelist with a body battered and broken by several successive accidents, with a precarious mental state that has sapped his strength and spirit, survived the pandemic lockdown as best he could and is now an immobile castaway. Humanity did not change one bit after the extreme test it experienced, and he, in the midst of this chaos, does not know how to get back on track, if there is even one left, after all that has happened.

Mysterious signs begin to appear, indicating that he must return to the dark heart of the city that has fueled his works. The sudden appearance of an old friend, a bohemian jazz musician, sets him in motion by recommending him to a young artist who, through hypnosis in therapy, remembered her purpose by connecting with her past lives.

As he plunges back in, the writer discovers that reality loses its shape and what he believes to be solid vanishes. Immersed in Kairós, the sacred time, his sanity and composure will be tested by soldiers who have experienced horror, believers fervently awaiting the new Avatar, spiritual warriors forged behind prison bars, sadistic professional torturers, and victims scalded by a pain that consumes them and fuels an atrocious hatred.

He will understand that “without death there is no rebirth,” that “if there is no end, we cannot have a new beginning,” and that by abandoning “that pose of a neat and careful writer, who calculates every step as if fearing to sink into the abyss. When perhaps what it was all about was precisely letting oneself fall into the void and enjoying the journey down the precipice.”

A landmark work of lesbian literature with a reflective introduction written by the author twenty years later

Lover was first published in 1972 to tremendous critical acclaim. Emerging out of the women's and gay liberation movement alongside the early work of writers such as Rita Mae Brown and Jill Johnston, the novel features fictional and historical characters who run the gamut from saint to white trash, and who are by turn vulnerable and strong. One of the finest examples of early post-Stonewall lesbian fiction, Lover paints a fascinating mural of one of the most significant times in LGBTQ history.

In the introduction to this updated edition edition, Bertha Harris offers a window into the cultural and personal milieu in which she wrote. Revealing the real-life personalities behind some of the novel's characters, Harris reframes the story within its unique moment in time, and gives readers new insights into the heady post-Stonewall days. This audacious and outrageous novel is a gem of early lesbian writing, ready to be rediscovered by a new generation.

"En este país hay muchos hijos de la chingada y los peores son los seis generales que dieron el golpe contra Madero"

La tensión estaba en el aire. La ciudad de México era un hervidero reaccionario y porfirista donde los generales que juraban fidelidad al presidente Madero conspiraban por las noches para dar un golpe de Estado.

¿Pero qué ocurrió exactamente durante aquellos días de febrero de 1913?

Paco Ignacio Taibo II hace una reconstrucción minuciosa de la confabulación: su gestación en octubre de 1912 en La Habana, un corrupto embajador norteamericano presionando para que el levantamiento se lleve a cabo, las calles del centro tomadas por el ejército la traición se respiraba por toda la ciudad. Pero el presidente no quería verlo. Gustavo, su hermano, se lo decía: "Nos van a matar a todos".

 Y así sería.

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"In this country, there are many sons of bitches, and the worst are the six generals who staged the coup against Madero."

Tension was in the air. Mexico City was a hotbed of reactionary and Porfirian sentiment where generals who swore loyalty to President Madero conspired at night to stage a coup d'état.

But what exactly happened during those days in February 1913?

Paco Ignacio Taibo II meticulously reconstructs the conspiracy: its inception in October 1912 in Havana, a corrupt American ambassador pressuring for the uprising to take place, the downtown streets taken over by the army, and betrayal was felt throughout the city. But the president did not want to see it. Gustavo, his brother, told him: "They are going to kill us all."

And so it would be.

With his customary verve and insight, Terry Roberts' latest novel is an evocative portrait of humankind's capacity for courage, love, and hope as well as folly, and another love ballad to his region of North Carolina. 

Clinton Salter is the sheriff who never wanted to be sheriff. A World War II veteran and widower, he is elected due to the political machinations of his brother. His new territory is the fabled Madison County, North Carolina—a place of the steepest mountain ridges and most isolated coves and valleys. A place where the seasons matter more than the calendar and the past is as real as the present.

When he first takes office, he hopes only to deal with the drunk and disorderly and stolen tractors, but matters quickly accelerate into arson, grave robbing, and murder, and he begins to suspect his own brother’s motives. He finds solace in the friendship of Catherine Metcalf, a lonely high school principal whose husband has been in a coma and dying for years. Their only refuge is Clinton’s farm high in the mountains, where they can retreat from the world. As they seek to create a new life for themselves and the county, political violence and family cruelty threaten to shatter their visions.

It’s 2012, and post-revolution Egypt is sparking with political energy—but Hannah and Zain are numb.

The flight from New York to Cairo is long—longer still for two siblings on a journey to bury their mother. When they discover their father’s unforgivable betrayal, what’s left of their family crumbles.

Hannah gives up her spot at Columbia Law to remain in Egypt, where she navigates romantic entanglements and a new culture. Back in America, Zain’s self-destructive behavior begins to catch up with him, leaving him to wonder whether he’s any different from his father.

When the siblings reunite in Cairo months later, Zain is nearing rock bottom, and Hannah finds herself in the middle of the Arab Spring uprising. Together they confront shared secrets and reconcile their conservative upbringing with their new beliefs as adults. Will they heal together, or has the loss of their only bridge—their mother—set them permanently adrift?

A tender reflection on the effects of grief and loss, this deeply felt novel explores how siblings come together to mend a fractured family and, in the process, find themselves.

CADA MITO, CADA HISTORIA, TIENE AL MENOS DOS VERSIONES… DEPENDIENDO DE QUIÉN CUENTA LA HISTORIA Y DE QUIÉN LA ESCUCHA.

Una original y arrolladora novela sobre dos hermanas que escapan de un genocidio, y el viaje que las lleva de Hollywood a París, y hasta el Cannery Row de California, perseguidas por los fantasmas de sus amigos asesinados, que no han acabado de contar sus historias.

El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, la segunda hija de Socorrito, una campesina oriunda de los cafetales de Izalco, vive en las faldas del volcán hasta que recibe un mensaje de la capital, donde es reclamada por el Gran Pendejo, el dictador que gobierna las mareas, les dice a los volcanes cuándo hacer erupción y le da forma a la luna. Ahí conoce a Consuelo, su hermana que fue raptada antes de que ella naciera. Ambas pasan años bajo la cruel sombra del sátrapa convertidas en sus oráculos. Pero cuando este ordena el genocidio de su comunidad, las hermanas no soportan el horror y escapan por separado, creyendo cada una que la otra ha muerto. Su huida las llevará por el mundo, a reinventarse con la esperanza de, quizá, reencontrarse algún día…

Sorprendente, rebosante de imaginación y de vida, Las hijas del volcán traza una nueva historia y mitología de El Salvador a través de voces que han quedado rezagadas por generaciones.

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A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide, each haunted by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories.

El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women, is summoned to the capital, where she is claimed as an oracle for a rising dictator. There she meets Consuelo, the sister she has never known, who was stolen from their home before Graciela was born. The two spend years under the cruel El Gran Pendejo’s regime, unwillingly helping his reign of terror, until genocide strikes the community from which they hail. Each believing the other to be dead, they escape, fleeing across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate ultimately brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways

Vividly imaginative, Las hijas del volcán charts a new history and mythology of El Salvador, fiercely bringing forth voices that have been calling out for generations.

Colleen Hoover, un fenómeno imparable.

Una novela sobre el poder del amor y la verdad por la autora bestseller #1 del New York Times.

«No todos los errores deben tener consecuencias. A veces lo único que necesitan es perdón».

Los Voss no son una familia normal: para empezar, su casa es una iglesia reutilizada. La madre, que años atrás tuvo cáncer, vive en el sótano; el padre está casado con la antigua enfermera de la madre; el hijo más pequeño no tiene permitido hacer ni comer nada divertido; los hermanos mayores parecieran irritantemente perfectos… Y luego está Merit.

Merit Voss colecciona trofeos que no ha ganado y secretos que su familia la obliga a guardar. Mientras navega por la tienda de antigüedades local en busca de su próxima adquisición, conoce a Sagan. La química es inmediata, pero pronto se da cuenta de que él está completamente fuera de su alcance. Entonces, Merit se encierra en sí misma, observando a su familia desde la distancia, cuando descubre un secreto que ningún trofeo en el mundo puede arreglar.

Conmovedora, maravillosa y extraordinaria, Corazón roto nos sumerge en la vida de una adolescente en busca de su camino, y explora de una forma preciosa el poder del amor y las consecuencias de decir la verdad.

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Poignant and powerful, Corazón roto explores the layers of lies that tie a family together and the power of love and truth.

The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there’s Merit.

Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm, and spark renewed life into her—until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable. Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines, when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix.

One of China’s first works of science fiction, New Story of the Stone is a belated twentieth-century sequel to the beloved eighteenth-century masterpiece Story of the Stone (more famously known as Dream of the Red Chamber). The story follows protagonist Jia Baoyu, borrowed from the original Story, as he is dramatically hurled forward over a hundred years from his own time into a bewildering future: first the decadent semicolonized late Qing China of the author’s own time and later an astonishing high-tech Confucian utopia called the Realm of Civilization.

Baoyu is equally disoriented in both places: in China proper, he is distressed by the growth of foreign influence and weakening of the traditional moral code in favor of capitalist consumerism and selfish gain; in the Realm of Civilization, he is amazed by everything he encounters—from flying cars and ingenious medical technologies to the perfectly moral populace. Seen through Baoyu’s eyes, the Realm is everything that late Qing China has failed to be and offers a hopeful vision of what it might yet become.

This quick-paced romp deftly highlights some of the major preoccupations of the tumultuous final decade of China’s last dynasty while raising important existential questions about China’s future. Enlivened by author Wu Jianren’s vivid imagination and wry sense of humor, this playful, satirical adventure is essential reading for lovers of science fiction and Chinese literature in translation.

¡Descubre la magia de María Martínez! Más de 500.000 lectoras. 

¿Y si no existen las casualidades y todo pasa por algo?

Céline ha estado enferma desde pequeña, y eso ha condicionado su presente y desdibujado su futuro. Hasta que la vida le da una segunda oportunidad y su pequeño mundo se llena de esperanza. Ante ella se abre un futuro repleto de posibles, pero también de decepciones y desengaños que la obligarán a salir de la burbuja en la que siempre ha vivido.

Julien siente que ha perdido el control de su vida y que su mundo se desmorona. Ya no soporta las luces, el ruido ni las prisas de una ciudad como París. Y se ahoga dentro de una pregunta para la que no puede encontrar respuesta.

Un tropiezo fortuito hará que las vidas de Céline y Julien se unan. O no. Porque hay casualidades que conectan a las personas, pero hay otras que las separan irremediablemente.

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What if coincidences do not exist?

 Céline has been sick ever since she was a baby, which has affected her present, and almost erased her future. That is, until life gives her a second chance and her small world fills with hope. Her future seems to shine with possibility, but lurking behind these newly open doors, lies and deceits will force her out of the bubble she was raised in.

 Julien feels as though he has lost control of his life, and that his world is slowly falling apart. He cannot put up with the lights, noise, and impatient lifestyle of a city like Paris any longer. He is drowning in self-doubt, and he cannot seem to find any of the answers he seeks.

 Serendipity will bring together Céline and Julien. Or not. Some coincidences bring people together, but others can force them apart.

One of China’s first works of science fiction, New Story of the Stone is a belated twentieth-century sequel to the beloved eighteenth-century masterpiece Story of the Stone (more famously known as Dream of the Red Chamber). The story follows protagonist Jia Baoyu, borrowed from the original Story, as he is dramatically hurled forward over a hundred years from his own time into a bewildering future: first the decadent semicolonized late Qing China of the author’s own time and later an astonishing high-tech Confucian utopia called the Realm of Civilization.

Baoyu is equally disoriented in both places: in China proper, he is distressed by the growth of foreign influence and weakening of the traditional moral code in favor of capitalist consumerism and selfish gain; in the Realm of Civilization, he is amazed by everything he encounters—from flying cars and ingenious medical technologies to the perfectly moral populace. Seen through Baoyu’s eyes, the Realm is everything that late Qing China has failed to be and offers a hopeful vision of what it might yet become.

This quick-paced romp deftly highlights some of the major preoccupations of the tumultuous final decade of China’s last dynasty while raising important existential questions about China’s future. Enlivened by author Wu Jianren’s vivid imagination and wry sense of humor, this playful, satirical adventure is essential reading for lovers of science fiction and Chinese literature in translation.

Por la autora de Los amantes de Praga, Alyson Richman

Principios del siglo XX. El mundo está dominado por hombres y el ámbito artístico en Estocolmo no es una excepción. Hilma af Klint, cansada de no encontrar un espacio para desarrollarse, convoca cada viernes por la noche a un enigmático grupo de artistas —Anna, Cornelia, Sigrid y Mathilda— para crear su propia red de apoyo emocional y artístico. Las Cinco, como se hacen llamar, se internan en un territorio desconocido cuando Hilma y Anna incursionan en el ocultismo, esperando que a través de sesiones espiritistas puedan canalizar espíritus que las ayuden a expandir su potencial como pintoras.

Más de un siglo después en Nueva York, el curador del Museo Guggenheim, Eben Elliot, exhibe la obra de Hilma af Klint y con ello revela secretos sobre Las Cinco y el oscuro y cuestionable financiamiento del arte moderno. Una apasionante novela que explora el destino, la pasión y los hilos que conectaron a cinco mujeres mientras desafiaban las tradiciones artísticas y sociales de su época.

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From the author of The Lost Wife, Alyson Richman

At the beginning of the 20th century, the world is dominated by men, and the artistic scene in Stockholm is no exception. Hilma af Klint, tired of not finding a space to develop, gathers an enigmatic group of artists — Anna, Cornelia, Sigrid, and Mathilda — every Friday night to create their own network of emotional and artistic support. The Five, as they call themselves, venture into unknown territory when Hilma and Anna delve into the occult, hoping that through spiritualist sessions they can channel spirits to help them expand their potential as painters.

More than a century later in New York, Guggenheim Museum curator Eben Elliot exhibits Hilma af Klint's work, revealing secrets about The Five and the dark and questionable funding of modern art. This captivating novel explores destiny, passion, and the threads that connected five women as they challenged the artistic and social traditions of their time.

Un legado invaluable que nos invita a seguir leyendo, escribiendo y soñando

Un papiro de tiempos de Alejandro Magno que une a un agitador serbio con un terrorista de la antigua Grecia, un semidiós que comparte sus aflicciones con las de un marido pusilánime, una cuadrilla de veteranos inválidos que se reivindican a punta de patas de palo o un gato que pasa de víctima a victimario… En el cuento cabe todo. Las posibilidades son tantas como los atributos de la vida misma, que no pierde ocasión para mostrar sus dotes ficcionales.

Desde los primeros textos influidos por Borges hasta las proezas vanguardistas y los relatos de ritmo policiaco o tono terrorífico, en La sangre de Medusa —recopilación de cuentos escritos entre 1956 y 1984 (dispersos hasta su edición corregida y definitiva publicada en 1990)— la estela narrativa de José Emilio Pacheco brilla con fulgor universal.

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An invaluable legacy that invites us to keep reading, writing, and dreaming.

A papyrus from the time of Alexander the Great that connects a Serbian agitator with an ancient Greek terrorist, a demigod who shares his afflictions with those of a pusillanimous husband, a squad of disabled veterans who redeem themselves with their wooden legs, or a cat that goes from victim to perpetrator… In a short story, anything fits. The possibilities are as numerous as the attributes of life itself, which never misses an opportunity to showcase its fictional talents.

From the early texts influenced by Borges to the avant-garde feats and the stories with a crime rhythm or a terrifying tone, in La sangre de Medusa (The Blood of Medusa) —a collection of stories written between 1956 and 1984 (scattered until their corrected and definitive edition published in 1990)— the narrative trail of José Emilio Pacheco shines with universal brilliance.

Rechazada por su madre. Golpeada por su padre. Separada de su hermana. Medea nunca ha encajado porque posee un poder único y peligroso: la brujería.

Medea anhela una existencia diferente. Desde pequeña fue atormentada por su familia porque nació con un poder único y, en apariencia, peligroso: la hechicería. Cuando el apuesto Jasón llega al reino del padre de Medea para reclamar el Vellocino de Oro, ella vislumbra una oportunidad única para escapar: a cambio de que Jasón la ayude a huir, ella lo protegerá con su magia para que supere las pruebas que lo separan del famoso vellocino.

Esta aventura la pondrá a prueba en todos los sentidos, luchará contra monstruos, destronará reyes y se enamorará de un hombre que nunca podría esperar merecerla… y cuando al final se enfrente a la traición, se verá impulsada a cometer un acto de desesperación tan brutal que destrozará la vida de todos a su alrededor.

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Rejected by her mother. Beaten by her father. Separated from her sister. Medea has never fit in because she possesses a unique and dangerous power: witchcraft.

Medea longs for a different existence. From a young age, she was tormented by her family because she was born with a unique and seemingly dangerous power: sorcery. When the handsome Jason arrives in her father's kingdom to claim the Golden Fleece, she sees a unique opportunity to escape: in exchange for Jason helping her flee, she will protect him with her magic so he can overcome the trials that stand between him and the famous fleece.

This adventure will test her in every way. She will fight monsters, dethrone kings, and fall in love with a man who could never hope to deserve her... and when she finally faces betrayal, she will be driven to commit an act of desperation so brutal it will shatter the lives of everyone around her.

Un legado invaluable que nos invita a seguir leyendo, escribiendo y soñando.

Una niña a quien un castigo del cielo convierte en tortuga y termina siendo la triste atracción de una feria, un parque de diversiones con elefantes que dan a luz a saltimbanquis, una cautiva emparedada en un monasterio, un sádico e infame revolucionario a quien la Historia relega al olvido… Las fronteras entre lo aparente y lo veraz se desdibujan en los catorce relatos de este libro que son, a su vez, fisuras hacia realidades donde imperan lo singular y lo inesperado.

En El viento distante —antología de cuentos que apareció en 1963, pero que el autor siguió trabajando durante décadas—, José Emilio Pacheco se adentra al delirio de la existencia y su inevitable colisión con la realidad que nos circunda.

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An invaluable legacy that invites us to keep reading, writing, and dreaming.

A girl turned into a turtle by a heavenly punishment, becoming the sad attraction of a fair; an amusement park with elephants giving birth to acrobats; a captive walled up in a monastery; a sadistic and infamous revolutionary whom history consigns to oblivion... The boundaries between the apparent and the true blur in the fourteen stories of this book, which are, in turn, fissures into realities where the singular and the unexpected reign.

In El viento distante—an anthology of stories that first appeared in 1963 but which the author continued to work on for decades—José Emilio Pacheco delves into the delirium of existence and its inevitable collision with the reality that surrounds us.

CUANDO MORIR NO IMPORTA, TODO ESTÁ PERMITIDO. EL BRUTAL DESENLACE DE LA SERIE INSPECTORA ELENA BLANCO

Elena Blanco, inspectora de la Brigada de Análisis de Casos (BAC) se enfrenta a su peor enemigo, una poderosa organización integrada por personalidades del mundo de la empresa, la política, la judicatura y la policía. El Clan. Enfrentarse a él es acabar muerto. Aun así, la BAC afronta el desafío. Pero cuando Elena recibe unas imágenes en las que Zárate aparece tendido sobre un charco de sangre, comete un error imperdonable.

Con la inspectora en busca y captura, acusada del asesinato de un policía, y Zárate desaparecido, Mariajo, Reyes, Orduño y Buendía hacen la guerra por su cuenta. La llegada de una nueva inspectora en sustitución de Elena empeora la situación: parece enviada por el Clan con la misión de acabar con la BAC y llevar a Blanco a la cárcel.
Sin embargo, el hallazgo de unos cadáveres que han sido eviscerados lleva la investigación de Elena a cruzar todos los límites para salvar a su Brigada y encontrar a Zárate, sin saber si está vivo o muerto. Es el principio del fin de la BAC. Ninguno de sus miembros se había enfrentado a un asesino tan despiadado como el Clan.

Magnífica, brutal y enormemente adictiva, Carmen Mola se supera en el esperado desenlace de la serie Inspectora Elena Blanco.

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WHEN DYING DOESN'T MATTER, EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. THE BRUTAL CONCLUSION TO THE INSPECTOR ELENA BLANCO SERIES

Elena Blanco, inspector of the Case Analysis Brigade (BAC), faces her worst enemy, a powerful organization made up of personalities from the business world, politics, the judiciary, and the police. The Clan. Facing them means ending up dead. Even so, the BAC takes on the challenge. But when Elena receives images showing Zárate lying in a pool of blood, she makes an unforgivable mistake.

With the inspector on the run, accused of murdering a police officer, and Zárate missing, Mariajo, Reyes, Orduño, and Buendía wage their own war. The arrival of a new inspector to replace Elena worsens the situation: she seems sent by the Clan with the mission to dismantle the BAC and imprison Blanco. However, the discovery of eviscerated corpses leads Elena's investigation to cross all limits to save her Brigade and find Zárate, not knowing if he is alive or dead. It is the beginning of the end for the BAC. None of its members had faced a killer as ruthless as the Clan.

Magnificent, brutal, and enormously addictive, Carmen Mola surpasses herself in the highly anticipated conclusion to the Inspector Elena Blanco series.

La emocionante historia de una madre y una hija marcadas por el sueño revolucionario.

«El relato de una metamorfosis, de la deconstrucción y construcción de una persona, de una identidad, pero también de la reconstrucción de una historia familiar que busca los orígenes de la autora, las raíces que se adentran en el tiempo y en la tierra», Inés Macpherson, Cultura/s, La Vanguardia.

«Una poeta que escribe prosa. Una poeta que convirtió sus versos en arma de fuego política […]. Belli es uno de esos rugidos latinoamericanos que despiertan cada poco. Con compromiso y luz», Jorge Benítez, El Mundo.

«Pocos escritores han hablado con tanta franqueza sobre el amor, el sexo, la maternidad y la crianza de los hijos, y la íntima conexión de estos temas con el ámbito político más amplio de la guerra, la revolución y la búsqueda del poder», Anacristina Rossi.

«Belli habla en primera persona desde la piel de un hombre para tratar de entender el origen de su padre», Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, El País Semanal.

«Una de las escritoras más ingeniosas de Centroamérica […]. Un talento original y maravillosamente libre», Harold Pinter.

«Una de las grandes escritoras de la literatura en español», Salman Rushdie.

Valeria hizo grandes sacrificios como protagonista activa de los cambios políticos de su país, Nicaragua. Tras su muerte en Madrid, en plena soledad, le corresponde a su hija Penélope viajar a España y ocuparse de sus bienes materiales. Rodeada de las pertenencias de una madre que siempre sintió ausente, Penélope resolverá incógnitas inesperadas y conocerá la apasionante vida de una mujer marcada por triunfos y derrotas, la clandestinidad y las vicisitudes del amor.

Un silencio lleno de murmullos es una emocionante novela sobre la zozobra de los secretos familiares y sobre los costes personales del compromiso político para una madre y su hija.

Exiliada en Madrid desde 2022, Belli ha escrito esta novela desde su propia experiencia como madre y como militante que ha vivido el auge y la caída del sueño revolucionario. «Los hijos de quienes nos involucramos en la revolución sufrían una suerte de abandono. El de los padres se aceptaba. Otra cosa pasaba con las madres. Esa ausencia materna cargaba a ambas partes con un nivel de reproche y culpabilidad muy doloroso. He pensado en mis hijas escribiendo esta novela», Gioconda Belli.

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The exciting story of a mother and daughter marked by the revolutionary dream.

Valeria made great sacrifices as an active protagonist in the political changes of her country, Nicaragua. After her death in Madrid, in complete solitude, it falls to her daughter Penélope to travel to Spain and take care of her material belongings. Surrounded by the possessions of a mother she always felt was absent, Penélope will solve unexpected mysteries and learn about the fascinating life of a woman marked by triumphs and defeats, secrecy, and the vicissitudes of love.

Un silencio lleno de murmullos is an exciting novel about the turmoil of family secrets and the personal costs of political commitment for a mother and her daughter.

Exiled in Madrid since 2022, Belli has written this novel from her own experience as a mother and as an activist who has lived through the rise and fall of the revolutionary dream. "The children of those of us who got involved in the revolution suffered a kind of abandonment. The fathers' absence was accepted. It was different with the mothers. That maternal absence burdened both sides with a very painful level of reproach and guilt. I thought of my daughters while writing this novel," Gioconda Belli.

«Todo parecía ir bien, pero Blanca sabía que nada iba bien en realidad».

Una novela generacional, fresca y mordaz.

Una mañana de 1993, la vida de Blanca se rompe cuando su padre le anuncia que su madre no regresará. A partir de entonces, Blanca teme que pueda tener un don insólito: la capacidad de obrar milagros, aunque el primero sea provocar la muerte de una niña que se burla de su situación familiar. Con el peso de la culpa sobre sus hombros y las ansiedades propias del abandono, Blanca busca en internet personas con las que hablar y conecta con un grupo de chicas que también se encuentran solas y perdidas. Unidas por la fascinación que sienten por Charles y Marilyn Manson, Joy Division y su gusto por vestir de negro, Blanca encuentra en ellas a su familia elegida.

Fuego en la garganta recorre la infancia y la adolescencia de una chica que no encuentra su lugar en el mundo. Una aventura que se trasladará de las pantallas a un mundo real en el que habitan padres ausentes, héroes inesperados, monjas, tecnófobos y hippies del sur de España.

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"Everything seemed fine, but Blanca knew that nothing was really fine."

A fresh and biting generational novel.

One morning in 1993, Blanca's life shatters when her father announces that her mother will not return. From that moment, Blanca fears she might have an unusual gift: the ability to perform miracles, though the first one seems to be causing the death of a girl who mocks her family situation. With the weight of guilt on her shoulders and the anxieties of abandonment, Blanca searches the internet for people to talk to and connects with a group of girls who are also alone and lost. United by their fascination with Charles and Marilyn Manson, Joy Division, and their love for dressing in black, Blanca finds in them her chosen family.

Fuego en la garganta traces the childhood and adolescence of a girl who cannot find her place in the world. An adventure that moves from screens to a real world inhabited by absent parents, unexpected heroes, nuns, technophobes, and hippies from southern Spain.

Se enfrentaron al horror y lucharon contra la injusticia.

Pero nada reconcilia más que el amor.

Recién terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en un Berlín arrasado y sin futuro aparente, Victoria sobrevive cantando cada noche en el club Kassandra. Pese a tener una mente prodigiosa, capaz de crear un poderoso sistema de cifrado de mensajes, su hija Hedy y su hermana Rebecca dependen de ese mísero sueldo para sobrevivir. Un chantaje sin escrúpulos por parte de los rusos obligará a Victoria a viajar sola a Estados Unidos, donde, sin embargo, disfrutará del amor incondicional del capitán Norton. Allí descubrirá que la que parecía la sociedad más democrática del mundo esconde una rancia capa de racismo e injusticias de la mano del Ku Klux Klan y el senador McCarthy.

Una novela grandiosa en la que los resentimientos, el dolor de la pérdida y las decisiones difíciles serán superados gracias al coraje de unos personajes que luchan firmemente por defender lo que más aman.

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They faced horror and fought against injustice.

But nothing reconciles more than love.

Just after the end of World War II, in a ravaged Berlin with no apparent future, Victoria survives by singing every night at the Kassandra club. Despite having a prodigious mind capable of creating a powerful message encryption system, her daughter Hedy and her sister Rebecca depend on that meager salary to survive. An unscrupulous blackmail by the Russians forces Victoria to travel alone to the United States, where she will, however, enjoy the unconditional love of Captain Norton. There, she will discover that what seemed to be the world's most democratic society hides a rancid layer of racism and injustices at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan and Senator McCarthy.

A grand novel in which resentments, the pain of loss, and difficult decisions are overcome thanks to the courage of characters who firmly fight to defend what they love most.

Una piedra angular en los debates entre la ética y la estética, en las relaciones que mantienen el bien y el mal, el alma y el cuerpo, el arte y la vida.

Cuando se publicó El retrato de Dorian Gray, la crítica moralizante acusó a su protagonista de ser una figura satánica, corrompida y corruptora, sin comprender que era el héroe de una novela que reflejaba la fatalidad de los románticos: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) había querido hacer de la belleza un refinamiento de la inteligencia; y para ello sumió a su protagonista en una atmósfera de perversión dominada por el arte y los poderes de un misterio que está más allá de la realidad.

Pero el autor no se conforma con la simple descripción: incrusta a su personaje en un crimen y, como Edgar Allan Poe en sus relatos, lo rodea de un misterio que la razón no puede explicar. Dorian Gray sigue siendo, más de cien años después de la muerte de su autor, una piedra angular en los debates entre la ética y la estética, en las relaciones que mantienen el bien y el mal, el alma y el cuerpo, el arte y la vida. Presidida por la ley de la fatalidad, Dorian Gray no deja de alcanzar el objetivo que el propio Wilde quería para su libro: «Venenoso si ustedes quieren, pero no podrán negar que también es perfecto, y la perfección es la meta a la que apuntamos nosotros los artistas».

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A cornerstone in the debates between ethics and aesthetics, in the relationships between good and evil, soul and body, art and life.

When The Picture of Dorian Gray was published, moralistic critics accused its protagonist of being a satanic, corrupt, and corrupting figure, not understanding that he was the hero of a novel reflecting the fatalism of the Romantics. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) aimed to make beauty a refinement of intelligence; to achieve this, he immersed his protagonist in an atmosphere of perversion dominated by art and the powers of a mystery beyond reality.

But the author does not settle for mere description: he embeds his character in a crime and, like Edgar Allan Poe in his tales, surrounds him with a mystery that reason cannot explain. Dorian Gray remains, more than a hundred years after the author's death, a cornerstone in the debates between ethics and aesthetics, in the relationships between good and evil, soul and body, art and life. Governed by the law of fatality, Dorian Gray continues to achieve the goal Wilde wanted for his book: "Poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that it is also perfect, and perfection is the goal we artists aim for."

La esperada segunda parte de El jardín de las mariposas. 

En una antigua iglesia ha aparecido una joven con el cuello cercenado y el cuerpo rodeado de hermosas flores. Un retorcido ritual de violencia, belleza y castidad que el asesino cumple cada invierno con escalofriante puntualidad.

La hermana de Priya fue una de esas víctimas y, desde entonces, ella y su madre viven condenadas a cambiar de ciudad constantemente: cuando se mudan a un nuevo lugar con la esperanza de poder empezar de cero, la llegada de un misterioso arreglo floral aparece como un mal presagio, recordándoles que la muerte las acecha y que Priya podría ser la siguiente víctima.

Tras resolver el caso de El Jardín de las Mariposas, los detectives del FBI saben que deben emprender una desesperada carrera contra reloj para descubrir al asesino antes de que sea demasiado tarde y, aunque en ello Priya arriesgue su propia vida, es la única oportunidad para conseguirlo.

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The highly anticipated sequel to The Butterfly Garden.

In an old church, a young woman has been found with her throat slashed and her body surrounded by beautiful flowers. A twisted ritual of violence, beauty, and chastity that the killer performs every winter with chilling punctuality.

Priya's sister was one of those victims, and since then, she and her mother have been condemned to constantly move from city to city. Whenever they settle in a new place, hoping for a fresh start, the arrival of a mysterious floral arrangement appears as a bad omen, reminding them that death is stalking them and that Priya could be the next victim.

After solving the case of The Butterfly Garden, the FBI detectives know they must embark on a desperate race against time to catch the killer before it's too late. And although Priya risks her own life, it's the only chance they have to succeed.

Descubre los secretos que se ocultan tras las pinturas más importantes del Museo del Prado.

Al más puro estilo de los relatos de enigmas de Javier Sierra. El maestro del Prado presenta un apasionante recorrido por las historias más desconocidas y secretas de una de las pinacotecas más importantes del mundo, el Museo del Prado. 

Una historia fascinante de cómo un aprendiz de escritor aprendió a mirar cuadros y a entender unos mensajes ocultos que difieren de la ortodoxia de la Iglesia católica, una institución que en el Renacimiento era visto más como opresores que como espiritual. 

Una nueva obra que entusiasmará a los miles de seguidores de Javier Sierra.

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Discover the secrets hidden behind the most important paintings in the Prado Museum.

In the purest style of Javier Sierra's mystery tales, El maestro del Prado (The Master of the Prado) presents a thrilling journey through the most unknown and secret stories of one of the world's most important art galleries, the Prado Museum.

A fascinating story of how an aspiring writer learned to look at paintings and understand hidden messages that differ from the orthodoxy of the Catholic Church, an institution seen more as oppressors than spiritual during the Renaissance.

A new work that will delight the thousands of Javier Sierra's followers.

Explora el lado más oscuro de la literatura con cuentos góticos y de horror clásico. Obras maestras del siglo XIX disponibles en español.

Edgar Allan Poe, el maestro del relato corto, dejó un legado literario que se ha convertido en un punto de referencia constante para todas las artes. Su huella en la literatura fantástica y de terror, así como la literatura detectivesca es incuestionable e inspiró de manera decisiva a escritores de la talla de Melville, Baudelaire, Maupassant, Cortázar o Nabokov.

En el presente volumen reunimos una pequeña muestra de esas famosas piezas maestras que mantienen en vilo al lector y lo introducen en un mundo fantástico donde lo sobrenatural y lo desconocido se convierten en protagonistas. La picadura de un extraño insecto en El escarabajo de oro, los habitantes perturbados de una mansión en La caída de la Casa Usher, misteriosos asesinatos resueltos por el célebre detective Dupin en Los crímenes de la calle Morgue y La carta robada, los horrores de una prisión en El pozo y el péndulo, o la apariencia siniestra del ojo de un anciano en El corazón delator son algunos de los nueve relatos seleccionados para esta edición.

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Discover timeless gothic horror stories from 19th-century America. Perfect for fans of mystery, madness, and the supernatural.

Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the short story, left a literary legacy that has become a constant reference point for all the arts. His impact on fantastic and horror literature, as well as detective fiction, is undeniable and decisively inspired writers such as Melville, Baudelaire, Maupassant, Cortázar, and Nabokov.

In this volume, we gather a small sample of those famous masterpieces that keep the reader on edge and introduce them to a fantastic world where the supernatural and the unknown become protagonists. The bite of a strange insect in The Gold-Bug, the disturbed inhabitants of a mansion in The Fall of the House of Usher, mysterious murders solved by the famous detective Dupin in The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter, the horrors of a prison in The Pit and the Pendulum, or the sinister appearance of an old man's eye in The Tell-Tale Heart are some of the nine stories selected for this edition.

La novela con la trama más brillante y entretenida de Milan Kundera.

En un balneario algo trasnochado convergen ocho personas cuyos actos se entretejen hasta formar una trama en la que todos acaban atrapados: el músico célebre y la hermosa enfermera que quiere quedarse embarazada; la celosa esposa del músico y el joven mecánico enamorado de la enfermera; el exconvicto que va a despedirse de su protegida Olga; el ginecólogo, con sus fanfarrones proyectos demográficos, y el rico excéntrico.

Con la aparente ligereza de un vals, esta novela oculta una pregunta más grave: ¿merece el hombre vivir en este mundo?

«Kundera es de los que arriesga en cada libro intentando siempre reavivar fuegos ingrávidos del pasado, reavivar rescoldos de libertad con el ejercicio lúdico de la literatura.» Enrique Vila-Matas, Revista de Libros

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The most brilliant and entertaining plot of Milan Kundera's novels.

In a somewhat outdated spa, eight people converge, their actions intertwining until they form a plot in which everyone ends up trapped: the famous musician and the beautiful nurse who wants to get pregnant; the musician's jealous wife and the young mechanic in love with the nurse; the ex-convict saying goodbye to his protégé Olga; the gynecologist with his boastful demographic projects, and the eccentric rich man.

With the apparent lightness of a waltz, this novel hides a more serious question: does man deserve to live in this world?

"Kundera is one of those who takes risks with each book, always trying to rekindle the weightless fires of the past, to revive the embers of freedom with the playful exercise of literature." Enrique Vila-Matas, Revista de Libros

Ganadora del Premio de novela Casa de las Américas en 1964. Los relámpagos de agosto es un clásico imprescindible. 

Las divertidas desventuras que envuelven la vida y obra del general Arroyo, sirven para narrar el desastroso nacimiento de la democracia en un país asolado por la injusticia, el abuso de poder y la traición. Sin pena ni gloria, recluido en su cuarto con lápiz en mano, el singular protagonista de esta novela escribe sus memorias, dando cuenta sin tapujos de los episodios más inverosímiles y vergonzosos de su participación en la lucha revolucionaria. Con su ágil y mordaz prosa, Jorge Ibargüengoitia obliga a repensar en esta espléndida novela la historia y el malogrado fin de las utopías políticas que animaron el siglo XX.

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Winner of the Casa de las Américas Novel Prize in 1964. Los relámpagos de agosto is an essential classic.

The amusing misadventures surrounding the life and work of General Arroyo serve to narrate the disastrous birth of democracy in a country ravaged by injustice, abuse of power, and betrayal. Without fanfare, confined to his room with pencil in hand, the unique protagonist of this novel writes his memoirs, candidly recounting the most unbelievable and shameful episodes of his participation in the revolutionary struggle. With his agile and biting prose, Jorge Ibargüengoitia compels readers to rethink the history and the ill-fated end of the political utopias that animated the 20th century in this splendid novel.

El escritor imprescindible de la literatura mexicana contemporánea.

Un hombre inocente es buscado por la policía. Decide ocultarse en un lugar apartado mientras pasa el peligro, pero no tiene dinero. Para conseguirlo viaja a una ciudad de provincia y llega a la casa de su tío, que es el hombre más rico de la región.

En los días que siguen, es perseguido, a pesar de su inocencia, teje, con las mentiras que cuenta, las pasiones que provoca, sus propias pasiones y las ambiciones de sus parientes, un enredo del que van a resultar dos crímenes.

Tragicómica narración policial de las mezquindades humanas, Dos crímenes es una magnífica muestra de la potencia narrativa de Jorge Ibargüengoitia, autor imprescindible de las letras hispanoamericanas.

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The essential writer of contemporary Mexican literature.

An innocent man is wanted by the police. He decides to hide in a remote place until the danger passes, but he has no money. To get some, he travels to a provincial city and arrives at his uncle's house, the richest man in the region.

In the following days, despite his innocence, he is pursued. With the lies he tells, the passions he provokes, his own desires, and the ambitions of his relatives, he weaves a web that will result in two crimes.

A tragicomic police narrative of human pettiness, Two Crimes is a magnificent showcase of the narrative power of Jorge Ibargüengoitia, an essential author in Hispanic American literature.

La vida, el amor y el martirio de un azteca de los tiempos de la Conquista.

Con una admirable precisión y una singular fuerza evocativa, Gary Jennings ha reconstruido el mundo de los aztecas en los años en que, ante el embate de los conquistadores españoles, sufre una sacudida de la que ya no podrá recuperarse.

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The life, love, and martyrdom of an Aztec during the time of the Conquest.

With remarkable precision and a unique evocative power, Gary Jennings has reconstructed the world of the Aztecs during the years when, faced with the onslaught of the Spanish conquerors, they experienced a shock from which they would never recover.

Carmen Posadas se embarca con Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán en una aventura detectivesca.

En abril de 1912, la adinerada viuda de Peñasco tuvo un mal presentimiento mientras almorzaba en su palacete de Madrid. Algo les había pasado a su único hijo y su nuera, a quienes en ese momento creía en París, disfrutando de su luna de miel. La dama no se equivocaba: a pesar de las advertencias que les había hecho, los recién casados se habían embarcado en el que se creía el barco más seguro del mundo y sin duda era el más lujoso: El Titanic. Pocos días después las funestas nuevas llegaron a la mansión de la viuda: su hijo había perecido y su nuera estaba sana y salva, pero rota de dolor en Nueva York.

Se pone en marcha así una intriga al más puro estilo Carmen Posadas, ambientada en el Madrid de principios de siglo y entre cuyo elenco destacan Emilia Pardo Bazán y uno de sus personajes ¿de ficción?, el dandy reconvertido en detective Ignacio Selva.

Años después del hundimiento del Titanic, entra en contacto con Selva una dama adinerada de Avilés con una noticia insólita: su hermano, un indiano millonario que había sido dado por muerto en el naufragio, aparece en su mansión de La Habana para susto primero y alegría después de su viuda. Tras la sorpresa inicial, se despierta la sospecha en la familia. ¿Ha vuelto ese hombre de entre los muertos o no es más que un impostor?

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Carmen Posadas Embarks on a Detective Adventure with Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán

In April 1912, the wealthy widow of Peñasco had a bad feeling while having lunch at her mansion in Madrid. She sensed something had happened to her only son and daughter-in-law, whom she believed were in Paris enjoying their honeymoon. The lady was not mistaken: despite her warnings, the newlyweds had boarded what was considered the safest and undoubtedly the most luxurious ship in the world: The Titanic. A few days later, the tragic news reached the widow's mansion: her son had perished, and her daughter-in-law was safe but heartbroken in New York.

Thus begins an intrigue in true Carmen Posadas style, set in early 20th-century Madrid, featuring Emilia Pardo Bazán and one of her (fictional?) characters, the dandy-turned-detective Ignacio Selva.

Years after the Titanic sank, a wealthy lady from Avilés contacts Selva with astonishing news: her brother, a millionaire who was presumed dead in the shipwreck, has appeared at his mansion in Havana, first shocking and then delighting his widow. After the initial surprise, suspicion arises within the family. Has this man returned from the dead, or is he an impostor?

El destino del ser humano se vuelve incierto cuando violenta la armonía del universo.

Dos mujeres valientes entrelazan dos momentos históricos, el año 31 a.C. y el año 2055. En esos tiempos tan distantes entre sí, ambas transitan por una misma geografía, que hoy se conoce como el Camino de Santiago, en España.

Es el futuro y las autoridades globales controlan las vidas de las personas. Como parte de un plan sistemático, ya no se ven adultos mayores en las calles: desaparecieron tras las últimas pandemias que azotaron el planeta. Eme perdió a sus padres y está sola, agobiada y sin trabajo. Todo cambia cuando se cruza con Hache, miembro de una organización rebelde que planea un sabotaje en Santiago de Compostela. A fin de infiltrarse sin levantar sospechas, Eme asume la identidad de una peregrina. Mientras avanza por las rutas ancestrales, se ve inmersa en un mundo nuevo, que la conecta con la naturaleza y la espiritualidad. Allí conoce a Orión, con quien vivirá un gran amor, y se adentra en una antiquísima historia vinculada con Las Médulas, mítica mina de oro del Imperio romano, y con Cazue, una mujer perteneciente a la tribu de los astures que libró una dura batalla para recuperar a su hijo robado.

Viviana Rivero vuelve con una novela adictiva y vibrante, que se aventura a la vez en el futuro y en el pasado. Más allá de su cautivadora trama, Los soles de Santiago plantea cuestiones fundamentales acerca del destino peligroso que se cierne sobre el ser humano cuando violenta la armonía del universo.

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The fate of humanity becomes uncertain when it disrupts the harmony of the universe.

Two brave women intertwine two historical moments, 31 B.C. and the year 2055. In these times, so distant from each other, both travel through the same geography, now known as the Camino de Santiago in Spain.

In the future, global authorities control people's lives. As part of a systematic plan, elderly adults are no longer seen on the streets; they disappeared after the last pandemics that ravaged the planet. Eme lost her parents and is alone, overwhelmed, and jobless. Everything changes when she meets Hache, a member of a rebel organization planning a sabotage in Santiago de Compostela. To infiltrate without raising suspicion, Eme assumes the identity of a pilgrim. As she progresses along the ancient routes, she immerses herself in a new world that connects her with nature and spirituality. There, she meets Orion, with whom she will experience a great love, and delves into an ancient story linked to Las Médulas, the mythical gold mine of the Roman Empire, and Cazue, a woman from the Asturian tribe who fought a hard battle to recover her stolen son.

Viviana Rivero returns with an addictive and vibrant novel that ventures into both the future and the past. Beyond its captivating plot, The Suns of Santiago raises fundamental questions about the dangerous fate that looms over humanity when it disrupts the harmony of the universe.

Sigue el Universo Metro, la serie de novelas de ciencia ficción postapocalípticas del prolífico autor Dmitry Glukhovsky.

Año 2034. Tras una guerra devastadora, gran parte del mundo ha quedado reducida a cenizas. Moscú se ha convertido en una ciudad fantasma y los pocos supervivientes se han refugiado en las profundidades de la red de metro donde han creado una nueva civilización. Una civilización que no se parece en nada a las anteriores...

La estación Sevastopolskaya lleva varias semanas incomunicada. En ella aparece un misterioso brigadier, Hunter, que toma la responsabilidad de luchar contra un enigmático peligro que amenaza a toda la red de metro y emprende una arriesgada expedición por el sistema de túneles. Le acompañará Homero, un hombre viejo y experimentado que conoce como nadie la red y sus leyendas, y que cree que su misión vital consiste en poner por escrito la historia del mundo subterráneo. Más adelante conocerán a Sasha, una joven de diecisiete años. Homero está convencido de que el héroe y la muchacha podrían ser los protagonistas ideales de su epopeya, pero antes tendrá que protegerlos de incesantes peligros.

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Continue the Metro Universe, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series by prolific author Dmitry Glukhovsky.

Year 2034. After a devastating war, much of the world has been reduced to ashes. Moscow has become a ghost city, and the few survivors have taken refuge in the depths of the metro system, where they have created a new civilization. A civilization unlike any before...

The Sevastopolskaya station has been cut off for several weeks. A mysterious brigadier, Hunter, appears there, taking on the responsibility of fighting against an enigmatic threat that endangers the entire metro network. He embarks on a risky expedition through the tunnel system, accompanied by Homer, an old and experienced man who knows the network and its legends better than anyone. Homer believes his life's mission is to document the history of the underground world. Later, they meet Sasha, a seventeen-year-old girl. Homer is convinced that the hero and the girl could be the ideal protagonists of his epic, but first, he must protect them from relentless dangers.

Gavin Campbell runs a small and struggling classic car dealership in the historic village of Watkins Glen, New York.
When Gavin goes to look at an old Jaguar E-type for a client he senses that there’s something unusual about the car. He also senses that there’s something very unusual about the client’s sister, Emily, who has come along with him.
After bringing the car back to his workshop for restoration Gavin learns that the owner has died in an apparent accident, but has reason to be suspicious about the death, particularly as a mysterious stranger seems desperate to buy the car. Emily also has reason to believe that her brother was murdered, and the two join forces to investigate.
Quirky romance develops as Gavin and Emily, who is affected by Asperger syndrome, infiltrate a car club and play a dangerous game of cat and mouse amid its snobbish and potentially murderous members.
If you like captivating adventure, eccentric characters, and a healthy dose of romantic comedy you’re sure to enjoy this mystery.

This sequel to Julia Kristeva’s celebrated allegory The Old Man and the Wolves returns to the corrupt seaside resort of a mythical town, where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarism, and good and evil are erased. Part mystery, part meditation, this engrossing tale features the return of Parisian amateur detective and newspaper reporter Stephanie Delacour (Kristeva’s alter ego), drawn into the mystery of a friend's murder.

The story opens with the gruesome discovery of the decapitated body of a gifted translator, Gloria Harrison. Delacour finds herself participating in the investigation in the company of Detective Superintendent Northrup Rilsky. As the mystery unfolds, Delacour veers away from Rilsky’s investigation, on to a trail that leads to the real killer. Kristeva uses the classic thriller genre to animate the themes that run through her work as a linguist and philosopher. While Stephanie Delacour probes a brilliant gallery of suspects, we read between the lines some of the sorrows and dilemmas that are the focus of Kristeva’s own life and work: motherhood and the complex relationship between mother and child; art and music; psychoanalysis; mourning and melancholia; language; the powers of horror; and the hostility aroused by a competent, gifted, and attractive woman who is at once devotedly maternal and capable of sexual passion.

“A fascinating story of a young mixed-race man caught between two cultures, not knowing what to keep and what to leave behind.”—James McBride, author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

A “magnificent” (Ha Jin), “mesmerizing” (James McBride), and “magical” (Marie Myung-Ok Lee) fever dream of a novel that interweaves the coming-of-age of a 1970s Korean-American boy grappling with his identity and the impact of intergenerational trauma.

Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu—the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army—spends his days with his “half and half” friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness, he vows to dig up a skull in order to heal his ailing Big Uncle, a geomancer who has been exiled by the family to a mountain cave to die.

Insu’s quest takes him and his friends on a sprawling, wild journey into some of South Korea’s darkest corners, opening them up to a fantastical world beyond their grasp. Meanwhile, Big Uncle has embraced his solitude and fate, trusting in otherworldly forces Insu cannot access. As he recalls his wartime experiences of betrayal and lost love, Big Uncle attempts to teach his nephew that life is not limited to what we can see—or think we know.

Largely autobiographical and sparkling with magical realism, Skull Water is the story of a boy coming into his own—and the ways the past haunts the present, in a country on the cusp of modernity, struggling to confront its troubled history. As Insu seeks the wisdom of his ancestors, what he learns, he hopes, will save not just his uncle but himself.

In her English-language debut, award-winning Italian novelist Giulia Caminito follows a teenage girl as her family transitions from Rome’s impoverished outskirts to a fraught new beginning in a tranquil lakeside town, capturing the disillusionment, loneliness, and rage that defined a generation.

In the 1990s, Gaia’s family moves from the neglected peripheries of Rome to an idyllic lakeside town twenty miles away, in search of a new life that will lift them out of poverty. Each of them bears their own scars: Gaia’s strong-willed mother is fiercely determined to secure a better future for her children at any cost; her father, a once proud man, now suffers in bitter silence after a devastating accident; her anarchist older brother rebels against the political apathy he sees at home; and her young twin brothers wordlessly bear witness to a family in decay.

When Gaia meets two local girls, Agata and Carlotta, the trio builds a fragile friendship throughout their adolescence based as much on their insecurities and jealousies as it is on their mutual affection. Gaia’s encounters with callous boys and contemptuous teachers convince her that she might always be an outsider—excluded from a privileged life and perhaps even beyond the possibility of happiness. Faced with bullying and betrayals among her peers and immense pressure from her mother to excel, Gaia turns inward and her world becomes increasingly insular. Then tragedy strikes her friend group. As more friends slip away and her family fractures, Gaia vows to make the world pay for all the things it has denied her.

Winner of the Campiello Prize, The Lake’s Water Is Never Sweet is an unflinching portrait of a generation, striving to make a place for themselves in a world markedly different from the one their parents promised them. With psychological acuity and stylish prose, Caminito takes us into the volatile, searching mind of a young woman torn between her desire to connect with others and her drive for self-preservation. In a novel that has been acclaimed by readers around the world, Caminito shows how tenderness and fragility often lie just beneath the surface of simmering fury.

An epic, deeply moving coming-of-age novel about young love and lasting friendships forged in the years leading up to the Tiananmen Square student protests, for readers of The Beekeeper of Aleppo and The Night Tiger.

As a child in Beijing in the 1970s, Lai lives with her family in a lively, working-class neighborhood near the heart of the city. Thoughtful yet unassuming, she spends her days with her friends beyond the attention of her parents: Her father is a reclusive figure who lingers in the background, while her mother, an aging beauty and fervent patriot, is quick-tempered and preoccupied with neighborhood gossip. Only Lai’s grandmother, a formidable and colorful maverick, seems to really see Lai and believe that she can blossom beyond their circumstances.

But Lai is quickly awakened to the harsh realities of the Chinese state. A childish prank results in a terrifying altercation with police that haunts her for years; she also learns that her father, like many others, was broken during the Cultural Revolution. As she enters adolescence, Lai meets a mysterious and wise bookseller who introduces her to great works—Hemingway, Camus, and Orwell, among others—that open her heart to the emotional power of literature and her mind to thrillingly different perspectives. Along the way, she experiences the ebbs and flows of friendship, the agony of grief, and the first steps and missteps in love.

A gifted student, Lai wins a scholarship to study at the prestigious Peking University where she soon falls in with a theatrical band of individualists and misfits dedicated to becoming their authentic selves, despite the Communist Party’s insistence on conformity—and a new world opens before her. When student resistance hardens under the increasingly restrictive policies of the state, the group gets swept up in the fervor, determined to be heard, joining the masses of demonstrators and dreamers who display remarkable courage and loyalty in the face of danger. As 1989 unfolds, the spirit of change is in the air. . .

Drawn from her own life, Lai Wen’s novel is mesmerizing and haunting—a universal yet intimate story of youth and self-discovery that plays out against the backdrop of a watershed historic event. Tiananmen Square captures the hope and idealism of a new generation and the lasting price they were willing to pay in the name of freedom.

“Skip Yellowstone for this rawer version of the West.”—The New York Times Book Review

“This taut, compelling novel explores the great outdoors—and a realm of moral uncertainty. . . . A ferociously gripping book.”—The Economist 

Two brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of survival in this taut, propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of C.J. Box, Donald Ray Pollock, and Larry McMurtry.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER and BOOK CLUB FAVORITE * Over 1 million copies sold worldwide!

* 2024 High Plains Book Award Winner * 2023 Reading the West Book Award Winner * Finalist for Goodreads Choice Award * Colorado Public Radio 2023 Books We Love * 2025 Prix de l'Union Interalliée *

Set amid Colorado’s wild beauty, the heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of love and loss, family and survival—and hope—for readers of Great Circle, The Four Winds, and Where the Crawdads Sing.

“Beautiful . . . A striking first novel of love and strength and growth, set against the forests and rivers of Colorado’s high country. Read is a gifted writer, and the book is a literary triumph.”—Denver Post

“With gorgeous descriptions of the great outdoors, an illicit love story, and an unforgettable protagonist, Go as a River offers something for everyone.”—Real Simple

“I couldn’t stop thinking about it . . . it’s stunning.”—Jen Hatmaker

Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado—the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses.

Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, igniting as much passion as danger. When tragedy strikes, Victoria leaves the only life she has ever known, fleeing into the surrounding mountains, where she struggles to survive in the wilderness with no clear notion of what her future will bring. As the seasons change, she also charts the changes in herself, finding in the beautiful but harsh landscape the meaning and strength to move forward and rebuild all that she has lost, even as the Gunnison River threatens to submerge her homeland—its ranches, farms, and the beloved peach orchard that has been in her family for generations.

Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s, Go as a River is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, home—where least expected. This stunning debut explores what it means to lead your life as if it were a river—gathering and flowing, finding a way forward even when a river is dammed.

Winner of 5 major book awards, including the Publishers Weekly U.S. 2021 Selfies Award for Best Adult Fiction and winner of the IndieReader 2021 Discovery Award

“L’Origine got me hooked—what a story! Milgrom brings the reader right along on her adventures as a copyist of one of the most well-known paintings in all the world.” —Harriet Welty Rochefort, author of French Fried, French Toast, Joie de Vivre, and Final Transgression

The riveting odyssey of one of the world’s most scandalous works of art.

In 1866, maverick French artist Gustave Courbet painted one of the most iconic images in the history of art: a sexually explicit portrait of a woman’s exposed genitals. Audaciously titled L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World), the scandalous painting was kept hidden for a century and a half. Today, it hangs in the world-renowned Orsay Museum in Paris, viewed by millions of visitors a year.

As the first artist authorized by the Orsay Museum to re-create Courbet’s The Origin of the World, author Lilianne Milgrom was thrust into the painting’s intimate orbit, spending six weeks replicating every fold, crevice, and pubic hair. The experience inspired her to share her story and the painting’s riveting clandestine history with readers beyond the confines of the art world.

L’Origine is an entertaining and superbly researched work of historical fiction that traces the true story of the painting’s unlikely tale of survival, replete with French revolutionaries, Turkish pashas, and nefarious Nazi captains. But L’Origine is more than a riveting romp through history—it also sheds light on society’s complex relationship with the female body.

“Hafner’s taut and utterly delightful debut is a novel of multitudes. . . . What a wonder of storytelling.”—Weike Wang, New York Times

New York Times Editor’s Choice * Good Morning America Reading Pick * LitHub Most Anticipated Book * Christian Science Monitor Summer Reading Pick

A delicious summer read filled with humor and surprise for readers of Anne Tyler and Kevin Wilson.

When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries fun-loving Barb, so comfortable in the world, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. She fills his world with a sense of adventure, expanding his horizons beyond his comfortable routine. To ease Ethan’s fears of becoming a father, Barb suggests they foster two young brothers, Tommy and Sam, and Ethan immediately falls in love with the boys.

When the pandemic hits, he becomes obsessed with providing a perfect life for them. But instead of bringing Barb and Ethan closer together, the boys become a wedge in their relationship, as Ethan is unable to share with Barb a secret that has been haunting him since childhood. Then Ethan takes Tommy and Sam on a biking trip in Italy, and it becomes clear just how unusual Ethan and his boys are.

A postapocalyptic road trip and a quest for redemption.

It’s 2048, and the world has been ravaged by a lethal virus. With few exceptions, only the young have survived. Cities and infrastructures have been destroyed, and the natural world has reclaimed the landscape in surprising ways, with herds of wild camels roaming the American West and crocodiles that glow neon green lurking in the rivers.

Will Collins, the last surviving resident of a Buddhist retreat center in Colorado, receives an urgent and mysterious request: to deliver a potential cure to a scientist on the West Coast. So Will sets out into an unknown and perilous world, haunted by dreams of the woman he once loved, in a rusted-out pickup pulled by two mules. He doesn’t have much time—temperatures are rising to lethal heights, a hit man is on his tail, and armed militias patrol the roads. The only way he’ll make it is with the help of a clever raven, an opinionated cat, and a tough teenage girl who has learned to survive on her own.

A highly original contribution to the canon of dystopian literature, The Way is a thrilling and imaginative novel, full of warmth, wisdom, and surprises. It raises age-old questions about life, death, and how to live, while reflecting our own world in unsettling, uncanny, and even hopeful ways.

A redemption story of family, faith, and forgiveness in small-town Louisiana. 

After a lifetime of abuse and loss, sixty-one-year-old Vernon Davidson is ready to get back at God, his coworkers, and everyone else in his northern Louisiana hometown. To numb his pain, he drinks too much, and he shuns his friends and embarrasses himself in the community. The once-cautious Vernon has spiraled into a reckless mess. 

When his brother becomes terminally ill, Vernon must track down his estranged nephew, Jody, in an effort to bring the younger man home to his dying father. Jody himself is struggling after a self-imposed exile—having fled his family for a new life thousands of miles away. As Vernon and Jody set off on their journey home, they find themselves on a path that takes them from loss to healing and will ultimately change their lives. 

Mustard Seed is a stirring portrait of small-town Louisiana men—grandfathers, fathers, sons, and brothers—that exposes their flaws while showcasing their inner strengths. It forms a doxology, a song of praise, for the male family bond and the emotional ties men hide from the world and each other. Ultimately, it examines an impossibly difficult question: After a man has faced countless tragedies and endless disappointments, how does he go about forgiving a God he has grown to despise—and find his way back to the bonds that sustain him?

Dreams Like Thunder takes place on a small Eastern Oregon farm between Baker and Hells Canyon. The story is set over a couple of days in 1959, but part of the family seems less in touch with the twentieth century than with the myth of their own pioneer past. The myth varies according to who is doing the telling. It is up to Alberta, who is ten years old and heir to both the farm and the myth, to discover some truth behind the stories—a truth that will help her know who she is and what her own future might be.

En los Valles Tranquilos no gusta desenterrar secretos ni revelar verdades. Prepárate para la noche más larga.

LA NUEVA NOVELA DE DOLORES REDONDO

La psicóloga forense Nash Elizondo documenta el origen de una leyenda sobre brujería en la sima de Legarrea, en uno de los Valles Tranquilos de Navarra, pero cuando desciende a la sima lo que halla es el cadáver de una joven desaparecida tres años atrás, Andrea Dancur; un caso que conmocionó al país entero, y por cuyo crimen una mujer cumple prisión. Estamos en marzo de 2020, y el hallazgo y las nuevas pistas obligan a reabrir una investigación que esta vez se desarrollará en dos planos distintos: por una parte, a través del método científico, y por otra, mediante la profundización en la psicología de los implicados y el conocimiento de los misterios ancestrales.

Nash Elizondo, que se adentra en un territorio mítico y por momentos hostil, contará con ayudas inesperadas, y se pondrá al frente de una estirpe de mujeres que no se doblegan ni siquiera cuando son las víctimas.

Los acontecimientos se suceden vertiginosamente en un relato que leemos con el corazón en un puño, sin tregua, de la mano maestra de Dolores Redondo. Con unos secundarios inolvidables, asomándonos al abismo de la crueldad y en una atmósfera de presagios e intuiciones, parte esencial de su envolvente mundo literario.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

In the Tranquil Valleys, people don't like to unearth secrets or reveal truths. Get ready for the longest night.

THE NEW NOVEL BY DOLORES REDONDO

Forensic psychologist Nash Elizondo documents the origin of a witchcraft legend in the Legarrea chasm, in one of the Tranquil Valleys of Navarra. But when she descends into the chasm, she finds the body of Andrea Dancur, a young woman who disappeared three years ago—a case that shocked the entire country and for which a woman is currently imprisoned. It's March 2020, and the discovery and new clues force the reopening of an investigation that will unfold on two different levels: through scientific methods and by delving into the psychology of those involved and the knowledge of ancient mysteries.

Nash Elizondo, venturing into a mythical and at times hostile territory, will receive unexpected help and will lead a lineage of women who do not bend, even when they are the victims.

Events unfold rapidly in a story we read with our hearts in our throats, without respite, guided by the masterful hand of Dolores Redondo. With unforgettable secondary characters, we peer into the abyss of cruelty in an atmosphere of omens and intuitions, an essential part of her immersive literary world.

4 a.m., New York City. A silent disaster.

There is no flash of light, no crumbling, no quaking. Each person in New York wakes up on an unfamiliar block when the buildings all switch locations overnight. The power grid has snapped, thousands of residents are missing, and the Empire State Building is on Coney Island—for now. The next night, it happens again.

Esme Green and Arjun Varma work for the City of New York’s Emergency Management team and are tasked with disaster response for the Unmapping. As Esme tries to wade through the bureaucratic nightmare of an endlessly shuffling city, she’s distracted by the ongoing search for her missing fiancé. Meanwhile, Arjun focuses on the ground-level rescue of disoriented New Yorkers, hoping to become the hero the city needs.

While scientists scramble to find a solution—or at least a means to cope—and mysterious “red cloak” cults crop up in the disaster’s wake, New York begins to reckon with a new reality no one recognizes. For Esme and Arjun, the fight to hold the city together will mean tackling questions about themselves that they were too afraid to ask—and facing answers they never expected. With themes of climate change, political unrest, and life in a state of emergency, The Unmapping is a timely and captivating debut.

“Reads like a warm hug.” —Rebecca Thorne, bestselling author of Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea

“A stunning tale of learning to let go.” —Shelf Awareness

A warm and hopeful story of a lonely witch consumed by grief who discovers a whimsical cast of characters in a magical arboretum—and the healing power of found family. 

Powerless witch Saika is ready to enact her sister’s final request: to plant her remains at the famed Ash Gardens. When Saika arrives at the always-stormy sanctuary, she is welcomed by its owner, an enormous knit-cardiganed mythical beast named Frank, who offers her a role as one of the estate’s caretakers.

Overcome with grief, Saika accepts, desperate to put off her final farewell to her sister. But the work requires a witch with intrinsic power, and Saika’s been disconnected from her magic since her sister’s death two years prior. Saika gets by at the sanctuary using a fragment of a fallen star to cast enchantments—while hiding the embarrassing truth about herself.

As Saika works harder in avoidance of her pain, she learns more about Frank, the decaying house at Ash Gardens, and the lives of the motley staff, including bickering twin cherubs, a mute ghost, a cantankerous elf, and an irritating half witch, among others. Over time, she rediscovers what it means to love and be wholly loved and how to allow her joy and grief to coexist. Warm and inventive, House of Frank is a stirring portrait of the ache of loss and the healing embrace of love.

A Betches pick of “Novels That Healed Me Faster Than Any Self-Help Book”

Ten years after her mother’s death, Eliza Levinger never imagined she’d hear from her again. But then The Letter arrived. 

Eliza’s world broke apart when she was sixteen and her mom died of cancer. Now, years later, she has rebuilt her life to include a director-of-development job at a nonprofit, a Manhattan apartment, and an easy-on-the-eyes bedroom buddy—just the kind of no-strings relationship she wants, even if it’s less than her best friend, Mo, thinks she deserves. But when Eliza’s dad dies unexpectedly, her beloved aunt Claude arrives at the shiva with a letter from her mom—to be opened only after her father’s death. Inside the letter? A bombshell. 

Suddenly, all of Eliza’s relationships are upended. Her brother is angry, her stepmother is threatening to disinherit her, and Mo—who has always been her rock—doesn’t seem to understand what she’s going through. But as Eliza struggles to cope with the shocking news, she finds an unexpected ally—her brother’s best friend, Josh—her high school crush, whom she’s tried hard to forget. It’s not in Eliza’s nature to trust . . . but maybe it’s time for that to change.

Perfect for fans of Emily Giffin, Katherine Center, and Jennifer Weiner, Dear Eliza explores the meaning of family, the complexities of grief, and the beauty in finding your way again. 

It’s 2012, and post-revolution Egypt is sparking with political energy—but Hannah and Zain are numb.

The flight from New York to Cairo is long—longer still for two siblings on a journey to bury their mother. When they discover their father’s unforgivable betrayal, what’s left of their family crumbles.

Hannah gives up her spot at Columbia Law to remain in Egypt, where she navigates romantic entanglements and a new culture. Back in America, Zain’s self-destructive behavior begins to catch up with him, leaving him to wonder whether he’s any different from his father.

When the siblings reunite in Cairo months later, Zain is nearing rock bottom, and Hannah finds herself in the middle of the Arab Spring uprising. Together they confront shared secrets and reconcile their conservative upbringing with their new beliefs as adults. Will they heal together, or has the loss of their only bridge—their mother—set them permanently adrift?

A tender reflection on the effects of grief and loss, this deeply felt novel explores how siblings come together to mend a fractured family and, in the process, find themselves.

A Buzzfeed Pick of The Best Main Characters We've Gotten To Know in 2022

A Scary Mommy Pick of New Books We Can’t Wait to Cozy Up with This Fall 

A Chatelaine Pick Of New Romances To Fall Into A New Season

There can be no victory without betrayal.

Hara Duja Gatdula, queen of the island nation of Maynara, holds the divine power to move the earth. But her strength is failing and the line of succession gives her little comfort. Her heir, Laya, is a danger—a petty and passionate princess who wields the enormous power of the skies with fickle indifference. Circling the throne is Imeria Kulaw—the matriarch of a traitorous rival family who wields recklessly enhanced powers of her own—with designs to secure a high-ranking position for her son and claim the crown for her family. Each woman has a secret weakness—a lover, a heartbreak, a lie. But each is willing to pay the steepest price to bring down her rivals once and for all.

Filled with passion, romance, betrayal, and divine magic, Black Salt Queen journeys to a gorgeous precolonial island nation where women—and secrets—reign.

2022 Best Book Awards Finalist in Fiction: Women's Fiction

2022 Independent Press Awards Winner in Chick-Lit

2022 Independent Press Awards Winner in Romantic Comedy 

From Charming Falls Apart author Angela Terry comes a story about finding the courage to face your past, be true to your heart, and live your best life. Fans of Sophie Kinsella and Emily Giffin will enjoy cheering for Adeline Turner as she navigates the twists and turns of her newly complicated life in this fun, heartwarming novel.

Thirty-three-year-old corporate attorney Adeline Turner has built her adult life around stability. Her professional life is thriving, but her personal life . . . not so much. Deep down she wants more, but finds it’s easier to brush aside her dreams and hide behind her billable hours. That is, until a new client and a chance encounter with her high school crush have her taking leaps she never planned. Suddenly, unadventurous, nose-to-the-grindstone Adeline finds herself moving across the country from her predictable life in Chicago to San Francisco, falling into messy romantic situations, and trying to unravel an office-sabotage plot before it ruins her career.

Without the safety net of her old life in Chicago, Adeline must become her own advocate and learn that people aren’t always who they seem. Which makes her wonder if the key to having the future she desires lies in uncovering the truth of the past.

"Such an absolute joy to read. Highly recommended."–TJ Klune, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Cerulean Sea

In this fresh-yet-familiar gothic tale—part historical fantasy, part puzzle-box mystery—the worlds of Dracula and Sherlock Holmes collide in a thrilling exploration of feminine power.

At the dawn of the twentieth century in Paris, Samantha Harker, daughter of Dracula’s killer, works as a researcher for the Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena. But no one realizes how abnormal she is. Sam is a channel into the minds of monsters: a power that could help her solve the gruesome deaths plaguing turn-of-the-century Paris—or have her thrown into an asylum.

Sam finds herself assigned to a case with Dr. Helena Moriarty, daughter of the criminal mastermind and famed nemesis of Sherlock Holmes and a notorious detective whom no one wants to work with on account of her previous partners’ mysterious murders. Ranging from the elite clubs of Paris to the dark underbelly of the catacombs, their investigation sweeps them into a race to stop a Beast from its killing rampage, as Hel and Sam are pitted against men, monsters, and even each other. But beneath their tenuous trust, an unmistakable attraction brews. Is trusting Hel the key to solving the murder, or is Sam yet another pawn in Hel’s game?

“[A] cli-fi fantasy exploring the potential for rage and trauma to break the world.” —Library Journal, starred review

“And the Sky Bled is already drawing comparisons to the work of N. K. Jemisin and Fonda Lee.” –Paste Magazine

Amid the chaos of a dying city ruled by colonizers, three rivals—a thief, a slumlord, and an heiress—race to find a hidden cache of magic that will decide the city’s fate.

In the occupied city of Tejomaya, calor—a magical fossil fuel—is found only in the blood rains that fall from the sky. While a six-month drought has brought Tejomaya to a desperate standstill, rumors of a secret stash of magic propel three unlikely treasure seekers to risk everything.

Tenacious and street-smart Zain Jatav has been forced to steal calor for her slumlord bosses for years. Finding the magic reserve might be her only key to freedom. But she’ll have to contend with Iravan Khotar, a slumlord himself and an ambitious revolutionary hoping to use the same magic to save his people from the mysterious illness devastating the slums—and to bolster a fight against their oppressors. Meanwhile, heiress Anastasia Drakos leads the ruling council of Tejomaya from the safety of a nearby island. With the hidden magic, she could finally take full control of the city and crush the slums beneath her unyielding fist.

As Zain, Iravan, and Anastasia draw closer to finding the treasure, their paths tangle, and not for the first time—they met before, a decade ago, in a fire that destroyed each of their lives in different ways. Their reunion might bring the already-weakened city to its knees.

Exploring the devastating mechanisms of power, this searing climate fantasy breathes life into a crumbling world hovering on the brink of total destruction.

“Vita’s rage overflowed until she was prepared to drown in it, and she knew that she would never again dam this anger to please another.”

After nine years as the people’s beloved princess in the sun-soaked Kingdom of Carca, Vita witnesses the execution of her mother by her father’s hand. Forced into exile, Vita fades into obscurity with her only friends—the crows that visit her window.

Eleven years later, Vita is given a choice: marry an enemy general, granting him legitimacy to take the throne, or die as the forgotten princess. With time running out, Vita meets Soline, an intriguing lady-in-waiting who introduces her to the powerful-but-unstable magic of alchemy.

If Vita and Soline can learn to control it—and the undeniable spark between them—they could burn the world of men to the ground.

Perfect for fans of Emily Giffin and Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Palace at Dusk explores the complexity of love in an illicit office romance. 

Harvard-educated corporate attorney Jasmine “Jae” Phillips promised herself that she wouldn’t date anyone at the office. She’s too focused on the job, and her meh dating history can be summed up with a shrug. Then came Brad Summers. 

When Jae’s colleague Brad enters her office—boyish and handsome with his tousled hair and sparkling green-gold eyes—and asks if she’d like to grab a drink, she’s flattered. Their conversation makes her feel alive, fascinating, and fun, and the lonely Jae can’t help but bask in Brad’s attention. Soon Jae is breaking her never-date-at-the-office rule. And when she later discovers that Brad has a wife and child, she finds herself breaking a much more serious rule. 

After Jae spends years in love with a man who isn’t hers and jeopardizes her career in the process, a series of unexpected developments shake her awake and force her to confront the cost—and the future—of their affair. She needs to make a choice, but love stories are rarely black and white, and the right path isn’t so clear. With her head and her heart pulling her in opposite directions, Jae must somehow chart a course between them in order to find her happily ever after.