Part thriller, part domestic tragedy, at once political and intensely personal, Ivan Kilma's epicly scaled new novel is an inquest into the compromises that turned even the best citizens of Czechoslovakia into accomplices of its late totalitarian regime. "Enormously powerful."-New York Times Book Review.

A breathtaking novel of passion and politics, set in the hotbed of Palestine in the 1940s, by a master of twentieth-century fiction.It is the eve of Britain’s withdrawal from Palestine in 1948, a moment that will mark the beginning of a new Israel. But the course of history is uncertain, and Israel’s territorial enemies plan to smother the new country at its birth. Judith Roth has escaped the concentration camps in Germany only to be plunged into the new conflict, one with stakes just as high for her as they are for her people.Initially conceived as a screenplay for the 1966 film starring Sophia Loren, Lawrence Durrell’s previously unpublished novel offers a thrilling portrayal of a place and time when ancient history crashed against the fragile bulwarks of the modernizing world.

Jeffrey Archer, con su habitual maestría narrativa, presenta en su última novela una apasionante historia marcada por un insólito cruce de destinos: dos hermanos gemelos separados al nacer y que desconocían la existencia del otro, se reencuentran treinta años más tarda como rivales políticos. Ambos pertenecen a familias de distinta extracción social y credo ideológico, pero el azar propiciará que sea Fletcher quien defienda a su hermano Nat, acusaso del asesinato de su rival en las elecciones a gobernador. Cuando Fletcher sufra un accidente y sea necesario conseguir sangre de un grupo muy extraño se desvelará el parentesco. Una trama perfectamente urdida en torno a las sorpresas que puede deparar el destino, al podeer político, al juego sucio, a la pérdida y al reencuetro, que ha hecho las delicias de miles de lectores en Inglaterra y Estados Unidos.

En un futuro no muy lejano, las armas y los chalecos antibalas son algo habitual. Tal vez la excepción sea una comunidad de EE. UU que dice garantizar la protección de sus habitantes gracias al control que ejercen los agentes del Servicio de Seguridad del Estado, el futuro estado 51.En este contexto del tiempo, Susan Clayton, que trabaja elaborando pasatiempos para una revista, recibe un mensaje cifrado que parece significar «Te he encontrado». La críptica nota es especialmente siniestra en un momento en que un asesino en serie acecha Florida, un asesino que puede ser el desaparecido padre de Susan y al que piden, a su hermano, ayude a encontrar. Su madre Diana, muer fuerte y, al tiempo con miedo esta con un cáncer terminal pero sabe que juntos deberán enfrentarse a la amenaza.Su hermano Jeffrey, reputado criminalista y experto en asesinos en serie es reclutado por la policía del nuevo estado para encontrar a un asesino en serie del que piensan es su padre sin embargo, el va mas como cebo que como experto.

Por primera vez en castellano, una de las novelas más emblemáticas del maestro de la ficción norteamericana.Pammy y Lyle Wynant son una pareja atractiva, moderna, que parece tenerlo todo. Sin embargo, tras su vida `ideal` ronda un tedio persistente y una desesperación contenida que les llevan a vivir aventuras diferentes, pero igual de letales. Insólitos en su terca normalidad, estos fríos `jugadores` se enfrentan diferentes a la violencia que los rodea y que han contribuido a crear.El terrorismo y el lado más oscuro de la clase adinerada contemporánea y su profundo descontento, son la base sobre la que se sustenta esta ácida y curiosísima novela…

Una novela que retrata el país y sus dirigentes sin disimulos.Año 2005. Un irlandés llamado Liam Yeats, ex terrorista del IRA y ex agente del Mossad, llega a Valencia con el objetivo de matar al hombre más peligroso de la ciudad: el empresario Juan Lloris, que se dispone a iniciar el asalto definitivo a la Alcaldía. Las sospechas de Lloris sobre su persona de confianza le harán contratar a un investigador que descubrirá algo que dará un vuelco a esta intriga. Mientras tanto, el incombustible F. Petit continuará ejerciendo de funambulista y los partidos mayoritarios establecerán una alianza insólita que sólo se explica por su propia supervivencia.Una novela de intriga que profundiza sobre la psicología del profesional del crimen y que mantiene la denuncia sobre el escurridizo juego político que se da en Valencia, una ciudad española, tal vez, similar a otras.

The New York Times bestselling novel of rock ’n’ roll, super fandom, and love, by the beloved author of About a Boy and High Fidelity.Nick Hornby returns to his roots—music and messy relationships—in this funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they are never beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England’s bleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan which mirrors the place; Tucker was once a brilliant songwriter and performer, who’s gone into seclusion in rural America—or at least that’s what his fans think. Duncan is obsessed with Tucker’s work, to the point of derangement, and when Annie dares to go public on her dislike of his latest album, there are quite unexpected, life-changing consequences for all three.Nick Hornby uses this intriguing canvas to explore why it is we so often let the early promise of relationships, ambition and indeed life evaporate. And he comes to some surprisingly optimistic conclusions about the struggle to live up to one’s promise.

Living alone with his dog in the remote cabin in the woods, Julius Winsome is not unlike the barren winter lands that he inhabits: remote, vacant, inscrutable. But when his dog Hobbes is killed by hunters, their carelessness—or is it cruelty?—sets Julius’s precarious mindset on end. He is at once more alone than he has ever been; he was at first with his father, until he died; then with Claire, until she disappeared with another man into a more normal life in town; and then with Hobbes, who eased the sorrow of Claire’s departure. Now Hobbes is gone. Julius is left with what his father left behind: the cabin that he was raised in; a lifetime of books, lining every wall of his home, which have been Julius’s lifelong friends and confidantes; and his great-grandfather’s rifle from World War I, which Julius had been trained to shoot with uncanny skill and with the utmost reluctance. But with the death of his dog, Julius’s reluctance has reached its end. More and more, simply and furtively, it is revenge that is creeping into his mind. Fresh snow is on the ground as the hunters lumber into his sights. They’re well within the old gun’s range. They pause, and they’re locked into the crosshairs. Julius’s finger traces the trigger. Will he pull it? And what will that accomplish? What if he simply has nothing left to lose?

Not all whites in South Africa are outright racists. Some, like Bam and Maureen Smales in Nadine Gordimer's thrilling and powerful novel July's People, are sensitive to the plights of blacks during the apartheid state. So imagine their quandary when the blacks stage a full-scale revolution that sends the Smaleses scampering into isolation. The premise of the book is expertly crafted; it speaks much about the confusing state of affairs of South Africa and serves as the backbone for a terrific adventure.

In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.

A visit from the Queen, a tragic accident, a divided family: a masterful new novel from the prize-winning Gerbrand Bakker.On a hot summer’s day in June 1969, everyone is gathered to welcome Queen Juliana. The boys and girls wave their flags enthusiastically. But just as the monarch is getting into her car to leave, little Hanne Kaan and her mother arrive late — the Queen strokes the little girl’s cheek and regally offers Anna Kaan her hand.It would have been an unforgettable day of celebration if only the baker hadn’t been running late with his deliveries and knocked down Hanne, playing on the roadside, with his brand-new VW van.Years later, Jan Kaan arrives on a hot day in June in order to tidy his sister’s grave, and is overcome again with grief and silent fury. Isn’t it finally time to get to the bottom of things? Should the permit for the grave be extended? And why won’t anyone explain to his little niece Dieke why grandma has been lying up in the hayloft for a day and a half, nursing a bottle of Advocaat and refusing to see anyone?June traces in spellbinding, tender detail how the ripples from one tragic incident spread through a community, a family and down the generations.

On 16 June 1957, a shoot-out in a village church in northern Lebanon leaves two dozen people dead. In the aftermath of the massacre, the town is rent in two: the Al-Ramis in the north and their rivals the Al-Samaeenis in the south. But lives once so closely intertwined cannot easily be divided. Neighbours turn into enemies and husbands and wives are forced to choose between loyalty to each other and loyalty to their clan.Drawing on an actual killing that took place in his home town, Douaihy reconstructs that June day from the viewpoints of people who witnessed the killing or whose lives were forever altered by it. A young girl overhears her father lending his gun to his cousins, but refusing to accompany them to the church. A school boy walks past the dead bodies, laid out in the town square on beds brought out from the houses. A baker whose shop is trapped on the wrong side of the line hopes the women who buy his bread will protect him. At the center of the portrait is Eliyya, who, twenty years after emigrating to the US, returns to the village to learn about the father who was shot through the heart in the massacre, the father he never knew.With a masterful eye for detail, Douaihy reconstructs that fateful June Sunday when rain poured from the sky and the traditions and affections of village life were consumed by violence and revenge.

Camille Fauque tiene 26 años, dibuja de maravilla, pero no tiene fuerza para hacerlo. Frágil y desorientada, malvive en una buhardilla y parece esmerarse en desaparecer: apenas come, limpia oficinas de noche, y su relación con el mundo es casi agonizante. Philibert Marquet, su vecino, vive en un apartamento enorme del que podría ser desalojado; es tartamudo, un caballero a la antigua que vende postales en un museo, y el casero de Franck Lestafier. Cocinero de un gran restaurante, Franck es mujeriego y malhablado, casi vulgar, lo cual irrita a la única persona que le ha querido, su abuela Paulette, que a sus 83 años se deja morir en un asilo añorando su hogar y las visitas de su nieto.Cuatro supervivientes, cuatro personajes magullados por la vida, cuyo encuentro va a salvarlos de un naufragio anunciado. La relación que se establece entre estos perdedores de corazón puro es de una riqueza inaudita, tendrán que aprender a conocerse para lograr el milagro de la convivencia.Juntos, nada más es una historia viva, con un ritmo suspendido en el aire, llena de esos minúsculos dramas personales que seducen por su sencillez, su sinceridad y su inconmensurable humanidad.

„Juodasis princas“ – tai savotiška rašytojos išpažintis. Sukurtas 1973 m. romanas buvo laikomas jos kūrybos viršūne, bet neprarado savo reikšmės ir dabar.

A small boat, alone on the furious ocean. A family stranded on an island, battered by waves on all sides. A decision which looms, unavoidable, on the horizon.

When a volcano collapses in the ocean and generates a tidal wave of biblical proportions, the world disappears around Louie, his parents and his eight siblings. Their house, perched on a summit, stands firm. As far as the eye can see there is only silver water. It is shaken by violent storms, like jolts of rage.

A remarkable story of destruction, resilience, love, and the invisible but powerful links that bind a family together.

Russian-born Alina Bronsky, whose Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and a Favorite Read of the Year by both The Huffington Post and The Wall Street Journal, returns with a startling new novel about the difficult work of self-acceptance.After an encounter with a dog in which he was worsted, seventeen-year-old Marek begins attending a support group for young people with physical disabilities, which he dubs “the cripple group,” led by an eccentric older man known as The Guru. Marek is dismissive of the other members of the support group, seeing little connection between their misfortunes and his own. The one exception to this is Janne, the beautiful young and wheelchair-bound woman with whom he has fallen in love. When a family crisis forces Marek to face his demons, group or no group, he is in dire need of support. But the distance he has put between himself and The Guru’s misshapen acolytes may well be too great to bridge.An atmospheric evocation of modern Berlin and a vivid portrait of youth under pressure, Just Call Me Superhero is destined to consolidate Alina Bronsky’s reputation as one of Europe’s most wryly entertaining and stylish authors.

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize

Justine is a painting, a doppelgänger and a woman of beguiling beauty. Set in contemporary London, Justine is a story of a man’s obsession with a woman – or is it two women? For Justine has a twin sister Juliette, and as the story unfolds, the opium-dazed narrator becomes increasingly unsure as to the identity of the woman he desires.

Justiz ist ein (Kriminal-) Roman. Er behandelt den öffentlichen Mord eines schweizer Kantonsrates an einem Professoren; erzählt aus der Ich-Perspektive des jungen Anwaltes Spät, der den Auftrag des verurteilten Kantonsrates annimmt, den Mord unter der Annahme, dieser sei nicht der Mörder, erneut zu untersuchen.„Der junge Anwalt (…) erkennt zu spät, in welche Falle ihn die Justiz geraten läßt, weil er sie mit der Gerechtigkeit verwechselt.“ (Friedrich Dürrenmatt)Dürrenmatt begann nach eigenen Worten mit der Arbeit an Justiz im Jahr 1957, der Roman sollte nach einigen Monaten abgeschlossen sein. Da jedoch Arbeit an anderen Werken dazwischen kam, blieb Justiz liegen, bis Dürrenmatt schließlich die Arbeit daran ganz einstellte. Im Jahr 1980 wollte er den Roman als 30. Band seiner Werkausgabe abschließen, scheiterte jedoch daran, dass er die ursprünglich geplante Handlung nicht mehr rekonstruieren konnte. 1985 schließlich setzte er sich erneut daran, entwickelte auf dem vorhandenen Fragment eine neue Handlung; und so erschien der Roman, „wenn auch wohl in einem anderen Sinn als ursprünglich geplant.“

Элис давно хотела поработать на концертной площадке, и сразу после окончания школы она решает осуществить свою мечту. Судьба это или случайность, но за кулисами она становится невольным свидетелем ссоры между лидером ее любимой K-pop группы и их менеджером, которые бурно обсуждают шумиху вокруг личной жизни артиста. Разъяренный менеджер замечает девушку, и у него сразу же возникает идея, как успокоить фанатов и журналистов: нужно лишь разыграть любовь между Элис и айдолом миллионов. Но примет ли она это провокационное предложение, способное изменить ее жизнь? Догадаются ли все вокруг, что история невероятной любви – это виртуозная игра?

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest — a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka.What are Kafka’s fictions about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Countless answers have been offered, but the essential mystery remains intact. Setting out on his own exploration, Roberto Calasso enters the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of Kafka’s work to discover why K. and Josef K. — the protagonists of The Castle and The Trial—are so radically different from any other character in the history of the novel, and to determine who, in the end, is K. The culmination of Calasso’s lifelong fascination with Kafka’s work, K. is also an unprecedented consideration of the mystery of Kafka himself.