A young television executive takes to the road in the 1960s with a movie camera to capture his own past in a "cinema verite" documentary. Within this framework, he delivers his observations on the influence of film, modern corporate life, young...
It was a spring evening in Washington DC; a chilly autumn morning in Melbourne; it was exactly 22.00 Greenwich Mean Time when a worm entered the computerised control systems of hundreds of Australian prisons and released the locks in many places of...
"His tools are brilliant syntax, the ability to achieve highly powerful, recurrent images, a set of relationships between the plot strands that are more than a forced structure, and humor, a corrosive humor that never leads to laughter, but is...
Michael Moran is an old Irish Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Moran is till fighting-with his family, his friends, and even himself-in this haunting...
Lucía Etxbarría ha construido una novela sobre la difícil búsqueda de la identidad femenina al margen de convenciones absurdas y esterotipadas, con un estilo personalísimo, esculpido a golpe de guiños y ambivalencias en...
Ingeniero agrónomo reconvertido en informático especializado en exportaciones agrícolas, Michel Houellebecq (Reunión, 1958) sorprendió en 1994 con ésta su primera novela, preámbulo de la muy ensalzada Las...
W mroźny lutowy dzień dwaj starzy przyjaciele spotykają się w tłumie żałobników, by towarzyszyć zmarłej Molly Lane w ostatniej drodze. Clive Linley i Vernon Halliday byli kochankami Molly, zanim osiągnęli sukces zawodowy – pierwszy...
A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.
It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run...