From the author of A Clockwork Orange, a brilliantly funny spy novel.
Has more wit and comic invention than the books which it so boisterously ridicules. – New...
En Roma, como en cualquier otra ciudad del mundo, los adolescentes quieren volar, buscan caminar `tres metros sobre el cielo`. Las chicas como Babi se esmeran en sus estudios, hablan del último grito en moda y se preparan para encontrar al amor...
El cuco, la granjilla y el cárabo, tres pájaros de cuenta, son los protagonistas de otras tantas historias vividas por Miguel Delibes, en las que el escritor aborda uno de los temas constantes en su obra: la naturaleza. Un castellano rico y...
Tres magníficos relatos de Eduardo Mendoza, narrados con el inconfundible y personalísimo estilo del autor. Una combinación perfecta de seriedad e ironía. Los tres relatos que comprenden este volumen guardan un rasgo común....
Back in Karachi for his father’s funeral, Daanish, a young Pakistani changed by his years at an American university, is entranced by Dia, a fiercely independent heiress to a silk factory in the countryside. Their illicit affair will forever...
“My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight,” H.D. writes in Tribute to Freud, her moving memoir. Compelled by historical as well as personal crises, H.D. underwent therapy with Freud during 1933–34, as the...
Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an SS officer and stolen from her...
Mol Benade, her brothers Treppie and Pop, and son Lambert live in a rotting government house, which is the only thing they have, other than decaying appliances that break as soon as they're fixed, remembrances of a happy past that never really...