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Boró chegou a Brasília em 1960. Menino pobre, logo aprenderia sobre as diferenças que machucam: piscina e charco não eram iguais – nem tudo era para gente como ele.Quando moço, passou a enfrentar o m

CURSES ARE LIKE HEARTS. SOME ARE MORE EASILY BROKEN THAN OTHERS... the twist-filled, spooky heartbreaker from the global-bestselling author of My Sister, the Serial Killer--A haunting, twisty tale of curses and romance Ayobami AdebayoA sweeping love story... I lost myself within its gorgeous pages Jennie GodfreyFunny and fearless, soaked in secrets, spirit, heartbreak, and love... Impossible to put down Abi Dare No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts as it goes. And now its calm, rational Eniiyis turn - who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, and her familys insistence that she must be a reincarnation, has long been used to some strange familial beliefs. Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her familys history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?--Readers are falling hard for Cursed Daughters...Everyones going to fall in love with this bookA stunning read. Possibly my book of the year so farOne of the best endings of a book Ive read in a long time. So satisfyingSharp, brilliantly written...and broke my heart on more than one occasionI cannot express how much I adored this book - like truly, madly, deeply adored it

Hiru urtean kanpoan ibili ondoan, etxera itzuli da Joan, Capdevila familiako semea, eta heriotzarekin egin du topo berehalakoan. Bizkarretik egin dio norbaitek tiro gurasoekin eta senideekin bizi den etxaldean, eta haietako bat da, itxura guztien arabera, hiltzailea: ama, infernu batetik irten eta beste baten barrenean bizi dena; aita, ahul eta patuari gaina hartu ezinik aspaldian etsi duena; Tomas, seme zaharrena, soraioa, zakarra eta hitz gutxikoa; Maria, gogoz kontrako haurdunaldi bat dela medio sortetxera kondenatu dutena; Pere, etxetik alde egitea beste helbururik ez duena, eta mutikoa, elbarria eta basatia. Haien gainean odolaren madarikazioa, bortxazko heriotza bi eta sekretu izugarri bat.Pindarrez beteriko debut distiratsua egin du Nuria Bendichok literaturan Lur mortuak, bere estraineko eleberriaz. Ahots konstelazio baten moduan egituratua da patu izugarri batek markaturiko pertsonaiak aurkezten dizkigun narrazio gogor eta indartsu hau. Doilorra da Lur mortuak eleberria itxuratzen duen unibertsoa. Eta horratik ere, dena kutsatuz beti bat eta beti presente den hainbesteko doilorkeriari aurre egin nahi lioketen ontasun-mentuak sumatzen dira zenbaitetan mundu horretako pertsonaien lekukotasunetan.

En el verano de 1816, Lord Byron invita al poeta Percy Bysshe Shelley y a su joven esposa, Mary, a su casa de Suiza. Los días son lluviosos y el anfitrión propone que cada uno escriba un relato de fantasmas. Asi surgira Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo, publicada en 1818 y considerada la primera novela del genero de ciencia ficcion. Atrapado en los hielos del Artico, Victor Frankenstein es rescatado por el capitan Walton. Dedicara sus ultimos dias a narrarle la tragica historia de sus experimentos en busqueda del poder de dotar de vida a la materia inerte y como el ser que creo se rebelaria contra el.

«Cezanne Cardona es un escritor que rebasó la categoría de promesa: un escritor rotundo que merece leerse, aplaudirse, respetarse», Luis Rafael Sánchez.Javi vive en una casa de madera encima de la fe

Una impactante novela autobiográfica sobre el submundo de la capital del vicio.«En el verano de mi crisis nerviosa me fui a vivir a Las Vegas, condado de Clark, Nevada.» Con esta frase se abre uno de

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.____

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

In A State of Siege, Janet Frame brings her signature playfulness to paint a thrilling psychological portrait. After the death of her invalid mother, Malfred Signal, a retired New Zealand art teacher, leaves her birthplace in the south for a beach cottage on a sub-tropical island in the north. Freed from endless lessons on still life and the dominating presence of her family, she hopes at last to be alone with nature and the room two inches behind the eyes. But the solitude she has sought mocks her with echoes of her past, when, one stormy night, an intruder pounds ceaselessly and inexplicably on her door. Propulsive yet poignant, A State of Siege is a mesmerizing exploration of the artistic process, of selfhood and loneliness, and of death and its counterpart: the need to survive, to live.

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.

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.

The seminal, multi-million-copy Icelandic bestseller, Snowblind, celebrates its tenth anniversary, including a never-before-published Ari Thór prequel, Fadeout.**Introduction by Anthony Horowitz***The blizzard returns`A modern Icelandic take on an Agatha Christie-style mystery, as twisty as any slalom Ian Rankin`Ragnar Jonasson writes with a chilling, poetic beauty Peter James`Seductive Ragnar does claustrophobia beautifully Ann Cleeves`A classic crime story seen through a uniquely Icelandic lens. First rate and highly recommended Lee Child***More than 5 million copies sold worldwide***_____SnowblindSiglufjorur: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thor Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik with a past that hes unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theatre, Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one, and secrets and lies are a way of life.An avalanche and unremitting snowstorms close the mountain pass, and the 24-hour darkness threatens to push Ari over the edge, as curtains begin to twitch, and his investigation becomes increasingly complex, chilling and personal. Past plays tag with the present and the claustrophobic tension mounts, while Ari is thrust ever deeper into his own darkness blinded by snow, and with a killer on the loose.Taut and terrifying, Snowblind is a startling debut from an extraordinary new talent, taking Nordic Noir to soaring new heights.FadeoutWhen Ari Thor Arason receives a staggeringly high bill for a foreign credit card that was taken out in his name, his life takes a turn he never anticipated. The bill in question belongs to his namesake his father, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances when Ari was only a child.Seeking answers, Ari Thor travels to London to investigate, hoping to learn the truth about what happened to his father all those years ago, and discovering far more than he could ever have imagined`His first novel to be translated into English has all the skilful plotting of an old-fashioned whodunnit although it feels bitingly contemporary in setting and tone Sunday Express`A chiller of a thriller Washington Post`Required reading New York Post`This classically crafted whodunit holds up nicely, but Jonassons true gift is for describing the daunting beauty of the fierce setting, lashed by blinding snowstorms that smother the village in "a thick, white darkness" that is strangely comforting New York Times`Morally more equivocal than most traditional whodunnits, and it offers alluring glimpses of darker, and infinitely more threatening horizons Independent`A stunning murder mystery by one of Icelands finest writers Yrsa Sigurardottir`There is a young pretender beavering away, his eye on the crown: Ragnar Jonasson Barry Forshaw`As dazzling as ...

Seventeen-year-old Karel has been dreaming for something, anything, to shake up his humdrum existence. Soon his wish will be granted. When Hitler launches an invasion of the Netherlands, Karel is almost killed in an air raid and falls in love for the first time, with a Jewish girl. But the bliss this passion brings is short lived, as his new love and her mother are forced to flee for their lives before the Nazi advance... Inspired partly by Kouwenaars own experiences under occupation, this rediscovered literary gem tells a heart-breaking, witty and deeply empathetic story of a teenagers coming-of-age at the outbreak of war.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW AND THE SEAEverything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . . Winter 1899, and strange things are afoot. As the new century approaches, English hack writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat. But in the midst of a rift between Laura and her father, Evelyns plans for a substantial inheritance look to be dashed.Arriving in Venice for their belated honeymoon at Palazzo Dioscuri - the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo - the couple are met by a series of seemingly otherworldly occurrences, which exacerbate Evelyns already frayed nerves. Is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city, or is he really losing his mind?A marvellous and rewarding novelist . . . He is a magician, really.THE SCOTSMANBanville has a grim gift of seeing peoples souls. DON DeLILLOThe most eminent innovator in Irish fiction of the last 50 years.IRISH TIMESOne of my favourite writers alive. REBECCA F. KUANGBanville writes prose of such luscious elegance.NEW YORK TIMES

Ambientada en la actualidad, Gliff comienza cuando una joven hereda una maleta de su abuela fallecida, sin más información que la palabra «GLIFF» en una etiqueta. Sin saber si se trata del nombre de

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.

Una novela indispensable para entender el conflicto palestino desde el prisma de la vida cotidiana en conjunción con el arte.Sonia Nasir, de 38 años, actriz británica de origen palestino, viaja a Israel para visitar a su hermana, que da clases en la universidad de Haifa. No tarda en conocer a otros personajes, entre ellos a Mariam Mansour, directora teatral que quiere poner en escena una version arabe de Hamlet en Ramala (Cisjordania). Cuando Mariam se entera de que Sonia es una veterana de las tablas, la enrola para que figure en el reparto de su produccion.El regreso a su tierra natal, sus desplazamientos por la geografia local (Haifa, Gaza, Belen, Jerusalen), el contacto con los actores, los recuerdos militantes de su padre y su tio, y la sombra imborrable de las Intifadas suscitan en Sonia una cadena de emociones que, en combinacion con las vivencias del momento presente, la obligan a plantearse un dilema que no esperaba: que es ser palestino y vivir en conflicto permanente con el Estado de Israel. La misma representacion de Hamlet ira adquiriendo matices cada vez mas cercanos al problema de fondo. El fantasma del difunto rey de Dinamarca acabara identificandose con el fantasma de la ocupacion.Entra el fantasma, segunda novela de Isabella Hammad, es un inteligente relato en zigzag de la Palestina actual. Una apasionante historia de diaspora y desplazamiento que elude la facil diatriba politica y apuesta por las relaciones familiares y artisticas como espacio de resistencia compartida.

La transición española como nunca se la han contado: a través de las vivencias y la escritura alucinada de una adolescente que despierta al mundo adulto.«Dios no quiere que escriba esta novela», dice