La historia satírica del ascenso y caída de un dictador sudamericano sirve a Francisco Ayala para analizar distintos problemas morales. El autor, con un lenguaje preciso, convierte su preocupación por la degradación humana en una...
Gabriela y Juana, madre e hija, viven los años de la guerra civil en una ciudad castellana cuyo ambiente les resulta incómodo y asfixiante. Gabriela se ha quedado viuda, su marido ha sido fusilado por sus ideas republicanas y subsiste dando clases...
Las mujeres de Rosas ha sido el pretexto para reconstruir algunas biografías femeninas del siglo XIX sobre la base del material relativamente abundante que existe en lo que se refiere a la época de Rosas. Como era habitual en ese...
Paul Theroux, one of the world’s most popular authors, both for his travel books and his fiction, has produced an off-beat story of 1960s weirdos unlike anything he has ever written.
During the time of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency,...
“[Murmur] is as bracingly intelligent as it is brave…. [Eaves] knows that Turing’s theories of consciousness have implications for fiction, and that fiction can operate at the frontiers of what we know about the workings of our minds.”
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From the publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux: a first novel, at once hilarious and tender, about the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions, and the iconic, alluring writer who has obsessed them both.
Paul Dukach is heir apparent...
Winner of FC2’s American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.
A monogrammed cube appears in your town. Your landlord cheats you out of first place in the annual Christmas decorating contest. You need to learn how to...