Luna caliente narra una historia de obsesión, de sexo y de crímenes situada en un contexto inusual como marco de novela negra: la Argentina de 1977, sometida a la dictadura militar, donde la lucha antisubversiva y la tortura están a la orden del...
En el oto?o de 1937 cientos de soldados republicanos, huyendo de la amenaza nacionalista que hab?a derrumbado su frente de Asturias, se refugian en las escarpadas monta?as de la Cordillera Cant?brica. Pretend?an escapar de la represi?n del...
“For decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has remained a unique figure in our literature. He reminds us that fiction lives because artists make it. . To the novel — everyone’s novel — Sorrentino brings honor, tradition and relentless...
Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame,...
Humanity is only at the very beginning of the path of studying the universe. The carefree merry man Lupo Devega, idly wasting time, accidentally encounters an alien on the city embankment. The guy does not care about the universal problems and...
An attempt to portray the horror of certain men's brutal sexual domination of women, this novel by the German author of "The Piano Teacher" tells the story of Gerti, a woman who turns in revulsion from her husband to a younger man, only to...
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"Reality's got a hole in it." That's what runs through Michael Blasco's head when he discovers that he has the uncanny ability to bring his fantasies to life in this wacky, inspired third novel by Ryman (Was). The...
Czarodziejskie lustro kupione w tajemniczym sklepie pana Grymsa odbija dziwny świat, który kusi i niepokoi trzynastoletnią Agatę. Zwodnicze lustro wciąga najpierw jej ukochanego psa Kusego i tym samym zmusza Agatę, by...
`Luzmila`, el relato que da t?tulo al libro, es el preferido por Alvaro Pombo. Constituye la primera formulaci?n de un viejo asunto: la bondad de una persona. Luzmila, la protagonista, es un personaje de muy pobre desarrollo intelectual, dotado...
Lyrics Alley is the evocative story of an affluent Sudanese family shaken by the shifting powers in their country and the near-tragedy that threatens the legacy they've built for decades.
Their fortune threatened by shifting powers in Sudan and...