Encara no hi ha cap producte a la teva cistella
Narrativa estrangera
Avui -5% en Llibres
When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.''From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility, what could be so terribly wrong?My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious – and learning to go on.In a cosy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. A married couple does their best to hide their growing rift from their children. A brother seeks solace from his break-up in a glamorous online avatar. A son takes his first uncertain steps towards independence, and a daughter obsesses over keeping her family safe.Set on the same day for three consecutive years and against the unsettling backdrop of the pandemic, Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on growing older, love and loss and the limitations of family life, from the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Dorian Gray is a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, as it follows Dorian's own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity.Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
The new novel from the author of One Moment, perfect for fans of One Dayby David Nicholls and Impossible by Sarah Lotz. Emery is born with a heart condition that means her heart could quite literally stop at any moment. The people around her know what to do - if they act quickly enough there will be no lasting damage, and Emery´s heart can be restarted. But when this happens, she is briefly technically dead.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Introducing Little Clothbound irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes of friendship and shared vision, and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men remains Steinbeck's most popular work, achieving success as a novel, Broadway play and three acclaimed films.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
** NOW A HIT NETFLIX FILM, WINNER OF 7 BAFTAS AND 4 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE**Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written.One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Based on the true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, The Sorrow of War is revered as the ‘All Quiet on the Western Front for our era’.Kien’s job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well – this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors. This book is his attempt to understand the eleven years of his life he gave to a senseless war.'A book about writing, about lost youth, it is also a beautiful agonising love story... a magnificent achievement' IndependentTRANSLATED BY FRANK PALMOS AND PHAN THANH HAO
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality‘These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread, were for others the mask of tragedy.’Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his wounded lover, Hélène, to die. Told through memories of his and her life, The Blood of Others paints an intense and moving picture of their love story and life in German occupied Paris during the Second World War. In the face of a seemingly unstoppable force, Hélène and Jean are confronted by the illusion of freedom and made to question their individual roles in the collective struggle against fascism, with devastating consequences.First published in 1945, this powerful novel resonates profoundly today and brings the ideas of one of the most important existentialist thinkers to life in spellbinding prose.With an Introduction by Ali Smith.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes ...'When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited, he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Mark Haddon weaves ancient fables into fresh and unexpected forms, and forges new legends to sit alongside them. The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching parable of maternal love – and of the monstrosities of patriarchy. The lover of a goddess, Tithonus, is gifted eternal life but without eternal youth. Actaeon, changed into a stag after glimpsing the naked Diana and torn to pieces by his hunting dogs, becomes a visceral metaphor about how humans use and misuse animals.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat, an Irishman who claims to have many friends but treats people with carelessness. Alike in their alienation, all three embark on a new life in London, piecing together an existence in the margins of the urban world.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Poursuivant sa traversée de l’histoire humaine, Noam s’éveille d’un long sommeil sur les rives du Nil, en 1650 av. J.-C., et se lance à la découverte de Memphis, capitale des deux royaumes d’Égypte. Les temps ont bien changé. Des maisons de plaisir à la Maison des morts, des quartiers hébreux au palais de Pharaon se dévoile à lui une civilisation inouïe qui se transmet sur papyrus, vénère son fleuve nourricier, invente l’au-delà, érige des temples et des pyramides pour accéder à l’éternité. Mais Noam, le cœur plein de rage, n’a qu’une idée en tête : en découdre avec son ennemi pour connaître enfin l’immortalité heureuse auprès de Noura, son aimée. Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt nous embarque cette fois en Égypte ancienne, au cœur d’un monde qui prospéra pendant plus de trois mille ans, et restitue cette effervescence, dont notre modernité a conservé des traces, mais qui reste dans l’Histoire des hommes une parenthèse aussi sublime qu’énigmatique.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles’ envy and violence.As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys’ careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.Our Evenings is Dave Win’s own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, and follows on from The Kamogawa Food Detectives.Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner. Running this unique establishment are a father-daughter duo who serve more than just mouth-watering feasts.The pair have reinvented themselves as 'food detectives', offering a service that goes beyond traditional dining. Through their culinary sleuthing, they reconstruct beloved dishes from the memories of their customers, creating a connection to cherished moments from the past.Among those who seek an appointment include: a one-hit wonder pop star, finally ready to leave Tokyo and give up on her singing career, wants to try the tempura that she ate to celebrate her only successful record and a budding Olympic swimmer who desires the bento lunch box that his estranged father used to make him. The Kamogawa Diner doesn't just serve meals – it revives lost recipes and rekindles forgotten memories. It's a doorway to the past through the miracle of delicious food.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited, he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships,gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. Their accounts were dismissed as 'wild female imagination'.Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn the truth, they meet secretly to discuss how to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. But they have just two days to decide, before the rapists are bailed out and brought home.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the famous Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named John Gabriel Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
El contacto entre el horror y la belleza es un bellísimo libro sobre las raíces más minerales de los hombres. Un muchacho polaco, Jakob Beer, aparece hundido en el barro en una ciudad polaca, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Lo salva un científico humanista, Athos Roussos, que lo preserva en una isla griega, entre cartografía y botánica y pieza de arte. Jacob y Athos, con el transcurso del tiempo, acaban instalándose en Canadá. Pero llevan consigo toda la vida que no han vivido, todo el recuerdo de la barbarie nazi, el mar, el sol, las islas, la lengua griega. Y, en la memoria de Jakob, el recuerdo de Bella. Luego será el encuentro entre Ben, un joven profesor obsesionado por la memoria ajena de la guerra, y el ya viejo Jakob, ahora poeta y traductor: el contacto entre ambos atraerá la cuidadosa paz del más joven. En un choque de herencias terribles.Críticas:«Este libro extraordinario es un mundo. Quizá sea el mundo.»Ha dicho John Berger de Piezas en fuga «Es el libro más importante y más bello que he leído en los últimos cuarenta años.»
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn’t really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little brother, Joar, on his own, he no longer has time or space for lofty speculations.In present-day Russia, Alevtina Kotov, a biologist working at Moscow University, is traveling with her young son to the home of her stepfather, to celebrate his eightieth birthday. As a student, Alevtina was bright, curious and ambitious, asking the big questions about life and human consciousness. But as she approaches middle-age, most of that drive has gone, and she finds herself in a place she doesn’t want to be, without really understanding how she got there. Her stepfather, a musician, raised her as his own daughter, and she was never interested in learning about her biological father, when she finally starts looking into him, she learns that he died many years ago and left two sons, Joar and Syvert.Years later, when Syvert and Alevtina meet in Moscow, two very different approaches to life emerge. And as a bright star appears in the sky, it illuminates the wonder of human existence and the mysteries that exist beyond our own worldview. Set against the political and cultural backdrop of both the 1980s and the present day, The Wolves of Eternity is an expansive and affecting book about relations—to one another, to nature, to the dead.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
S'ha repetit sovint que Kafka havia decidit destruir tota la seva obra literària. Així, si més no, s'expressa Max Brod, l'amic de l'escriptor i escriptor ell mateix, que en va ser marmessor. I, tanmateix, hi havia dues cartes que Brod va trobar en un calaix, ja mort l'amic, fent pila amb altres papers. Una, en tinta, en la qual hi havia escrita l'adreça de Broch, l'altra, amb llapis, més detallada. En aquesta segona carta, Kafka expressa amb total precisió quines són les obres que vol que siguin conservades: «De tot el que he escrit, són vàlids únicament els llibres La sentència, El fogoner, La metamorfosi, A la colònia penitenciària, Un metge de poble i un conte, Un artista de la fam (els pocs exemplars de Contemplació poden quedar: no vull donar a ningú la molèstia de destruir-los, però no s'ha de reimprimir.» Més endavant, hi afegirà encara tres contes més: «Primer patiment», «Una doneta» i «Josefina la cantant», per tal de fer-ne un llibre, les proves del qual va corregir al sanatori, poc abans de morir. Aquest volum que no pretén prendre partit ni tampoc establir cap cànon recull tots aquests títols, compostos, a més, seguint la presentació tipogràfica prevista pel seu autor.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Hill House ist der perfekte Ort für ihr Projekt, davon ist Holly Sherwin überzeugt. Das Herrenhaus, hoch in den Wäldern von Upstate New York, soll für einige Wochen ihr Zuhause werden. Hier will die Autorin zusammen mit drei weiteren Künstlern ihr Theaterstück über einen Hexenprozess proben, das ihr den Durchbruch bringen soll. Sie fragt sich nicht, warum die Besitzerin selbst sich von ihrem Anwesen fernhält, oder weshalb das Paar, das hier nach dem Rechten sieht, nie über Nacht bleibt. Holly weiß, dass die Atmosphäre von Hill House sie inspirieren wird. Bei den Proben ist die Energie mit Händen zu greifen. Oder ist hier noch etwas anderes am Werk? Woher kommen die Blutflecke auf dem Tischtuch, die seltsamen Stimmen? Die schwarzen Hasen, die immer wieder auftauchen? Etwas Unheimliches geht vor in Hill House ...
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Nur noch drei Tage bis Weihnachten. Die ersten Schneeflocken rieseln vom Himmel, als Libby und ihr neuer Freund Max zu einem Treffen mit alten Unifreunden nach Yorkshire fahren. Archie, der Herzensbrecher der Gruppe, hat alle in das wunderschöne Herrenhaus seiner Familie eingeladen. Der Abend ist ein voller Erfolg, doch als die Gäste zu später Stunde abreisen wollen, sind die Straßen vollständig vom Schnee blockiert. Und dann fällt auch noch der Strom aus. Bei Kerzenlicht schwelgen die Freunde in Erinnerungen an alte Zeiten, und so manches Geheimnis kommt ans Licht. Dabei wird Libby mit Gefühlen konfrontiert, die sie jahrelang verdrängt hat …
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Als ihr Freund kurz vor Weihnachten geschäftlich nach Athen fliegen muss, beschließt Jen, ihn dort zu überraschen. Bei ihrer Ankunft in der griechischen Hauptstadt muss sie allerdings feststellen, dass David sie belogen hat. Jen ist am Boden zerstört und würde am liebsten sofort nach London zurückkehren. Doch sie bekommt keinen Flug. Hilfe findet sie bei dem liebenswerten Astro, Mitarbeiter einer kleinen Bar. Mit ihm erkundet sie Athen, das zu dieser Jahreszeit einen ganz besonderen Zauber entfaltet: Die antike Stadt erstrahlt im Glanz der Lichter, Schnee bedeckt Straßen und Plätze, und es duftet nach herrlichem Mandelgebäck. Und dabei kommen Jen und Astro sich immer näher …
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Die Suche nach ihrem vermissten Vater führt Julia Win von New York nach Kalaw, einem malerischen, in den Bergen Burmas versteckten Dorf. Ein vierzig Jahre alter Liebesbrief ihres Vaters an eine unbekannte Frau hat sie an diesen magischen Ort geführt. Hier findet sie nicht nur einen Bruder, von dem sie nichts wusste, sondern stößt auch auf ein Familiengeheimnis, das ihr Leben für immer verändert.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Ce nom si romanesque est un déclic : Que se passerait-il si Elisabeth prenait sa place ? Et si c’était enfin l’occasion de réaliser un vieux songe : changer vraiment de vie, au lieu de n’en donner l’illusion en jouant mille personnages… Qui d’entre nous n’a pas pensé, quitter la ville pour se fondre dans le paysage, disparaître pour se réinventer. Et la voilà partie pour vivre une vie qui n’était pas la sienne.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Another Life is a powerful, moving and hopeful story of the life-changing impact of the connections we form, by the international number one bestselling author Kristin Hannah.Angie DeSaria has spent years of her life trying to have a child. Now, her marriage has crumbled under the strain. Adrift and alone, she returns to her childhood home, a small coastal town in the Pacific Northwest, to help try and rescue the beloved, failing family business.Lauren Ribido is a senior in high school. She dreams of an Ivy League education, escaping her hometown and her troubled mother.When Angie hires Lauren to work at the restaurant, they form an immediate bond, which deepens when Lauren’s mother abruptly leaves town and Angie offers her a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. Together, these two women – one who longs for a child and the other who longs for a mother’s love – will be tested in ways that neither could have imagined.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Cela fait bientôt sept ans qu'Eric et sa petite Anna Nina sillonnent les routes de France. Solitude choisie. Jusqu'à ce soir de juin, où le vent et la pluie les obligent à frapper à la porte de Valentine. Un orage peut-il à lui seul détourner d'un destin que l'on croyait tout tracé ?
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby, author of Razorblade Tears, and series editor Steph Cha.S. A. Cosby, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland, picks the best twenty mystery and suspense stories from the previous year.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Teorema es la inexorable descripción de la conducta y de los conflictos de una familia burguesa en un momento de crisis y, al mismo tiempo, una parábola acerca de la irrupción de lo religioso en el orden familiar y de sus demoledoras consecuencias, que se desatan a partir de la visita de un enigmático joven. Este establecerá una irresistible conexión sexual e intelectual con todos los componentes de la familia, a través de la cual cada uno de ellos tomará conciencia de su más íntima naturaleza. Provocador y profético como su autor, Teorema marca un punto de inflexión en la obra de Pasolini y configura esa visión fuertemente sagrada y simbólica de la realidad que el intelectual italiano desarrolló en la última etapa de su vida.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media.March, 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, though, and after Japan’s defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the North-South split that remains today.But what if the KPG still existed now, today—working toward a unified Korea, secretly harnessing the might of a giant tech company to further its aims? That’s the outrageous premise of Same Bed Different Dreams, which weaves together three distinct narrative voices and an archive of mysterious images and twists reality like a kaleidoscope, spinning Korean history, American pop culture, and our tech-fraught lives into an extraordinary and unforgettable novel.Early on we meet Soon Sheen, who works at the sprawling international technology company GLOAT, and comes into possession of an unfinished book authored by the KPG. The manuscript is a mysterious, revisionist history, tying famous names and obscure bit players to the KPG’s grand project. This strange manuscript links together figures from architect-poet Yi Sang to Jack London to Marilyn Monroe. M*A*S*H is in here, too, and the Moonies, and a history of violence extending from the assassination of President McKinley to the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.Just as foreign countries have imposed their desires on Korea, so too has Park tucked different dreamers into this sprawling bed of a novel. Among them: Parker Jotter, Korean War vet and appliance-store owner, who saw something--a UFO?--while flying over North Korea, Nora You, nail salon magnate, and Monk Zingapan, game designer turned writing guru. Their links are revealed over time, even as the dreamers remain in the dark as to their own interconnectedness. A thrilling feat of imagination and a step forward from an award-winning author, Same Bed Different Dreams begins as a comic novel and gradually pulls readers into another dimension—one in which utopia is possible.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its youngest daughter as she comes of age in the 1990s.So begins award-winning poet DéLana R. A. Dameron’s debut novel, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Tabor spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their stories and witnessing their struggles. On Redwood Court, the cul-de-sac in the all-Black working-class suburb of Columbia, South Carolina, where her grandparents live, Mika learns important lessons from the people who raise her: her exhausted parents, who work long hours at multiple jobs while still making sure their kids experience the adventure of family vacations, her older sister, who in a house filled with Motown would rather listen to Alanis Morrisette, her retired grandparents, children of Jim Crow, who realized their own vision of success when they bought their house on the Court in the 1960s, imagining it filled with future generations, and the many neighbors who hold tight to the community they’ve built, committed to fostering joy and love in an America so insistent on seeing Black people stumble and fall.With visceral clarity and powerful prose, Dameron reveals the devastation of being made to feel invisible and the transformative power of being seen. Redwood Court is a celebration of extraordinary, ordinary people striving to achieve their own American dreams.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
A pianist falls grandly, helplessly in love in this elegant new novella from the twice-Booker Prize winnerThe Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist, who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his Barcelona concert.Although Beatriz, who is married, is initially unimpressed by Wittold, she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world. As he sends her letters, extends countless invitations to travel, and even visits her husband's summer home in Mallorca, their unlikely relationship blossoms, though only on her terms.As the power struggle between them intensifies -- Is it Beatriz who limits their passion by controlling her emotions? Or is it Witold, trying to force into life his dream of love? Evocative of Joyce's 'The Dead,' The Pole is a haunting work, evoking the 'inexhaustible palette of sensations, from blind love to compassion' (El País) typical of Coetzee's finest novels.Published together with five exceptional stories, this new work from one of our greatest writers is a must for all literary connoisseurs.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson, essays radical and inspiring, poems moving and disturbing, stories surreal and fabulous, taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
Kazantzakis's autobiographical novel 'Report to Greco' was one of the last things he wrote before he died. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, still occupied by the Turks, and then steadily grows into a spiritual quest that takes him to Italy, Jerusalem, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Russia and the Caucasus, and finally back to Crete again. At different times Nietzsche, Bergson, Buddha, Homer and Christ dominate as his spiritual masters.
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.
Avui -5% en Llibres
En la imaginación de la pequeña Ana, la casa de la antigua calle de San Juan en la ciudad transilvana de Kronstadt tiene rostro, pensamientos y sentimientos. Ha sobrevivido heroicamente a dos terremotos, dos guerras mundiales y un ataque con bomba, mientras que sus «parientes» de enfrente tuvieron que dejar paso a un hotel de gran altura. Ioana Pârvulescu, originaria de esta misma ciudad, cuenta en su novela la historia de los habitantes de esta casa a lo largo de varias generaciones y de nacionalidades cambiantes. Este es un relato luminoso de un período sombrío, el siglo xx, en el que la familia y la ciudad sobrevivieron primero al régimen fascista pronazi y más tarde a la despiadada dictadura comunista de Ceaucescu. Escrita con una elegancia casi epistolar, llena de nostalgia, poesía y humor, y poblada de personajes memorables, la novela de Ioana Pârvulescu es un canto a la vida y a la memoria, porque «el pasado debe permanecer, en nuestras vidas, tan lleno de posibilidades como el futuro».
Esgotat ara
Has afegit la quantitat màxima disponible.