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The Idiot
Elif Batuman · 2018
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction<br/><br/>“Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ<br/><br/>“Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair<br/><br/>A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.<br/><br/>The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.<br/><br/>At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.<br/><br/>With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.<br/><br/>Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions

Mujercitas
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Mandy Kirkby · 2011

Really Good, Actually
Monica Heisey · 2023
‘Monica Heisey’s observations on men, women, friendship, love and sex are equal parts hilarious and profound’ Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love<br/><br/>‘Wildly funny and almost alarmingly relatable’ Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel<br/><br/>'Hilarious, heart-warming, wise' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train<br/><br/>One of the most hotly anticipated, hilarious and addictive debut novels of 2023, from Schitt’s Creek screenwriter and electric new voice in fiction, Monica Heisey.<br/><br/>I feel like when you get a divorce everyone’s wondering how you ruined it all, what made you so unbearable to be with. If your husband dies, at least people feel bad for you.<br/><br/>Maggie’s marriage has ended just 608 days after it started, but she’s fine – she’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s alone for the first time in her life, can’t afford her rent and her obscure PhD is going nowhere . . . but at the age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new status as a Surprisingly Young Divorcée.<br/><br/>Soon she’s taking up ‘sadness hobbies’ and getting back out there, sex-wise, oversharing in the group chat and drinking with her high-intensity new divorced friend Amy. As Maggie throws herself headlong into the chaos of her first year of divorce, she finds herself questioning everything, including: Why do we still get married? Did I fail before I even got started? How many Night Burgers until I’m happy?<br/><br/>Laugh-out-loud funny, razor sharp and painfully relatable, Really Good, Actually is an irresistible debut novel about the uncertainties of modern love, friendship and happiness from a stunning new voice in fiction, Monica Heisey.<br/><br/>‘A smart, funny and warm debut with such a strong voice’ Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Everyone Is Still Alive<br/><br/>‘Monica Heisey makes me laugh hard and often’ Rob Delaney

La muerte en sus manos
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2021
<p> <b>El «toque</b> <b>Moshfegh» se</b> <b>consagra con</b> <b>su</b> <b>tercera y</b> <b>arrasadora</b> <b>novela.</b> <br> <b>Una</b> <b>mezcla</b> <b>única de</b> <b>novela</b> <b>negra y humor</b> <b>macabro, tan inimitable</b> <b>como la</b> <b>propia</b> <b>autora.</b> </p> <p> <b>«Ottessa Moshfegh es ya la </b> <i> <b>next great thing </b> </i> <b>de la literatura norteamericana. ¿Contrapartes en español? Sara Mesa, Mariana Enríquez o Elvira Navarro. Todas descendientes de hembras extrañas como Silvina Ocampo, Joy Williams y Sylvia Plath.»</b> <br> <b>Rodrigo</b> <b>Fresán,</b> <i> <b> Vanity Fair</b> </i> </p> <p> <b>«Una escritora que, como Henry James o Vladimir Nabokov, está bendecida tanto con la genialidad como con la crueldad.»</b> <br> <i> <b>The New Yorker</b> </i> </p> <p>Mientras pasea a su perro por el bosque, Vesta Gul se topa con una nota manuscrita. «Se llamaba Magda. Nadie sabrá nunca quién la mató. No fui yo. Este es su cadáver.» Pero junto a la nota no hay ningún cadáver. Vesta Gul, que acaba de mudarse tras la muerte de su marido y no conoce a nadie en su nuevo hogar, no sabe muy bien qué hacer con esta información. Comienza a obsesionarse con la figura de Magda y a elucubrar con las diversas maneras en que pudieron asesinarla, si es que efectivamente ocurrió tal cosa. Su aislamiento la conduce a una serie de ideas que comienzan a encontrar un reflejo en la vida real. De un modo emocionante y terrorífico, las piezas parecen encajar: a encajar entre sí y con las zonas más oscuras de su propio pasado. Solo hay dos opciones para resolver este misterio: una explicación banal e inocente o una causa profundamente siniestra.</p> <p> <b>La</b> <b>crítica ha</b> <b>dicho...</b> <br> «Moshfegh se ha tomado la molestia de estirar los bordes del género y entrar y salir de él con comodidad. En esta ocasión juega con habilidad con algunos tópicos de la novela clásica de misterio en una historia que habla también de los efectos de la soledad y el aislamiento. [...] Es una novela original de la que es mejor no decir mucho más.» <br> Juan Carlos Galindo, <i>El País</i> </p> <p>«Moshfegh vuelve al noir para contar la historia de un crimen sin cadáver. Otra vuelta de tuerca al mundo de lo aparente.» <br> Laura Fernández, <i>Vanity Fair</i> </p> <p>«Una obra de duelo y soledad que nos habla de la importancia de estar vivo. [...] Un engranaje metaliterario que deconstruye el género de razonamiento deductivo, lo retuerce y lo hace explotar desde dentro.» <br> Marta Marne, <i>El Periódico</i> </p> <p>«Si buscas una novela negra que te atrape, esta es la tuya. La autora, siguiendo la estela magnética de las tramas de Agatha Christie, ha tejido una historia muy inquietante y, a ratos, casi cruel.» <br> Lídia Penelo, <i>El Quinze</i> </p> <p>«A caballo entre la novela negra y la metaficción, [...] es fácil recomendar esta novela diciendo que no es la novela que esperas leer. Lo que aquí se ofrece es mucho.» <br> Sergio Saborido, <i>Libros y Literatura</i> </p> <p>«Un viaje oscuro y divertido. [...]. A veces la imaginación tiene poderes curativos.» <br> <i>TIME</i> </p> <p>«Este libro sigue viviendo en tu cabeza y, con la distancia, puedes seguir saboreando las trampas que te tiende.» <br> Dwight Garner, <i>The New York Times</i> </p> <p>«Un personaje aislado, no es difícil percatarse de que mucho antes de esta cuarentena Moshfegh intuyó que había algo insostenible en cómo vivíamos.» <br> <i>Los Angeles Times</i> </p> <p>«La autora de referencia de los ermitaños y los excéntricos, de los misántropos y de los reclusos, regresa con otra novela narrada por una mujer alienada y alienante cuya voz extraña y singular nos obliga a no dejar de leer.» <br> <i>The Boston Globe</i> </p>

Mesa para dos
Amor Towles · 2025
Uno de los mejores libros de Amazon de 2024 hasta ahora<br/><br/>Vuelve el celebrado autor de Un caballero en Moscú<br/><br/>«Un libro espectacular. [...] Un triunfo» -The New York Times<br/><br/>«Quizá su mejor libro hasta la fecha.» -Los Angeles Times<br/><br/>Tras cautivar a millones de lectores con Un caballero en Moscú, Amor Towles vuelve a seducirnos con su elegancia, humor e ingenio narrativo en Mesa para dos, seis relatos que transcurren en Nueva York al filo del cambio del milenio y una novela breve ambientada en la Edad de Oro de Hollywood.<br/><br/>Aparentemente inconexas, todas estas historias presentan un momento crítico en que dos personas deben sentarse a una mesa para abordar asuntos tan universales como la búsqueda de la felicidad, el poder del dinero o la subversión de las normas sociales. Así sucede en relatos tan conmovedores como «La cola», que sigue el periplo de dos campesinos rusos, Pushkin y su mujer Irina, desde su aldea hasta Nueva York pasando por Moscú, mientras intentan desarrollar su potencial sin traicionar sus ideales; o en «La balada de Timothy Touchett», donde un escritor frustrado acepta un trabajo poco edificante hasta que Paul Auster se cruza en su camino. O en «Eve en Hollywood», una vibrante novela con tintes de género negro que nos permite reencontrarnos con Evelyn Ross, la indomable protagonista de Normas de cortesía, aquí decidida a labrarse un futuro entre platós, bungalós y los antros más oscuros de Los Ángeles de los años cuarenta.<br/><br/>Creador de personajes que nos transportan en el tiempo y nos dejan una huella imborrable, Amor Towles muestra de nuevo su enorme talento en Mesa para dos. En este fascinante libro, lleno de dramatismo, agudeza, erudición y ternura, el autor vuelve a sus temas de siempre —las relaciones, la familia, la confianza, la ambición, la culpa o el valor de la amistad— con su acostumbrada hondura y belleza.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>Amazon Best Books of 2024 So Far<br/><br/>An Instant New York Times Bestseller<br/><br/>“A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, Table for Two is a winner.” —The New York Times<br/><br/>“Superb ... This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart.” —Los Angeles Times<br/><br/>Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.<br/><br/>The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.<br/><br/>In Towles’s novel Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September 1938 with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, “Eve in Hollywood” describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself—and others—in a noirish tale that takes us through the movie sets, bungalows, and dive bars of Los Angeles.<br/><br/>Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting fiction.

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El mito de la belleza
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Frankestein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1977

Nada
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Theo of golden
Allen Levi
A man travels to a small Southern town, where he purchases pencil drawings of local residents and exchanges them for stories.

Honey
Isabel Banta · 2025
<p><p><b>*Named a best book of the summer by PEOPLE, ELLE, PureWow and Our Culture, and a</b> <b>Goodreads Editor's Choice and IndieNext Pick*</b><br /> <br /> <b>A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in the late-90s and early-2000s era of pop music superstardom</b><br /> <br /> It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It's a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group Cloud9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town. She quickly finds herself in the orbits of fellow rising stars Gwen Morris, a driven singer-dancer, and Wes Kingston, a member of the biggest boy band in the world, ETA.<br /> <br /> As Amber embarks on her solo career and her fame intensifies, her rich interior life is frequently reduced. Surrounded by people who claim to love her but only wish to exploit her and driven by a desire for recognition and success, for love and sex, for agency and connection, Amber comes of age at a time when the kaleidoscope of public opinion can distort everything and one mistake can shatter a career.<br /> <br /> With the captivating style of Stephanie Danler's <i>Sweetbitter</i> and the raw honesty of Jennette McCurdy's <i>I'm Glad My Mom Died</i>, Isabel Banta's debut novel, <i>Honey</i>, redefines the narratives of some of the most famous pop icons of the '90s and 2000s. It reimagines the superstars we idolized and hated, oversexualized and underestimated, and gives them the fresh, multifaceted story they deserve.</p></p>










