Paulo Coelho, con más de 35 millones de libros vendidos, no es sólo uno de los autores más leídos del mundo, sino también uno de los escritores con mayor influencia ideológica de hoy en día. Lectores de más de 150 países, sin distinción de credos ni culturas, le han convertido en uno de los autores de referencia de nuestro tiempo. Durante varios años Paulo Coelho ha colaborado con el periódico brasileño Folha de S.Paulo escribiendo una columna diaria. Maktub surge como fruto de esta colaboración, ya que se trata de una selección que el autor ha hecho de los artículos que realizó para esta publicación entre junio de 1993 y junio de 1994. En palabras del propio Paulo Coelho, «Maktub no es un libro de consejos, sino un intercambio de experiencias», una excelente ocasión para reflexionar y para reencontrarse con uno mismo.

Mal de amores es la historia de una pasión entretejida a la historia de un país, de una guerra, de una familia, de varias vocaciones desmesuradas. Emilia Sauri, la protagonista de esta inquietante novela, nace en una familia liberal y tiene la fortuna de aprender el mundo de quienes lo viven con ingenio, avidez y entereza. Cobijada por la certidumbre de que el valor no es tal sin la paciencia, busca su destino enfrentando las limitaciones impuestas a su género y los peligros de su amor a dos hombres: desde su infancia por Daniel Cuenca, inasible aventurero y revolucionario, y en su madurez por Antonio Zavalza, un médico cuya audacia primera está en buscar la paz en mitad de la guerra civil. Regida por la mejor tradición de las novelas costumbristas, Mal de amores es una novela cuya prosa nítida y rápida consigue arrobarnos con su maestría, mientras nos regala los delirios de una invocación amorosa cuya desmesura nos contagia de futuro y esperanza.

«Malaria» Андрея М. Мелехова — это во многом необычный приключенческий роман о прошлом, настоящем и будущем. Автор попытался взглянуть на сегодняшние события сквозь потускневшую от времени призму раннего христианства и реалий императорского Рима.Главный герой романа — юный офицер-переводчик, закончивший первый курс Военного института. Честный и пока во многом наивный юноша. Волею судьбы восемнадцатилетний парень становится участником событий, призванных изменить судьбы мира на десятилетия вперёд. Как это ни странно, лишь в малярийном бреду ему открывается загадочная связь между прошлым и будущим. Болезненные видения о гладиаторских боях в Древнем Риме неожиданно оказываются реальностью, а ближайший помощник императора Нерона вдруг начинает говорить по-русски…

Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award 2012.Nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.Nominated for the Debut-Litzer Fiction Prize.An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2012 Editors' Pick.A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick for Summer 2012.A Chatelaine Magazine Top Five Books of 2012.A Georgia Straight Best Book of the Year 2012.An iTunes Canada Best of 2012 Fiction Pick..A New Statesman Read-All-About-It Selection for 2012.A Salon What to Read 2012 Pick.A National Post Pick for Best Books of 2012.Mail on Sunday Novel of the Week.Our Woman refuses to be sunk by what life is about to serve her. She’s just caught her son Jimmy in the barn with another man. She’s been accosted by Red the Twit, who claims to have done the unmentionable with her husband. And now her son’s gone and joined the only group that will have him: an army division on its way to Afghanistan.

“Malda už Oveną Minį” (1989) – vienas iš geriausių Johno Irvingo romanų, grožiu ir tragizmu siekiantis didžiosios literatūros viršūnes. Tai jausmingas, graudus, tarpais komiškas, siužeto požiūriu gana sudėtingas pasakojimas apie draugystę, brendimą, žmogaus stiprybę, lemtį, tikėjimą, Dievo ieškojimą ir abejones.

Romanas prasideda nuo neįtikėtinos situacijos: mažyliui Ovenui, kuriam nesiseka žaisti beisbolo, pagaliau pavyksta atmušti kamuoliuką – ir taip lemtingai, kad pataiko tiesiai į smilkinį geriausio draugo motinai. Ji miršta. Kokius išbandymus turi atlaikyti Oveno ir Džono draugystė? Kaip toliau jiems gyventi? O kur dar Oveno sapnas, kuriame jis išvysta savo likimą! Tik tikėjimas, kad viskas, kas jį ištiko, ne šiaip sau, teikia jam nusiraminimą. Netgi žinant savo šiurpią ateitį.

"Kiedy widzicie kobietę i mężczyznę w urzędzie stanu cywilnego, zastanówcie się, które z nich stanie się mordercą". Ta książka to przewrotna, zabawna i pełna zaskakujących zwrotów akcji opowieść o związku dwojga kochających się niegdyś ludzi. Co zostało między nimi po 15 latach małżeństwa? Schmittowi udała się nie lada sztuka: napisał dramat, który czyta się jak najbardziej wciągającą powieść.

Společenská fikce světově proslulého francouzského spisovatele se odehrává převážně v sedmdesátých letech tohoto století, ale končí o celá desetiletí později. Skupinka lidí shromážděných zcela náhodou ve sklepě středověké tvrze Malevil náhodou přežije výbuch atomové bomby. Děsivá katastrofa zničí valnou část lidstva i živočichů na zemském povrchu. Ti, kteří přežili, stojí před problémem, jak uspořádat svůj život ve světě, z něhož zmizely všechny vymoženosti civilizace. V primitivních podmínkách bojují o přežití i o uhájení života před lidským nepřítelem… Román je společenskou a charakterovou studií jedné z mnoha eventualit budoucího vývoje, současně však i varováním před možným zneužitím vědy.

Pascua de 1977. En las bodegas del antiguo castillo de Malevil, Emanuel embotella su vino mientras sus amigos de infancia discuten con pasión sobre las elecciones municipales. Ése es también el día de una guerra atómica que se abate sobre el mundo por sorpresa y lo destruye. En un instante, alrededor de Malevil, cuya roca milenaria resiste a la hoguera, todo ha quedado aniquilado.Desde los momentos iniciales, en el planeta carbonizado, los compañeros de Emanuel se encuentran con sus primeros enemigos: otros hombres, salvados también por milagro como ellos, pero que codician la fortaleza y sus reservas de vida.¿Escenario retrospectivo de lo que pudieron haber sido los primeros pasos del hombre sobre el planeta? ¿Estudio futurológico de un núcleo humano?Más singular aún -más cruel también- es la historia de unos pocos hombres encarnizados en mantener sobre la tierra los últimos vestigios de la especie humana, narración que corta el aliento, en donde abundan la pasión, los anhelos, las peripecias de la vida en un medio increíblemente primitivo, actual, y por eso mismo, infinito.

Malinche sirve a Laura Esquivel para construir una ventana en la que el lector se asoma a la forma de ver el mundo de los pueblos indígenas, ``a un pasado que debemos reintegrar en nuestras vidas, porque los mexicanos preferimos regodearnos en la idea de que somos producto de un abuso, y este concepto de que somos abusables, conquistables o de que no hay salida, nos hace caer una y otra vez en manos de gente que no nos gobierna como merecemos, que no nos procura un bienestar. La prueba es que no han sido capaces de respetar los Acuerdos de San Andrés`, afirma la narradora en entrevista con La Jornada.En su nueva novela, añade, intenta ``comprender mucho mejor el proceso de la conquista y por qué no hemos podido superarlo. Y es que, como nación, tenemos un nudo atorado que tiene que ver con la integración de esa visión del mundo que acepta un orden cósmico. Una parte de la profunda espiritualidad de los pueblos indígenas se basa en ello, en presencias y deidades, donde el agua, el fuego y el aire hablan, nos dicen cosas.

Written in the shadow of the Yugoslav wars, yet never eclipsed by them, Mama Leone is a delightful cycle of interconnected stories by one of Central Europe’s most dazzling contemporary storytellers. Miljenko Jergovi? leads us from a bittersweet world of precocious childhood wonder and hilarious invention, where the seduction of a well-told lie is worth more than a thousand prosaic truths, out into fractured worlds bleary-eyed from the unmagnificence of growing up. Yet for every familial betrayal and diminished expectation, every love and home(land) irretrievably lost, every terror and worst fear realized, Jergovi?’s characters never surrender the promise of redemption being but a lone kiss or winning bingo card away. As readers we wander the book’s rhapsodic literary rooms, and as a myriad of unforgettable human voices call out to us, startled, across oceans and continents, we recognize them as our own.

Following on the Giller Prize-nominated and Governor General's Literary Award-winning success of Ru, Kim Thúy's latest novel is a triumph of poetic beauty and a moving meditation on how love and food are inextricably entwined.Mãn has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, and her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter, Maman finds Mãn a husband-a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal.Thrown into a new world, Mãn discovers her natural talent as a chef. Gracefully she practices her art, with food as her medium. She creates dishes that are much more than sustenance for the body: they evoke memory and emotion, time and place, and even bring her customers to tears.Mãn is a mystery-her name means "perfect fulfillment," yet she and her husband seem to drift along, respectfully and dutifully. But when she encounters a married chef in Paris, everything changes in the instant of a fleeting touch, and Mãn discovers the all-encompassing obsession and ever-present dangers of a love affair.Full of indelible images of beauty, delicacy and quiet power, Mãn is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language, its sensuousness and its love of life.

«Man and Boy» — это трогательная история, которую Тони Парсонс рассказал нам с удивительной проникновенностью. Искренность чувств, юмор, ироничность повествования, современное отношение к затрагиваемым проблемам взаимоотношений и окружающему миру позволили этой книге известного британского журналиста стать международным бестселлером и книгой года в Великобритании. Критики сравнивают «Man and Boy» с «Дневником Бриджит Джонс». При этом справедливо считают книгу естественным дополнением нарисованной Хелен Филдинг ироничной и универсальной картины жизни современных тридцатилетних.

Harry Silver returns to face life in the "blended family." A wonderful new novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and Boy, or completely on its own. Man and Wife is a novel about love and marriage – about why we fall in love and why we marry; about why we stay and why we go. Harry Silver is a man coming to terms with a divorce and a new marriage. He has to juggle with time and relationships, with his wife and his ex-wife, his son and his stepdaughter, his own work and his wife's fast-growing career. Meanwhile his mother, who stood so steadfastly by his father until he died, is not getting any younger or stronger herself. In fact, everything in Harry's life seems complicated. And when he meets a woman in a million, it gets even more so… Man and Wife stands on its own as a brilliant novel about families in the new century, written with all the humour, passion and superb storytelling that have made Tony Parsons a favourite author in over thirty countries.

A collection of storiesThese superbly crafted stories reveal an astonishing range, with settings that vary from a farm on the Canadian prairies to Bloomsbury in London, from a high-rise apartment to a mine-shaft. Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to show us the world through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy as convincingly as he reveals it through the eyes of an old man approaching senility. Moving from the hilarious farce of teenage romance all the way to the numbing tragedy of life in a ward for incurables, these twelve stories inspire belief, admiration, and enjoyment, and come together to form a vibrant chronicle of human experience from a gifted observer of life's joys and tribulations. This is Guy Vanderhaeghe's brilliant first book of fiction.

On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged from his white wife and three children, and living in the bedroom of a friend’s six-year-old child. He has four days to come up with the money to keep the kids in school and make a down payment on an apartment for them in which to live. As we slip between his childhood in inner city Boston and present-day New York City, we learn of a life marked by abuse, abandonment, raging alcoholism, and the best and worst intentions of a supposedly integrated America. This is a story of the American Dream gone awry, about what it’s like to feel preprogrammed to fail in life and the urge to escape that sentence.

An unforgettable story of faith, forgiveness and second chances, Man on Fire is a powerful and touching novel from the Booker and Guardian-shortlisted author of Pigeon English.John Lock has come to India to meet his destiny: a destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impressive moustache. He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England: decades wasted in a meaningless job, a marriage foundering in the wake of loss and a terrible secret he cannot bear to share with his wife.He has come to offer his help to a man who has learned to conquer pain, a world record breaker who specialises in feats of extreme endurance and ill-advised masochism. Bibhuti Nayak’s next record attempt — to have fifty baseball bats broken over his body — will set the seal on a career that has seen him rise from poverty to become a minor celebrity in a nation where standing out from the crowd requires tenacity, courage and perhaps a touch of madness. In answering Bibhuti’s call for assistance, John hopes to rewrite a brave end to a life poorly lived.But as they take their leap of faith together, and John is welcomed into Bibhuti’s family, and into the colour and chaos of Mumbai — where he encounters ping-pong-playing monks, a fearless seven-year-old martial arts warrior and an old man longing for the monsoon to wash him away — he learns more about life, and death, and everything in between than he could ever have bargained for.

A wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. The inequities and betrayals of family life coalesce around and torment this magical being. An explosive act of violence follows, and its mysterious cause is unraveled as events progress toward a heartbreaking revelation.Lyrical and bawdy, experimental and political, this extraordinary novel announces the arrival of a powerful new voice on the global literary stage.

A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories which illuminates with audacious wit the complexity of human behavior, as seen through the lens of the natural world.Told with perfect rhythm and unyielding brutality, these stories expose unsuspecting men and women to the realities of nature, the primal instincts of man, and the dark humor and heartbreak of our struggle to not only thrive, but survive. In “Girl on Girl,” a high school freshman goes to disturbing lengths to help an old friend. An insatiable temptress pursues the one man she can’t have in “Meteorologist Dave Santana.” And in the title story, a long fraught friendship comes undone when three buddies get impossibly lost on a lake it is impossible to get lost on. In Diane Cook’s perilous worlds, the quotidian surface conceals an unexpected surreality that illuminates different facets of our curious, troubling, and bewildering behavior.Other stories explore situations pulled directly from the wild, imposing on human lives the danger, tension, and precariousness of the natural world: a pack of not-needed boys take refuge in a murky forest and compete against each other for their next meal; an alpha male is pursued through city streets by murderous rivals and desirous women; helpless newborns are snatched by a man who stalks them from their suburban yards. Through these characters Cook asks: What is at the root of our most heartless, selfish impulses? Why are people drawn together in such messy, complicated, needful ways? When the unexpected intrudes upon the routine, what do we discover about ourselves?As entertaining as it is dangerous, this accomplished collection explores the boundary between the wild and the civilized, where nature acts as a catalyst for human drama and lays bare our vulnerabilities, fears, and desires.

As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, 'Man's Fate' ('La Condition Humaine'), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the Chinese Revolution, foreshadows the contemporary world and brings to life the profound meaning of the revolutionary impulse for the individuals involved.As a study of conspiracy and conspirators, of men caught in the desperate clash of ideologies, betrayal, expediency, and free will, Andre Malraux's novel remains unequaled.