Es una obra mágica e intrigante, una novela sobre la memoria, el recuerdo, y el olvido. En donde indaga en el dilemma de, unas veces revivir el pasado y otras, sepultarlo.El tema narrativo se podría explicar en pocas líneas: `Es la historia de amor de una mujer que se enamora de un hombre que no está en su tiempo ni en su espacio y que debe buscar en otro tiempo y en otro espacio, así de simple es la historia`, en palabras del autor.Sin embargo, muy apesar de lo que el autor afirma, la historia que relata el libro es compleja, y en realidad son dos historias que se unen al final.Por un lado, tenemos la vida en el siglo XX, de un jubilado director de orquesta, Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, en la que se cuenta su discurrir profesional y sentimental con una soprano, Inez de Prada.Por otra parte, el relato de una pareja de una etapa muy diferente, la Prehistoria, con sus problemas para sobrevivir y una gran violencia que les viene encima.Algunos personajes de esta segunda historia pasan a la primera, y de esta manera se crea una historia muy atractiva para cualquier lector.Esta obra como en la gran mayoría de los libros de Carlos Fuentes, nos entretiene, pero también nos obliga a pensar. No es una obra que solamente irradie belleza por medio de sus palabras y recursos literarios, sino que desprende ideas sobre los temas más importantes para el ser humano: el amor, la muerte, y la violencia, entre otros.

A suicidal father looks to an older neighbor — and the Cookie Monster — for salvation and sanctuary as his life begins to unravel. A man seeking to save his estranged, drug-addicted brother from the city's underbelly confronts his own mortality. A chess match between a girl and her father turns into a master class about life, self-realization, and pride: "Now hold on little girl…. Chess is like real life. The white pieces go first so they got an advantage over the black pieces."These are just a few glimpses into the world of the residents of the fictional town of Cross River, Maryland, a largely black settlement founded in 1807 after the only successful slave revolt in the United States. Raw, edgy, and unrelenting yet infused with forgiveness, redemption, and humor, the stories in this collection explore characters suffering the quiet tragedies of everyday life and fighting for survival.In "Insurrections," Rion Amilcar Scott's lyrical prose authentically portrays individuals growing up and growing old in an African American community. Writing with a delivery and dialect that are intense and unapologetically current, Scott presents characters who dare to make their own choices — choices of kindness or cruelty — in the depths of darkness and hopelessness. Although Cross River's residents may be halted or deterred in their search for fulfillment, their spirits remain resilient — always evolving and constantly moving.

Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. "Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives," Internal Medicine finds the compassion from which doctors discover the strength to care. Holt's debut collection of short stories, In the Valley of the Kings, was praised by the New York Times Book Review as one of "those works of genius" that "will endure for as long as our hurt kind remains to require their truth." Now he returns with Internal Medicine a work based on his own experiences as a physician offering an insider's access to the long night of the hospital, where the intricacies of medical technology confront the mysteries of the human spirit."A Sign of Weakness" takes us through a grueling nightlong vigil at the bedside of a dying woman. In her "small whimpering noises, rhythmic, paced almost to the beating of my heart," a doctor confronts his own helplessness, clinging "like a child to the thought of morning." In the unforgettable "Giving Bad News," we struggle with a man who maddeningly, terrifyingly refuses to remember his terminal diagnosis, forcing us to tell him, again and again, what we never should have wanted to tell him at all.At the bedside of a hospice patient dying in a house full of cursing parrots, in "The Surgical Mask," we reach the limits of what we are able to face in human suffering, in our own horror at what happens to our bodies as they die.In the psychiatric hospital of "Iron Maiden," a routine chest X-ray opens a window onto a nightmare vision of medieval torture and a recognition of how our mortality drives all of us to madness.In these four stories, and five others, Internal Medicine captures the doctor's struggle not only with sickness, suffering, and death but the fears and frailties each of us patient and doctor alike brings to the bedside. In a powerful alchemy of insight and compassion, Holt reveals how those vulnerabilities are the foundations of caring. Intensely realized, gently ironic, heartfelt and heartbreaking, Internal Medicine is an account of what it means to be a doctor, to be mortal, and to be human."

What would you do if you were driving on the highway with your two daughters, and those in the vehicle next to you started shooting at your car? And you noticed one of your daughters had been hit? Interstate is a multifaceted vision of American violence, and an ode to the truth that the greatest love one has is for his or her child.

“The greatest Afrikaner poet of this generation. … No one elevated the Boer language to such pure beauty and wielded it so devastatingly against the apartheid regime.”—The New YorkerThis eclectic and generous work full of wisdom and wit is addressed to a young writer. Breyten Breytenbach’s candid and provocative reflections on reading and writing guide without guiding, open mental channels, surprise, and inspire. A stirring glimpse into the mind of an artist.An outspoken human rights activist, Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, novelist, playwright, memoirist, and painter. He received the Alan Paton Prize in 1994 and the prestigious Hertzog Prize for his collection of poetry Windcatcher in 2008.

From the celebrated author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,a thought-provoking, often unsettling story collection that consists, broadly, of narrative diagrams of the three main stages in a human life: birth, life, and death.Alexandra Kleeman’s debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine earned her comparisons to Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Ben Marcus, and Tom Perrotta. It was praised by the New York Times as "a powerful allegory of our civilization’s many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation."In her second book, a collection of twelve stories irresistibly seductive in their strangeness, she explores human life from beginning to end: the distress of birth into a world already formed; the brief and confusing period of "living" where we understand what is expected of us and struggle to do it; and the death-y period toward the end where we sense it is ending and will end only partially understood, at best.The title is taken from one of the stories ("Intimation"), but is also a play on Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality" — only in this case it’s not clear exactly what is being intimated, but it’s nothing so gleaming and good as Immortality. The middle, "Living" section of the book, is fleshed out with a set of stories that borrow more from traditional realist fiction to illustrate the inner lives of the characters.At once familiar and mysterious, these stories have an eerie resonance as its characters find themselves in new and surprising situations. An unnamed woman enters a room with no exit and a ready-made life; the disappearance of people, objects, and memory creates an apocalypse; the art of dance is used to try to tame a feral child; the key to surviving a house-party lies in knowing the difference between fake and real blood.Elegant, surprising, wondrous, and haunting, Intimations is an utterly transporting collection from one of our most ingenious and brilliant young writers.

Este archivo es una corrección, a partir de otro encontrado en la red, para compartirlo con un grupo reducido de amigos, por medios privados. Si llega a tus manos debes saber que no deberás colgarlo en webs o redes públicas, ni hacer uso comercial del mismo. Que una vez leído se considera caducado el préstamo del mismo y deberá ser destruido.En caso de incumplimiento de dicha advertencia, derivamos cualquier responsabilidad o acción legal a quienes la incumplieran.Queremos dejar bien claro que nuestra intención es favorecer a aquellas personas, de entre nuestros compañeros, que por diversos motivos: económicos, de situación geográfica o discapacidades físicas, no tienen acceso a la literatura, o a bibliotecas públicas. Pagamos religiosamente todos los cánones impuestos por derechos de autor de diferentes soportes. No obtenemos ningún beneficio económico ni directa ni indirectamente (a través de publicidad). Por ello, no consideramos que nuestro acto sea de piratería, ni la apoyamos en ningún caso. Además, realizamos la siguiente…

Ruth Galm’s spare, poetic debut novel, set in the American West of early Joan Didion, traces the drifting path of a young woman caught between generations as she skirts the law and her own oppressive anxiety.Into the Valley opens on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first counterfeit check and flee San Francisco for the Central Valley. Unmarried at 30, B. doesn't understand the youth counterculture but doesn't fit into her mother's world of dresses and kid gloves.B. is beset by a disintegrative anxiety she calls “the carsickness,” and the only relief comes in handling illicit checks and driving endlessly through the valley. As she travels the bare, anonymous landscape, meeting an array of other characters — an alcoholic professor, a bohemian teenage girl, a criminal admirer — B.’s flight becomes that of a woman unraveling, a person lost between who she is and who she cannot yet be.

Zbiór opowiadań o najintymniejszych zakamarkach ludzkiej duszy, ukazujący zaskakujące powiązania między biologią czy chemią a reakcjami psychologicznymi, emocjonalnymi człowieka. Jak ważny jest dla małżeństwa jest tlenek azotu? Jakie są przyczyny uczucia lekkości, które ogarnia człowieka po pierwszej spowiedzi? Jaki wpływ na limfocyt T4 może mieć miłość?W Intymnej teorii względności Janusz L. Wiśniewski wyjaśnia te i inne zależności, łącząc w sposób nieco postmodernistyczny język literacki z kodem naukowym.Intymna teoria względności to także opowieść o różnych rodzajach miłości i śmierci, nadziei i rozpaczy zainspirowana autentycznymi ludzkimi losami. Ukazuje portrety niespełnionych kochanków, bezradnych rodziców, niekochanych dzieci, samotnych ojców. Postęp technologiczny i naukowy w niczym nie zmienia ich dramatów.

Año 1940. Imparables, los alemanes invanden Europa. Madrid pasa hambre y se ha convertido en un hervidero de espías de todas las potencias mundiales. Harry Brett es un antiguo soldado que conoció la Guerra Civil y quedó traumatizado tras la evacuación de Dunkerque. Ahora trabaja para el servicio secreto británico: debe ganarse la confianza de su antiguo condiscípulo Sandy Forsyth, quién se dedica a negocios turbios en la España del Caudillo. Por el camino, Harry se verá envuelto en un juego muy peligroso y asaltado por amargos recuerdos.

Inseparable through university, Eva, Benedict, Sylvie and Lucien graduate into an exhilarating world on the brink of the new millennium. Eager to shrug off the hardships of her childhood, Eva breaks away to work in the City. Benedict stays behind to complete his PhD in Physics and pine for Eva, while siblings Sylvie and Lucien seek a more bohemian life of art, travel and adventure.As their twenties give way to their thirties, the four friends find their paths diverging as they struggle to navigate broken hearts and thwarted dreams. With every summer that passes, they try to remain as close as they once were — but this is far from easy. One friend's triumph coincides with another's disaster, one finds love as another loses it, one comes to their senses as another is changing their mind. . And who knows where any of us will be in twenty summers' time?A warm, wise and witty novel about finding the courage to carry on despite life not always turning out as expected, and a powerful testament to love and friendship as the constants in an ever-changing world, Invincible Summer is a dazzling depiction of the highs and lows of adulthood and the greater forces that shape us.

'One of America's greatest novelists' dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to dateSinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as 'one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.'

En Invisible, Auster nos cuenta la historia de Adam Walker, un joven poeta ilusionado y ávido de literatura que cuenta con muchas más cosas por hacer de las que ha hecho. Estamos en 1967 y nuestro protagonista estudia en la Universidad de Columbia (al igual que lo hizo el propio autor), está en contra de la guerra de Vietnam y según dicen todos los que lo conocen es guapísimo. En una fiesta de estudiantes conocerá a una seductora pareja de franceses. Lo primero que llama su atención es el nombre de él, Rudolf Born, ya que le recuerda a Bertrand de Born, el poeta que en uno de los cantos de Dante lleva su propia cabeza en la mano.A partir de ahí, esta pareja se encargará poco a poco de que Adam vaya cayendo en sus redes, a través de un extraño juego de seducción. Hasta que Rudolf Born, que está en Columbia como profesor invitado, le propone que dirija una revista literaria que él mismo se encargará de financiar. Cuando esto ocurre Adam ya sospecha del profesor francés, le parece peligroso y hombre de muchas caras pero la oferta es tentadora. Tampoco podrá resistirse días después, cuando Rudolf se marche a París repentinamente, a las insinuaciones de Margot.

Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk's original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book's characters. Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to understand the melding of fact and fiction, and decipher the book's playful page design.She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better, and that salvation hides in the last place you'll ever want to look.

Invisible Women is really two books entwined in one, a dialogue between psychoanalysts weaving through descriptions of luminous women. Told in a specific collective “we,” Hoang’s own voice becomes a compelling part of what’s being told. Just like Italo Calvino wrote of vast buildings constructed of words alone in Invisible Cities, Invisible Womenpresents complicated stories of feminine archetypes in the form of psychoanalytic case studies.

Olivia Uriarte acaba de ser abandonada por su marido. Ha sido reemplazada por una mujer más joven y además está al borde de la ruina.¿Qué puede hacer? Planear al milímetro su propio asesinato.¿Cómo? Invitando a todos sus enemigos a un lujoso velero en el Mediterráneo.Sin embargo… Será su hermana Ágata quien reconstruirá los últimos minutos de la vida de Olivia y buceará en los posibles motivos de cada invitado para asesinarla.Esto, cambiará su propia vida y la de su hermana.