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Un momento de ternura y de piedad
Irene Cuevas • 2024
Mi nombre era Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2017
Supersaurio
Meryem El Mehdati • 2022
La vegetariana
Han Kang • 2024
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
Anne de Marcken • 2024
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over asks how much of yourself can you lose before you are lost…and then what happens? The heroine of this haunting, spare novel is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, our undead narrator notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. She has forgotten even her name, but she remembers with unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known — where she loved and was loved. She heads west and into mind-boggling adventures, carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest. The joint winner of The Novel Prize, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is a sharp and funny tale for our dispossessed times. ‘Astounding, inventive, and utterly original, Anne de Marcken has written a freakish classic with wisdom to spare about life, death, and the eerily vast space between. I was absolute putty in this book’s hands.’ — Alexandra Kleeman ‘Anne de Marcken must write in a charmed ink that first erases the line between the living and the dead, and then — with prose as elegant as it is spooked — tells the story of what lies underneath. I have never read anything like this brilliant debut.’ — Sabrina Orah Mark
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman • 2017
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.
On the savage side
Tiffany McDaniel • 2023
Six women – mothers, daughters, sisters – gone missing. When the first is found floating dead in the river, it reveals the disturbing truth of a small Ohio town. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing and haunting novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims. From the internationally-bestselling author of Betty.<br/><br/>Arcade and Daffodil are twin sisters born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for an escape, they forge an unbreakable bond nurtured by both their grandmother’s stories and their imaginations. Together, they create a world where a patch of grass reveals an archaeologist's dig, the smoke emerging from the local paper mill becomes the dust rising from wild horses galloping in the ground, and an abandoned 1950s convertible transforms into a time machine that can take them anywhere.<br/><br/>But the two sisters can’t escape the generational chaos that grips their family. Growing up in the shadow of the town, the sisters cling tight to one another. As an adult, Arcade wrestles with these memories of her life, just as a local woman is discovered drowned in the river. Soon, more bodies are found. While her friends disappear around her, Arcade is forced to reckon with the past while the killer circles ever closer. Arcade’s promise to keep herself and her sister safe becomes increasingly desperate while the powerful riptide of the savage side becomes more difficult to resist.<br/><br/>Drawing from the true story of women killed in her native Ohio, acclaimed novelist and poet Tiffany McDaniel has written a powerful literary testament and fearless elegy for missing women everywhere.
Mandíbula
Mónica Ojeda • 2019
Una Adolescente Fanática Del Horror Y De Las Creepypastas (historias De Terror Que Circulan Por Internet) Despierta Maniatada En Una Cabaña En Medio Del Bosque. Su Secuestradora No Es Una Desconocida, Sino Su Maestra De Lengua Y Literatura, Una Mujer Joven A Quien Ella Y Sus Amigas Han Atormentado Durante Meses En Un Colegio De élite Del Opus Dei. Pero Pronto Los Motivos De Ese Secuestro Se Revelarán Mucho Más Oscuros Que El Bullying A Una Maestra: Un Perturbador Amor Juvenil, Una Traición Inesperada Y Algunos Ritos Secretos E Iniciáticos Inspirados En Esas Historias Virales Y Terroríficas Gestadas En Internet.
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
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.
Nuestras esposas bajo el mar
Julia Armfield • 2023
Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo
Shirley Jackson • 1962
«Me llamo Mary Katherine Blackwood. Tengo dieciocho años y vivo con mi hermana Constance. A menudo pienso que con un poco de suerte podría haber sido una mujer lobo, porque mis dedos medio y anular son igual de largos, pero he tenido que contentarme con lo que soy. No me gusta lavarme, ni los perros, ni el ruido. Me gusta mi hermana Constance, y Ricardo Plantagenet, y la Amanita phalloides, la oronja mortal. El resto de mi familia ha muerto.» Con estas palabras se presenta Merricat, la protagonista de Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo, que lleva una vida solitaria en una gran casa apartada del pueblo. Allí pasa las horas recluida con su bella hermana mayor y su anciano tío Julian, que va en silla de ruedas y escribe y reescribe sus memorias. La buena cocina, la jardinería y el gato Jonas concentran la atención de las jóvenes. En el hogar de los Blackwood los días discurrirían apacibles si no fuera porque algo ocurrió, allí mismo, en el comedor, seis años atrás.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2019
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
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).
