Libros de narrativa extranjera

Albion
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Hope, Anna

Albion shakes the country house novel to its foundations, in a story of family, inheritance and accountabilityThe Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home – twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone – to bury Philip: husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember.Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defence against the coming climate catastrophe. Milo envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn. Each believes their father has given them his blessing, setting them on a collision course with each other.Isa has long suspected that her father thought only of himself, and hopes to seek out her childhood love, who still lives on the estate, to discover whether it is her feelings for him that are creating the fault lines in her marriage.And then there is Clara, who arrives in their midst from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture all the dreams on which they’ve built their lives.
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Overland
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Khan, Yasmin Cordery

London, 1970Joyce, fresh out of secretarial college, answers an ad in the local paper for a fellow traveller needed to fill a car going on the hippy trail. Arriving at Freddie's Notting Hill townhouse, Joyce already feels a world away from the suburban semi she grew up in. She's desperate to escape the stifling life she can see mapped out for her – job, boyfriend, marriage, kids – and the long-haired, dope-smoking Freddie looks like he can show her an alternative path.Together with Freddie's best friend from boarding school, Anton, the three agree to travel overland from London to Kathmandu. But their initial excitement soon turns to fear when Freddie's experimentations push his friendship with Anton to the extreme, with devastating consequences for everyone.Overland is a novel about youth, privilege, class and the sharp echoes of British imperialism from one of the most exciting new voices in literary fiction.
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Claudine at School
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Colette

Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Joubert twins Claudine wreaks havoc on her small school. Always clever, witty and charming Claudine is more than a match for her formidable headmistress as they fight for the attention of the pretty assistant Aimee. The horrors of examinations and good-humoured bullying are the backdrops in this immensely funny and delightful novel with which Colette established the captivating character of Claudine. Through the games, the fun and the intricacies of school life Claudine emerges as a true original, lyrical and intelligent she is one of the twentieth century's most beguiling emancipated women.
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Gliff
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Smith, Ali

O brave new world, that has such people in't.Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house.What does it mean?It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort out our increasingly toxic world.What would that actually be like?In a state turned hostile, a world of insiders and outsiders, what things of the past can sustain them and what shape can resistance take?And what’s a horse got to do with any of this?Gliff is a novel about how we make meaning and how we are made meaningless. With a nod to the traditions of dystopian fiction, a glance at the Kafkaesque, and a new take on the notion of classic, it's a moving and electrifying read, a vital and prescient tale of the versatility and variety deep-rooted in language, in nature and in human nature.
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The Coast Road
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Murrin, Alan

It's 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley: the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her family to be with a married man in Dublin.Returning to pick up the pieces of her old life, Colette finds that nothing - and everything - has changed. When the man to whom she is still married denies her access to their children, Colette enlists the help of Izzy, a housewife and mother of two, and the women forge a friendship that will send them on a spiralling journey - one towards a path of self-discovery, and the other towards tragedy.
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A Girl Is Lost in Her Century, Looking for Her Father
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Tavares, Gonçalo M.

Amid a landscape of rubble, skeletal figures, and helplessness in Europe post-World War II, a girl and a man wander among the ruins.Hanna, a 12-year-old girl with Down's Syndrome, is looking for her father. Marius, her companion, seems to be hiding from something. Aided by a simple instruction card, Hanna explores what it is to be human, as Tavares creates an abstract yet touching portrait of the true victims of war.
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Air
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Boyne, John

From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son.Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it’s an opportunity to connect with his 15-year-old son as they travel halfway across the world to meet a woman who isn’t expecting them.Unsettled by his past, and anxious for his future, Aaron is at a crossroads in life. The damage inflicted upon him during his youth has made him the man he is, but now threatens to widen the growing fissures between him and his only child. This trip could bind them closer together, or tear them further apart.In this penetrating examination of action and consequence, fault and attribution, acceptance and resolution, John Boyne gives us a redemptive story of a father and a son on a moving journey to mend their troubled lives.
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Roadkill
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Amil

An effervescent speculative short story collection by South Korean author Amil for the next generation who crave a fresh perspective.With strong roots in feminist science fiction and fantasy, Roadkill is for the next generation of readers of speculative fiction who love to be transported to different worlds but also crave a fresh perspective. Featuring dystopian wastelands, shamans, self-driving cars, tusked water deer and a divine sea serpent, these six stylistically distinct stories form a sweeping collection that explores contemporary subjects such as the climate crisis, Korean idol culture and techno capitalism through the lives of young women, their friendships and desire for self-expression.
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L'edat fràgil
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Pietrantonio, Donatella Di

L'obra guanyadora de dos premis Strega 2024, en la categoria adults i en la de joves.No existeix una edat sense por. Sempre som fràgils. Però hi ha un moment precís, en la joventut, quan ens llancem al món, en què estem del tot exposats. I el món no ens hauria de fer mal.   Quan l'Amanda interromp els estudis i torna al poble, només cal una mirada perquè la seva mare entengui que alguna cosa no va bé. Durant els primers dies a Milà, la seva filla tenia la brillantor de les llums de la ciutat als ulls, però ara només vol desaparèixer, es tanca a l'habitació i gairebé no parla. La Lucia observa horroritzada l'apatia de l'Amanda.   Li agradaria protegir-la de tot, però hi ha un secret que no li pot amagar: prop de casa, en uns terrenys que pertanyen a la família, fa trenta anys va passar un fet terrible. Aquella nit, entre les pastures i els boscos, la maldat es va fer ben visible.   L'edat fràgil, guanyadora del premi Strega 2024 per partida doble, en la categoria d'adults i en la de joves, reprodueix de manera brillant la tensió existencial entre generacions i gèneres. Una novel·la amb una llengua viva i rica que es desenvolupa amb el suspens d'un thriller enmig de la imponent natura de les muntanyes.
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Exhibit
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Kwon, R O

At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant young photographer, Jin is at a crossroads in her work, in her marriage to her college love Phillip, and in who she is and who she wants to be. Lidija is an alluring, injured world-class ballerina on hiatus from her ballet company under mysterious circumstances. Drawn to each other by their intense artistic drives, the two women talk all night.Cracked open, Jin finds herself telling Lidija about an old familial curse, breaking a lifelong promise. She's been told that if she doesn't keep the curse a secret, she risks losing everything, death and ruin could lie ahead. As Jin and Lidija become more entangled, they realize they share more than the ferocity of their ambition, and begin to explore hidden desires. Something is ignited in Jin: her art, her body, and her sense of self irrevocably changed. But can she avoid the specter of the curse? Urgent, bold, and deeply moving, this novel asks: how brightly can you burn before you light your life on fire?
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All Fours
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July, Miranda

An irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her lifeA semifamous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to New York. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.
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La semana perpetua
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Vazquez, Laura

La semana perpetua, la primera novela de Laura Vazquez, es una obra que desentraña las complejidades de la existencia contemporánea con una voz literaria única y profundamente poética. La narrativa se centra en una familia disfuncional cuyos miembros enfrentan los conflictos internos y externos de una sociedad moderna fragmentada. Entre los personajes destacan un padre que desea borrar su pasado, una madre ausente que se convierte en una presencia negada, un hijo que encuentra refugio en el mundo digital y la poesía, y una hija que lucha por mantener su equilibrio en una realidad abrumadora. Estas voces se entrelazan con relatos de adolescentes, personas mayores y usuarios de internet, creando un caleidoscopio de perspectivas que reflejan la multiplicidad de la experiencia humana.
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Cautery
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Lijtmaer, Lucía

Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman in a slowly curdling relationship in Barcelona. From the outside it all looks good—“we have friends who design jewellery, who make politically committed electronic art, who are concerned about their mobile devices being monitored, who talk about climate change”—but her discontent means she’s not living up to her part of the bargain. Four hundred years earlier, Deborah Moody marries, loses a child, loses her husband, loses everything, and flees England for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But if relying on a husband proved a mistake, independence doesn’t mean freedom from the dangerous vanities of men. Funny, cutting, and a savage indictment of the cheap consolations of meme-ified faux feminism, misplaced solidarity, and sacrifices for the supposed greater good, Cautery offers us two women (one real, one imagined) who share one final vision of true happiness—burning it down and beginning again.
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The Emperor of Gladness
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Vuong, Ocean

Ocean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to surviveOne late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Vuong’s writing – formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness – are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance.
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True Love
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Crewe, Paddy

What does it mean to love and be loved?It is the 1980s and Finn and Keely are growing up in the North East of England.Keely is a fighter. Even in the face of loss she strives to seek connection, but finds that she’s not always searching in the right places.Finn is quiet, sensitive, distant. He spends much of his time alone, yet deep down he wants to discover the thrill of relating to others.When the two finally meet, everything is changed. Love – with all of its attendant joys and costs – is thrust upon them, and each must decide if they will bend or break under its pressure. True Love is a story of the trials of youth, the bonds of family and friendship, and of how much we are willing to risk to have ourselves be seen.
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The Correspondent
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Evans, Virginia

“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle, or, a better metaphor, if dated, the links of a long chain, and even if those links are never put back together, which they will certainly never be, even if they remain for the rest of time dispersed across the earth like the fragile blown seeds of a dying dandelion, isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?”Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has—a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age, and the mistakes and acts of kindness that occur during a lifetime. Sybil Van Antwerp’s life of letters might be “a very small thing,” but she also might be one of the most memorable characters you will ever read.
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The Names
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Knapp, Florence

Can a name shape the course of a life?In the wake of the 1987 storm, Cora sets off with her 9-year-old daughter Maia to register her son's birth. Her husband Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to follow his family tradition going back generations, and name the child Gordon. But on the journey there, Cora wonders if it's right to impose the burden of this name and its legacy onto her newborn son. She herself has Julian in mind, and Maia offers up her own Bear.What follows are three alternate and alternating versions of her son's life shaped by Cora's last-minute choice of name. Spanning thirty-five years, the novel takes in themes of domestic abuse, the messy ties of family, and the possibilities of autonomy and healing.In prose as precise and intimate as it is thrilling, Knapp draws us in from the very first page, ushering in the tenderness of close family connections, as we follow three unforgettable journeys, each heart-pounding in its own way. With echoes of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and deep characterisation reminiscent of Ann Patchett and Maggie O'Farrell, Knapp's debut will make you gasp as you root for Cora, Maia and Bear/Julian/Gordon, weighing up which has been the better life, not just for the central character but also for his mother, grandmother, and sister.
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Banal Nightmare
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Butler, Halle

Margaret Anne ('Moddie') Yance has just returned to her hometown, to mingle with the friends of her youth, to get back in touch with her roots, and to recover from a stressful decade of living in the city in a small apartment with a man she now believed to be a megalomaniac or perhaps a covert narcissist.Back home, Moddie throws herself at the mercy of her old friends, all suddenly tipping toward middle age. She joins them as they go to parties, size each other up, obsess over past slights, dream of wild triumphs, and indulge in elaborate revenge fantasies.But when a mysterious artist arrives in town to take up a residency at the local university, Moddie has no choice but to confront the demons of her past and grapple with the reality of what her life has become.The inimitable Halle Butler, author of The New Me, returns with a novel that is sadistically precise, completely singular and horribly funny.
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Beautiful Days
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Williams, Zach

From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor and Wallace Stegner Fellow Zach Williams comes a staggering debut story collection that confronts parenthood, mortality, and life’s broken promises.Parents awaken in a home in the woods, again and again, to find themselves aging as their infant remains unchanged. An employee is menaced by a conspiracy-minded security guard and accused of sending a sinister viral email. An aging tour guide leads a troublesome group to the site of a UFO, witnessing the slow social deterioration as the rules of decorum go out the window.In each of Williams’ ten stories, time is as fallible as the characters, and reality is witnessed through the gauzy folds of a dream—or a nightmare. Bucolic scenes devolve into harrowing exercises in abandonment, the quotidian nature of office life raises serious questions of existential fortitude. Williams is keenly aware of the insidiousness lurking in the shadows of the everyday, ably spiking it with humor. He depicts the divided self of the parent, the distances necessary to protect our children, and the fallout of our deepest relationships. Williams sees the perversity in the mundane and dares readers to recognize the impact—and beauty—of time’s relentless movement.With exquisite prose and a lacerating wit, Beautiful Days holds a mirror to the many absurdities of being human and refuses to let us look away.
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Seny i sentiment
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Austen, Jane

Jane Austen (Steventon, Hampshire, 1775 - Winchester, Hampshire, 1817)És una de les figures més importants de la literatura anglesa i també una de les més estimades. Les seves obres, entre les quals destaquen Seny i sentiment, Orgull i prejudici, Emma i Mansfield Park, són considerades grans clàssics de la literatura del segle XIX. La publicació de les seves obres va coincidir amb l'eclosió del romanticisme anglès, però Austen queda deliberadament fora d'aquest corrent pel seu realisme serè, i la seva actitud equilibrada davant la vida. Amb un humor i una ironia finíssims, les novel·les de Jane Austen traspuen una dura crítica a la injustícia de què eren objecte le dones del seu temps, com a conseqüència de les lleis i els costums en matèria d'herència.¿A quién va dirigido el libro Seny i sentiment?Seny i Sentiment es una novela clásica de la literatura inglesa, accesible a un público amplio. Se recomienda a lectores interesados en la literatura clásica, en las novelas de formación (Bildungsroman) y en las historias de amor y superación personal. La obra explora temas universales como las relaciones familiares, el amor, la pérdida y el crecimiento personal, por lo que puede ser disfrutada por lectores de diferentes edades y experiencias. Su estilo elegante y su narrativa cautivadora la convierten en una lectura atractiva para aquellos que buscan una novela bien escrita y con personajes memorables. La edición en catalán la hace especialmente accesible a los lectores de habla catalana.Temas que trata el libro Seny i sentimentSeny i Sentiment explora diversos temas relevantes a través de las experiencias de las hermanas Dashwood:El contraste entre la razón y la emoción: La novela presenta a dos hermanas con personalidades opuestas: Elinor, la hermana mayor, se caracteriza por su prudencia y razón, mientras que Marianne es impulsiva y se deja llevar por sus emociones. La obra explora el equilibrio entre ambos aspectos en la búsqueda de la felicidad.El amor y el matrimonio: El amor y sus diferentes manifestaciones son un tema central. Las hermanas Dashwood experimentan diferentes tipos de relaciones amorosas, algunas exitosas y otras desastrosas, mostrando las complejidades del amor y las expectativas sociales en torno al matrimonio.La condición femenina en la sociedad del siglo XIX: La novela refleja la situación de las mujeres en la sociedad inglesa de la época, con sus limitaciones y oportunidades. Las hermanas Dashwood deben enfrentarse a las convenciones sociales y a las dificultades económicas que les impone su situación.La familia y las relaciones interpersonales: Las relaciones familiares y la importancia de la amistad son temas recurrentes. La novela muestra la complejidad de las relaciones entre las hermanas, su madre y otros personajes, destacando la importancia del apoyo mutuo y la comprensión.La importancia de la clase social: La novela refleja la importancia de la clase social en la sociedad inglesa del siglo XIX y cómo esta influye en las oportunidades y las relaciones de los personajes.El crecimiento personal: A través de las experiencias vividas, las hermanas Dashwood maduran y aprenden de sus errores, mostrando un proceso de crecimiento personal y autodescubrimiento.Resumen de críticas, opiniones y valoraciones del libro Seny i sentimentAún no hay opiniones o críticas sobre Seny i Sentiment disponibles para su inclusión en este resumen.
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Intermezzo
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Rooney, Sally

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility, a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.¿A quién va dirigido el libro Intermezzo?Intermezzo, de Sally Rooney, se dirige a un público amplio que disfruta de la literatura contemporánea que explora las complejidades de las relaciones humanas y las dinámicas familiares. Se trata de una novela que, si bien mantiene la esencia de la escritura de Rooney, presenta una complejidad narrativa mayor que en sus obras anteriores, lo que la hace atractiva para lectores familiarizados con su estilo y para aquellos que buscan una lectura más desafiante y reflexiva. La madurez temática y la profundidad introspectiva de la obra la hacen especialmente interesante para lectores interesados en la exploración del duelo, la herencia familiar y la construcción de la identidad individual.Temas que trata el libro IntermezzoIntermezzo aborda una serie de temas recurrentes en la obra de Sally Rooney, pero con una nueva profundidad y perspectiva. Entre los temas principales se encuentran:El duelo y la pérdida: La muerte del padre de los protagonistas sirve como catalizador para explorar el proceso de duelo en sus diferentes manifestaciones. La novela no solo se centra en el dolor inmediato, sino también en las consecuencias a largo plazo de la pérdida, incluyendo la culpa, el recuerdo y la redefinición de las relaciones familiares.Las relaciones familiares: La novela profundiza en la compleja dinámica entre dos hermanos, contrastando sus personalidades, sus experiencias y sus maneras de procesar el duelo. Se explora la influencia del pasado familiar en la configuración de sus identidades y en sus relaciones presentes. La herencia familiar, tanto material como emocional, juega un papel crucial en la trama.Las relaciones amorosas: Al igual que en sus obras anteriores, Rooney explora las complejidades del amor, el deseo y la desilusión en las relaciones interpersonales. Las relaciones amorosas se presentan como espacios de conflicto, negociación y crecimiento personal.La construcción de la identidad: Los personajes de Intermezzo se encuentran en un proceso de autodescubrimiento y redefinición de sí mismos a raíz de la pérdida y los cambios en sus vidas. La novela explora cómo las experiencias personales y las relaciones sociales moldean la identidad individual.Las diferencias de poder: Rooney mantiene su interés en las dinámicas de poder que subyacen en las relaciones humanas, explorando cómo estas influyen en la forma en que los personajes interactúan y se perciben mutuamente.Resumen de críticas, opiniones y valoraciones del libro IntermezzoAlgunos lectores han destacado la complejidad narrativa de Intermezzo, señalando una escritura más elaborada que en las obras anteriores de la autora. Otros han elogiado la profundidad introspectiva de la novela y su exploración del duelo y las relaciones familiares. Sin embargo, también se han registrado opiniones que critican la traducción, señalando posibles errores o deficiencias en la misma. En general, las opiniones disponibles reflejan una recepción diversa, con algunos lectores que consideran la novela una obra destacada de la autora y otros que la encuentran menos impactante que sus trabajos previos.
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Todo modo
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Sciascia, Leonardo

Un desocupado y reconocido pintor recorréla campiña con su coche cuaño descubre un aislado, silencioso y ascético caserón, un hotel edificado por un tal padre Gaetano en torno a una ermita, y decide hospedarse allí unos días. Precisamente se albergan también en el hotel, o séles espera en breve, un grupo de mujeres y algunos jerarcas déla política, déla industria, déla banca, la prensa y la Iglesia para medíar, a la manera de esos ejercicios espirituales a los que san Ignacio de Loyola definía como «el todo modo? para hallar la voluntad divina». Pero en ese ambiente pacífico se produce de pronto un asesinato: mientras rezan el rosario, un ex senador muere de un disparo. Evidentemente, se imponéllamar a la policía.
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La chica de la Leica
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Janeczek, Helena

El 1 de agosto de 1937, un desfile lleno de banderas rojas cruza París: es el cortejo fúnebre que siguea Gerda Taro (Stuttgart, 1910-El Escorial, 1937, y llamada en realidad Gerta Pohorylle), la primera fotorreportera muerta en un campo de batalla. Ese año hubiera cumplido veintisiete años. André Friedman (su expareja, y con quien Taro «creó» el mítico fotógrafo Robert Capa), en primera fila, está destrozado. Entre los asistentes se encuentran otros amigos de Taro de tiempo atrás: la joven Ruth Cerf, con quien vivió en París tras su huida de Alemania, Willy Chardack, que vio cómo ella prefería aGeorg Kuritzkes, empeñado a su vez en combatir en las Bridagas Internacionales. En todos ellos Gerda Taro dejó una huella indeleble. Tanto que, años después, basta una conversación telefónica de Willy y Georg para desencadenar los recuerdos de todos. Así comienza esta obra, rigurosamente documentada, sobre una figura en la que, en escasosaños, cristalizaron la juventud, la alegría de vivir,el talento y el compromiso en un tiempo de crisis económica, de ascenso del nazismo, de persecución y deguerra.
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Crime and punishment (Clothbound Classics)
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Edge, Christopher

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadRaskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret, He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law, But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck, Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption. David McDuff’s vivid translation has been acclaimed as the most accessible version of Dostoyevsky’s great novel, rendering its dialogue with a unique force and naturalism, This edition of Crime and Punishment also includes a new chronology of Dostoyevsky’s life and work. Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines, Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators,
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Momoko y la gata
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Koike, Mariko

Con ecos de Mishima, Murakami y Kawakami, esta exquisita novela de amor y suspense retrata todas las emociones humanas. POR LA GANADORA DEL PREMIO NAOKI Y DEL PREMIO YOSHIKAWA EIJI DE LITERATURA, ENTRE OTROS. Desde la muerte de su madre, Momoko no se relaciona más que consu gata Lala, pero al llegar Masayo a su casa para ser su preceptora, nace entre ellas una tierna complicidad. Masayo, sin embargo, se enamora del padre de laniña, mientras este solo parece tener ojos para su nueva amiga: la bella Chinatsu. La vida sigue su cursoen un ambiente de mentiras y aparente calma hasta que, cuando la nieve cubre de silencio el jardín y los campos de trigo, afloran las pulsiones más oscuras y las verdades salen a la luz. La gata Lala, la esfinge blanca, será la clave de esta sorprendente novela que funde, para fascinación del lector, la intriga con los sentimientos. Ganadora de los premios Naoki, Shibata Renzaburo, e Ysoshikawa Eiji de Literatura,Koike Mariko es uno de los grandes nombres de la literatura japonesa actual, junto con Haruki Murakami, Hiromi Kawakami y Yoko Ogawa. La crítica hadicho...«La atmósfera está maravillosamente lograda y los amantes del suspense apreciarán la sutileza electrizante de sus giros.»Emily Whitmore, Booklist Review «La legendaria autora de suspense Koike Mariko da una lección a StephenKing aumentando poco a poco la tensión para crear personajes memorables y una atmósfera espeluznante e inolvidable.»Bustle «La marca de fábrica de Koike Mariko es la combinación de amor y suspense, que convierte la clásica fórmula del final felizde las historias de amor en una sacudida adicional de intriga y misterio.»Goodreads «Una novela magnífica de terror psicológico.»Critiques Libres
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Bajo cielos inmensos
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Guthrie, A. B.

Bajo cielos inmensos (The Big Sky) fue llevada a la gran pantalla por Howard Hawks en 1952 y se estrenó en España con el título de Río de sangre. Alfred Bertram Guthrie nació en Indiana en 1901 y, aunque ejerció muchos años como periodista, finalmente se dedicó a la ficción. Escribió novelas de misterio, cuentos infantiles, fábulas de animales, ensayos y una autobiografía, y dedicó cinco novelas a evocar la historia de Estados Unidos y su construcción como país. Aunque la segunda de la serie, TheWay West, recibió el premio Pulitzer en 1950, la primera, Bajo cielos inmensos (1947), se considera su obra maestra. Bajo cielos inmensos evoca fiel y emocionadamente la era de los tramperos y los tratantes de pieles. La novela, eterna integrante de las diez mejores novelas western de todos los tiempos, nos cuenta la historia de Boone Caudill, un joven de diecisiete años que, harto de soportar a su padre, se escapa de la granja en la que vive, en Kentucky. Está fascinado por los relatos de su tío Zeb Calloway, un auténtico mountainman que había cazado búfalos, luchado contra los indios y viajado a los lejanos confines del país. Boone se encuentra en su huida con otro muchacho soñador, Jim Deakins, y ambos decidirán viajar hacia las regiones inexploradas que se extienden hacia el oeste. Más tarde, se enrolarán en la barcaza Mandan que, capitaneada por el traficante de pieles Jourdonnais y en compañía de un cazador llamado Dick Summers, pretende remontar el Missouri hasta llegar a la lejana y peligrosa tierra de los «pies negros» para comerciar con ellos. A partir de aquí, al lector le esperan cuatrocientas páginas de aventuras, descripciones de una naturaleza aún virgen y salvaje y maravillas que no conviene revelar aquí.
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Transformación, La
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Kafka, Franz

La grandeza de ''La transformación'' es universal, resistente al tiempo y a las culturas. Kafka construyóen este relato una de las historias más importantes yconocidas de la literatura. ''La transformación'' esun relato desconcertante. Lo que podría haber sido un mal sueño se convierte en la realidad del personaje: Gregor Samsa despierta una mañana convertido en unmonstruoso insecto. Kafka lleva al lector a la habitación y la mente de Gregor, describe con todo lujo dedetalles su adaptación a un estado animal inapelabley absurdo. El lector asiste atónito al proceso de adaptación de Gregor a su nuevo estado y a la marginación y odio que sufre progresivamente por parte de su propia familia.
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