Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so...
Winner of the National Book Award for her collection of stories Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett has become one of our most admired and beloved writers. In this magnificent new book, she unfolds five pivotal moments in the lives of her characters and in...
En el oto?o de 1979, un joven que sue?a con ser escritor se incorpora por reclutamiento obligatorio al Ej?rcito Espa?ol. Su destino es el Pa?s Vasco. Su viaje, que atraviesa la pen?nsula de sur a norte, es el preludio de una pesadilla. En las...
Consider Ariel Jardell, an adopted twelve-year-old girl driven by jealousy — her mother thinks — and by forces far more bizarre — as you will discern — to a precocious excursion into evil from mere mischief, to malevolence beyond compare......
Cuando Catalina conoce al general Andrés Ascensio, todavía es una muchacha que lo ignora todo de la vida. Él, en cambio, es candidato a Gobernador del Estado de Puebla, y sabe muy bien cuáles son sus objetivos de cacique....
The incomparable Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives
In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative...
En Great Wyrley, un pequeño pueblo de Inglaterra, alguien mata caballos y ganado, y escribe anónimos en los que anuncia el sacrificio de veinte doncellas. Hay que encontrar un culpable, y George, abogado, hijo del párroco del pueblo,...
The Booker Prize (nominee)
The Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year (nominee)
Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late 19th century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Catholic Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small...