A masterpiece of unusual beauty by one of Europe's greatest living writers — a brilliant evocation of the Spanish Civil War.
On August 19, 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruña and watches Fascist...
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A Dance to the Music of Time — his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.
The novels follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth...
Antoine cree que el mejor regalo que puede hacerle a su hermana es un viaje al lugar donde iban de vacaciones en su infancia. Pero este viaje trastocará sus vidas actuales por culpa de un impactante hecho que presenciaron siendo unos niños y que...
As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal...
From The Washington Post
Reviewed by Judy Budnitz
Does government-sanctioned suicide offer the same potential for satire as, say, the consumption of children? Possibly. One need only look to Kurt Vonnegut's story "Welcome to the Monkey House,"...
El texto nos remite a un pasado argentino, a la oculta sordidez de un mundo de novela rosa transcrito con implacable objetividad a trav?s del calco par?dico de los clich?s del lenguaje period?stico, de la impasibilidad feroz de las descripciones...
Vázquez-Figueroa, en esta espectacular novela, logra exponer un convincente retrato de la cultura polinesia. La trama se desarrolla en una pequeña isla del Pacífico Sur la cual se ve salvajemente invadida por naves provenientes de...
Borges En...
Two years ago-at twenty-two-John McManus captivated writers and critics with his first story collection and became the youngest recipient of the Whiting Writers Award. Now McManus returns with a collection of stories equally piercing and visionary:...
Westberlin im Jahr 1987: Soja, gelernte Setzerin, Republikflüchtling, Aushilfsblumenhändlerin mit weitem Herzen, trifft Harry, groß, frei, still-entschlossen, abgründige Vergangenheit, düstere Zukunft. Und fortan bestimmt sein Schicksal ihr...