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LA OBRA CUMBRE DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA LA HISTORIA FAMILIAR DE VARIAS GENERACIONES EN VARSOVIA DESDE PRINCIPIOS DEL SIGLO XX HASTA LA SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIALLa familia Moskat es la historia de una familia y de la comunidad judia a la que pertenecio. Es tambien la cronica de una sociedad que florecio en Varsovia a lo largo de casi tres decadas hasta su total destruccion tras el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A traves de varias generaciones de personajes, va emergiendo un mundo de una insolita riqueza, un asombroso mosaico humano que se mueve entre la tradicion y la modernidad.Gracias a la desbordante vitalidad de su prosa, el Premio Nobel Isaac Bashevis Singer logra que La familia Moskat se convierta en una de las mas memorables novelas corales del ultimo siglo.Uno de los grandes narradores del siglo XX. The New York TimesUna obra que emociona y enseña. El PaisUna saga inolvidable. El Pais Babelia

Movido por unos principios inquebrantables, el joven William Crimsworth se ve obligado a ganarse la vida sin ayuda de nadie. Sus pasos le llevan a Bruselas, donde ejerce de profesor de inglés en un internado femenino y donde se debatira entre dos mujeres de caracteres contrapuestos.La primera novela de Charlotte Bronte ofrecio a sus contemporaneos una historia demasiado sincera y espontanea para los canones de la epoca. Es sin duda la obra que mejor refleja la personalidad de la autora. Por eso solo vio la luz de forma postuma, en 1857.Mi conocimiento sobre Charlotte Bronte como escritora y sobre su vida personal seria incompleto sin El profesor. ELIZABETH GASKELL

Alberich, enano de las profundidades de la tierra, roba del río Rin el oro maldito, ese que hará más poderoso que los mismos dioses a aquel que sea capaz de forjarse un anillo con él. Y así el nibelungo desequilibra el orden establecido por la antigua religionAventura y epica en estado puro, es esta la historia de los dioses, como Wotan, el rey tuerto que anhela recuperar el anillo, o Fricka, celosa diosa de la fidelidad; de los gigantes, entre quienes Fafner, transformado en dragon, custodia el deseado anillo; los heroes: Siegmund, que recupera la espada de su padre Wotan, y tambien su hijo Siegfried, que derrotara al dragon; y las valkirias, hijas de los dioses, como Brunilde. Solo ellas pueden romper la maldicion.Historia que nace del antiguo cantar y del drama de Wagner, con "El anillo del nibelungo" Enrique Garcia Revilla nos transporta al fascinante universo de la mitologia nordica y germana. Amor y egoismo, envidia y avaricia, fidelidad y engaño, crimen y verguenza y pasiones compartidas por hombres y dioses se escenifican en un territorio comun donde el orden y el caos se enfrentan para dar sentido al mundo, para conducirlo a su ocaso, con la caida de los dioses, y hacerlo renacer

NUEVA TRADUCCIÓN DE GALA SICART.Viajes imaginarios y flores inventadas son el ropaje con que Rodoreda se reviste en la cumbre de su madurez literaria. Publicada en 1980 y ganadora del Premio Crítica Serra dOr y el Ciudad de Barcelona, se inscriben en esta obra dos recopilaciones de relatos: Viajes a unos cuantos pueblos, diecinueve, que escribio durante su estancia en Romanya de la Selva; y Flores de verdad, recopilacion de treinta y ocho piezas breves escritas en Ginebra. En su conjunto, son una muestra depuradisima de la narrativa de la autora, en las que nos recrea las pulsiones de la vida y la condicion humana, a veces con humor, otras con crudeza, sin olvidar sus grandezas ni ocultar sus mezquindades, pero siempre con una trabajada simplicidad, combinando fuerza inventiva y potencia lirica, y una voz poetica de un magnetismo irresistible.

UN ROMANCE PARA LOS AMANTES DE LAS PELÍCULAS DE LOS 2000 CON UN TOQUE MUY GAMBERRO.¿EL AMOR HA MUERTO O SOLO ESTÁ CIEGO?Anne Prescott siempre ha sido una descreída del amor. Por eso, cuando su mejor amiga acaba con el corazon roto a unos meses de su boda, Anne no puede evitar maldecir la idea azucarada que nos han vendido de un felices para siempre que, realmente, no existe. Pero su arrebato tiene consecuencias y se materializan en la visita de Miss Fire, una señora enfundada en un traje rojo con una lengua mas afilada que sus stilettos, que afirma ser la mismisima Cupido. Por supuesto, Anne piensa que la pobre mujer ha perdido la cabeza, pero poco despues comienzan a desfilar por su vida toda una serie de pretendientes que podrian ser el hombre perfecto si pusiese un poquito de su parte. Sin embargo, la punteria de sus flechas parece brillar por su ausencia, y ahora Anne necesita pararle los pies a Cupido antes de que el amor acabe con ella. Porque si fuese como en las peliculas, nadie estaria soltero. UNA COMEDIA ROMANTICA DONDE EL AMOR SE VISTE DE ROJO

En octubre de 1928, Virginia Woolf fue invitada a dar dos conferencias en Cambridge sobre las mujeres y la novela. Atendieron a ella jóvenes enérgicas y valientes que escucharon en un ambiente desenvuelto. Algunas encontraron a Woolf demasiado irreverente. La charla fluyo implicando a la audiencia, sin vanidad, mujeres cara a cara. Y asi quedo plasmada para el futuro como una de las primeras historias de la literatura femenina, una defensa de la libertad intelectual y una reflexion sobre la sociedad y la creacion artistica. Un texto que todavia hechiza y divierte a quien lo lee.

Una edición ilustrada inspirada en la original del siglo XIX de Pierre-Jules Hetzel.La edición más bella del mundo de la obra de Julio Verne.En Auckland, Nueva Zelanda, un grupo de quince estudiantes con edades comprendidas entre los ocho y los catorce años se embarcan en la goleta Sloughi para iniciar unas vacaciones de seis semanas en el mar. Mientras toda la tripulacion se encuentra en tierra, el barco, que por alguna extraña razon no esta bien amarrado, comienza a navegar a la deriva empujado por un viento tempestuoso. Sin saber como controlar la nave, los chicos pasaran varias semanas en el oceano, hasta que encallaran en una isla desierta. Sin embargo, sus aventuras no habran hecho mas que comenzar...

DOS HERMANOS. Los hermanos Frida y Gabriel llegan al lujoso Hotel Ara en busca de un nuevo comienzo para su relación. Antes eran tan cercanos que terminaban las frases el uno del otro, pero después de huir dramaticamente de una secta aislada en el norte del estado de Nueva York, y de la posterior tragedia que impacto a la familia, sus caminos se separaron.UNAS VACACIONES IDILICAS EN EL PARAISO. Todo parece ir bien en ese retiro, hasta que el descubrimiento del cadaver de una hermosa joven, huesped junto a su poderoso marido, mucho mayor que ella, reabrira viejas heridas.UN CRIMEN QUE PONDRA EN DUDA CUANTO CONOCEMOS A QUIENES QUEREMOS. Alternando entre el pasado y el presente, Al otro lado del paraiso avanza hacia una historia que nos lleva a preguntarnos: ¿hasta que punto conocemos realmente a quienes amamos?

La señora Dalloway en Bond Street es una recopilación de magníficos cuentos en los que puede apreciarse todo el genio narrativo de Virginia Woolf. Escritos entre 1922 y 1925, época en que la autora trabajaba en su gran novela, La señora Dalloway, permiten familiarizarse con Clarissa Dalloway, personaje fascinante que posteriormente cobrara gran importancia en la obra de Woolf. La historia sigue a Clarissa Dalloway en un paseo matutino por Bond Street, en Londres, mientras se prepara para una fiesta que dara esa noche. Durante su caminata, Clarissa reflexiona sobre diversas facetas de su vida: su pasado, las personas que conoce, y las pequeñas observaciones del dia a dia.

The ongoing saga of Valdemar enters a new era with this epic trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author and Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.Beloved legend-in-his-own-mind Kelvren, a true luminary among gryphons, leads an air force of foreign agents and a flotilla of craft into the mystery of Lake Evendims storm-sieged center. The second explosion of the Cataclysm occurred there, but why was it less destructive than the first one? Kelvren and old friend Firesong think the answers will also explain the surge of otherworldy, deadly creatures bringing lethal chaos to Valdemar. Displaced allies and shocking truths are discovered among the Lakes horrors and twisted islands tortured by magics fury!

Psychologist and expert on body language and memory, Kari Voss investigates a series of deaths disguised as suicides, all linked to a celebrated Norwegian architect and a past he claims not to remember. The dark, unsettling sequel to the nerve-shattering, international bestselling Kari Voss series, by two of the worlds finest crime writersAn exciting new series. The best Nordic noir Ive read in ages. Spectacular! Tariq Ashkanani__________The deadliest lie might be the one you tell yourselfA teenage girl makes a desperate call to her parents, telling them that she is about to take her own life. They speed through the night to reach her, but die instantly when their car veers off the road and into a tree.Henrik Schultz, one of Norways most celebrated architects, begins receiving anonymous threats warning him that he is not safe anywhere. During an interview with psychologist and memory expert Kari Voss, another message arrives. He must STOP.Later that day, a young woman who worked closely with Schultz is found dead at his summer house. Four months pregnant, she made one final call to her boyfriend, telling him she was about to take her own life. But all evidence shows that she was murdered.As Kari investigates, another woman dies in the same way. An apparent suicide. A final phone call. Someone arriving too late.The case forces Kari to confront Schultzs past. As a teenager, he was the sole survivor of a massacre that killed his entire family, but he claims to remember nothing.At the same time, Karis father, Oslos former chief of police, follows a new lead into the disappearance of Karis son, who has been missing since his seventh birthday, nine years earlier. A sighting in Denmark suggests the boy may still be alive.Working closely with Chief Inspector Ramona Norum, Kari realises the murders are rooted in memory itself in what is remembered, forgotten, or believed to be true with multiple suspects all convinced of their own version of events.And in this case, remembering may be enough to kill.Praise for the Kari Voss series:`A breathtaking thriller with a complex plot and twist to die for. Simply brilliant Sunday Express`Gustawsson and Enger deliver a one-two punch thats a stone-cold knockout Alexandra Sokoloff & Craig Robertson`The disturbing consequences of this are fully explored in a haunting tale that concludes with a sickening double twist. Son is everything a crime novel should be and more Sunday Times`Written by one of Frances leading crime writers and one of Norways best-selling authors, the story introduces a truly original character that we will hear much more of Daily Mail`Two prime exponents of international crime fiction this is Franco-Nordic Noir delivered with total authority Financial Times`Twisty and moving, with abundant psychological insight, this investigation of blood ties, in all meanings of the word, is superb crime-writing Antti Tuomainen`Blown away by this cracking thriller and I was already loving it before they hit me with THAT ending. Bravo! Trevor Wood`Utterly gripping and brilliantly layered kept me hooked from start to the twisty finish Nordic Noir as it should be Lilja S...

When a dead man appears in his waiting room, Bergen private detective Varg Veum finds himself investigating a controversial death from fourteen years earlier. The internationally bestselling Varg Veum series continues `As searing and gripping as they come New York Times`One of my very favourite Scandinavian authors Ian Rankin`The Norwegian Chandler Jo Nesb_________There was a dead man sitting in my waiting room.So begins another unsettling case for Bergen private detective, Varg Veum.The identity of the dead man soon becomes clear. He had come to see Veum about a case of his own, one rooted in a death on the Mre coast fourteen years earlier. A woman walked into the sea and never returned. The verdict was suicide, but not everyone believed it.As Veum follows the trail his silent visitor left behind, the investigation leads back to a radical student collective in Bergen in the 1970s, where political loyalties, personal rivalries and old decisions still cast long shadows. Someone has gone to great lengths to keep that past concealed, and the price of digging too deep has already proved fatal.Tense, atmospheric and uncompromising, Face to Face is Gunnar Staalesen at his very, very best.________

Podolia, 1911: one day, a stranger arrives at the shtetl. He walks with a limp, appears to be deaf and has the look of a vagrant. The tight-knit community is on the point of chasing him out, but the local tzaddik sees the spark of holiness in his eyes. Named Rafael, he settles in the shtetl and begins forming close relationships with members of this Hasidic community - and slowly, this incomprehensible, magnetic figure stirs up buried feelings and old conflicts. Is he a divine figure, as some speculate, or does his arrival presage disaster?Written in poetic prose that draws on fascinating elements of Jewish folklore and mysticism, Golem reconstructs a vanished world with a spellbinding combination of the real and the fantastical.

Return to Sunday Times-bestselling author Adrienne Youngs lush Greco-Roman inspired fantasy, where young lovers Luca and Maris must traverse the bloody warzone that their city has become to spite the gods and rekindle their romance.The war is just beginning.When the city fell, Maris lost everything--her freedom, her future, and the man she loved. Now, with Luca trapped behind the gates of Isara, she makes a choice that will change her life forever: to don the armor of the enemy and march back into the heart of the city she was forced to flee. Every step brings her closer to Luca, but also deeper into the blood-soaked machine of war.Inside Isaras walls, Luca wrestles with a truth more dangerous than any sword. Once the symbol of the Loyal Legion, he has lost the thing he was truly fighting for--Maris. The shift of the war has left him to question whether he has become a pawn of the gods, and with betrayal lurking in every shadow, Luca must decide who he is: the dutiful soldier forged by rebellion, or the man willing to risk everything for love.Across battlefields and through broken temples, Maris and Lucas treacherous paths through Isara are set to collide. And when the gods demand sacrifice, it comes in a form no one could have expected.

When Mekkins brother-in-law is found murdered in a society built to prevent violence, her investigation spirals into danger and secrecy, drawing her family into the centre of a crime that should not exist An utterly gripping standalone speculative mystery from the bestselling author of Cold as Hell**Shortlisted for Icelandic Crime Book of the Year**Icelandic crime-writing at its finestShari LapenaIcelandic crime queen Lilja Sigurardottir goes from strength to strengthFinancial Times________Reykjavik, 2052. Europe is peaceful, prosperous and almost crime-free, governed by lfa, the artificial intelligence that manages infrastructure, safety and daily life. Mekkin works at the Ministry, close to the core of the system that keeps society running. She lives with her partner, Sabina, an artist.When Sabinas brother Birkir, a committed dissident who lives beyond the reach of lfa, is found brutally murdered, that fragile sense of order begins to fracture. Violent crime has effectively been eliminated, and Birkirs death is not just shocking, but inexplicable. What was he involved in, and who would dare to commit murder in a world designed to prevent it?As the investigation unfolds, Sabina is drawn ever deeper into the case. Mekkins position at the Ministry brings scrutiny she cannot escape, their relationship begins to fracture, and their teenage sons recent integration into the system places him uncomfortably close to the forces now circling the family. As Sabina pieces together Birkirs final days, the answers begin to point far closer to home than either of them ever expected, forcing her to decide what she is prepared to sacrifice to uncover the truth__________

A desperate sawmill owners attempt to save his business spirals into crime, chaos and unintended consequences in a hilarious dark, nailbiting thriller by the international bestselling author of The Man Who Died. **Shortlisted for Best Finnish Crime Novel of the Year*** The king of the humorous crime caperAbir MukherjeeIt may seem hard to find good comic crime-writers, but clearly we havent been looking in FinlandTelegraph________Heikki Nevalainen is the proud owner of a once successful sawmill, a mountain of debt and very few options to deal with either of them. An unexpected solution arrives in the form of local gangster Ismo Sippo. Dispose of Sippos dead wife, and the sawmill can keep running. Refuse, and Heikki loses everything. Horrified but desperate, Heikki agrees, loads Annaleena into his car and heads for the mill.But Annaleena proves to be not quite as dead as expected.As a Belgian buyer arrives to inspect the mills timber, Heikki scrambles to keep up appearances. But the situation is splintering fast, and even his own workers seem to be hatching plans of their ownDeadlines loom, tempers fray and misunderstandings multiply, and as the interminable situation grows ever worse, Heikki discovers that keeping a sawmill running is hard enough without a half-dead body and potentially fatal complicationsBlending deadpan humour, escalating danger and absolute chaos, The Fresh Cut is Antti Tuomainen at his most audacious, as good intentions, bad decisions and a small Finnish town collide with explosive results.___________

A chance encounter with a gorgeous cosplayer sends a young woman hurtling through a portal into a world of hunky orcs and fated mates.This funny, sexy monster romance is perfect for fans of Tusk Love and Katee Robert.MEET CUTES BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS.Thena just wants to survive FantastiCon with minimal human interaction and maximum sarcasm. She didnt plan for a seven-foot-plus cosplayer built like a Norse god, painted green, who smells like he was forged in the wilds of Valhalla and seems hell-bent on ruining her day.But Viggo Klausson isnt a cosplayer. Hes the High Chieftain of the Eastern Orcs, and hes spent two years in the human world searching for his soulmate. The moment he scents Thena, he knows she belongs to him. But despite the thrumming attraction that leads her straight through a portal into Viggos world Thena doesnt believe in destiny, or some cosmic mating bond, and she absolutely did not sign up for this.When an ancient power wakes inside Thena, shes forced to learn the rules of Viggos complicated world, fast. If she wants to survive, shell have to navigate a new world and a future she never asked for, all while fighting against the one thing more dangerous than the world around her: her growing, undeniable attraction to the man who swears shes his.

A twisty and colourful retelling of Christina Rossettis Goblin Market that sees changeling Toast navigate the dangerous den of faerie dealers to save her human sister for being framed for murder. Perfect for readers of conniving unscrupulous fairy tale fantasies like After the Forest by Kell Woods and Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher.Toast is a changeling child whose life has always been for trade. Ever since her goblin parents ripped her away from the human family that raised her, Toast has struggled to find security in the transactional world of the fabled goblin market, where anything can be bought and everything has a price. As a guide for humans that stumble into the Market, shes learned that the fae world is cruel to the unwary.The only fae friend she trusts is the enigmatic Kulm, the ageless guardian whose existence anchors and protects the Market. But when the wayward human Sam stumbles into the Market and Kulm is found murdered, Toast will have to barter harder than ever before. Sam is accused of the murder though Toast knows shes innocent. With the begrudging help of a goblin fruit-addicted artist, a reluctant kelpie, and a fae princess with her own agenda, Toast will traverse the strange, fluid and twisting halls of the Market in search of the rarest commodity amongst the fae: the truth.When the high fae courts take advantage in the power vacuum left by Kulms death, its Toasts home and her strange community that is threatened by stakes greater than one murder. Whats more, the abduction of Sams sister by the high faewhich caused Sam to seek the Market in the first placemakes their role in Kulms death suspect. Exactly what trade are the power-hungry fae scheming? And can any of Toasts market-bound family afford the dangerous cost?Ultimately, when bartering for the very heart of the Market itself, Toast will have to decide where her loyalties lie, the value of a home, and whats not for sale.

We cant look out for the land unless we love the land, and we cant love the land unless we know its stories.Taffy Thomas MBEThis book is the third in a trilogy of nature-inspired volumes of folk tales by well-loved storyteller Taffy Thomas. Collected over many years spent travelling the length and breadth of the British Isles in his work as a professional storyteller, and told in his well-honed style, these traditional tales are engaging, entertaining, humorous and powerful. With captivating illustrations and a centre section of illustrated trails by the talented illustrator and animator Dotty Kultys, this collection will reconnect readers to the land through story.

1904: Naive booksellers assistant Henry Canning arrives at Hareswood Lodge to catalogue the library of its late owner. But hes unprepared for the horrors that lurk within Matthew Hobbes collection and something even more terrible that still lingers in the room itself.The present day, and a young council officer is tasked with finding the story behind an unassuming brick building that is all that stands in the way of a vast new housing development. But to the concern of his colleagues, Ben finds himself growing more and more obsessed with the secret of Hobbes Folly. Why does it have no doors or windows? Is it to keep people out to keep something too awful to imagine trapped inside?Adam Macqueens Haunted Tales were a collection of short stories whose chills lingered long in the imagination. Now, in his first full-length ghost story, he channels the masters of the genre both old and new in two intertwined narratives that build into a horrifying whole and will ensure readers never look at the view beyond their windows in quite the same way ever again.