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Niños insufribles los ha habido siempre, pero los que produjo el nacionalcatolicismo en España fueron de aúpa. Con el repelente niño Vicente, Rafael Azcona inmortalizó los rasgos de la personalidad de tan desquiciantes almas. ¡Menos mal que contamos con su hermana, la discola Pepita, para contrarrestarlo!Desde el momento de su aparicion se trata del primer libro publicado por Azcona, el exito de esta fabula sin animales fue fulminante, y el personaje, que devino universal, aun forma parte hoy del imaginario de nuestro pais. Del repelente niño Vicente, Azcona publico, ademas, un libro de dibujos titulado Los chistes del repelente niño Vicente y numerosas tiras de humor grafico. Todo ello fue reeditado por esta casa en el volumen titulado Repelencias.¿Por que no elimina usted de su obra todo lo que atenta contra la moral y el patriotismo, la virtud del ahorro, los buenos sentimientos en general y la legislacion vigente? Si asi lo hiciera, yo tendria mucho gusto en autorizar su publicacion para que mi vida sirva de ejemplo a los niños descarriados.

El libro de relatos más incisivo y despiadado de una autora de culto.El ambiente es frío, pero no tanto por el clima o la estación del año como por la gelidez que se ha instalado entre los personajes, o por ese silencio creado a partir de lo que nunca se han dicho. Ademas, a veces sopla el Fohn, un viento seco y enervante que, segun dicen, trastorna un poco las mentes. En ese escenario, el lector ve desarrollarse ante sus ojos siete historias. Todas giran en torno a una pasion que podria ser amor: el de una madre por su hija recien nacida, el de dos mujeres que viven juntas desde hace muchos años, el de un matrimonio que posee una carniceria, el de una pareja de ancianos a punto de celebrar sus bodas de oro, el amor entre dos gemelos que se dedican a tallar fantasiosos ataudes. Pero, en realidad, es mas bien desamor, o cualquiera de las multiples formas que adopta una relacion que oculta algun secreto, quiza tambien rencores enquistados. Y, siempre, temor.A Jaeggy le bastan muy poquitas palabras para lograr la chispa que ilumina. La dureza de su escritura es la de un pedernal. Sara MesaLa prosa de Fleur Jaeggy se asoma a lugares que estan ahi, pero no podemos ver. Es desasosiego, pero tambien es maravilla, aunque una maravilla oscurisima. Laura FernandezNotable heredera de voces esenciales de la literatura centroeuropea como Robert Walser o Ingeborg Bachmann, Jaeggy relata con precision desasosegante, disecciona emociones con aspera poesia, y el presentimiento de nuestra verdad nos alcanza. Maria Bengoa

Una casa en ruinas, un invernadero y un instante decisivo que lo cambiará todo.¿Qué harías si una casa pudiera cambiar tu vida?Olivia Cano, una mujer atrapada entre sus sueños y la realidad, se embarca en una aventura de autodescubrimiento cuando decide reformar una antigua casa llena de historia y secretos. A medida que avanza su proyecto, Olivia tambien se transforma a si misma, enfrentando sus miedos y redescubriendo su pasion por el arte y la vida.Esta novela aborda temas profundos como la busqueda de identidad, el poder de los sueños y la importancia de seguir al corazon. A traves de la historia de Olivia, exploramos la lucha interna entre la seguridad y la aventura, y como el amor y la determinacion pueden guiarnos hacia un futuro mas brillante.

Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever, and rich and loves to interfere in the romantic lives of others. Austen thought she was a character whom no one but myself will much like, and yet many consider this novel to be Austens masterpiece. Its unreliable narration shares Emmas misconceptions, resulting in a work of exquisite literary misdirection.A new Faber Classics edition of Austens greatest novel.

ANTONIO MERCERO, UNO DE LOS AUTORES DE CARMEN MOLA, SORPRENDE CON UNA IMPACTANTE SAGA FAMILIARCuando Paula le regala a su hermano un antiguo reloj de pared creado por su bisabuelo, la madre de ambos sufre un infarto al verlo y termina hospitalizada. Paula comienza a indagar, porque su intuicion le dice que no ha podido ser una simple casualidad, y descubre un mensaje enigmatico dentro del reloj: Esta lloviendo y te quiero. ¿Y eso que significa? Su busqueda la llevara a desenterrar la historia de su familia en el Pais Vasco: cuatro generaciones marcadas por el hambre, el amor y la templanza. Desde las luchas politicas que desembocaron en la Guerra Civil y atravesaron la feroz epoca del franquismo hasta el presente. Una gran metafora sobre el tiempo, un hermoso tapiz de emociones sobre aquello que heredamos, una estremecedora saga familiar que recorre el ultimo siglo de España.

Always, [ONan] is a master at quotidian details, a master at human emotion. Always, he writes with a huge and generous heart. Evensong is tender and funny, poignant and true. The novel is a little miracleBoston GlobeThe Humpty Dumpty Club is distraught when their powerhouse leader, Joan Hargrove, takes a bad fall down the stairs, knocking her out of commission. Now, as well as running errands and shepherding those less able to their doctors appointments, they have to pick up the slack.Between navigating their own relationships and aging bodies and attending choir practice, these invisible yet indomitable women help where they can. Weaving together the perspectives of the four cardinal members as they tend to those in need, Stewart ONan has fashioned a rich and moving novel that celebrates our capacity for patience and care. Vivid, warm and often wryly funny, Evensong reminds us that life is made up of moments both climactic and quotidian, and we weather those moments with the people we choose to keep close.

Travis Smith is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a grey English town. He offers people comfort in their final days and hours of life. Hes stoic, gentle, a little naive, despite what he knows. Hes handsome, he seems young, despite what he is. Each death has a meaning to him, and he never tries to change anyones fate. He listens and never judges, and ultimately escorts each of them to rest.Travis is desperately lonely, and when he crosses paths with young single midwife called Dalia who lives across the way and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, he cant help but be drawn to them. Dalia is beautiful and overwhelmed, and Layla seems to have a never-ending trove of small treasures to show Travis, and hes never felt the importance of making every moment count so clearly. Because he knows whats to come, and he cant make himself look away. As he learns what it means to really experience death, hes torn between his nature and his newfound understanding of theimportant things about being alive.

With gorgeous sprayed edges in the first edition In this #1-Spiegel-bestselling seasonal romcom fake dating was the plancatching real feelings wasnt.Becca and Nils are best friends who end up in bed together every New Years Eve. On the 10th anniversary of their annual one-night stand, kindergarten teacher Becca scrapes together her savings, planning to finally confess her love to Nils at a romantic Alpine chalet. But things dont go as planned. When Nils shows up with his new fiancee, Becca asks Raphael, the obnoxiously snooty uncle of one of her students, to play the role of her fake boyfriend. The two had always clashed but, when sparks fly, the fire between them is anything but fakeEnglish Edition by ForeverGerman edition also available

Part hallucinatory road trip, part feminist revenge fantasy: a wild, furious and mischievous novel from an incendiary new European talent.Filas mother Magdalena caused chaos every time she appeared in her daughters life. Fila hasnt seen her in years, not since she disgraced their family by advertising her brothel in the newspaper.Now, news comes from Italy: Magdalena is dead. Its time for Fila to finally face her family history.Fila collects her mothers ashes and sets out, urn in tow, to retrace the whirlwind life of the woman last known as Favorita.

Cunning and clever, worshipped and feared, thought to bring good luck or even great harm, cats have fascinated humans for millennia. Tame, with a hint of wild, cat tales humorous, scary, haunting, uplifting prowl the pages of this book.This book explores cats in folk tales and folklore from around the world - from Egypts regal Bastet to Celtic and Nordic mythical felines, via Japan, Persia and elsewhere.

Once upon a time, three young sisters survived a catastrophic house fire Years later, one of them disappears and then another and it is left to the eldest sister to find out whether something else survived A dark, twisty, page-turning modern gothic horror from the multi award-winning author of The Cold House.When sisters Chloe, Zoe and Dido were children, their father died and their mother could no longer care for them, so they were sent to live with the local doctors family: mother, father and three sons. Soon after, however, Ashwood Farm burned to the ground, and only the three young girls survived.Years later, the sisters live very separate lives, each dealing with their painful past in different ways. But when first Chloe, and then Zoe disappears, its left to Dido to rake through their history and find out if her sisters are still in the world or paying the price for what happened that long ago summer night.

A sweeping, multi-generational saga that traces the fractured bonds between three Iraqi-British 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 war correspondent haunted by his time on the front lines, returns to the family fold. As summer bleeds into autumn and the truth about the paintings unfurls, the family is forced to confront the personal and political betrayals that tore them apart. Spanning continents and decades, Floodlines grapples with grief and memory, and charts the emotional and political aftershocks of a century of war and revolution in Iraq and beyond. Inspired by the artistic legacy of Haddads great uncle, the Iraqi modernist painter Jewad Selim, Floodlines explores family, queerness, and the wounds of (neo)colonialism in haunting, visceral prose.

Mary and Percy Shelley spent the stormy summer of 1816 on the shores of Lake Geneva with Lord Byron, who suggested a ghost story competition. Mary, eighteen years old at the time, based her contribution on a terrifying waking dream. She worked her short story into her famous novel, which was first published anonymously in 1818. It has become the archetypal modern myth, portraying the hubris of humanity and the makers rejection of his own creation.A new Faber Classics edition of the archetypal horror and science fiction novel.

Experiencie a história de Frankenstein como nunca antes! O reverenciado clássico gótico de Mary Shelley ganha vida nesta nova edição de luxo, com a mágica arte do renomado estúdio de design MinaLima.

Magwitch lurking in a marsh graveyard, Miss Havisham mouldering beside her untouched wedding cake, the haughty Estella playing cards, Jaggers washing his hands. Great Expectations is full of memorable images: Dickens called it a grotesque tragi-comic conception. The story follows the transformation of the humble Pip into a London gentleman, with great but mysterious expectations.A new Faber Classics edition of Dickenss Gothic fairy tale.

An original novel set in the Halo universebased on the New York Times best-selling video game series! 2560. After eliminating War Chief Escharum and sending the Banished leadership into chaos, the Master Chief continues the fight on Zeta Halo, accompanied by his new AI companion and their loyal pilot Fernando Esparza. As Spartan-117 searches for scattered allied forces, a young combat medictortured and imprisoned for months by the Banished and the enigmatic Harbingermay hold the key to unlocking deeper mysteries within this ancient ringworld. But every step toward answers is haunted by the sinister and elusive blademaster Jega Rdomnai, who is hellbent on vengeance...

Os Bennett guardam um segredo: eles não são apenas uma família, mas um bando. A série Green Creek é sobre amor, lealdade, traição e família. Heartsong é a história de Robbie Fontaine.Tudo o que Robbi

In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the homes many wonderful qualities but about its previous owner, the mystifying Helen, whose presence still seems to suffuse every fixture. Through hearing stories of Helens chosen way of living, the man begins to see that his story is not actually over rather, he is being offered a chance to buy his way into the simple life, close to the land, thats always been out of reach to him. But as evening fades into black, he will learn that the asking price may be much higher, and stranger, than anticipated. Philosophically and formally adventurous, at once intimate and cosmic in scope, Helen of Nowhere asks: What must we give up in exchange for true happiness?

For anyone who has ever had a crush, welcome to your new personal obsession. Mika is about to turn twenty-five, and all she has to show for it is a soul-sucking office job and a terminal case of virginity. Between the pervy salarymen she works with and the pretty boys she pines after, Mika is ready to explode.But its summer in Tokyo, AKA peacock season. Time to strut her stuff. So when her certified Hot Girl bestie sends her the invite for an upcoming beach party, Mika clicks attending. Just when she thinks real life is never going to live up to the wild fantasies her imagination cooks up, someone new catches her eye. It could be limerence, or the beginning of something much less one-sided . . .

Hes unpredictable, desirable, daring and mysterious. Shes shy, a perfectionist and wants him at any cost. Does their love stand a chance? A heartfelt romance from the bestselling author about a bad boy and a girl next door.A fresh start in her old life thats all Hazel Evans wants when she returns to New York from her semester abroad in Portugal. She is smart, decent, and studies at NYU. The only excitement in her life comes from the high-society events her best friend Grace regularly drags her to. Until she meets Caleb at one of these events and he turns her life completely upside down. Hazel doesnt recognize herself anymore, but one thing is clear: she wants Caleb. At any cost. Despite his dark secrets. Because Hazel has them too Hidden Scars is the first book of the East Side Elite trilogy by Ayla Dade.