Recopilación que es una recreación de las experiencias literarias, filosóficas y aun teológicas, de textos históricos y sagrados chinos e hindúes o incluso europeos medievales, que recogen mitos y concepciones...
Don DeLillo's follow-up to Libra, his brilliant fictionalization of the Kennedy assassination, Mao II is a series of elusive set-pieces built around the themes of mass psychology, individualism vs. the mob, the power of imagery and the search for...
From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in...
In this novel, Farah tells the story of the orphan Askar. Before he is born, Askar has lost his father to the bloody war dividing Somalia and Ethiopia, and his mother dies giving birth to him. It is only thanks to Misra, a kindhearted woman who...
If Gabriel GarcÃa MÃrquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers. Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared. Like thousands of...
Apasionante final para la trilogía. Los Perdomo Maradentro son una familia que huye de Lanzarote para rehacer su vida en tierras venezolanas. En ese lugar, siguen sucediéndose inesperadas situaciones por ese particular hechizo que...
«El encaje alzado de las fachadas venecianas es el mejor rastro que el tiempo, alias agua, haya dejado nunca sobre tierra firme. […] Es como si el espacio, más consciente aquí que en ningún otro lugar de su inferioridad frente al...
Written from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother, Marcel is a striking debut novel describing the vivid history of a family in a Flemish village. The mysterious death of Marcel, the family favourite, has always...