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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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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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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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In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Miraculously, Carl, his wife and his three kids are left to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream.But nearly forty years later, when Carl's mother dies, the trauma that has been bubbling beneath the Fletchers' lives all this time surfaces at last. It becomes apparent that Carl has been quietly pursuing closure to the kidnapping for all these years, and his wife and children must face that the money that they believed bought them safety was actually never capable of doing any such thing.Long Island Compromise spans generations, winding through decades of history all the way through to the wild present, dealing along the way with all the mainstays of American Jewish life and the timeless questions about wealth, trauma, and the American soul.
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London, 2014. Hal Lancaster – twenty-two, gay, Catholic, chops lines of cocaine with his myWaitrose card – is the reluctant heir of his father Henry, the sixteenth Duke of Lancaster. Henry is half tyrant, half martyr, with an investment in his eldest son that has grown into an obsession. While Hal floats between internships and drinking sessions, Henry keeps him in check with passive-aggression, religious guilt, and a cruelty that Hal sometimes confuses for tenderness.When a grouse shooting accident – funny in retrospect – makes a romance out of Hal’s rivalry with fumblingly leftist family friend Harry Percy, Hal finds that he wants, for the first time, a life of his own. But his father Henry is an Englishman: he will not let his son escape tradition. To save himself, Hal must reckon not only with grief and shame but with the wounds of his family's past.
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The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.
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VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
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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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La primera novel·la de Jean Reno. Una història de passió, aventura i espionatge en un entorn inigualable.L'Emma és una noia independent i un pèl solitària, viu amb el seu gat en una casa amb vistes a l'oceà i, tot i que està en ple procés de dol per la pèrdua de la seva mare, té una vida que la fa feliç. És massatgista en un centre de talassoteràpia de renom mundial situat a la Bretanya, i té un talent especial a les mans que sembla que faci màgia en els seus pacients. Un dia, el centre rep la visita d'una personalitat de l'Orient Mitjà: el fill d'un dels ministres més influents del Sultanat d'Oman vol obrir un centre semblant al seu país. Quan passa per les mans de l'Emma, en Tariq decideix que només ella pot ser qui formi el seu personal. L'Emma rep doncs una oferta que no pot rebutjar, el que no sap és que aquesta és una proposició que li canviarà la vida per sempre. Viatja a Masqat, la capital del sultanat, i quan és allà, enmig d'una espiral de passió i riquesa, l'Emma descobreix un secret que capgirarà la seva vida, que l'enfrontarà a les seves pors més íntimes i transformarà la seva personalitat per sempre. Aquesta és la història d'una dona que decideix agafar les regnes del seu destí, fa de les seves febleses la seva gran arma i viu una autèntica metamorfosi. Una novel·la d'aventures, d'espionatge i de passió, en un marc incomparable i amb un personatge molt inspirador.
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Breve y fiel al verdadero ahínco con que Tolstói trabajó durante sus últimos años de vida, Aforismos nace como una invitación a la reflexión por medio de una selección de pensamientos -tanto del propio Tolstói como de los grandes sabios de la humanidad- que el apóstol de Yásnaia Poliana reunió en el amplio volumen titulado El camino de la vida (aún inédito en español). Selma Ancira procura en estas páginas conservar el equilibrio interno de la obra primigenia con una muy nutrida variedad de máximas de la sabiduría popular y de las diversas religiones, reflexiones de filósofos, poetas y humanistas sin distingo de su nacionalidad, pues la finalidad de este libro es dar a conocer su doctrina, transmitir sus ideas.
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La deconstrucció,n de una relació,n de pareja entre dos frases cortas «,Te quiero», y «,Te dejo»,¿,Adó,nde va el amor cuando una relació,n se acaba?Despué,s de tres dé,cadas de relació,n, una mujer está, decidida a dejar a su pareja. ¿,Có,mo ha llegado hasta ese punto? Mientras considera cuá,l será, su pró,ximo paso, revive su historia compartida: los primeros y excitantes dí,as del amor, los viajes, la llegada de los hijos, tambié,n los malos momentos que presagiaban el fracaso. Pero ¿,puede decirse realmente que algo que ha durado tanto tiempo ha fracasado?La narradora sitú,a su historia en el contexto de la Alemania del Este despué,s de la caí,da del Muro de Berlí,n, y reflexiona sobre có,mo algo tan «,ordinario», como una relació,n puede sobrevivir a todos los cambios de la vida, las circunstancias externas e incluso las revoluciones.¿,POR QUÉ, LEER LA PAREJA DEL SIGLO?Una mirada í,ntima a la pareja, construida a travé,s de recuerdos, momentos y diá,logos significativos.Con una narrativa fluida, conecta con lectores de Annie Ernaux y su estilo autobiográ,fico.Descubre la belleza del amor cotidiano y la desilusió,n en un homenaje universal y atemporal.
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Los cuentos de esta antología se publicaron anteriormente en Confabulario y en Varia invención (1951-1955). A través de estos relatos se reconoce a Arreola como uno de los escritores mexicanos más notables e imaginativos de la época contemporánea.
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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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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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A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us all, from the author of Very Cold People and 300 Arguments.A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I’d always known that. But I’d never suspected how easily I’d fall into one anyway.When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including—a few years later—all the attendant joy and labor of motherhood. But it’s not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John’s ambitions, whims, and ego, in short, she becomes a wife.As Jane’s career flourishes, their marriage starts to falter. Throughout the upheavals of family life, Jane tries to hold it all together. That is, until John leaves her.Combining the intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Days of Abandonment and the pithy wisdom of Jenny Offill’s Dept of Speculation, Liars is a tour de force of wit and rage, telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground, and of a woman rising inexorably from its ashes.
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The first adult novel from the iconic, much-beloved household brand, Jacqueline Wilson. Revisiting 'the Girls', now aged 40...No job. No love life. Perhaps it’s time to THINK AGAINEllie Allard isn’t quite where she thought she'd be by her late thirties. Though she’s got her beautiful daughter, her beloved cat and the best friends anyone could wish for, her love life is non-existent and she feels like she’s been living on auto-pilot, just grateful to be able to afford the rent on her poky little flat.But on her fortieth birthday, it seems it’s time for all that to change – whether Ellie wants it to or not. As she navigates new, exciting and often choppy waters, she’s about to discover that life will never stop surprising you – if only you let it.The bestselling first adult novel from literary sensation Jacqueline Wilson, Think Again is a warm, uplifting, life-affirming story about friendship, family, and finding fulfilment in unexpected places.
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On a warm July evening, Sylviane Rochas scatters her mother's ashes in New York and lets the changing wind blow her to the French seaside town of Marseille.For the first time in her life, Vianne holds the future in her own hands. Charming her way into a job as a waitress in a local bistrot, she knows that she is not here to stay - when her child is born in a few months, she must be gone.As she discovers the joy of cooking, making recipes her own with the addition of bittersweet chocolate spices, she realises that it possesses its own magic in this town full of secrets.Yet Vianne will never forget her mother's warning: that there is danger in revealing the true desires of those around her - and she must flee these cobbled streets before it's too late...
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Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the Cassar family is buffeted by conflict, struggling to find its feet - separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all.This Strange Eventful History is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children, of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family's strangeness, of François's union with Barbara, a woman so culturally different they can barely comprehend one another, of Chloe, the result of that union, who believes that telling these buried stories will bring them all peace.Inspired in part by her own family's history, Claire Messud animates her characters' rich interior lives amid the social and political upheaval of the recent past. This Strange Eventful History is an immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history.
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Set in Paris’s demi-monde at the beginning of the twentieth century, Chéri by Colette is a passionate story of devotion, misplaced desire and the passage of time.Chéri is part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is translated from French by Janet Flanner, who was an extraordinary writer and journalist. She was the Paris correspondent for The New Yorker for fifty years.Fred Peloux, affectionately nicknamed Chéri, is handsome and spoilt. Until now he’s lived a life of hedonistic luxury, and has been indulged in his every desire. He is newly married to the young and beautiful Edmée, and according to early twentieth-century Parisian society, he has everything a man could dream of. But the only woman he can think about is his lover, Léa de Lonval, a beautiful, ageing courtesan who has stolen his heart. Full of wit, drama and intensity, Chéri is a groundbreaking novel which grapples with radical ideas about sexuality and ageing.
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For an empress to rise, a city must fall...Rome, 410 ADHalf-sister to Emperor Honorius, unmarried and powerless, twenty-year-old Galla Placidia watches from the shadows as imperial policies are made and unmade.Her plans to gain power and influence are halted when the city is besieged and captured by a vast army led by Alaric the Visigoth. Taken hostage, travelling out of Italy, Galla Placidia falls in love and marries a barbarian king.At a time when Rome's power is fast dwindling, its authority diminishing year upon year, she embarks on a dangerous and remarkable journey towards the imperial throne.But what price must a woman pay for power?This is the compelling story of a little-known, remarkable woman whose burning ambition saw her, against all odds, become empress of Rome.
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Dennis Monk is about to spend his first summer sober. At twenty-six he is ready to re-join sensible adult life, but just when Dennis needs stability, his uptight parents kick him out into a world of couch-surfing.Everything around him has changed and everyone he knows seems to be doing better than he is. At every street corner, former classmates, estranged drinking buddies, and prospective lovers threaten to burst the bubble of his recovery. And Dennis Monk is about to learn the difference between getting sober and staying sober in this new world.Early Sobrieties is a devastatingly witty novel about coming of age a second time. Deagler’s debut marks the arrival of an astonishing new voice in American fiction.
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Four women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island – the electrifying new novel from the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black ConchEarly one morning, at the close of St Colibri’s carnival, a young female steel-pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will transform the lives of everyone on this small island.As the days pass, this shocking event draws together four women. There’s Sharleen, a journalist with an eye for the real story. Her childhood friend Tara, a pink-haired, straight-talking local activist. Gigi, the ‘notorious’ founder of the Port Isabella Sex Workers Collective. And Daisy, first lady of St Colibri, who is haunted by a disappearance in her own family decades ago.In a community in which women’s voices are often silenced and violence against them is overlooked time after time, the group soon find themselves compelled to speak out – and to act. But even they could never have foreseen the consequences of their courage…
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A whimsical and healing novel about a trans man in New York who - almost 30, laid off, broke - moves back to his small Illinois hometown, walks into the bookstore he worked at in high school. . . and slips through time to come face-to-face with his pre-transition, teenage self.If you had one chance to talk to your younger self … would you? What would you say?When Darby left Oak Falls for university in New York City, all he wanted was to get as far away as possible, find a community where he could start afresh – and finally forget about his childhood best friend Michael, and just how painfully their friendship ended.Now, about to turn thirty, Darby suddenly finds himself unemployed. With no better alternative, and questioning where he really belongs, he moves back to his hometown. But the changes in Oak Falls make him feel off balance. And Michael’s still there, their relationship still distant and strained.One thing is familiar: In Between Books, Darby’s refuge growing up and high school job. When he walks inside, Darby feels an eerie sense of déjà vu – everything is exactly the same. Even the newspapers are dated 2009. And behind the till is a teen who looks a lot like Darby did at sixteen. . . a teen who just might give him the opportunity to change his own present for the better - if he can figure out how before his connection to the past vanishes forever.
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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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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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«Charlaron un rato sobre las dificultades de la paternidad, sobre un mundo que cada vez parecía más gris, más sucio, más peligroso, más rancio, más lleno de podredumbre, y cómo el fútbol era a la vez escapatoria y reflejo de todo cuanto estaba sucediendo. ¿Qué les vamos a dejar a nuestros niños?, se preguntaron.»Santiago Peña, delantero centro de un equipo de barrio recién ascendido a la segunda división de la Liga Española de fútbol, tiene un objetivo: asegurarse, por acción u omisión, de que su equipo pierda el último partido de la temporada. El ambiente festivo en la grada y la intrascendencia del resultado invitan a hacer efectivo un plan en el que todos ganan, pero es entonces cuando la memoria aflora y surgen las dudas.Javier López Menacho retrata en Cuentan las crónicas las diferencias entre el fútbol de élite y el fútbol modesto, difuminando el concepto de éxito y fracaso y enarbolando un homenaje al «otro fútbol», el que estructura comunidades por amor al deporte, lejos de la influencia del negocio. Esta narración en tiempo real del último partido del campeonato de un club humilde nos habla de integridad, de valores, de precariedad, de vidas truncadas y de cómo un solo gol en las catacumbas del fútbol de élite puede alterar toda una vida.
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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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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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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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“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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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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Nada es lo que parece. El amor y la obsesión como excusa y tapadera de un crimen imperfecto.«El deseo lo vestía todo: la diversión, la necesidad. ¿A quién le importan las desavenencias, los desencuentros o las tensiones? Los malos recuerdos murieron contigo. Seré la custodia, la cancerbera de un relato único, de una historia de pasión desenfrenada, de entrega, de una tormenta de necesidad desgarradora. Lo seré siempre». La pasión de Clea Castán son las reformas, algo en lo que la joven arquitecta va adquiriendo prestigio poco a poco en su Madrid natal. Hija única de un consultor de éxito y un ama de casa, desde pequeña la perfección y la belleza que rodean su trabajo y su vida independiente son las máximas que dirigen sus pasos, siempre custodiada por el amor incondicional de sus padres. Pero esta situación idílica va a dar un vuelco hasta un extremo que ni a Clea ni a los suyos se les había pasado jamás por la cabeza. Los ingredientes no pueden ser de mejor calidad: un palacete que reformar en Biarritz, un atractivo aristócrata inglés, un amor apasionado y sensual, y una vida de lujo llena de ambientes con objetos hermosos. Sin embargo, el plato que Henry Astor vi cocina para Clea se sirve frío y es amargo, porque el aderezo lleva celos, obsesión, maltrato, egoísmo, perversión... y muerte. Biarritz, Nueva York, Madrid, Londres, Viena son los escenarios de la segunda novela de Cruz Sánchez de Lara, un thriller psicológico que disecciona la psicología del mal amor, del no amor al que ponemos nombre propio, que nos reduce a la nada, que nos hace desear morir o matar, que nos lleva a pozos de oscuros fondos de los que es difícil salir sin la ayuda de la única persona cuyas iniciales deberíamos añadir siempre al amor: las nuestras.
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«Y bastante aguanto yo con el peso de mi familia y de la herencia que me han dejado, que no todo es el dinero, Prudencio. Que hay herencia que duele».En Ventaquemada, bajo la sombra del único naranjo de su finca, Doña Urraca Alcolea se ha sentado a esperar la muerte que, inevitable, sabe que llegará el 15 de octubre. Nadie entiende cómo ni por qué, pero en el pueblo todos cuchichean al respecto. Su hija, Teresa la Ternerona, desapareció sin despedirse, igual que un día lo hicieron su marido, Prudencio, y su padre y su madre. Ahora solo le queda la inocente compañía de su nieta Motita, que vigila la casa y riega las tumbas.En esta tierra levantada a golpe de piqui-piqui, los apodos impuestos pesan como losas y el pasado nunca se entierra del todo. Porque aquí, donde el tiempo se detuvo hace mucho, solo hay una certeza: lo único seguro es la muerte.Con un uso muy singular del realismo mágico, que se enreda en la vida de los habitantes de Ventaquemada, Jaime Riba Arango debuta con una voz literaria deslumbrante, de lenguaje afilado y feroz belleza.
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Principis de l'any 2044. Apareix sobtadament una epidèmia d'esterilitat general que afecta tota la humanitat. De seguida es constitueix un gabinet de crisi d'àmbit mundial, liderat pel Dr. Markus Ryder, per analitzar la situació i cercar una solució. En aquest context la desaparició del cromosoma Y, present només als homes, és un fet irreversible, de manera que d'aleshores ençà l'únic sexe de la nostra espècie serà femení. Una novel·la de ciència-ficció que ens il·lustra al voltant del dimorfisme sexual i les seves implicacions biològiques i culturals. Una lectura per reflexionar i un viatge cap al futur: inquietant o esperançador?
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Texto precursor en el campo de la ciencia ficción y la primera obra firmada por una mujer en toda Europa, un originalísimo trabajo que incorpora además elementos propiosde la filosofía utópica y de la novela de aventuras, y una lectura imprescindible par
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