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Familiar Things

Hwang Sok-yong • 2018

A vivid and enchanting novel by one of South Korea’s foremost writers, in a haunting reminder to be careful what we throw away.<br/>Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea’s glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father’s internment in a government “re-education camp”.<br/>Living in a shack and supporting himself by weeding recyclables out of the refuse, at first Bugeye’s life on Flower Island is hard. But then one night he notices mysterious lights around the landfill. And when the ancient spirits that still inhabit the island’s landscape reveal themselves to him, Bugeye's luck begins to change―but can it last?<br/>Vibrant and enchanting, Familiar Things depicts a society on the edge of dizzying economic and social change, and is a haunting reminder to us all to be careful of what we throw away.

QUIERO MORIR, PERO TAMBIÉN COMER TTEOKBOKKI: Conversaciones con mi psiquiatra

Baek Sehee • 2023

Por favor, cuida de mamá (Spanish Edition)

Kyung-sook Shin • 2012

La desaparición de una mujer en la Estación Central de Seúl provoca reacciones diferentes en su marido e hijos. Su búsqueda les revelará la verdadera importancia de la madre en sus vidas.La novela que ya ha emocionado a 2.000.000 de lectores.El mayor éxito de la literatura coreana.Park So-nyo, una humilde campesina, ha sido durante toda la vida una abnegada madre de familia, una mujer que siempre lo ha sacrificado todo para dar una educación a sus hijos. Ahora, tras haberse perdido en la estación central de Seúl cuando iba a visitar a sus hijos a la ciudad, su búsqueda desesperada se convierte en un encendido elogio de los lazos familiares lleno de emoción.Una novela que cautivará a todos los lectores por su sencillez, sinceridad y la honestidad de su mensaje universal que ensalza la figura materna.«Damos por descontado que nuestras madres están a nuestro lado para ayudarnos de forma incondicional y que siempre estarán ahí. Pensamos que han nacido para ser madres. Pero antes fueron niñas y mujeres como lo somos nosotras ahora. Con este libro quería dar voz a todas esas mujeres.»Kyung-sook ShinLa crítica ha dicho...«Tierna, aguda y psicológicamente reveladora. Los lectores se verán reflejados en esta historia de familia, un best seller en Corea.»Publishers Weekly«Con una escritura sensible, una elegía a la intensidad de los vínculos familiares construidos y mantenidos por mujeres.»Kirkus reviews

The Naked Tree

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim • 2023

<p><b>A delicate, timeless, and breathtaking coming-of-age classic, reimagined<br><br></b>Critically acclaimed and award-winning cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim returns with a stunning addition to her body of graphic fiction rooted in Korean history. Adapted from Park Wan-suh’s beloved novel, <i>The Naked Tree </i>paints a stark portrait of a single nation’s fabric slowly torn to shreds by political upheaval and armed conflict. Fleshing out the characters in fresh, imaginative ways, and incorporating the original author into the story, Gendry-Kim breathes new life into this Korean classic.<br><br>The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee Kyeonga ekes out a living at the US military Post Exchange where goods and services of varying stripes are available for purchase. She peddles hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing through. When a handsome, young northern escapee and erstwhile fine artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship blossoms into a young woman’s first brush with desire against the backdrop of the Korean War at its most devastating.<br><br>Gendry-Kim brings a masterpiece of world literature to life with bold, expressive lines that capture a denuded landscape brutally forced into transition and the people who must find their way back to each other within it. The Naked Tree is exquisitely translated by award-winning expert Janet Hong.</p>

Confesiones de una máscara

Yukio Mishima • 2015

Koo-chan, el joven narrador de "Confesiones de una máscara" (novela publicada en 1949 que fue el primer gran éxito literario de Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) y que lo catapultó a la fama), es un alma atormentada por una sensibilidad turbadora que va creciendo con el estigma de saberse diferente a los demás. De aspecto débil y enfermizo, solitario y taciturno, de extracción menos favorecida que sus compañeros, irá descubriendo sus inclinaciones homosexuales cuando se siente atraído por Omi, un chico de fuerte constitución. No obstante, en el Japón de los años 1930 y 1940 el protagonista debe ocultarse tras una máscara de corrección y convertir su vida en un escenario, en una representación en la que confluyen la realidad y las apariencias. Traducción de Carlos Rubio y Rumi Sato

Tokio blues

Haruki Murakami • 2019

Into the Magic Shop

MD James R. Doty • 2016

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.

El extranjero

Albert Camus • 1971

Guía moral e intelectual de la generación llegada a la madurez entre las ruinas, la frustración y la desesperanza de la Europa de postguerra, Albert Camus (1913-1960) saltó a la fama con la publicación, en 1942, de EL EXTRANJERO. La novela -lúcida descripción de la carencia de valores del mundo contemporáneo- tiene como referencia omnipresente a Meursault, su protagonista, a quien una serie de circunstancias conduce a cometer un crimen aparentemente inmotivado; su muerte en el patíbulo no tendrá más sentido que su vida, corroída por la cotidianidad y gobernada por fuerzas anónimas que, al despojar a los hombres de la condición de sujetos autónomos, les eximen también de responsabilidad y de culpa.

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.

Kafka en la orilla

Haruki Murakami • 2013

Kafka Tamura Se Va De Casa El Día En Que Cumple Quince Años. Los Motivos, Si Es Que Los Hay, Son Las Malas Relaciones Con Su Padre –un Famoso Escultor Convencido De Que Su Hijo Repetirá El Aciago Sino Del Edipo De La Tragedia Clásica– Y La Sensación De Vacío Producida Por La Ausencia De Su Madre Y Su Hermana, Que Se Marcharon También Cuando él Era Muy Pequeño. Sus Pasos Le Llevarán Al Sur Del País, A Takamatsu, Donde Encontrará Refugio En Una Peculiar Biblioteca Y Conocerá A La Misteriosa Señora Saeki. Si Sobre La Vida De Kafka Se Cierne La Tragedia (en El Sentido Clásico), Sobre La De Satoru Nakata Ya Se Ha Abatido: De Niño, Durante La Segunda Guerra Mundial, Sufrió Un Extraño Accidente Del Que Salió Con Secuelas, Sumido En Una Especie De Olvido De Sí, Con Dificultades Para Comunicarse... Salvo Con Los Gatos. A Los Sesenta Años Abandona Tokio Y Emprende Un Viaje Que Le Conducirá También A La Biblioteca De Takamatsu. Así, Las Vidas Y Destinos De Los Personajes Se Van Entretejiendo En Un Curso Inexorable Que No Atiende A Razones Ni Voluntades. Pero, A Veces, Hasta Los Oráculos Se Equivocan.

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A Novel

Cho Nam-joo • 2021

A New York Times Editors Choice Selection<br/>A global sensation, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 “has become...a touchstone for a conversation around feminism and gender” (Sarah Shin, Guardian). One of the most notable novels of the year, hailed by both critics and K-pop stars alike, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rampant misogyny. In a tidy apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, millennial “everywoman” Kim Jiyoung spends her days caring for her infant daughter. But strange symptoms appear: Jiyoung begins to impersonate the voices of other women, dead and alive. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her concerned husband sends her to a psychiatrist. Jiyoung narrates her story to this doctor―from her birth to parents who expected a son to elementary school teachers who policed girls’ outfits to male coworkers who installed hidden cameras in women’s restrooms. But can her psychiatrist cure her, or even discover what truly ails her? “A social treatise as well as a work of art” (Alexandra Alter, New York Times), Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 heralds the arrival of international powerhouse Cho Nam-Joo.

La Biblioteca de la Medianoche (AdN) (Spanish Edition)

Matt Haig • 2021

<p><b>PREMIO GOODREADS 2020 A LA MEJOR OBRA DE FICCI?N</b></p> <p>?Entre la vida y la muerte hay una biblioteca. Y los estantes de esa biblioteca son infinitos. Cada libro da la oportunidad de probar otra vida que podr?as haber vivido y de comprobar c?mo habr?an cambiado las cosas si hubieras tomado otras decisiones... ?Habr?as hecho algo de manera diferente si hubieras tenido la oportunidad??.</p> <p>Nora Seed aparece, sin saber c?mo, en la Biblioteca de la Medianoche, donde se le ofrece una nueva oportunidad para hacer las cosas bien. Hasta ese momento, su vida ha estado marcada por la infelicidad y el arrepentimiento.</p> <p>Nora siente que ha defraudado a todos, y tambi?n a ella misma. Pero esto est? a punto de cambiar.</p> <p>Los libros de la Biblioteca de la Medianoche permitir?n a Nora vivir como si hubiera hecho las cosas de otra manera. Con la ayuda de una vieja amiga, tendr? la opci?n de esquivar todo aquello que se arrepiente de haber hecho (o no haber hecho), en pos de la vida perfecta. Pero las cosas no siempre ser?n como imagin? que ser?an, y pronto sus decisiones enfrentar?n a la Biblioteca y a ella misma en un peligro extremo. Nora deber? responder una ?ltima pregunta antes de que el tiempo se agote: ?cu?l es la mejor manera de vivir?</p>

1Q84

Haruki Murakami • 2011

The long-awaited magnum opus from Haruki Murakami, in which this revered and bestselling author gives us his hypnotically addictive, mind-bending ode to George Orwell's 1984. The year is 1984. Aomame is riding in a taxi on the expressway, in a hurry to carry out an assignment. Her work is not the kind that can be discussed in public. When they get tied up in traffic, the taxi driver suggests a bizarre 'proposal' to her. Having no other choice she agrees, but as a result of her actions she starts to feel as though she is gradually becoming detached from the real world. She has been on a top secret mission, and her next job leads her to encounter the superhuman founder of a religious cult. Meanwhile, Tengo is leading a nondescript life but wishes to become a writer. He inadvertently becomes involved in a strange disturbance that develops over a literary prize. While Aomame and Tengo impact on each other in various ways, at times by accident and at times intentionally, they come closer and closer to meeting. Eventually the two of them notice that they are indispensable to each other. Is it possible for them to ever meet in the real world?

Yo antes de ti / Me Before You (Spanish Edition)

Jojo Moyes • 2017

<b>DESCUBRE EL PRIMER LIBRO DE LA TRIOLOGIA QUE HA CAPTURADO A MILLONES DE CORAZONES.<br><br>El libro en el que se basa la película de amor "Me before you". <br><br>Una historia que necesitas experimentar.<br><i><br></i></b>Louisa Clark sabe muchas cosas. Sabe cuántos pasos hay entre la parada del autobús y su casa. Sabe que le gusta trabajar en el café Buttered Bun y sabe que quizá no quiera a su novio Patrick.<br>Lo que Lou no sabe es que está a punto de perder su trabajo o que son sus pequeñas rutinas las que la mantienen en su sano juicio.<br><br>Will Traynor sabe que un accidente de moto se llevó sus ganas de vivir. Sabe que ahora todo le parece insignificante y triste y sabe exactamente cómo va a solucionarlo.<br><br>Lo que Will no sabe es que Lou está a punto de irrumpir en su mundo con una explosión de color.<br>Y ninguno de los dos sabe que va a cambiar al otro para siempre.<br><br><i>Yo antes de ti</i> reúne a dos personas que no podrían tener menos en común en una novela conmovedoramente romántica con una pregunta:¿Qué decidirías cuando hacer feliz a la persona a la que amas significa también destrozarte el corazón?<br><b><br>Una novela inolvidable que podrás seguir disfrutando con su continuación: <i>Después de ti.</i></b><br><br><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION</b><br><br><b>DISCOVER THE FIRST BOOK IN THE TRILOGY THAT CAPTURED A MILLION HEARTS . . .<br><br>Will needed Lou as much as she needed him, but will her love be enough to save his life?<br></b><br>Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun teashop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.<br><br>What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.<br><br>Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that.<br>What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.<br><br><b>If you loved <i>Me Before You</i>, find out what happens next in <i>After You </i>and <i>Still Me . . .</i> </b><br><br><b>Praise for <i>Me Before You</i>: </b><br><br><b>'You simply have to read it'</b> <i>Closer</i><br><b>'Magical and heartbreaking . . . Waterproof mascara essential' </b><i>Marie Claire</i><br><b>'A triumph' </b><i>Elle</i><br><b>'A timeless love story' </b><i>Red</i>

Que Abandonan Omelas, Los (Spanish Edition)

Ursula K. Le Guin • 1996

Contiene: Más vasto que los imperios y más lento; traducción : Aníbal Varela. Algunos enfoques del problema de la escasez de tiempo; traducción : Josefina Herrero. Rey de invierno y Los que abandonan Omelas; traducción : Carlos Gardini. La autora es un de las más famosas escritoras de literura fantástica. Entre sus obras se destacan "La mano izquierda de la oscuridad"; "Un mago de Terramar", "La rueda del cielo".

Demian: The Story of a Youth

Hermann Hesse • 2011

2011 Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as well as "world of illusion". Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth. In the course of the novel, accompanied and prompted by his mysterious classmate 'Max Demian', he detaches from and revolts against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self. The novel refers to the idea of Gnosticism, particularly the god Abraxas, showing the influence of Carl Jung's psychology. According to Hesse, the novel is a story of Jungian individuation, the process of opening up to one's unconsciousness.