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COMETIERRA

DOLORES REYES · 2014

When she was young, Cometierra swallowed dirt and learned from a vision that her father beat her mother to death. That was only her first vision. Every gift comes with added responsibilities, and the one Cometierra was born with makes her life twice as difficult because she lives in a neighborhood where violence, neglect, and injustice sprout from every corner and where women are the main victims. Through the pursuit of the truth, the discovery of love, and the care between siblings, Cometierra will seek to forge her own path.

Carcoma

Layla Martínez · 2021

Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida en el páramo hablan de voces que surgen de debajo de las camas, de santas que se aparecen en el techo de la cocina, de desapariciones que nunca se resuelven. Los vecinos reniegan de sus dos habitantes a la luz del día, pero todos acuden a ellas cuando nadie los ve. La abuela se pasa los días hablando con las sombras que viven tras las paredes y dentro de los armarios. La nieta vuelve a la casa tras un incidente con la familia más rica del pueblo. Ahora, desenredando la historia de la casa, se han empezado a dar cuenta de que las sombras que la habitan estuvieron siempre de su lado --

Panza de burro

Andrea Abreu · 2020

La panza de burro es una expresión para denominar un fenómeno característico del norte de las Islas Canarias consistente en una acumulación de nubes de baja altura que actúa como pantalla solar. Andrea Abreu aparta esa bruma de la panza de burro y observa a la abuela que transmite malos consejos desde la pura inocencia y el puro salvajismo, a la niña prematuramente crecida que domina a su amiga, pero, sobre todo, a la amiga dócil que, con el tiempo, escribe su historia y se siente en deuda con la amiga dominadora.

The Lamb

Lucy Rose · 2025

Falsa liebre

Fernanda Melchor · 2023

Tengo derecho a destruirme

Kim Young-ha · 2022

Un narrador espectral y sin nombre acecha a las víctimas perdidas de Seúl, a las que sugiere el suicidio como único consuelo. Bajo las luces de neón de la ciudad, su historia se cruza con la de dos hermanos, C y K, enamorados de la misma mujer y en lucha por encontrarse en un mundo frenético y atomizado. Con un estilo cercano a la ensoñación que contrasta con imágenes de potencia cinematográfica, Tengo derecho a destruirme, publicada en 1996, es una oscura parábola sobre la vida contemporánea oriental que anticipó la crisis económica y social que estalló un año después. Al igual que Bret Easton Ellis, Kim Young-ha disecciona el desencanto de la juventud de su país y su manera de combatir el tedio existencial. Coches que se lanzan a toda velocidad por la autopista, sexo desesperado, la internacionalización del mundo del arte y su creciente frivolidad se conjugan en este libro de culto de la literatura surcoreana reciente que marcó a toda una generación de jóvenes.

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai, Juliet Winters Carpenter · 2024

Certain Hunger

Chelsea G. Summers · 2020

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 1846

Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley · 1818

La ciudad de los vivos

Nicola Lagioia · 2022

Crimen y castigo

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Rafael Cansinos Assens · 2016

ADA o el ardor

Vladimir Nabokov · 2018

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski · 1998

Hidden Valley Road

Robert Kolker, Julio Hermoso, Marc Rubió · 2020

Nada se opone a la noche

Delphine de Vigan · 2012

Nuestra Parte de Noche

Mariana Enríquez · 2021

Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2022

A fateful year in the life of a thirteen-year-old shepherd's son living in Lapvona, a fiefdom ruled by a corrupt, incompetent and feckless lord.

Mi año de descanso y relajación

Otessa Moshfegh

La campana de cristal

Sylvia Plath, Eugenia Vázquez Nacarino · 2022

Los hermanos Karamazov

Fiodor Dostoyevski

La vida mentirosa de los adultos

Elena Ferrante

Los días del abandono

Elena Ferrante

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie · 2001

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis · 2012

Los Destrozos / The Shards

Bret Easton Ellis · 2023

Tras trece años de silencio literario, regresa el mejor Bret Easton Ellis con una novela monumental. «Un juego de espejos brillante, elegante y demoníaco que te mantiene en vilo hasta el final.El mejor libro de Bret Easton Ellis, el que estábamos esperando, el que nos debía. Una obra maestra». -Lucía Lijtmaer Los Ángeles, 1981. A sus diecisiete años, Bret está a punto de empezar su último curso de secundaria en Buckley junto a su exclusivo y sofisticado grupo de amigos: Thom, Susan y Debbie, novia de Bret, experimentan con el sexo, el alcohol y las drogas mientras aprovechan los últimos días de verano. Pero este sueño paradisiaco se desmorona con la llegada de un nuevo alumno: Robert Mallory es brillante, guapo y carismático, pero algo en él no encaja, y nadie más que Bret parece darse cuenta de que ese algo podría estar relacionado con la aparición del Arrastrero, un asesino en serie que amenaza a los adolescentes de la ciudad y a sus mascotas. El autor de American Psycho y Menos que cero nos brinda un emocionante y provocador viaje a su yo adolescente, un viaje cargado de un insaciable deseo sexual y de celos, obsesión y rabia asesina. Los destrozos es una absorbente historia sobre la pérdida de la inocencia y el complicado paso a la vida adulta, y también un vívido y nostálgico retrato de la década de los ochenta; una narración recorrida por el suspense, el terror, el erotismo y el inconfundible humor negro característicos de un autor que es el símbolo de toda una generación. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s, Los Angeles, as a serial killer strike across the city "A thrilling page-turner from Ellis, who revisits the world that made him a literary star with a stylish scary new story that doesn't disappoint."-Town & Country Bret Easton Ellis's masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city. Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them--and Bret in particular--with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing a narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation. Can he trust his friends--or his own mind--to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, he spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between the Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision. Set against the intensely vivid and nostalgic backdrop of pre-Less Than Zero L.A., The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction, the real and the imagined, that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret's life at seventeen--sex and jealousy, obsession, and murderous rage. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting, and often darkly funny, The Shards is Ellis at his inimitable best.

Temporada de huracanes / Hurricane Season

Fernanda Melchor · 2017

FINALISTA DEL PREMIO MAN BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2020<br/><br/>NOMINADA PARA EL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020<br/><br/>FINALISTA DEL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD<br/><br/>En la lista de los 100 mejores libros del 2020 del New York Times.<br/><br/>El libro que ha inspirado una adaptación en Netflix.<br/><br/>Con un ritmo y un lenguaje magistrales, Fernanda Melchor, autora de Falsa liebre explora en esta obra las sinrazones que subyacen a los actos más desesperados de barbarie pasional.<br/><br/>Una novela cruda y desgarradora en la que el lector quedará envuelto, atrapado por las palabras y la atmósfera de terrible, aunque gozosa, fatalidad.<br/><br/>Un grupo de niños encuentra un cadáver flotando en las aguas turbias de un canal de riego cercano a la ranchería de La Matosa. El cuerpo resulta ser de la Bruja, una mujer que heredó dicho oficio de su madre fallecida, y a quienes los pobladores de esa zona rural respetaban y temían.<br/><br/>Tras el macabro hallazgo, las sospechas y habladurías recaerán sobre un grupo de muchachos del pueblo, a quienes días antes una vecina vio mientras huían de casa de la hechicera, cargando lo que parecía ser un cuerpo inerte.<br/><br/>A partir de ahí, los personajes involucrados en el crimen nos contarán su historia mientras los lectores nos sumergimos en la vida de este lugar acosado por la miseria y el abandono, y donde convergen la violencia del erotismo más oscuro y las sórdidas relaciones de poder.<br/><br/>“Un viaje nocturno a las profundidades del alma humana con el estilo más radical de su generación.” -Martín Solares<br/><br/>“Fernanda Melchor no sólo escribe con la potencia rabiosa que le reclaman los temas que ha decidido investigar, sino que en cada página muestra un oído y una agudeza pocas veces vista en nuestra literatura.” -Yuri Herrera<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AND THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD<br/><br/>Longlisted • National Book Award (Translated Literature)<br/><br/>New York Times Notable Book of 2020<br/><br/>The book that inspired the adapted film, now on Netflix.<br/><br/>The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers<br/><br/>The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse―by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals―propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.<br/><br/>Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666or Faulkner’s greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence―real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it.

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov · 2010

The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. “The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Risa en la oscuridad

Vladimir Nabokov · 2006

Et vaig donar ulls i vas mirar les tenebres

Irene Solà Saez · 2023

If We Were Villains

M. L. Rio · 2017

“Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest "Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare...Readable, smart.” —New York Times Book Review On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it. A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras. But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. If We Were Villains was named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year, and Mystery Scene says, "A well-written and gripping ode to the stage...A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth."

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 2004

<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>