‘Aleksandar Hemon has established himself as that rare thing, an essential writer. Another small act of defiance against this narrowing world’ Observer ‘His language sings. . I should not be surprised if Hemon wins the Nobel Prize at some point’ Giles Foden In Aleksandar Hemon’s electrifying first book, The Question of Bruno, Jozef Pronek left Sarajevo to visit Chicago in 1992, just in time to watch war break out at home on TV. Unable to return, he began to make his way in a foreign land and his adventures were unforgettable. Now Pronek, the accidental nomad, gets his own book, and startles us into yet more exhilarating ways of seeing the world anew. ‘If the plot is mercury, quick and elusive, sentence by sentence and word for word, Aleksandar Hemon’s writing is gold’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Downbeat but also hilarious, while the writing itself is astonishing’ Time Out ‘Hemon can’t write a boring sentence, and the English language is the richer for it’ New York Times ‘Sheer exuberance, generosity and engagement with life’ Sunday Times

Winner of the Machado de Assis Prize.Driving home, law student Paulo passes a figure at the side of the road. The indigenous girl stands in the heavy rain, as if waiting for something. Paulo gives her a lift to her family’s roadside camp.With sudden shifts in the characters’ lives, this novel takes in the whole story: telling of love, loss and family, it spans the worlds of São Paulo’s rich kids and dispossessed Guarani Indians along Brazil’s highways. One man escapes into an immigrant squatter’s life in London, while another’s performance activism leads to unexpected fame on Youtube.Written from the gut, it is a raw and passionate classic in the making, about our need for a home.

A nameless narrator passes through her life, searching for meaning and connection in experiences she barely feels. For her, time and identity blur, and all action is reaction. She can’t quite understand what motivates others to take life seriously enough to focus on anything — for her existence is a loosely woven tapestry of fleeting concepts. From losing her virginity to mindless jobs and a splintered, unsupportive family, the lessons learned have less to do with the reality we all share and more to do with the truth of the imagination, which is where the narrator focuses to discover herself.

« De temps à autre apparaît un auteur amoureux de son art, du langage écrit et des grands mystères qui résident de l'autre côté du monde physique. Il y avait William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy ou Annie Proulx. Vous pouvez maintenant ajouter Michael Farris Smith à la liste. »James Lee BurkeUne femme marche seule avec une petite fille sur une route de Louisiane. Elle n'a nulle part où aller. Partie sans rien quelques années plus tôt de la ville où elle a grandi, elle revient tout aussi démunie. Elle pense avoir connu le pire. Elle se trompe.Russel a lui aussi quitté sa ville natale, onze ans plus tôt. Pour une peine de prison qui vient tout juste d'arriver à son terme. Il retourne chez lui en pensant avoir réglé sa dette. C'est sans compter sur le désir de vengeance de ceux qui l'attendent.Dans les paysages désolés de la campagne américaine, un meurtre va réunir ces âmes perdues, dont les vies vont bientôt ne plus tenir qu'à un fil.Michael Farris Smith possède un style et un talent d'évocation totalement singuliers qui vont droit au cœur du lecteur. Avec ces personnages qui s'accrochent à la vie envers et contre tout, il nous offre un magnifique roman sur la condition humaine.Michael Farris Smith vit à Oxford, Mississippi. Après Une pluie sans fin (Super 8 éditions, 2015), Nulle part sur la terre est son deuxième roman.

This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence.It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won.It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all.It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street.It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best — showing us how we live now.

Adam ha heredado el don de su madre, Jem: cuando mira a alguien a los ojos puede ver la fecha en que la persona morirá. Para él, este poder también es una carga, que le angustia en las relaciones con los demás. Sarah, una adolescente de Londres, tiene que huir de su casa y empezar una vida nueva, sola. Cada noche tiene la misma pesadilla que la atormenta: un incendio, una catástrofe y un misterioso chico al que reconoce en el instituto. Las cosas cada vez se van poniendo más difíciles: el mundo tiende al caos, las autoridades insertan a las personas chips de identificación, violentas inundaciones obligan a evacuar pueblos enteros. Un día, Adam ve que la mayoría de la gente de la ciudad tiene la misma fecha: enero de 2027. Algo va a suceder. Algo muy malo. Pero, ¿qué? ¿Qué puede hacer él?

Лайонел возмутительно повел себя по отношению к Жанет. Все его друзья теперь, должно быть, думают о нем как о злом, мстительном старике. Закоренелый холостяк никогда не позволяет себе увлечься женщинами. Это произошло с ним в декабре прошлого года. Именно тогда он принялся обдумывать изощренный способ отомстить Жанет.

A primera vista, los jovencitos que estudian en el internado de Hailsham son como cualquier otro grupo de adolescentes. Practican deportes, o tienen clases de arte donde sus profesoras se dedican a estimular su creativi-dad. Es un mundo hermйtico, donde los pupilos no tienen otro contacto con el mundo exterior que Madame, como llaman a la mujer que viene a llevarse las obras mбs interesantes de los adolescentes, quizб para una galerнa de arte, o un museo. Kathy, Ruth y Tommy fueron pupilos en Hailsham y tambiйn fueron un triбngulo amoroso. Y ahora, Kathy K. se permite recordar cуmo ella y sus amigos, sus amantes, descubrieron poco a poco la verdad. El lector de esta esplйndida novela, utopнa gуtica, irб descubriendo que en Hailsham todo es una re-presentaciуn donde los jуvenes actores no saben que lo son, y tampoco saben que no son mбs que el secreto terrible de la buena salud de una sociedad.

Santander. Barrio pesquero y ciudad vieja. Dos mundos separados. De uno a otro pasa Jacobo. Hijo de un maestro reconvertido en marinero, estudia COU en el otro lado. Del Barrio forman parte su padre, que ahoga su desamparo en el alcohol, un par de amigos que vagabundean por el puerto, y Roncal, sustituto del padre. De la mano de Roncal llega Jacobo al instituto, un mundo extraño y amenazador… Pero el instituto es también un nuevo comienzo: la palabra estimulante de don Máximo, los ojos aguamarina de Christine…Nunca seré como te quiero narra la doble mirada con que un adolescente se sitúa en el mundo: la descomposición moral y física de un padre; la extrañeza ante el amor.

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home — a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse — but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world’s master storytellers.

"NW" is Zadie Smith's masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic "NW" follows four Londoners — Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan — after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. A portrait of modern urban life, "NW" is funny, sad and urgent — as brimming with vitality as the city itself.

In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature about a doomed adolescent growing up in the mid-20th century — featuring a new introduction by Maggie O’Farrell, award-winning author of Hamnet.​Author Elspeth Barker masterfully evokes the harsh climate of Scotland in this atmospheric gothic tale that has been compared to the works of the Brontës, Edgar Allan Poe, and Edward Gorey. Immersed in a world of isolation and loneliness, Barker’s ill-fated young heroine Janet turns to literature, nature, and her Aunt Lila, who offers brief flashes of respite in an otherwise foreboding life. People, birds, and beasts move through the background in a tale that is as rich and atmospheric as it is witty and mordant. The family’s motto — Moriens sed Invictus (Dying but Unconquered) — is a well-suited epitaph for wild and courageous Janet, whose fierce determination to remain steadfastly herself makes her one of the most unforgettable protagonists in contemporary literature.

Tertuliano Máximo Afonso é professor de História. Ao visionar um filme banal que um colega de matemática lhe recomendara descobre que um dos actores é um seu sósia. O argumento do livro é a sua demanda, e depois confronto com o actor que é seu duplicado. Uma história que se lê de um fôlego e na qual Saramago se revela mestre do suspense. Romance que nos faz lembrar um thriller onde o autor aborda questões ligadas à identidade (e a falta dela).Na contracapa: "O caos é uma ordem por decifrar" Livro dos contrários

"Remarkable…Powerful…Mesmerizing…Lyrical."-Susan CheeverWelcome to the America of the 21st century. The O-Zone is a forbidding land of nuclear waste, mutants & aliens. Except for one place that is a beautiful oasis amidst the destruction. When two aliens are shot that look suspiciously human, Hooper Allbright, disurbed by the memories of those he once loved, goes back down into the O-Zone to try to reach the people he lost, though they may be unreachable by now…"Smart, witty, grotesque, & brutal."-The Philadelphia Inquirer

La guerre. Ca se passe en France. Une ville moyenne. Un immeuble tout confort. Et deux locataires, les organisations non gouvernementales La Foulée verte et Enfance et vaccin, qui ne se supportent pas. La Foulée verte travaille évidemment à sauver l'humanité des catastrophes écologiques qui la menacent et à la protéger des poisons qu'on lui distille. Quant à Enfance et vaccin, inutile d'insister. Beaucoup de bons sentiments de part et d'autre. Beaucoup de mots, beaucoup de formules et d'idées toutes faites. Une certitude énorme d'être indispensable et la bonne conscience monstrueuse qui va avec. Le sel de la terre! Et c'est bien sûr au niveau le plus mesquin que naissent les premières difficultés entre les deux organisations.Julien est bègue depuis l'âge de dix ans, depuis que son père l'a surpris en train de brûler les testicules d'un chat errant. Bègue mais pas manchot quand il s'agit de tenir une plume. À la recherche d'un stage et bien désireux de fuir l'exemple "mini-bourgeois" de ses parents, Julien dégotte une place à la Foulée Verte, ONG quasi mystique défendant les pingouins du pôle et la couche d'ozone. Sous la houlette d'Ulis, le chef charismatique au glorieux passé et de la belle Celsa, Julien s'épanouit et s'enflamme pour la cause, prêt à tout pour faire triompher ses idéaux et ceux de ses supérieurs. À tout dites-vous? À tout, oui. Car, quand une ONG baptisée "Enfance et vaccin" s'installe dans le même immeuble, bousille affiches et vélos, lance des insultes et pactise avec les pires ennemis de la Foulée Verte, c'est la guerre que l'on déclare. Et Julien, en plus de son rôle de chroniqueur de guerre, est bien décidé à en découdre.Iegor Gran a un talent d'écriture certain, beaucoup d'humour et une dent contre ses personnages. Pas de héros dans cette histoire naviguant sur l'océan de l'absurde mais une tripotée d'individus plus ou moins recommandables qui s'arrachent le monopole de la bonne conscience. Et qui justifient par un soi-disant code d'honneur et un pataquès philosophico-social un peu plus de richesse, un peu plus de pouvoir. Sur ce thème, Iegor Gran offre un très bon roman et donne un grand coup de pied à notre société. Comme quoi le mariage des deux n'est pas impossible.

"A brilliantly inventive writer… he understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildy funny." — A.S. ByattObabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial collection about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic Basque village. A schoolboy’s miningengineer father tricks him into growing up, an unfortunate environmentalist rescues deceptively harmless lizards, and a rescue mission on a Swiss mountain-climbing expedition in Nepal turns into murder. Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, while everyone from a lovelorn schoolmistress to a cultured but self-hating dwarf wanders across the page. Hints of darker undercurrents mingle with moments of wry humor in this dazzling collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts, and literary theory, all held together by Bernardo Atxaga’s distinctive and tenderly ironic voice. An unforgettable work from an international literary giant, whom The Observer (London) listed among the top twenty-one writers of the twenty-first century.

Obfitymi piersiami i pełnymi biodrami natura obdarza kobiety z rodziny Shangguan, mieszkającej w małej chińskiej wiosce, w prowincji Shandong. Od obfitych piersi i matczynego mleka uzależniony jest narrator powieści, długo wyczekiwany syn, brat ośmiu starszych sióstr. Losy rodziny ukazane są na tle wydarzeń historycznych, począwszy od Powstania Bokserów w 1900 roku, poprzez upadek dynastii Qing, inwazję japońską, walki Kuomintangu z komunistami, „rewolucję kulturalną”, aż do reform gospodarczych. Na prowincji życie toczy się jednak obok wielkich przemian, rządzą tam najprostsze instynkty, a podstawową wartością jest przetrwanie.W powieści Obfite piersi, pełne biodra wszystko jest trochę oderwane od rzeczywistości, pełne makabrycznych zdarzeń i wynaturzonych postaci, ocierające się o magię – a jednocześnie opisane prostym, niezwykle obrazowym językiem, przesycone ironią i czarnym humorem. Zręczność stylistyczna i wybujała fantazja Mo Yana powodują, że lektura wciąga na długo – jest to jedna z tych książek, które czyta się zachłannie, mimo że ogłuszają, wyprowadzają z równowagi.

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness-a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way ("The Suffering Channel"). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring ("Oblivion"). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.

In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gulags, is a world relegated to oblivion, where it is easier to ignore both the victims and the executioners than to come to terms with a terrible past. This disturbing tale evokes the great and ruined beauty of a land where man and machine worked in tandem with nature to destroy millions of lives during the Soviet century. Emerging from today’s Russia, where the ills of the past are being forcefully erased from public memory, this masterful novel represents an epic literary attempt to rescue history from the brink of oblivion.Sergei Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1981 and worked for seven years on geological expeditions in northern Russia and Central Asia. His first novel, Oblivion, has been translated into many languages.