The hero of this dazzling novel by American master E. L. Doctorow is Joe, a young man on the run in the depths of the Great Depression. A late-summer night finds him alone and shivering beside a railroad track in the Adirondack mountains when a...
He's the bad boy she always wanted.
She's the good girl that got away.
He’d know her anywhere. Johnny Ramos had just come off a tour of duty in Afghanistan to find Esmee Alden trolling the mean streets of Denver in red lace and leather. The...
With her characteristic brilliance, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer follows the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. An earthquake offers tragedy and opportunity in the title story, exposing both an ocean bed...
"Begins to fuck with your head from its very first word." — Toby Litt
"Navidad & Matanza could be the hallucinogenic amalgamation of a César Aira plot with setting and characters conceived by Bolaño — if written using Oulipo-style...
The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own...
Los últimos cien días de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el escenario europeo son la culminación del drama que se ha desarrollado a lo largo de toda la contienda. En esos tres meses los Aliados darán el golpe de gracia al Tercer...
Todas las espléndidas historias, entre cómicas y amargas, que Italo Calvino reunió en 1970 con el título de Los amores difíciles, hablan de la dificultad de comunicación entre personas que, por alguna inesperada circunstancia, podrían iniciar...