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Azul es la historia de una pasión amorosa entre Andrea -una mujer casada, periodista y con una complicada vida social- y un muchacho más joven, Martín Ures, que llega del ...
A High Wind in Jamaica is not so much a book as a curious object, like a piece of driftwood torqued into an alarming shape from years at sea. And like driftwood, it seems ...
Ce départ pour Saint-Pétersbourg annonce un de ces voyages mystérieux où nous cherchons non pas à changer de pays mais à changer notre vie. Choutov, écrivain et ancien dis...
Un detective privado acepta el encargo de descubrir y desbaratar una conspiración que amenaza al dictador de un minúsculo país formado por tres islas; allá descubre una si...
Lorenzo, un periodista italiano de 33 años, está profundamente enamorado de su esposa Nora. Con ella comparte la silenciosa felicidad de un matrimonio bienavenido que sin ...
This exquisite, resonant novel is a brilliant portrait of marriage by a contemporary American master. Even as he lingers over the lustrous surface of Viri and Nedra's marr...
A Sport and a Pastime is an astonishing performance, the classic novel from a remarkable writer whose sentences bristle with a singular passion. Salter chronicles a love a...
Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion–by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. These ten powerful stori...
In this text, Daniel Dennett shows that human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found only in on...
For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why—and how—it has shaped so m...
Filomeno, gallego de origen portugués por parte de madre, es un personaje de incierta y compleja personalidad, lo cual se refleja en un nombre de pila indeseado que suena ...
JARRAPELLEJOS, que su autor subtituló con terrible mordacidad Vida arcádica, feliz e independiente de un español representativo, ha pasado a la historia de nuestras letras...
Ramiro Bernárdez, un joven argentino de familia acomodada, regresa al bochorno del Chaco después de haber estudiado en Francia. Un médico amigo de su padre le invita a cen...
In the summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s home outside London. George is ...
If you have ever been a member of a family that has ever been "in a family way," this is your book. The narrator of this extravagant domestic comedy—also named John Fante—...
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in l...
Begun while the author was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, this extraordinary and profound novel is widely regarded as one of the great works of 20th-century mo...
En 1950, a partir de varios relatos que habían sido publicados en prensa y seis poemas que conservan el lirismo de algunos pasajes de La muerte de Virgilio, Broch construy...
El oxímoron evocado por el título La utilidad de lo inútil merece una aclaración. La paradójica utilidad a la que me refiero no es la misma en cuyo nombre se consideran in...