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Una cabaña en el bosque, una residencia de escritores, una relación inesperada. ¿Qué es lo que cambia una vida? Un frío mes de septiembre, Alma Freire decide aislarse de la civilización en una cabaña para escritores, invitada por una excentrica señora que le pide, a cambio, cuidar de sus plantas. Rodeada de bosques y jardines, compartira el retiro con otro autor, Dunkan Parker, un habitual de la cabaña que al principio se muestra hostil con ella. A lo largo del mes, la rutina de ambos se vera alterada por algunos acontecimientos enigmaticos, aparentemente insignificantes. Alma asistira de pronto a un misterioso hechizo: literatura y naturaleza empiezan a unirse y a formar parte de un mismo relato; a medida que progresa en el cuidado de las plantas, se va desgranando el arte de cultivar historias. Una novela elegante y delicada que, con grandes dosis de tension psicologica, plantea temas conflictivos presentes en la vida de la mujer contemporanea el duelo perinatal, la negacion de la maternidad, el amor, la dicotomia entre civilizacion y naturaleza a traves del retrato de dos escritores sumidos en el proceso creativo.Una prosa fluida que por momentos se detiene en reflexiones profundas, por momentos se tensa en un suspenso vertiginoso, y sin excepcion avanza en imagenes de un impacto visual que las acerca al cine. CLARINEsta novela resulto ganadora del Premio Bestia Equilatera 2023 en Argentina.

Siempre creyó en la palabra para resolver conflictos. Ahora deberá decidir si tomarse la justicia por su mano.«Una novela absolutamente sobresaliente y desgarradora. Janne Teller escribe de manera b

15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others.Revolution in the Heart is a collection of 15 brand new stories by a group of celebrated authors, all inspired by one of the iconic figures in all of science fiction and fantasy: the legendary and award-winning Ursula K. Le Guin.From the appearance of her first work of short fiction in 1962 to the publication of the last in 2016, Ursula K. Le Guin was a master storyteller, winning innumerable awards, and achieving both commercial and literary success. She created the beloved stories of Earthsea alongside the urgent and essential stories of the Hain, pushing forward the form and concepts of science fiction and fantasy - reshaping them into forward-thinking genres.This collection honours her legacy with stories from authors she inspired:Ann Leckie Molly Gloss Kelly Link Charlie Jane Anders Sarah Pinsker Chana Porter Ai Jiang Alaya Dawn Johnson S. Qiouyi Lu E. Lily Yu Vandana Singh Aliya Whiteley Premee Mohamed Darice Little Badger Karen Joy Fowler

The first novel written about the enigmatic literary legendAustralia, 1901. Miles Franklin, the young daughter of poor bush farmers, manages to publish her first novel against all odds. A work of remarkable boldness and passion, it becomes an immense success in the English-speaking world. While she strives to maintain her anonymity under a male pseudonym, her identity is revealed and she is exposed to the misogynistic prejudices of her time. Alone and penniless, she sets sail for America where a life of service to the most vulnerable, and feminist causes awaits her. She forges countless friendships, experiences magnificent loves, and, through it all, nurtures her passion for writing and her ambition for literary success. Guided by her generosity and sense of humour, she embarks on numerous adventures across Europe before returning to her homeland. There, she will deliver a final blow to the critics who proclaimed that her wit and her genius had dried up.

A spellbinding tale of female defiance and rageIn a time outside time, in a world hemmed in by dark woods and silence, the villagers of Les Montées endure a life of hardship and submission. The land is stingy, the Lords are merciless, and for the village women, resistance is a futile dream. One day, a foundling appears at the edge of the forest. Madelaine grows up to be mysterious, magnetic, and shockingly adept with an axe. One day, she slaughters a stag in defiance of the Lords decrees. The land, the laws, and the lives of those around her tremble in response, and a new destiny begins to take root. Madelaine Before the Dawn is a wild, lyrical novel about the inheritance of silence and the fire of female defiance. Collette has created an electrifying vision of revolt and resilience at the edge of civilization.

A sweeping, multi-generational novel that traces the fractured bonds between three sistersIn the summer of 2014, three estranged sisters are drawn back into each others orbits through the discovery of their late fathers lost paintings. As Mediha, Zainab, and Ishtar lay claim to his legacyan inheritance laced with exile, betrayal, and an Iraq they no longer recogniseZainabs son Nizar, a traumatized war correspondent, returns to the family fold. As summer bleeds into autumn and the truth about the family paintings unfurls, Mediha, Zainab, and Ishtar are forced to confront the personal and political betrayals that tore their family apart. Spanning continents and decades, Floodlines grapples with legacy, memory, and family secrets, and charts the emotional and political aftershocks of the US-led invasion of Iraq. Inspired by Haddads family history, Floodlines is a contemporary Iraqi epic that explores family, queerness, and the disruptive legacies of (neo)colonialism in haunting, visceral prose.

E SE O MAIOR GESTO DE AMOR FOSSE APRENDER A ESQUECER?Em O Dia em que te Esqueci, Margarida Rebelo Pinto leva-nos ao coraço de uma mulher que amou intensamente, sofreu, tentou recomeçar e descobriu que so a coragem de soltar o passado abre espaço para a liberdade.Entre memorias e silencios que dizem mais do que palavras, este romance e uma carta intima e arrebatadora que nos mergulha num turbilho de emoçes: a dificuldade de deixar ir, a esperança de recomeçar e a certeza de que o verdadeiro amor e aquele que nos permite ser quem realmente somos.UM LIVRO PARA QUEM JA TEVE DE FECHAR UM CAPITULO DA VIDA E PERCEBEU QUE O FIM PODE SER O MELHOR COMEÇO.Quando amamos alguem, no perdemos so a cabeça, perdemos tambem o nosso coraço. Ele salta para fora do peito e depois, quando volta, ja no e o mesmo, e outro, com cicatrizes novas.As vezes, volta maior, se o amor foi feliz, outras, regressa feito numa bola de trapos, e preciso reconstrui-lo com paciencia, dedicaço e muito amor-proprio. E, outras vezes, no volta. Fica do outro lado da vida, na vida de quem no quis ficar do nosso lado.MARGARIDA REBELO PINTO E UMA DAS ESCRITORAS PORTUGUESAS MAIS POPULARES DAS ULTIMAS DECADAS, COM MAIS DE UM MILHO DE EXEMPLARES VENDIDOS E CERCA DE TRINTA LIVROS PUBLICADOS.

Francesco Pasquale nació en Sapri, Reino de las Dos Sicilias, un poco más al sur que Giuseppe Verdi, durante los mismos años que Richard Wagner o Robert Schumann, y este libro cuenta sus andanzas, sus viajes, de la misma manera que nos aproxima a tres instantes cruciales de la existencia de esos tres compositores. Francesco migro, igual que Wagner, crio hijos muertos y deseo la unificacion de Italia, igual que Verdi, y convivio con fantasmas, como Schumann. Francesco Pasquale fue una persona unica, tanto que cada lector se le parece, fue tan especial que no siempre es el protagonista de su vida; cede, a cada paso, el papel principal de su propia biografia a celebres medicos, a activistas politicos o a mujeres de una personalidad indestructible. Francesco Pasquale traza, a traves de su vida, un mapa humano del siglo XIX, un mapa que arranca al sur de Italia y llega a las costas del mar Cantabrico, un mapa que sufre y se divierte, un mapa que canta y duerme, un mapa que sueña y despierta. Escrita originalmente en euskera y traducida por el propio autor, Sobre las cinco almas de Francesco Pasquale es una novela construida mediante narraciones independientes, mediante relatos que se enredan para elaborar un todo. Se convierte asi, a traves de olores y puertas abiertas, en una peculiar arquitectura narrativa decorada, en ciertos puntos, con peculiares imagenes oniricas.

Miguel, un músico treintañero y nómada, regresa, muy en contra de su voluntad, a la casa medio abandonada de su padre, con quien no habla desde hace años, enclavada en una zona rural argentina. Allí lo reciben la naturaleza inhospita, dificil, del entorno, una manada de perros y Celso, el paraguayo que cuida la finca, pozo inagotable de excesos etilicos y de creencias cambiantes, todas con identica conviccion, con quien establece una amistad tan comprometida como improbable. En medio de las contradicciones con las que habita ese mundo arido, y de su accidentada cartografia emocional, Miguel invoca: "Que me pase algo. Algo que me cambie. Algo irreversible". Quizas sea cuestion de suerte. O de afinar la mirada para ver mas alla de lo evidente y poder desgranar su propia existencia, en donde la extrañeza comienza por no poder escucharse a si mismo. O de descubrir la necesidad de desaprender para volver a encontrarse, para comprender un mundo tan ajeno como hermoso, con esa belleza desbordante de la vida real que se rebela y se impone en medio de discordias rurales y el vertigo de hacer por primera vez lo que ni siquiera imagino. Con visos de western y pulso cinematografico, la voz narrativa de Matias Gotelli, ganador por unanimidad del II Premio Diana Zaforteza con Alimento para puma, es tan potente, personal y autentica que establece su propio universo, desplegandose en cada pagina con ternura y humor en una profunda exploracion del alma humana.

«Como pocos escritores entre los nuestros, Hugo Hiriart esnuestro eminente victoriano: un personaje que suma a sus letras una catadura, una conversación y una leyenda enhebradasen plácida armonía.»-G

Penniless and newly orphaned Briar Monroe finds shelter at Thornby Manor, a brooding estate above a mist-shrouded lake. But whispers of a dead wife, an estranged son and locked-away secrets haunt its corridors Atmospheric, intoxicating and laced with peril a spellbinding historical mystery of love, betrayal, obsession and a house that will not release its pastWarwickshire, 1891. Recently orphaned and left destitute, Briar Monroe accepts the protection of Lord Danville and the shadowed sanctuary of Thornby Manor. The great house looms above a mist-shrouded lake, its corridors heavy with secrets not least the mysterious death of Lady Elizabeth Danville, and the unspoken tensions between her formidable widower and his magnetic son, Gabriel.As Briar navigates the undercurrents of a household ruled by watchful servants and locked doors, she is drawn ever deeper into a web of suspicion, desire and fear. Whispers in the night, figures at windows, and a constant sense of being watched leave her questioning not only the truth about Thornby, but her own safety within its walls.Atmospheric, intoxicating and laced with peril, Thornby Manor is a gothic tale of betrayal, obsession and a house that never forgets.A simmering, haunting debut for readers who loved Jane Eyre, Rebecca, The Woman in White and The Silent Companions

What does it mean to lose yourself and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of tedium and self-loathing, she encounters a nice-eyed stranger who returns her forgotten umbrella and finds herself catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession not just with this endlessly attractive spectre, but also with the feverish karaoke trips from which she draws the ultimate solace. With astonishing existential acuity, Polly Bartons formidable debut novel renders the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, in deliriously self-conscious prose that is at once propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny. Echoing with the sounds of Whitney Houston and The Cure, reaching for the sublime in dark, sweaty boxes, What Am I, A Deer? is an exhilarating exploration of authenticity, fantasy, romance and intoxication.

Hannahs love life is in ruins, writers block hits, and her agent sends her to Sicily to finish her sequel. But when murder strikes, Hannahs life turns into the crime novel shes meant to write. Darkly funny, atmospheric, and full of twists, the second instalment in an addictive series.______Hannah is miserable. Her love life is in ruins, her contract demands a sequel to her bestselling crime debut and shes out of ideas. After a mortifying TV interview, her agent ships her off to a sun-drenched Sicilian villa with a simple order: finish the book. No distractions. No excuses.But inspiration doesnt strike murder does.When a night out ends in murder, Hannah finds herself at the centre of a murder investigation again. The police want her out of the way, and the only person who seems to believe her is a young but charming Italian police officer. That is, until she doesnt.Soon Hannah is chasing suspects, fleeing crime scenes, and doing whatever it takes to avoid becoming the next victim. She came to write a crime novel. Now shes trapped inside one.Dark, sly and deliciously atmospheric, Under the Blazing Sun is the second novel in the award-winning series featuring accidental sleuth and disgruntled literary author Hannah, whose pursuit of plot twists keeps turning dangerously real.____

Eleven strange buildings. One terrible secret.A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison...Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle.Look closely... and youll see that everything is connected.All leading to a revelation so horrifying you wont want to believe it.Millions of readers have become addicted to solving Uketsus dark mysteries.Strange Buildings is the strangest, and darkest, of them all.

Internationally recognized as a socially important work of gay literature Roger Austen. Originally published in Europe in the 50s to avoid prosecution for obscenity, The Gaudy Image is one of the most important lost gay novels. Set in New Orleans and featuring a colourful cast of louche but loveable characters, the story follows Titania aka Thomas Schwartz through the backstreets, bars and club of the French Quarter in search of the perfect lover the Gaudy Image. A beautifully written story that is both elegant and caustically humorous, erotic and sympathetic

Such a joy Ocean VuongItll break and remake your heart Andrew Sean GreerYou want this gorgeous book RO KwonIn Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor, drinking his nights away with friends at a gay bar. Hes entangled in a sexual relationship with a married man, and while he has built a chosen family in Japan, he is estranged from his family in America, particularly his mother, whose preference for the sons troubled homophobic brother pushed him to leave home. Then, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, ten years since theyve last seen each other, the mother arrives uninvited on his doorstep.Separated only by the sons cat, the two of them bristle against each other immediately. The mother, wrestling with memories of her youth in Jamaica and her own complicated brother, works to reconcile her good intentions with her missteps. The son struggles to forgive. But as life begins to steer them in unexpected directions - the mother to a tentative friendship with a local bistro owner, and the son to cautiously getting to know a new patron of the bar - the two of them begin to see each other more clearly. Sharing meals and conversations and an eventful trip to Nara, both mother and son try the best they can to define where home really is - and whether they can find it even in each other.

A vivid, hallucinatory rediscovered classic about split identity in the wake of First World War traumaHans, an esteemed surgeon, has just returned from the hellish battlefields of the First World War. But everything in his home feels alien, even his wife Grete. As he tries to regain a sense of normality, he is haunted by nightmarish visions and a profound sense of dissociation. Has the war turned him into someone else? Or has another man wormed his way into Hanss life?Told in a feverish monologue, A Shadow of Myself is a vivid, hallucinatory immersion in an unsettled mind. First published in 1926 and rediscovered in Germany only last year, this lightning-bolt of a war classic is now appearing in English for the first time.

May 1938. The young Japanese novelist Aoyama Chizuko arrives in Taiwan on the invitation the Japanese colonial government. With no interest in their imperial agenda, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear.Soon, a young Taiwanese woman is hired as her interpreter: the charming, meticulous Chizuru, who provides expert guidance on the Land of the South and cooks her sumptuous meals. Over scenic train rides and braised pork rice, Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent on drawing her closer. But the elusive Chizuru seems to keep drawing away - and as conflict begins to simmer between them, Chizuko begins the painful process of understanding why.Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, Taiwan Travelogue is a bittersweet story of love between two women that is shadowed by complexities of language, history and power.

La primera novela de Miguel de Cervantes en una nueva edición accesible avalada por la Real Academia Española.La Galatea es, al mismo tiempo, un homenaje a la novela pastoril, cuyos rasgos temáticos y estructurales le sirven de sustento basico, y una protesta contra las limitaciones o convenciones acomodaticias con que sus antecesores la habian cultivado.La obra narra las desventuras amorosas de varios pastores idealizados en un entorno bucolico. La historia gira en torno a Galatea, una bella y virtuosa pastora que es cortejada por varios pastores, especialmente Elicio y Erastro, aunque ella prefiere mantenerse libre. A traves de dialogos, poemas y relatos intercalados, Cervantes explora temas como el amor no correspondido, la amistad, la libertad personal y la belleza.

El duelo es una novela del escritor ruso Antón Chéjov. Publicada por primera vez en 1891 en el periódico Tiempo Nuevo, esta obra exhibe la prosa madura de Chéjov en un importante período de transición en la literatura y la cultura rusas. La novela se situa entre el ocaso de la gran novela realista rusa y el auge de las tendencias vanguardistas que vendrian a definir la era modernista en visperas de la Revolucion Rusa.El duelo es una carta de amor a la literatura rusa del siglo xix, que al mismo tiempo cita e imita los principales logros estilisticos literarios que la precedieron y marca el comienzo de un nuevo periodo, cuando las batallas ideologicas del pasado, representadas en la novela por un duelo real, ya han sido peleadas.