En Brétema, en la costa atlántica, hubo un tiempo en que las redes del contrabando, reconvertidas al narcotráfico, alcanzaron tanta influencia que estuvieron muy cerca de controlarlo todo: el poder social, las instituciones, la vida de sus gentes. Fins, Leda y Brinco exploran la costa a la búsqueda de lo que el mar arroja tras algún naufragio, el mar es para ellos un espacio de continuo descubrimiento. El destino de estos jóvenes estará marcado por la sombra odiosa y fascinante a un tiempo del omnipresente Mariscal, dueño de casi todo en Brétema.

“Todos los nombres” es la historia de amor más intensa de la literatura portuguesa de todos los tiempos.” Eduardo Loureno“Todos los nombres” es el relato de aventuras de un José “sin nombre”, aunque el suyo sea el único que figure en la historia.En su aparente humildad, en su auténtica soledad, en su falta de bienes materiales y afectivos y, sobre todo, en su inalienable dignidad humana, este don José es pariente próximo de otros personajes literarios: Bouvard y Pécuchet, los copistas enciclopédicos de Flaubert; el obstinado Bartleby de Melville; el metafísico Bernardo Soares de Pessoa…“Don José comienza cultivando la afición inocente de coleccionar noticias sobre personas famosas.Pero, para otorgarles fiabilidad, decide completarlas con los documentos del Registro Civil donde trabaja. Ello lo obliga a cometer infracciones al reglamento y a protagonizar aventuras de las que nunca se había creído capaz”.“Saramago opta por la subversión individual contra la opresión de las autoridades catalogadoras, por el desorden de la vida contra el desorden de la muerte. Y todo con un estilo que parece haber alcanzado, en la cima de la simplicidad, la cima de la sutileza.“Todos los nombres” es uno de esos pocos libros que todavía merecen ser definidos como un clásico.”José Saramago (1922) es uno de los novelistas portugueses modernos más conocidos y apreciados en el mundo entero. En España, la publicación en 1985 de “El año de la muerte de Ricardo Reis” es el inicio de un éxito que ha ido creciendo con cada novela. Otros títulos importantes son: “Manuel de pintura y caligrafía” (1977), “Alzado del suelo” (1980), “Memorial del convento” (1982), “La bolsa de piedra” (1986), “Historia del cerco de Lisboa” (1989), “El evangelio según Jesucristo” (1991), “Ensayo sobre la ceguera (1996) y “Cuadernos de Lanzarote” (1997).Vive actualmente en Lanzarote, desde donde participa activamente en la vida cultural española.

Netolimoje ateityje jos bevardis pagrindinis veikėjas keliauja po visą pasaulį, prekiaudamas „chemija“, padedančia užsimiršti. Jo klientams gėrimėliai ir žirneliai iš atminties išvalo nuoskaudas, praradimus, kaltę, sąžinės priekaištus, ilgesį ir suteikia visišką laisvę daryti ką nori ir paskui nieko neprisiminti. Pasaulyje, kuriame galima pergudrauti netgi mirtį, kuriame nei meilė, nei nusikaltimas neturi pasekmių, kuriame amžinai gyvenama „dabar“, virtuali popdievaitė nusižudo, viso to nebepakeldama, o pagrindinis veikėjas, net ir pamiršęs viską, negali pamiršti kadaise mylėtos žmonos...

It's August 1946—one year after the Japanese surrender — and women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police — irreverent, angry, despairing — goes on the hunt for a killer known as the Japanese Bluebeard — a decorated former Imperial soldier who raped and murdered at least ten women amidst the turmoil of post-war Tokyo. As he undertakes the case, Minami is haunted by his own memories of atrocities that he can no longer explain or forgive. Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history, Tokyo Year Zero is a darkly lyrical and stunningly original crime novel.

Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The characters in these stories are caught in a world of political hypocrisy, which ultimately leads to death, their common fate. Although the stories Kis tells are based on historical events, the beauty and precision of his prose elevates these ostensibly true stories into works of literary art that transcend the politics of their time.

On a midsummer's night Paula Hook lies awake; Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her; her teenage twins, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all of their lives.Recalling the years before and after her children were born, Paula begins a story that is both a glowing celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgment of the secrets on which our very identities rest. Brilliantly distilling half a century into one suspenseful night, Tomorrow is an eloquent meditation on the mystery of happiness.

Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Loun's dream about the countries where they'll land. While news comes over the radio of the American hostage crisis in Tehran, the death of the Shah, the scandal of the Boukassa diamonds, Michel struggles with the demands of his twelve year old girlfriend Caroline, who threatens to leave him for a bully in the football team. But most worrying for Michel, the witch doctor has told his mother that he has hidden the key to her womb, and must return it before she can have another child. Somehow he must find it. Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty is a humorous and poignant account of an African childhood, drawn from Alain Mabanckou's life.

An erotically charged, elegantly written novel that marks the first publication in English of author Kyung-Ran Jo, a literary star in Korea who has earned comparisons to Haruki Murakami.

Emotionally raw and emphatically sensual, Tongue is the story of the demise of an obsessive romance, and a woman’s culinary journey toward self-restoration and revenge. When her boyfriend of seven years leaves her for another woman, the celebrated young chef Jung Ji-won shuts down the cooking school she ran from their home and sinks into deep depression, losing her will to cook, her desire to eat, and even her ability to taste. Returning to the kitchen of the Italian restaurant where her career first began, she slowly rebuilds her life, rediscovering her appreciation of food, both as nourishment and as sensual pleasure. She also starts to devise a plan for a final, vengeful act of culinary seduction.

Tongue is a voluptuous, intimate story of a gourmet relying on her food-centric worldview to emerge from heartbreak, a mesmerizing, delicately plotted novel at once shocking and profoundly familiar.

Winner of the 2012 Libris Literature Prize — the Dutch equivalent of the Booker Prize — and a bestseller in Holland and Germany, this is a mesmerising rendition of grief and love.On Pentecost 2010, Tonio — the only son of writer Adri van der Heijden — is hit by a car. He dies of his injuries that same day. Tonio is only 21. His parents are faced with the monstrous task of forging ahead with their lives in the knowledge that their only child will never again come home, never again stop by just to catch up, never again go out shopping with his mother and bitch about passers-by, never again ask his father: 'Did you work well today?' Never again.Adri van der Heijden is driven by two compelling questions: what happened to Tonio during the final days and hours before the accident, and how could this accident happen? This search takes in various eyewitnesses, friends, police officers, doctors, and the mysterious Jenny — who turns out to have played a crucial role in Tonio's life during those final weeks.

Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2009: "She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about." Taken from a story called "Free Radicals," this line may be the best way to think about the lives unfolding in Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness. Real life assaults her central characters rather brutally-in the forms of murder and madness, death, divorce, and all manner of deceptions-but they respond with a poise and clarity of thought that's disarming-sometimes, even nonchalant-when you consider their circumstances. Her women move through life, wearing their scars but not so much wearied by them, profoundly intelligent, but also inordinately tender and thoughtful. There's more fact than fiction to these stories, rich in quiet, precise details that make for a beautiful, bewildering read.

Since his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are the comic yet lyrical title story, in which a young man wins a vicious African cat in a bar bet; "Dogology," about a suburban woman losing her identity to a pack of strays; and "The Kind Assassin," which explores the consequences of a radio shock jock's quest to set a world record for sleeplessness. Muscular, provocative, and blurring the boundaries between humans and nature, the funny and the shocking, Tooth and Claw is Boyle at his best.

Siedemnastoletnia Emerson uwielbia gry komputerowe i seriale na Discovery, za to nie zależy jej na wyglądzie ani powodzeniu. I nagle staje się zupełnie inną dziewczyną: po dziwnym wypadku budzi się w ciele sławnej supermodelki. Ale w nowym życiu „celebrytki” czeka ją na nią nie tylko flirt, blask fleszy i seksowne kreacje…

Asking how it is possible to feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent of and indifferent to our wishes, this text draws on books, films and cultural history to argue that we can feel comfortable in the world and in relationships with others only if we value touch over sight.

"A profusion of delightful passages couched in unfailingly lovely language." — New York Times Book Review1939. As the Nazis advance into Poland, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker named Pomeranz escapes into the wintry forest, leaving behind his beautiful, intelligent wife, Stefa. After the war, having evaded the concentration camps, they begin to build new lives, Stefa in Stalin’s Russia and Pomeranz in Israel, where, as they move toward reunion, another war is brewing. An intricate tale of people seeking escape from a hostile world in thrillingly fantastical ways.　 "Lyrical. . Its youthfulness and energy are exhilarating." — The New Yorker

A story from one of Japan’s rising literary stars about memory, loss, and love, Touring the Land of the Dead is a mesmerizing combination of two tales, both told with stylistic inventiveness and breathtaking sensitivity.

Taichi was forced to stop working almost a decade ago and since then he and his wife Natsuko have been getting by on her part-time wages. But Natsuko is a woman accustomed to hardship. When her own family’s fortune dried up years during her childhood, she, her brother, and her mother lived a surreal hand-to-mouth existence shaped by her mother’s refusal to accept their new station in life.

One day, Natsuko sees an ad for a spa and recognizes the place as the former luxury hotel that Natsuko’s grandfather had taken her mother to when she was little. She decides to take her damaged husband to the spa, despite the cost, but their time there triggers hard but ultimately redemptive memories relating to the complicated history of her family. The overnight trip becomes a voyage into the netherworld—a journey to the doors of death and back to life.

Modelled on a classic story by Junichiro Tanizaki, Ninety-Nine Kisses is the second story in this book and it portrays in touching and lyrical fashion the lives of the four unmarried sisters in a historical, close-knit neighbourhood of contemporary Tokyo.

Un homme tout juste sorti du coma qui reçoit de l'infirmière qui l'a veillé la transcription de ses secrets les plus enfouis, de son passé le plus perdu. Un type qui veut être enterré près d'un bordel. Des histoires de couples, de magnétoscope et de pétition. Des rencontres qui ne se feront jamais, des rencontres qui se feront tout de même. La solitude d'un surdoué de neuf ans.Dix nouvelles succulentes, à l'ironie douce-amère, au style léger et aux intrigues à pirouettes, par l'auteur de Saga.

Maman disait de moi que j'étais un ange.Un ange tombé du ciel.Mais les anges qui tombent ne se relèvent jamais…Je connais l'enfer dans ses moindres recoins.Je pourrais le dessiner les yeux fermés.Je pourrais en parler pendant des heures.Si seulement j'avais quelqu'un à qui parler…Tama est une esclave. Elle n'a quasiment connu que la servitude. Prisonnière de bourreaux qui ignorent la pitié, elle sait pourtant rêver, aimer, espérer. Une rencontre va peut-être changer son destin…Frapper, toujours plus fort.Les détruire, les uns après les autres.Les tuer tous, jusqu'au dernier.Gabriel est un homme qui vit à l'écart du monde, avec pour seule compagnie ses démons et ses profondes meurtrissures.Un homme dangereux.Un matin, il découvre une inconnue qui a trouvé refuge chez lui. Une jeune femme blessée et amnésique.Qui est-elle ? D'où vient-elle ?Rappelle-toi qui tu es. Rappelle-toi, vite !Parce que bientôt, tu seras morte.Biographie de l'auteurGrande collectionneuse de prix littéraires et maître ès thrillers psychologiques, Karine Giébel est née en 1971. Elle est l'auteur de Meurtres pour rédemption (collection « Rail noir », 2006), des Morsures de l'ombre (Fleuve noir, 2007) prix Intramuros du festival de Cognac 2008 et prix SNCF du polar 2009 et de Chiens de sang (Fleuve noir, 2008). Pour Juste une ombre (Fleuve noir, 2012), elle reçoit le prix Polar francophone du festival de Cognac et le Prix marseillais du polar en 2012. Purgatoire des innocents (Fleuve noir, 2013) confirme son talent et la consacre définitivement « reine du polar ». Après Satan était un ange (Fleuve noir, 2014), elle rejoint les éditions Belfond pour la parution de De force (2016), qui a rencontré un immense succès, de Terminus Elicius (2016) dans une nouvelle édition augmentée, puis de D'ombre et de silence (2017), un recueil de nouvelles où elle condense en quelques pages toute la force de ses romans. Les livres de Karine Giébel se sont vendus à plus d'un million d'exemplaires à ce jour et sont traduits dans une douzaine de langues.

Marc Levy a publié neuf romans : Et si c’était vrai… (2000), Ou es-tu ? (2001), Sept jours pour une éternité… (2003), La prochaine fois (2004), Vous revoir (2005), Mes amis Mes amours (2006), Les enfants de la liberté (2007), Toutes ces choses qu’on ne s’est pas dites (2008) et Le premier jour (2009). Traduit dans le monde entier, adapté au cinéma, Marc Levy est depuis neuf ans l’auteur français le plus lu dans le monde.

Ben Turnbull is a retired investment executive living North of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the USA and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. He finds his personal history caught up in the disjuntions and vagaries of the "many universes" theories.

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