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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.

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.

A lost dystopian classic, set in a future without death. You dont own yourself any longer. Society owns you. Had it not been for society, you would not be lying here now.Bruno, a young magazine editor, seems to live a charmed life, until he discovers a growth on his neck - the first sign of incurable cancer. But his doctor offers him a unique opportunity: Bruno can choose to be frozen down until medical science has found a cure for his condition. He makes his decision, just after meeting and falling in love with an enigmatic ballet dancer.Decades later, he wakes up to find himself cured, but the world is now a very different place. Freezing technology is now ubiquitous, the pleasures of life have been subtly drained and society has started to fracture. Bruno must decide what he really wants from his life and whether its worth the cost.Fans of dystopian fiction will love this creepingly claustrophobic classic, which asks all the big questions about ageing, death, scientific progress and the meaning of life.With a new foreword by Sophie Mackintosh

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

The American South. A turbulent world, fraught with the Civil Rights struggle and toxic religious tensions. Against the backdrop of mountainous sunsets and backwater shacks, deserted highways and small-town gas stations, people forge their own lives.We encounter murderers, escaped convicts, dysfunctional families, conmen, fanatics, farmhands, Bible salesmen, troubled children, gangsters, hypocrites, misfits and outcasts. These are characters marked by grotesque flaws, darkly humorous and oddly beautiful. Their complex humanity is revealed in apocalyptic moments of Gothic horror, absurdity and violence that transform all who witness them - and us, too, as we realise that nothing in our moral universe is black and white.Flannery OConnor is the supreme tragicomic chronicler of these bodies and souls, her classic stories infused with the dazzling force of prophecy as one of the centurys most visionary writers.

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...

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?

Una historia sobre los deseos y las necesidades de la vida, que plantea hasta dónde se está dispuesto a llegar por amorCuando lo virtual supera con creces la realidad.A lo largo del día, Juno ayuda a su marido Jupiter, gravemente enfermo, a sobrellevar su vida cotidiana. Tambien es artista, baila y hace teatro. Y, por la noche, cuando no puede dormir, chatea con love-scammers, hombres que confiesan su amor a mujeres con el unico fin de estafarlas.En lugar de caer en la trampa, estas conversaciones se convierten en una forma de libertad para Juno, donde puede ser quien quiera ser y decir lo que le apetezca. Y, en principio, sin consecuencias.Hasta que, en una de esas charlas, Juno conoce a Benu.

Una prematura crisis matrimonial entrelazada con la historia colectiva de un país en ruina.En plena crisis matrimonial, Clara Montsalvatges envía un correo electrónico a sus hermanos, Álvaro y Amanda, para comunicarles que se divorciara de Joan-Marc. Sus problemas personales la llevaran a preguntarse que quiere hacer con su vida y que piensan los demas de ella, y a indagar en su pasado y en el de su familia. En este viaje (donde no dejara de cruzarse con su todavia marido y sus hermanos) debera hacerse cargo de la herencia moral de su abuelo Gabriel, el patriarca de la familia, un hombre curtido en la guerra civil y que sobrevivio (cuando un chivatazo conducia a la carcel o a la muerte) a la desolacion del franquismo, permitiendo a Clara y a sus hermanos nacer.Hilos de sangre propone un contraste entre la frivola y despolitizada primera decada del siglo XXI de Clara y la asfixia politica y la violencia de la guerra civil; una exploracion a fondo de la renuncia, las posibilidades vitales, el azar, las generaciones, el deseo, la clase, las guerras de genero...Recuperamos en Anagrama el fulgurante debut de Gonzalo Torne, publicado por primera vez en 2010 y galardonado con el XXVI Premio Jaen de Novela, que constituye la genesis de la historia privada de la familia Montsalvatges, aqui entrelazada con la historia colectiva de un pais en ruina: una novela de novelas, de una brillantez inhabitual, que nos descubrio a un escritor prodigioso y merece ser considerada todo un clasico contemporaneo.

Um redemoinho de desejo, prazer e liberdade. Transitando entre a boemia de Nova York e a próspera comunidade negra de Detroit dos anos 1970, Lewis Jones é a personificação da independência e do caos.

History is everywhere. It seeps into the soil, the sub-soil. Like rain, or hail, or snow, or blood.Josie OGrady is an elderly woman, living alone in her dilapidated big house on the outskirts of a rural Irish village. Then one day her bedroom door swings open to reveal McGreevy, an IRA terrorist on a bloody crusade, who has chosen her isolated house for sanctuary. As days pass, these two outsiders develop a grudging respect for each other, which grows into affection and friendship, but the police net is closing in and, with dawning horror, Josie starts to suspect that McGreevy is not only using her house as a refuge.Based on interviews with the IRA leader Dominic McGlinchy in Portlaoise Prison and published four years before the Good Friday Agreement, this thrilling, political, poetic novel is a portrait of the state of the Irish nation at the height of the Troubles.

Engaging, devastating, humorous and believable. This book will tug at your heartstrings and tickle your funny bone all at once. Gillian HarveyThe queen of fresh, funny, uplifting fiction...made me laugh out loud and properly cry Frances QuinnUplifting and at times heart-breaking, but ultimately packed with joy, humanity and real depth. Eleni KyriacouBe yourself, people say. But the last person Clare Palmer wants to be is herself shes lost everything she once had and now can barely get through a bus ride without wanting to thump someone. (People who dont wear headphones, sniffers, fried chicken guzzlers.)So when she discovers her resemblance to beloved reality TV presenter Jenna Cox, Clare jumps at the chance to become a lookalike, earn some cash and get her life back together.But its all too easy to cross the line between celebrity lookalike and pretending to be the real Jenna and becoming someone else is about to take Clares life down a track thats even rockier than the one shes onIdentity Crisis is hilarious, heartbreaking and uncomfortably relatable. I loved it. Nikki Smith

The hairs are always buried much deeper than you think.. Where the natural collides with the supernatural, these vivid stories situate us at the permeable border between fantastical and mundane. A teenage swimmer tries to remove an ingrown hair that takes on a life of its own. A town grapples with an uncontrollable growth of moss. A horror soundtrack haunts its composer. Testing the boundary between fantasy and reality, Oliver stretches the imagination to its limits in a collection which places the physical body, human connection and the truth at its centre. These tales navigate guilt, grief and explore the nature of victimhood. Olivers honest voice penetrates human truths while ghosting narratives with the uncanny. Journey to the outer limits of bodily awareness as characters dive deep to confront their truth.

In Norways far north, something unspeakable is surfacingWhen a mutilated body rises from the icy waters off the jetty in Kjerringy, it shocks the quiet coastal village and stirs something darker beneath. Not long after, a young woman is found dead in a drab Bod apartment. Suicide, perhaps. Or something far more sinister.Detective Jakob Weber and former national investigator Noora Yun Sande are drawn into both cases. Then a hiker reports a terrifying encounter in the nearby wilderness: a solitary cabin and a man without a face.As the investigation deepens, the clues grow more disturbing and the wild, wintry landscape closes in. Jakob is certain of one thing: if they dont find the killer soon, hell strike again.SECOND in the dark, addictive Nordic Noir series set in Norways unforgiving Arctic north.

Um tratado sobre a paixão e um livro poderoso sobre as doenças invisíveis que corroem o espírito, as matérias perigosas de que todos somos feitos.Ao fim de quase quarenta anos de silêncios e ausência

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

A surreal masterpiece from one of Japans greatest writersIn early 20th-century Japan, a lone hiker falls through a hole in the ground into Kappaland. This is a place ruled by amphibious creatures who share characteristics with tigers and turtles, but who, for all their strangeness, shed light on the human condition.In Kappaland children choose whether or not to be born, intellectuals think nothing of drinking themselves to death as part of a cultural demonstration, unemployed workers are saved the bother of supporting themselves by being turned into sandwich meat, and artistic rebels from the human realm are enshrined in the Great Tabernacle as saints. Gruesome as life is there in some ways, the Kappas are refreshingly honest about their practices, and its a return to the world above that drives the narrator insane and sends him to the mental asylum.This novel, the last work by icon of Japanese letters Ryunosuke Akutagawa, is a darkly comic and surreal satire, which challenges all the conventions of so-called polite society.

La ausencia es una novela que explora cómo los secretos pueden dejar una huella imborrable. Un relato inquietante sobre la escritura y la memoria, la identidad y las verdades que elegimos recordar… o

«Éramos veintiún futbolistas. Y luego estaba él, jugando a otro deporte.» Vuelve Eduardo Berti con un homenaje singular al mito, la memoria y el fútbol como forma secreta de poesía. Una novela en for

Un sorpresivo artefacto narrativo que ofrece un mural inquietante de la condición humana.Un pueblo real convertido en un guiñol fantasmagórico. Una galería de personajes que componen una trama común en la que casi nada es del todo lo que parece. En su nueva novela, Felipe Benitez Reyes plantea esencialmente el enigma de la identidad: como nos interpretamos a nosotros mismos a partir de la voz indulgente de la conciencia y como interpretamos a los demas a raiz de unos datos por lo general equivocos y engañosos. Un sorpresivo artefacto narrativo que ofrece un mural inquietante de la condicion humana. Una indagacion en el secreto minucioso que es cualquier vida. La vida, en suma, como una extraña ficcion representada ante los otros.