Meet Eleanor Oliphant. She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully time-tabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza,...
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In his first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson For a Better World, Donald Antrim demonstrates all of the skill that critics have hailed in his subsequent work: the pitch-perfect ear, the cunning imagination, and the uncanny control of a narrative at once...
El protagonista de esta intensa crónica sobre el paso del tiempo es alguien que descubre la terrible realidad de la muerte en las playas de su infancia, que triunfa en su carrera como publicitario, que fracasa estrepitosamente en sus tres...
"The stories in Elegy on Kinderklavier travel around the world and to the moon, and along the way they tell you everything they know. Arna Hemenway writes a fiction whose satisfactions are not merely narrative but musical, and it is a pleasure to...
Lore arrives at the hospital alone — no husband, no partner, no friends. Her birth plan is explicit: she wants no fetal monitor, no IV, no epidural. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward — herself on the verge of showing — is patient with...
Wie berührt man die Seele? Durch Liebe oder durch Lust? Kann man die Seele wie einen Körper berühren und umgekehrt? Ein provozierendes modernes Märchen über die Alchimie der Liebe.
Paulo Coelho, geboren 1947 in Rio de...
Elizabeth Costello es una reconocida novelista australiana cuya dilatada vida se nos revela a través de una ingeniosa serie de ocho conferencias. Desde el discurso de aceptación de un premio en una facultad de letras de Nueva Inglaterra,...
Elle s'appelait...
Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned sour and fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them with his bare hands. They foraged and hunted. When they...
Con la sabidur?a del meticuloso observador que es y gracias a la seductora ceremonia del bien contar, Vargas Llosa nos induce sin paliativos a dejarnos prender en la red sutil de perversidad que, poco a poco, va enredando y ensombreciendo las...