On the outskirts of a northwestern European riverport city lives a powerful woman banker, a public figure admired and hated in equal measure, who has decided to turn from the worlds of high finance and modern life to embark on a quest. Having...
I was thirteen. Being thirteen is like being in the middle of nowhere. Which was accentuated by the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere. In a house that wasn’t mine. in a city that wasn’t mine, in a country that wasn’t mine, with a...
From one of our most deeply admired storytellers, author of the richly acclaimed Gallatin Canyon, his first collection in nine years.
Set in McGuane's accustomed Big Sky country, with its mesmeric powers, these stories attest to the...
Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It's the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart.
From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s trying to adjust to making a...
Premio Nadal 1995
"Cruzar el Danubio es una novela con distintos escenarios, pero uno de los más importantes es Viena, de ahí el título que hace referencia al Danubio", manifestó el periodista Ignacio Carrión que hasta...
Remy is a young girl who lives in a town that believes in crystal count: that you are born with one-hundred crystals inside and throughout your life, through accidents and illness, your count is depleted until you reach zero.
As a city...
Yang Tianyi is a "leftover woman" and under pressure to find a husband. She is attractive and intelligent but knows little of the world, and finally makes a disastrous marriage to a man, Wang Lian. At the end of the 1980s, in Tiananmen Square, she...
Una galer?a de turbadores personajes en situaciones inquitantes, unidos a una prosa de alta tensi?n, convierten esta colecci?n de cuentos de Javier Mar?as en un libro tan fascinante e imprescindible como sus novelas m?s celebradas. En estos...
La historia que se relata en la novela es una de las que ha despertado gran inter?s, debido a que cuenta la tr?gica vida de tres j?venes de distintas clases sociales que nacen y mueren el mismo d?a, a la vez que expone las condiciones de la...