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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estés · 1996
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La voz a ti debida
Pedro Salinas
20 poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
Pablo Neruda
Idea Vilariño - Poesía Completa
El amor, las mujeres y la vida
Mario Benedetti
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Dogs of Summer: A Novel
Andrea Abreu · 2022
"[A] firecracker of a debut."<br/>—The New York Times<br/><br/>"Andrea Abreu’s debut novel about two girls in the summer heat of Tenerife is perfect for these dog days."<br/>—Shreya Chattopadhyay, The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/>My Brilliant Friend meets Blue is the Warmest Color in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands—a story about two girls coming of age in the early aughts and a friendship that simmers into erotic desire over the course of one hot summer.<br/><br/>High near the volcano of northern Tenerife, an endless ceiling of cloud cover traps the working class in an abject, oppressive heat. Far away from the island’s posh resorts, two girls dream of hitching a ride down to the beach and escaping their horizonless town.<br/><br/>It’s summer, 2005, and our ten-year-old narrator is consumed by thoughts of her best friend Isora. Isora is rude and bossy, but she’s also vivacious and brave; grownups prefer her, and boys do, too. That's why sometimes she gets jealous of Isora, who already has hair on her vagina and soft, round breasts. But she's definitely not jealous that Isora’s mother is dead, nor that Isora's fat, foul-mouthed grandmother has her on a diet, so that she is constantly sticking her fingers down her throat. Besides, she would do anything for Isora: gorge herself on cakes when her friend wants to watch, follow her to the bathroom when she takes a shit, log into chat rooms to swap dirty instant messages with strangers. But increasingly, our narrator finds it hard to keep up with Isora, who seems to be growing up at full tilt without her—and as her submissiveness veers into a painful sexual awakening, desire grows indistinguishable from intimate violence.<br/><br/>Braiding prose poetry with bachata lyrics and the gritty humor of Canary dialect, Dogs of Summer is a story of exquisite yearning, a brutal picture of girlhood and a love song written for the vital community it portrays.
Las lecciones peligrosas (Spanish Edition)
Alissa Nutting · 2015
Es de noche y, ansiosa ante su primer día como profesora de instituto, Celeste Price se masturba con furia. Así arranca Las lecciones peligrosas, que pronto pulverizará cualquier atisbo de normalidad que pudiera haberse concebido en el exiguo espacio de dos contundentes párrafos. Y es que Celeste es joven, y es hermosa, y tiene un marido, Ford, que es policía y tan hermoso como ella. Ambos forman una pareja perfecta, pero sólo sobre el papel; pues, mientras se satisface en silencio, Celeste adopta precauciones para que Ford no la toque. La explicación que nos da de este hecho desconcertante es muy clara, y más perturbadora aún: «Me lleva muy pocos años, puesto que yo tengo veintiséis y él treinta y uno. Pero supera en más o menos diecisiete años la edad que acapara todo mi interés sexual.» He aquí la granada que estalla en la primera página de una novela tan inquietante como directa; una novela que se complica cuando en la escuela, en medio de un ecosistema repleto de hombres lascivos y grotescos y mujeres neuróticas y desequilibradas, la profesora escoge al joven destinado a aplacar sus deseos. Jack Patrick, delgado, aniñado, cohibido: el prototipo exacto de la lujuria para Celeste. La lujuria que tomará pronto la forma de encuentros apasionados en coches, en hostales y hasta en la casa de Jack; y que, con la irrupción de Buck, el patán grosero de mirada rijosa que el muchacho tiene por padre, cuyo interés por Celeste resulta más que obvio, empieza a enfrentarse a riesgos cada vez mayores que precipitarán una trama de tensión creciente y probada capacidad adictiva. Y es que Las lecciones peligrosas no puede soltarse pese a su agresividad frontal: la de enfrentarnos con una voz en primera persona tan explícita como amoral, que obliga a recalibrar nuestra empatía y presunciones genéricas a medida que rechaza las coartadas, las explicaciones, la culpabilidad. Una voz que sazona su capacidad de escándalo con un tono repleto de agudeza y sarcasmo, de un humor satírico, incómodo y rabioso: la de Alissa Nutting, que le ha servido para desencadenar una polémica en su país de origen avalada por una solvencia literaria a prueba de bomba.
Boy Parts
Eliza Clark · 2020
<p>‘Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp, <i>Boy Parts</i> is a whirlwind exploration of gender, class and power.’</p><p>– Jessica Andrews</p><br><p>Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle.</p><p>Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina’s relationship with her obsessive best-friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention….</p><p><i>Boy Parts</i> is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.</p>
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel
Oyinkan Braithwaite · 2019
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE •“A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” —MARIE CLAIRE<br/><br/>Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife.<br/><br/>Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her “missing” boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit.<br/><br/>Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she’s exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola’s phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she’s willing to go to protect her.
A Bright Ray of Darkness
Hawke Ethan · 2022
Actor William Harding has been caught cheating on his rock star wife and the press have descended upon him. Amid the headlines and worldwide disdain towards him, he takes on the part in Henry IV. He must examine himself, and who he has become, under the brightest of lights and the keenest of eyes.
Near to the Wild Heart (Ndp; 1225)
Clarice Lispector · 2012
This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.<br/>Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called “Hurricane Clarice”: a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: “He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life.”<br/>The book was an unprecedented sensation ― the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: “I shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt.”
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami · 2006
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton.<br/><br/>Now with a new introduction by the author.<br/><br/>Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey.<br/><br/>“As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a strikingexperience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune
Los amores de Afrodita
Fanny Buitrago
Soy una tonta por quererte
Camila Sosa Villada · 2022
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Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work
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Sofia Coppola Archive
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Yoshitomo Nara
Yeewan Koon · 2020
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Caminar por aguas cristalinas en una piscina pintada de negro
Cookie Mueller · 2024
Reconocida figura de la contracultura estadounidense en la década de 1970, Cookie Mueller vivió durante años relegada a la cómoda pero injusta posición secundaria de las musas, tanto en las películas de John Waters como en las fotografías de Nan Goldin y Robert Mapplethorpe. Con los textos incluidos en este volumen, inéditos en castellano, la autora ocupa, por fin, el primer plano que merece. Con una prosa brillante y ligera, recuerda la larga risa de todos esos años: la libertad de las drogas, los coqueteos con el cine independiente, la belleza del sexo, el feminismo y la maternidad, y la espontaneidad de un mundo singular truncado por la sombra de la enfermedad.
The Artist''s Way
Julia Cameron · 2016
"With its gentle affirmations, inspirational quotes, fill-in-the-blank lists and tasks — write yourself a thank-you letter, describe yourself at 80, for example — The Artist’s Way proposes an egalitarian view of creativity: Everyone’s got it."—The New York Times<br/><br/>"Morning Pages have become a household name, a shorthand for unlocking your creative potential"—Vogue<br/><br/>Over four million copies sold!<br/><br/>Since its first publication, The Artist's Way phenomena has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron's novel approach guides readers in uncovering problems areas and pressure points that may be restricting their creative flow and offers techniques to free up any areas where they might be stuck, opening up opportunities for self-growth and self-discovery.<br/><br/>The program begins with Cameron’s most vital tools for creative recovery – The Morning Pages, a daily writing ritual of three pages of stream-of-conscious, and The Artist Date, a dedicated block of time to nurture your inner artist. From there, she shares hundreds of exercises, activities, and prompts to help readers thoroughly explore each chapter. She also offers guidance on starting a “Creative Cluster” of fellow artists who will support you in your creative endeavors.<br/><br/>A revolutionary program for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life.
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Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton · 2020
<p>New York Times Bestseller</p><p>Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true— a wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking memoir from the funny, sharp British journalist and podcast host, who Elizabeth Gilbert calls “a sparkling Roman candle of talent.”</p><p>“The older you get, the more baggage you carry. When you date at twenty-five, everyone walks into the bar with a very neat, light carry-on. When you date from thirty onwards, get ready to meet someone absolutely brimming with history, complications and demands.”</p><p>When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, writer Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough.</p><p>Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age.</p>
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The Stranger
Albert Camus · 2012
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
A captivating story that intertwines a coming-of-age narrative with a murder mystery, set in the marshes of North Carolina.
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros · 2013
<b> <b>A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK </b><br><br>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2025 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.<br><b><br>“Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br></b><i>The House on Mango Street</i> is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."<br><br>Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s <i>Main Street</i> or Toni Morrison’s <i>Sula,</i> it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from. <br><b><br><br><br><br></b>
The Woman Destroyed
Simone De Beauvoir · 2013
<b>One of the most influential thinkers of her generation<i> </i>draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (<i>The Sunday Herald Times</i>).</b><br><br>Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, <i>The Woman Destroyed </i>gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of Discretion," "The Monologue," and "The Woman Destroyed."<br><br>"Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation." —<i>The Atlantic</i>
The Idiot
Elif Batuman · 2018
<b>Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • <b>A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Notable Book <b>• </b></b>Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction<br><br>“Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —<b><i>GQ<br></i></b><br>“Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, <i>The Idiot</i> will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —<b>Sloane Crosley, </b><i><b>Vanity Fair</b></i><br><br>A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.</b><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. <i>The Idiot</i> 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><b>Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 <i>• </i>Mashable One <i>• Elle Magazine • The New York Times • </i>Bookpage <i>• Vogue • NPR • </i>Buzzfeed <i>•</i>The Millions</b>
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 2006
<b>The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton</b><br><br> First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's <i>The Haunting of Hill House</i> has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney · 2024
<b>THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER <i>• </i>Shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2025 • Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year <i>•</i></b> <b>Foyles Book of the Year • Best Book of the Year:</b><i><b> The</b> </i><b><i>New Yorker • The New York Times • The Globe and Mail • TIME • The Winnipeg Free Press • The Guardian • The Independent • </i>NPR • <i>Dazed • VOX • People • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly • </i>An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.</b><br><br>Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.<br><br>Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.<br><br>Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.<br><br>For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1999
In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from 'living life'. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka, his final withdrawal into the world of the imagination anticipates the retreat into the 'underground' of many of Dostoevsky's later intellectual heroes. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how such withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation and moral indifference and how, in Dostoevsky's view, the tragedy of the alienated individual can be resolved only by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility towards fellow human beings. This new translation captures the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing, while the introduction examines the stories in relation to one another and to his novels.
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
Storytelling in the grand manner, The Secret History is a debut remarkable for its hypnotic erudition and acute psychological suspense, and for the richness of its emotions, ideas, and language. These are the confessions, years afterward, of a young man who found at a small Vermont college the life of privilege and intellect he'd long coveted - and rarely has the glorious experience of youth infatuated with knowledge and with itself been so achingly realized. Then, amazed, Richard Papen is drawn into the ultimate inner circle: five students, worldly and self-assured, selected by a charismatic classics professor to participate in the search for truth and beauty. Together they study the mysteries of ancient Greek culture and spend long weekends at an old country house, reading, boating, basking in an Indian summer that stretches late into autumn.
The Queen's Gambit
Walter Tevis · 2014
<p><b>Netflix’s most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman’s journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction. </b><br><br> When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother’s tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted.<br><br> At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in <i>The Hustler</i>, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits . . .<br><br> Fast-paced and elegantly written, <i>The Queen’s Gambit </i>is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel—one that’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.<br><br> “<i>The Queen’s Gambit</i> is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it.” —Michael Ondaatje, Man Booker Prize–winning author of <i>The English Patient</i></p>
Looking for Alaska
John Green · 2005
<p><b>The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of <i>Turtles All the Way Down </i>and <i>The Fault in Our Stars<br></i></b><br>Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A <i>New York Times </i>Bestseller • A <i>USA Today </i>Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • <i>TIME </i>magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold!<br><br> <br><b>First drink. First prank. First friend. First love.<br></b><br><b>Last words. </b><br> <br>Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called “The Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. <br><i> </i><br><i>Looking for Alaska </i>brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction.<br><br></p>
The Vegetarian
Han Kang · 2016
<b>FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br><br><b>“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize</b><br><br><b><i>A NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE </b><br><b>ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY<br>A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS </i>BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY</b><br><br><b>“Ferocious.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (Ten Best Books of the Year)</b><br><b>“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff</b><br><b>“Provocative [and] shocking.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br>Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. <br><br>Celebrated by critics around the world, <i>The Vegetarian</i> is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.<br><b><br>A Best Book of the Year: <i>BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly</i></b>
Lágrimas en H Mart
Michelle Zauner • 2021
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR). • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
Conversaciones entre amigos
Sally Rooney • 2018
El Gran Debut De La Joven Sally Rooney Con Una De Las Novelas De Ficción Más Esperadas De 2018. Una Historia Fresca Sobre El Amor Y Contra Las Etiquetas En Las Relaciones. Tras Recitar Sus Poemas En Una Velada Literaria En Dublín, Frances Y Bobbi Conocen A Melissa, Una Atractiva Escritora Que Quiere Publicar Un Reportaje Sobre Ellas. Estas Dos Universitarias Que En El Pasado Fueron Pareja Se Verán Atraídas Hacia Ella Y Su Marido Nick: Un Matrimonio Acomodado Que Se Acerca A La Cuarentena Y Con El Que Terminarán Formando Un Complejo Ménage à Quatre. Ambientada En La Bohemia Artística Irlandesa, Esta Historia De Amores Libres Y Relaciones Ambiguas Ofrece Un Retrato Honesto De Una Generación Que Rechaza Las Etiquetas Impuestas. Entre Presentaciones De Libros, Estrenos Teatrales Y Vacaciones En La Bretaña Francesa, Las Conversaciones De Los Personajes Convierten El Debut De Sally Rooney En Una Novela De Ideas Marcada Por Unos Diálogos Ocurrentes Y Un Hábil Sentido Del Humor. La Autora Indaga En Las Delicadas Crueldades De La Interacción Humana En Una Obra Inteligente Sobre La Amistad, El Deseo Y Los Celos. Mientras Sus Personajes Descubren El Poder Que Tienen Sobre Los Otros, Rooney Articula Una Adictiva Historia Sobre El Funcionamiento De La Inocencia, El Impacto De La Infidelidad Y El Espejismo Del Libre Albedrío. Conversaciones Entre Amigos Ha Situado A Rooney Como Una De Las Voces Más Prometedoras De Su Generación. Una Obra Aguda Y Reveladora Que Es A La Vez Una Novela De Iniciación, Una Comedia Sobre El Amor Y Un Alegato Feminista. Críticas: «maravillosa.» The New Yorker «no Escribe Literatura Millenial: Quiere Empezar Una RevoluciÓn.» Playground «literatura En Mayúsculas.» El País «el Amor Tradicional Es Altamente Cuestionable.» Vice «un Retratocomplejo De La Intimidad Y De Nuestro Miedo A Hacer Daño.» Laura Ferrero «rooney Tiene El Don De Infundir Una Sensación De Alto Riesgo A La Vida Cotidiana, Una Novela De Deliciosas Fricciones.» Christian Lorentzen, New York Magazine «esta Joven De 25 Años Dejó Su Trabajo En Un Restaurante... Y Escribió Una Novela Que Dio Inicio A Una Guerra De Subastas.» Alice O'keeffe, The Guardian «en Este Debut Agudo Y Revelador, Rooney Ofrece Una Perspectiva Sin Remordimientos Sobre Los Caprichos En Las Relaciones, Un Tratado Sobre La Vida Matrimonial, El Impacto De La Infidelidad, Las Ramificaciones De Las Propias Acciones, Y Cómo La Persona Con La Que Uno Escoge Estar Puede Marcar La Propia Individualidad.» Publishers Weekly «rooney Captura El Estado De ánimo Y La Voz De Mujeres Contemporáneas, Sus Conexiones Interpersonales Y Sus Preocupaciones, Sin Parecer Ni Remotamente Predecible. Una Obra Inteligente Y Actual Sobre Una Mujer Compleja Y Sus Relaciones Románticas.» Kirkus «un Retrato Inteligente, Sexy Y Realista Sobre Una Mujer Que Se Busca A Sí Misma.» Booklist «un Debut Asegurado Y Sorprendente.» The Bookseller «fascinante, Feroz Y Perspicaz. Sally Rooney Tiene El Ojo Desarrollado Para Todas Las Delicadas Crueldades De La Interacción Humana.» Lisa Mcinerney, Autor De Los Pecados Gloriosos (ganador Del Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction) «este Libro Es Notable Porque Insiste En La Necesidad De Complicarse La Vida Y También En El Derecho Al Placer, Tanto Para Los Personajes Como Para El Lector.» Daily Telegraph «es Un Análisis Brillantemente Escrito Sobre Ese Momento En La Vida En Que Descubres Cuánto Poder Puedes Tener Sobre Otras Personas, Y Aun Así Decides Utilizarlo Mal.» Stylist «combinando Una Agudísima E Irónica Visión Y Una Sinceridad Que Derrite El Corazón, Esta Novela Es Una Clase Magistral De Tono Narrativo Que Me Dejó Desesperado Por Leer Cualquier Cosa Que Rooney Escriba A Partir De Ahora.» Metro «su Voz Tiene Claridad Y Seguridad, Y Emerge Completamente Madurada.» Daily Telegraph Review
Así se pierde la guerra del tiempo
Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone • 2021
Todo lo que sé sobre el amor
Dolly Alderton • 2021
Una historia autobiográfica de la periodista Dolly Alderton que ya ha cautivado a más de un millón de lectores.<br/>El gran fenómeno boca oreja de los últimos años.<br/>Un millón de ejemplares vendidos.<br/>El libro narra en primera persona el paso de la adolescencia a la vida adulta de una joven como cualquier otra que deambula buscándose a sí misma, fracasando en lo personal y profesional, sobreviviendo con la cuenta en números rojos y dándose de bruces con el desamor en cada esquina. Y, a pesar de ello, disfrutando y exprimiendo cada momento importante de la vida como solo un veinteañero sabe hacer.<br/>Tan salvajemente divertido y conmovedor como la vida de cualquier veinteañero que crece navegando entre desengaños amorosos y relaciones desastrosas.<br/><br/>«Casi todo lo que sé sobre el amor lo he aprendido charlando con mis amigas de toda la vida. He aprendido que el amor es júbilo desenfrenado, bailar borracha sobre el fango de un festival de música, los cruces de miradas en un autobús nocturno, los polvos de una noche. Pero también he aprendido que el amor no son las relaciones tediosas, ni las horas de obsesivo seguimiento en Instagram al chico que te gusta, ni los orgasmos fingidos.»<br/><br/>Los lectores han dicho…<br/>«Háganse un favor, y lean este libro. Les prometo que no se van a arrepentir».<br/>«El libro perfecto para regalar a tu mejor amiga y recordar lo mucho que merece la pena vuestro amor».<br/>«Todo el mundo debería leerlo. Nos recuerda que lo más importante es el amor propio».<br/>«Sencillo, directo, pero con una declaración de sentimientos y emociones que desmitifican lo que creíamos que era querer a alguien sin quererte a ti misma».<br/>«Es un libro sensible y humano, que recomiendo con los ojos cerrados, porque te deja enseñanza de vida».<br/>«Tod@s hemos sido Dolly Alderton en algún momento de nuestras vidas... O lo seguimos siendo».<br/>«Todo lo que sé sobre el amor, de Dolly Alderton, o cómo resumir (brillantemente) la vida sentimental de una treintañera actual». Vogue
Las chicas
Emma Cline • 2016
THE INSTANT BESTSELLER • An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Vogue, Glamour, People, The Huffington Post, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out, BookPage, Publishers Weekly, Slate Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award • Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Emma Cline—One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists Praise for The Girls “Spellbinding . . . a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story.”—The New York Times Book Review “Extraordinary . . . Debut novels like this are rare, indeed.”—The Washington Post “Hypnotic.”—The Wall Street Journal “Gorgeous.”—Los Angeles Times “Savage.”—The Guardian “Astonishing.”—The Boston Globe “Superbly written.”—James Wood, The New Yorker “Intensely consuming.”—Richard Ford “A spectacular achievement.”—Lucy Atkins, The Times “Thrilling.”—Jennifer Egan “Compelling and startling.”—The Economist
A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers • 2021
One of Vanity Fair's Books That Will Get You Through This Winter<br/>“One of the most uniquely fun and campily gory books in my recent memory... A Certain Hunger has the voice of a hard-boiled detective novel, as if metaphor-happy Raymond Chandler handed the reins over to the sexed-up femme fatale and really let her fly." ―The New York Times<br/><br/>Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy’s clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling from Manhattan to Italy for a taste of both.<br/><br/>But there is something within Dorothy that’s different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself. Recounting her life from a seemingly idyllic farm-to-table childhood, the heights of her career, to the moment she plunges an ice pick into a man's neck on Fire Island, Dorothy Daniels show us what happens when a woman finally embraces her superiority.<br/><br/>A satire of early foodieism, a critique of how gender is defined, and a showcase of virtuoso storytelling, Chelsea G. Summers’ A Certain Hunger introduces us to the food world’s most charming psychopath and an exciting new voice in fiction.
El primer hombre malo
Miranda July • 2015
Product Description<br/><br/>Un debut novelístico deslumbrante que te desconcertará, por una de las voces más originales del panorama actual, un icono del indie americano: Miranda July.<br/>La vida de Cheryl Glickman está sometida a las fantasías y creencias más dispares, así como a un excéntrico sistema de reglas y rituales. Cree fervientemente en historias de amor que traspasan los siglos y tiene una estrecha relación con el alma de un recién nacido al que conoció siendo niña y que transmigra, desde entonces, del cuerpo de un bebé a otro. A sus cuarenta y poco años vive sola, y desde hace tiempo trabaja en una organización sin ánimo de lucro que realiza unos peculiares vídeos de autodefensa femenina.<br/>El día que se ve obligada a acoger temporalmente en su piso a Clee, la hija veinteañera de sus jefes, su rutina e intimidad sufren un inesperado descalabro. Clee es distante, altiva, desdeñosa y mantiene una escasa higiene personal, además de estar enganchada al móvil y sumida siempre en una preocupante inactividad frente al televisor. Inevitablemente, Cheryl se ve arrastrada a un peligroso juego de intimidación pero, a su vez y de forma inesperada, acaba descubriendo el amor de toda una vida.<br/>Imbuida de las fantasías sexuales más impetuosas y de la intensidad del amor maternal, esta primera novela de Miranda July rezuma ternura y un perspicaz sentido del humor, y confirma a esta multifacética artista como una de las voces más originales del panorama cultural actual.<br/>La crítica ha dicho...<br/>«La habilidad de Miranda July para pervertir las normas sin dejar de lado lo que nos hace normales es sorprendente. Te hará reír, encogerte y reconocerte en una mujer que nunca planeaste ser. Jamás una novela me ha hablado de manera tan profunda acerca de mi sexualidad, mi espiritualidad y mi intimidad.»<br/>Lena Dunham<br/>«Un gran y conmovedor retrato de la maternidad y lo que significa cuidar a un niño.»<br/>Michino Kakutani, The New York Times<br/>«Buenísima, desternillante, irreverente, mordaz.»<br/>O, The Oprah Magazine<br/>«De repente este extraño libro se convierte en algo vital.»<br/>Elle<br/>«Algunos artistas desean convertir el mundo en un lugar donde ellos puedan sentirse más cómodos, y cambiar a la gente y sus dinámicas para lograr ese fin. Miranda July es una de esas artistas.»<br/>Sheila Heti<br/>«Una historia profundamente íntima que arranca en la sordidez de la soledad y que poco a poco se irá convirtiendo en un profundo y conmovedor relato de amor y compromiso fuera de lo común.»<br/>Dave Eggers<br/>«Un libro quye se tiene que leer y que se tiene que comprar por duplicado.»<br/>A.M. Homes<br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/>Miranda July nació en Berkeley, California, en 1974, y actualmente vive en Los Ángeles. Es cineasta, actriz, performer, escritora y artista multidisciplinar. Su obra se ha presentado en lugares como The Kitchen, el museo Guggenheim o el MoMA, y en dos bienales del Whitney. Escribió, dirigió y protagonizó su primer largometraje, Tú, yo y todos los demás (2005), que recibió un premio especial del jurado en Sundance y la Caméra d'Or en el Festival de Cannes. El futuro (2011), su segunda película, optó al Oso de Oro del Festival de Berlín y fue seleccionada entre las mejores películas del año por The New Yorker. Nadie es más de aquí que tú fue su primer libro de relatos, publicado en veintisiete países y galardonado con el Frank O'Connor International Award 2007. Su libro de no ficción Te elige (2012) fue uno de los mejores libros del año según Amazon, y Oprah Magazine lo destacó como lectura imprescindible de ese año. El primer hombre malo (Literatura Random House, 2015) fue su primera novela y se publicó en más de veinte países.
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel
Emily Austin • 2022
In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.<br/><br/>Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace.<br/><br/>In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace’s old friend. She can’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence.<br/><br/>With a “kindhearted heroine we all need right now” (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and “delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it’s also what makes life beautiful” (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl).
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman • 2019
<p><b>SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.</b><br> <br> <b>Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.</b><br> <br> Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?<br> <br> Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.<br> <br> Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.<br> <br> <b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE <i>WATER CURE</i><br> <br> **<i>Orlanda</i>, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**</b></p>
Ensayo sobre la ceguera
José Saramago • 1995
Un hombre parado ante un semáforo en rojo se queda ciego súbitamente. Es el primer caso de una «ceguera blanca» que luego se propaga de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos en la ciudad, los ciegos tendrán que enfrentarse a lo más primitivo de la naturaleza humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir a toda costa.<br/><br/>Con esas premisas, José Saramago traza una imagen aterradora y conmovedora de los tiempos de crisis. También, en el cruce de la literatura y la sabiduría, nos exhorta a los lectores a cerrar los ojos y ver más allá de las evidencias. Recuperar la lucidez y rescatar el afecto son dos propuestas fundamentales de una novela que es, además, una reflexión sobre la ética del amor y la solidaridad.
Cronicas Marcianas
Ray Bradbury • 1950
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury • 1953
La historia de un sombrío y aterrador futuro<br/><br/>Guy Montag pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos. Su misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Ha sido bombero durante más de 10 años, y siempre le gustó su trabajó. Nunca cuestionó nada —ni la emoción de las salidas a medianoche ni el placer de ver las hojas arder— hasta que conoció a una niña de diecisiete años que le mostró un pasado en el que la gente no tenía miedo y a un profesor que le habló de un futuro en el que la gente podría ser libre. Y al fin Montag comprendió lo que tenía que hacer.<br/><br/>Fahrenheit 451, la novela más célebre del maestro de la ciencia ficción, nos presenta un futuro perturbador: un mundo en el que los libros y la lectura están prohibidos. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en ese mundo está prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en ese mundo hay que ser feliz a la fuerza.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.<br/><br/>Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.<br/><br/>Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.<br/><br/>When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
1984
George Orwell • 1961
<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Los peligros de fumar en la cama (Spanish Edition)
Mariana Enriquez · 2018
Doce cuentos en los que lo terrorífico se infiltra en lo cotidiano. Doce relatos perturbadores que llevan el género de terror a una nueva dimensión.<br/>Una niña desentierra en el jardín unos huesos que resultan no ser de un animal; la bucólica escena veraniega de unas chicas que se bañan en un paraje natural acaba convertida en un infierno de celos de inquietantes consecuencias; un mendigo despreciado siembra la desgracia en un barrio pudiente; Barcelona se transforma en un escenario perturbador, marcado por la culpa y del que es imposible escapar; una presencia fantasmal busca un sacrificio en un balneario; una chica siente una atracción fetichista por los corazones enfermos; un rockero fallecido de un modo atroz recibe un homenaje de sus fans que va más allá de lo imaginable; un chico que filma clandestinamente a parejas haciendo el amor y a mujeres con tacones altos caminando por las calles recibe una propuesta que le cambiará la vida.<br/>En los doce soberbios cuentos que componen este volumen Mariana Enriquez despliega todo un repertorio de recursos del relato clásico de terror: apariciones espectrales, brujas, sesiones de espiritismo, grutas, visiones, muertos que vuelven a la vida... Pero, lejos de proponer una mera revisitación arqueológica del género, reelabora ese material con una voz propia y radicalmente moderna. Tirando del hilo de la mejor tradición, la lleva un paso más allá, con historias que indagan en lo siniestro que se agazapa en lo cotidiano, despliegan un turbio erotismo y crean imágenes poderosísimas que dejan una huella indeleble.<br/>Quienes descubrieron a Mariana Enriquez con Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego tienen ahora en sus manos un libro anterior, en el que ya aparece perfectamente dibujado el universo de una escritora que conecta con maestros modernos de la literatura de terror como Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti o su compatriota Cortázar. Enriquez se asoma a los abismos más recónditos del alma humana, a las soterradas corrientes de la sexualidad y la obsesión...
Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (Spanish Edition)
Mariana Enriquez · 2016
El mundo de Mariana Enriquez no tiene por qué ser el nuestro, y, sin embargo, lo termina siendo. Bastan pocas frases para pisarlo, respirarlo y no olvidarlo gracias a una viveza emocional insólita. Con la cotidianidad hecha pesadilla, el lector se despierta abatido, perturbado por historias e imágenes que jamás conseguirá sacarse de la cabeza. Las autodenominadas «mujeres ardientes», que protestan contra una forma extrema de violencia doméstica que se ha vuelto viral; una estudiante que se arranca las uñas y las pestañas, y otra que intenta ayudarla; los años de apagones dictados por el gobierno durante los cuales se intoxican tres amigas que lo serán hasta que la muerte las separe; el famoso asesino en serie llamado Petiso Orejudo, que sólo tenía nueve años; hikikomori, magia negra, los celos, el desamor, supersticiones rurales, edificios abandonados o encantados... En estos once cuentos el lector se ve obligado a olvidarse de sí mismo para seguir las peripecias e investigaciones de cuerpos que desaparecen o bien reaparecen en el momento menos esperado. Ya sea una trabajadora social, una policía o un guía turístico, los protagonistas luchan por apadrinar a seres socialmente invisibles, indagando así en el peso de la culpa, la compasión, la crueldad, las dificultades de la convivencia, y en un terror tan hondo como verosímil. Mariana Enriquez es una de las narradoras más valientes y sorprendentes del siglo XXI, no sólo de la nueva literatura argentina a cargo de escritores nacidos durante la dictadura sino de la literatura de cualquier país o lengua. Mariana Enriquez transforma géneros literarios en recursos narrativos, desde la novela negra hasta el realismo sucio, pasando por el terror, la crónica y el humor, y ahonda con dolor y belleza en las raíces, las llamas y las tinieblas de toda existencia.
Deseo de perro
Sara Torres · 2023
Los nombres propios
Marta Jiménez Serrano · 2021
¿Quién es Belaundia Fu? Es la mejor amiga de Marta a los siete años: la amiga invisible que, en esos momentos en que las cosas no salen como había planeado y ni siquiera la abuela es capaz de consolarla, se sienta con ella y espera hasta que se le pase. Belaundia Fu es la voz sensata, ideal e infalible que, cuando Marta tiene dieciséis años y pese a que prefiera no escucharlas, le dice las verdades a la cara: por ejemplo, que ese chico, Charlie, no le conviene. Pero cuando Marta ya ha cumplido veintidós, cuando ya se ha licenciado, cuando está empezando a tomar las decisiones que van a marcar el resto de su vida, ¿qué hace aún ahí Belaundia Fu? Ahí sigue porque es quien, desde siempre, le narra a Marta su propia historia. ¿Quién es Belaundia Fu?, nos preguntamos; y, sin embargo, la pregunta que verdaderamente importa es: ¿quién es Marta? Luminosa y emocionante, Los nombres propios es una indagación sobre la identidad y la relación que establecemos con el mundo que nos rodea. Dominada por una voz narrativa de una madurez excepcional, la primera novela de Marta Jiménez Serrano reflexiona acerca de cómo llegamos a convertirnos en quienes somos, sobre el hecho mismo de crecer y la manera en que lo hacemos: aprendiendo a nombrar aquello que nos importa.<br/><br/>«Con hondura y verdad, Marta Jiménez Serrano nos relata el camino de la infancia a la primera juventud. Preciosa».<br/>Elvira Lindo<br/><br/>«Los nombres propios resulta tierna cuando quiere y muy divertida y sorprendentemente sabia y exacta, repleta de hallazgos de todo tipo y con una estructura magistral. Y es también una novela escrita ya no con ritmo, sino casi con métrica».<br/>Juan Marqués, Las Librerías Recomiendan<br/><br/>«El brillante comienzo de esta novela nos precipita en la vida de una mujer desde la infancia a la primera madurez. Los nombres propios es un retrato tan sutil y realista de los grandes problemas pequeños de la niña, la muchacha y la veinteañera que se postula como piedra de toque generacional. Marta Jiménez Serrano merodea la poesía y las cosas, el cuerpo y las expectativas, llenando su libro de un decir sencillo y emocionante».<br/>Alberto Olmos, Zenda<br/><br/>«Novela de sorprendente madurez, y cuidado estilo, Los nombres propios descubre a una narradora con un mundo propio sugerente y luminoso».<br/>Elena Costa, El Cultural<br/><br/>«Cualquiera diría que Los nombres propios es una opera prima, a tenor de la capacidad narrativa de Marta Jiménez Serrano, que se desenvuelve con solidez y fuerza en una obra en la que la ¿protagonista? es una amiga invisible».<br/>Begoña Alonso, Elle
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors · 2022
The smash National bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist--perfect for readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends. An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could've predicted. Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo's marriage, or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last. As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.
Como agua para chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish Edition)
Laura Esquivel · 2001
<b>Terrenal, mágico y absolutamente encantador, este relato de la vida familiar en el México finisecular se convirtió, con la mezcla acertada de romance doloroso e ingenio agridulce, en un fenómeno de best-seller.</b> <br><br>La clásica historia de amor se sitúa en el rancho De la Garza, mientras la dueña tiránica Mamá Elena corta cebolla en la mesa de cocina durante sus últimos días de embarazo. Aún dentro del útero de su madre, la futura hija llora tan violentamente que causa un parto prematuro y la pequeña Tita nace entre las especies para preparar sopa de fideos. Este temprano encuentro con la comida pronto se convierte en una forma de vida. Tita se convierte en una chef maestra y, a lo largo de la historia, comparte puntos especiales de sus recetas favoritas con los lectores.<br><br>La edición en español del best-seller <i>Como agua para chocolate</i> es, con toda razón, un notable éxito. Ahora, en esta edición en pasta blanda, miles de nuevos lectores podrán participar en el suntuoso, romántico y divertido relato de Tita, la extraordinaria cocinera que siempre pone algo extra especial en su salsa. <br><br><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION</b><br><br><b>The bestselling phenomenon and inspiration for the award-winning film.</b><br><br><b> Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance and bittersweet wit. </b><br><br> This classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother’s womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef, using cooking to express herself and sharing recipes with readers along the way.
Poesía completa
Alejandra Pizarnik · 2016
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath · 2000
The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life and work.<br/><br/>"A genuine literary event.... Plath's journals contain marvels of discovery." —The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/>Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.
PORQUE DEMASIADO NO ES SUFICIENTE
Mariana Enríquez · 2023
Porque demasiado no es suficiente. Mi historia de amor con Suede es el libro más personal e íntimo de Mariana Enriquez, quien tenía casi veinte años cuando escuchó por primera vez las canciones de Suede y comenzó así una intensa relación de amor. Es la banda sonora que la acompaña desde sus inicios como periodista de rock hasta hoy, cuando se ha convertido en una de las escritoras latinoamericanas más respetadas y queridas de la actualidad. Suede ha estado siempre ahí: cuando corregía Bajar es lo peor, cuando avanzaba en los cuentos de Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego, cuando escribía Nuestra parte de noche y, ahora, cuando armaba este libro en clave autobiográfica.<br/>Esta es una historia privada de los noventa y dos mil, una obra mayor de crítica cultural a través de la letra, la música y el contexto, y una mirada a una galería de tesoros que Mariana Enriquez ha guardado a través de su carrera y que nos comparte bajo la forma de anécdotas, recuerdos, imágenes y reflexiones, por ejemplo, sobre qué significa seguir a un artista y en qué posición vive el fan frente al ídolo. Un relato espléndido sobre generaciones, estrellas y memorias fragmentarias, en peligro de extinción, que vinculan a individuos frágiles y solitarios con el tiempo eterno del arte.
The Creative Act: a way of being
Art
Just Kids
Patti Smith · 2010
<p> It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. </p> <p> Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. </p> <p> <i>Just Kids</i> begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. </p>
