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Imagine a child, a daydreamer, always gazing out of the window. His grandmother, busy in the kitchen, keeps an eye on him. The child stares at a balcony on the opposite building, watching the black-haired girl as she dances her reckless dance. For a love like this, a child can push himself to extreme feats. He can turn into explorer or cabin boy, cowboy or castaway, he can fight duels to the death, or even master an unfamiliar language.His grandmother is not articulate, but does not lack imagination, and her love for the boy is immeasurable. She tells him about the entrance to the underworld, engraving indelible images in her nephew’s mind.An irresistible book, as sharp as the swords of fantasy hidden under the bed, as precious as a family jewel, in which the discovery of love and the discovery of death follow each other, marking the end of childhood.
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From the author of My Documents and Chilean Poet, a wise, humorous, and captivating literary exploration of the delights and absurdities of childhood, fatherhood, and family life.Childish Literature is a charming and wide-ranging collection of short stories, essays, and even a couple of poems produced under the influence of fatherhood, a transformative experience that reshapes and enlivens the author's relationship to aging, intimacy, and time. Written in Alejandro Zambra’s brilliantly warm, playful, and philosophical voice, these pieces explore the lives of families and their stories through a wide variety of topics—from screen time and ''soccer sadness'' to personal libraries, fishing, and psychedelics. Throughout, Zambra captures the texture of daily life and deep truths about how we feel and live, with particular insight into the ways parents and children challenge, enrich, and entertain each other.Simultaneously lighthearted and profound, and brilliantly rendered by National Book Award-winning translator Megan McDowell, Childish Literature is an intimate and unclassifiable new work by an internationally celebrated writer.
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From the bestselling author of Memorial, a novel that will 'break your heart twice over, with sadness, sure, but more unexpectedly, with joy.' Rumaan AlamGrowing up , TJ was Cam's boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ's parents - Mae and Jin - took him in. Their family bakery became Cam's safe place. Until he left, and it wasn't anymore.Years later, Cam's world is falling apart. The love of his life, Kai, is gone: but his ghost keeps haunting Cam, and won't let go. And Cam's not sure he wants to let go, not sure he's ready. When he has a chance to return to his home town, to work in a gay bar clinging on in a changing city landscape, he takes it. Back in the same place as TJ, they circle each other warily, their banter electric with an undercurrent of betrayal, drawn together despite past and current drama. Family is family. But TJ is no longer the same person Cam left behind, he's had his own struggles. The quiet, low-key, queer kid, the one who stayed home, TJ's not sure how to navigate Cam - utterly cool, completely devastated and self-destructing - crashing back into his world.When things said - or left unsaid - become so insurmountable that they devour us from within, hope and sustenance and friendship can come from the most unlikely source. Nourishment has many forms: eating croissants, sitting together at a table with bowls of curry, sharing history, confronting demons, growing flowers, showing up. This is a story about how the people who know us the longest can hurt us the most, but how they also set the standard for love, and by their necessary presence, create a family.
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** 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.
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José Saramago narra el insólito viaje del elefante Salomón a través de la Europa del siglo XVI Una aventura épica llena de humanidad, humor y sabiduría «Siempre acabamos llegando a donde nos esperan».Libro de los Itinerarios A mediados del siglo XVI el rey Juan III ofrece a su primo, el archiduque Maximiliano de Austria, un elefante asiático. Esta novela cuenta el viaje épico de ese elefante llamado Salomón que tuvo que recorrer Europa por caprichos reales y absurdas estrategias. El viaje del elefante no es un libro histórico, es una combinación de hechos reales e inventados que nos hace sentir la realidad y la ficción como una unidad indisoluble, como algo propio de la gran literatura. Una reflexión sobre el sentido de la vida humana, con sus afanes, desvelos y ambiciones, con su irremisible final, en la que el humor y la ironía, marcas de la implacable lucidez del autor, se unen a la compasión con la que José Saramago observa las flaquezas humanas.La crítica ha dicho:«Una deslumbrante comedia humana, llena de risas, emoción y sabiduría».Le Monde des Livres «Una obra maestra de la ironía y la empatía entre seres humanos».Los Angeles Times «Saramago vuelvecomprensible una realidad huidiza, con parábolas sostenidas por la imaginación, la compasión y la ironía».Comité Nobel «Un hombre con una sensibilidad y una capacidad de ver y de entender que están muy por encima de lo que en general vemos y entendemos los comunes mortales».Héctor Abad Faciolince «Saramago es un ejemplo, un estilo dignísimo de vida y literatura, que demuestra la posibilidad de navegar a contracorriente [...]. Su palabra tiene el valor de un anticongelante, de un remedio personal contra los vendavales de cinismo que nos envuelven».Luis García Montero «Yo no sé, ni quiero saberlo, de dónde ha sacado Saramago ese diabólico tono narrativo, duro y piadoso a un tiempo, [...] que le permite contar tan cerca del corazón y a la vez tan cerca de la historia».Luis Landero«Saramago escribe novelas sobre los mitos para desmitificarlos, [...] siempre para abordar la realidad que le rodea, para tratar de los problemas actuales que son de todos, y para que todo quede claro desde el principio».Rafael Conte, Babelia «Como Günter Grass o Cees Nooteboom, Saramago aspira a enlazar con un público que desborde límites nacionales».El País
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Even saints need second chances...Discover the new heartwarming Christmas adventure with the Sisters of Saint Philomena, about friendship, family, and forgiveness. Perfect for fans of AJ Pearce, Katie Fforde and Call the Midwife.Everyone loves Sister Bridget. The cheerful Mother Superior of St Philomena's convent is friend to many in the town of Fairbridge and the irrepressible caller at the weekly Parish Bingo. There is nothing she can't sort out with a kind word, a cup of tea and a slice of her amazing chocolate cake.But as the Christmas tree goes up and festive cheer rises, a visitor arrives at the convent who doesn't like Sister Bridget one bit. Sister Bridget soon learns that secrets are bubbling to the surface back home in Ireland - especially for her younger sister Mary. She will need to face up to past deeds, however well-intended.With the help of her friends, and the power of love and forgiveness, maybe she can finally make things right.Sweet Mercies reminds us that none of us is perfect, and everybody deserves another chance at finding peace and happiness.
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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
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ONE NIGHTIt is a wild night in the middle of December, and GP Enya is crouched over a teenage boy, performing CPR in the rain.ONE MOMENTThe boy survives, but Enya’s life splinters in two. Trapped in a loveless marriage, the storm propels her to break free.ONE CHANCE TO BE FREEBut even in the remote country town that becomes her sanctuary, Enya is haunted by the night in the rain.Beneath the boughs of an ancient tree that tells a thousand stories, can she find the courage to face her own?
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Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.
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An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our ageTracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood – a writer who has fundamentally shaped our contemporary literary landscapes – Paper Boat assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume.In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful and hyper-imagined, Atwood gives voices to remarkably drawn characters – mythological figures, animals and everyday people – all of whom have something to say about what it means to live in a world as strange as our own. ‘How can one live with such a heart?’ Atwood asks, casting her singular spell upon the reader, and ferrying us through life, death and whatever comes next. Walking the tightrope between reality and fantasy as only she can, Atwood’s journey through poetry illuminates our most innate joys and sorrows, desires and fears.Spanning six decades of work – from her earliest beginnings to brand new poems – this volume charts the evolution of one of our most iconic and necessary authors.
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Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future. A novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's MandolinQ wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he's looking for somewhere to ride out what's ahead.He buys a ruined farmhouse in Cornwall and begins to build his own self-sufficient haven. Over the course of this quest he meets the eccentric characters who already live on the moors nearby - including the park ranger in charge of the reintroduced lynxes and aurochs that roam the area, a holy man waiting for the second coming on top of a nearby hill, an Arthurian knight on horseback and the amorous ghost of an Edwardian woman who haunts the farmhouse.As life in the cities gets more complicated, and our systems of electronic control begin to fall apart, Q flourishes in the wild Cornish countryside. His new way of life brings him back in tune with his teenage children, his ex-wife, and his own sense of who he is. He also grows close to Eva, energetic and enchanting, who is committed to her own quest for love and meaning.In this entertaining and heart-warming novel Louis de Bernières pokes fun at modern mores, and makes us reconsider what is really precious in our short and precarious lives.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE*
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La traducción, el texto que ustedes van a leer, muestra el potencial humano que supondría dejar de hablar el idioma de los hombres en un momento de la historia donde ha empezado a ser sustituido por las imágenes y la inteligencia artificial. Dejar de hablar, como dejó de escribir Lord Chandos, protagonista del libro del escritor austriaco Hugo Hofmannsthal, ''La Carta de Lord Chandos'', porque ya no ve que tenga ningún sentido seguir escribiendo si es para no decir nada y se siente desconcertado ante la incapacidad del lenguaje para seguir dialogando con lo que le rodea. La propuesta e interpretación de Joana Preiss nos permite descubrir que también nosotros necesitamos liberarnos del lenguaje impuesto, deseando que, al mismo tiempo, alguien tenga la capacidad de traducir aquello que expresamos sin palabras para comunicar y ser escuchados, ser traducidos, ser comprendidos. La edición que les presentamos está compuesta de cuatro textos que son la traducción en cuatro idiomas del texto original de la obra ''La traducción''. Los cuatro idiomas son catalán, castellano, francés y el lenguaje creado por Joana Preiss, la mujer de lenguaje indescifrable, seguido de un documento fotográfico que nos permite observar la puesta en escena de la obra y las interpretaciones de la autora y el actor Enric Llort. La lectura de ''La traducción'' en el lenguaje de Joana Preiss nos permite recuperar la fascinación que sienten los hombres y mujeres en dar testimonio de sus vidas y escuchar las que otros narran.
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Apasionada, libre, indómita. Ella es la novia del viento. Una artista que emergió con la fuerza de la naturaleza para cautivar el mundo. Una historia de superación y coraje inspirada en la vida de la pintora Leonora Carrington. Londres, 1937. Si hay algo que Rebecca Heyworth odie más que asistir a las fiestas que organizan sus padres es saber que pronto se verá obligada a escoger marido. Ella no quiere a un hombre que la controle, solo quiere pintar y que la dejen vivir a su manera.De momento, tiene que conformarse con asistir a unas clases de arte, pero todo cambia cuando el atractivo Leopold se cruza en su camino. Leopold Blum, un pintor de origen alemán afincado en París, es miembro destacado del surrealismo y acude a la capital inglesa para exponer su obra. Fascinado por la vitalidad y la pasión de la joven, la invita a acompañarlo a Francia.Tras romper con su familia y su pasado, Rebecca viajará hasta la ciudad de la luz, donde se codeará con los artistas del momento, vivirá una intensa historia de amor y descubrirá su auténtico talento mientras la sombra de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se cierne sobre el futuro del mundo y amenaza con tomar las riendas de sus destinos.
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With an introduction by Helen OyeyemiA mesmerising and enigmatic collection of short stories, haunted by the horrors of war, never before translated into English, and divided into two halves: journeys and flowers.A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in gleaming armour play at being soldiers. Thirty-eight stories of invented flowers follow: absurd, lush and dreamlike, they capture different truths of humanity.Mercè Rodoreda, in these beguiling, uncanny stories, fragments of beauty and darkness, combines inventive force and lyrical power in a poetic voice of indelible magnetism, and confirms herself as one of the greatest Catalan writers of the twentieth century.
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Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil WarHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels...
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There are two rules: We only target men. And only men who deserve it.Two female con artists must pull off the ultimate heist in this fun, fresh and twisty crime novel for fans of How to Kill Your Family and Killing Eve.‘They called us swindlers, fraudsters, tricksters, cheats. But make no mistake: we never crossed anyone who didn’t deserve it’Emma Oxley and Nellie Yarrow have been inseparable their whole lives. Ever since they reinvented themselves, changing their names and wiping clean their digital footprints, they have made a game of following wherever the next adventure leads and challenging themselves to thefts, street cons, and mind games.Adhering to only two rules—they will only con men, and only ones who deserve it—Emma and Nellie are secure in their reputation as the most trustworthy swindlers on the European black market. Until suddenly, they must play to save their own lives.Blackmailed into stealing a priceless bracelet from a high-security exhibit, Emma will reexamine everything she believed to be true. This heist takes her far beyond her comfort zone and she and Nellie will need allies among the glitzy bejeweled gathering in London in order to survive. But will they be able to do the right thing before it’s too late?A story of female friendship, found family, and how one woman rediscovers her self-confidence.
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A haunting portrayal of love and betrayal in a London hollowed by war.It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the price for his silence being Stella herself. Caught between two men and unsure who she can trust, the flimsy structures of Stella's life begin to crumble.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROY FOSTERThis series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.
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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.
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From bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face of enormous change—and the warring impulses between light and dark that live in all of usShapeshifting visitors, unsolved murders in the forest, black metal bands, and an online bank of thousands of people’s dreams—the star is back. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Morning Star kept readers up all night, immersed with nine characters whose individual lives are heightened by the sudden appearance of a blazing new star, and The Wolves of Eternity portrayed the intimate experiences of two estranged half-siblings decades before the star rises. In The Third Realm, the effects of the star are felt around the world, as people start to reckon with what it might possibly mean.With this next novel, the limitless scale and ambition of Knausgaard’s new universe are clear. This is life, death, the human condition, and the real-time creation of an epic and utterly immersive world.
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Guía práctica con más de 250 preguntas y respuestas que recogen las inquietudes actuales que sienten madres y padres en esta primera etapa de la crianza, en esos «primeros 1000 días del bebé», en que la llegada de un hijo causa un profundo impacto, en la mujer, en la pareja y en todo el entorno.Aceptar lo que nos pasa y entender que la crianza en estos primeros años es algo que nos atañe a todos es un buen punto de partida. Cobra importancia, entre otros muchos aspectos, el que el padre construya su propio vínculo con el recién nacido, así como que las madres sepan reservar tiempo para ellas y su autocuidado. Nadie sabe exactamente cómo hacer las cosas, así que es mejor aprender juntos.Nora Kurtin, con una trayectoria de más de 20 años enfocada en las familias (desde la fundación de ''Sapos y Princesas''), ha compilado la información más reciente y las opiniones de destacados profesionales en los siete aspectos más consultados de la crianza (salud, higiene, alimentación, sueño, desarrollo psicomotor y cognitivo, salud emocional, y actividades familiares). El libro, organizado por etapas de edad, responde a las preguntas más comunes desde el nacimiento hasta los 3 años.
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A moving portrayal of a troubled mother–daughter relationship, shortlisted for Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize.In 2008, the unnamed narrator of Gifted is working as a hostess and living in Tokyo’s nightlife district. One day, her estranged mother, who is seriously ill, suddenly turns up at her door.As the mother approaches the end of her life, the two women must navigate their strained relationship, while the narrator also reckons with events happening in her own life, including the death of a close friend ― all under the bright lights of Tokyo‘s ‘sleepless town’, Kabukichō.In sharp, elegant prose, and based on the author’s own experiences as a sex worker, Gifted heralds the breakthrough of an exciting new literary talent.
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Reconstruye, en un ejercicio prodigioso de encarnación de la historia de un país en los destinos de una familia, los episodios fundacionales de una saga ya presente en Desmoronamiento o Donde no estén ustedes. Cuando, en 1944, el periodista Pericles Aragón, crítico mordaz con el gobierno del dictador salvadoreño Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, es encarcelado, su mujer, Haydée, decide abrazar la práctica de escribir llevando un diario de los acontecimientos. Mientras descubre horrorizada los entresijos políticos de un país abocado al conflicto, Haydée describe el aumento de las detenciones, la prohibición de las visitas a los reclusos, las vicisitudes del golpe de Estado, y nos habla del entorno familiar y social de su matrimonio: las diferencias políticas entre su padre y el de Pericles y los destinos de sus tres hijos. De ellos, es Clemen Aragón, el más disoluto y una de las caras visibles del golpe de Estado, quien se verá abocado, junto a su primo militar, a escapar del país. Tirana memoria es otro capítulo fundamental de la saga de la familia Aragón en la que Horacio Castellanos Moya entreteje magistralmente el derrocamiento de la dictadura salvadoreña con el devenir de una estirpe de hacendados y militares para quienes el destino de la patria es una cuestión de familia.La crítica ha dicho...«Es un melancólico y escribe como si viviera en el fondo de alguno de los muchos volcanes de su país.»Roberto Bolaño «Es el único escritor de mi generación que sabe cómo narrar el horror, el Vietnam secreto que durante mucho tiempo fue Latinoamérica.»Roberto Bolaño «Las novelas de Horacio Castellanos Moya no dejan indiferente.»Rosa Mora, Babelia«El hondureño Horacio Castellanos Moya es un escritor experto [. . .] Tiene instinto para narrar sucesos, maneja con habilidad las elipsis y utiliza un lenguaje dúctil, rico de matices y capaz de afrontar con solvencia cualquier modalidad discursiva.»Ricardo Senabre, El Cultural
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Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister, and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.
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