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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.____

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.

Cuando Regina Soldevila era una niña y jugaba al escondite por el pasaje Sert, cruzó por primera vez la mirada con un muchachito raquítico que lo espiaba todo desde su ventana. Estamos a finales del siglo XIX, en la Barcelona de las grandes ilusiones. Josep Maria Sert, que acabaria siendo el mejor pintor muralista del mundo, se enamoro de Regina antes de iniciar su fulgurante carrera de exito internacional y nunca se acabaron de separar del todo. Mientras el coleccionaba amantes ilustres (Colette, Misia, Roussy Mdivani...), ella procuraba formar una familia que le hiciera olvidar la pobreza, los conflictos que sacudian la ciudad y aquel primer amor. Su aventura nos emociona y nos abre los ojos a una ciudad fascinante. En el crecimiento de Regina tendran mucho que ver el teatro, los amigos, el barrio de Sant Pere y otro pasaje mas escondido, mas humilde, que con frecuencia le sirvio de refugio: el pasaje Cirici, la distancia mas corta entre la ciudad vieja y la ciudad nueva y uno de los rincones con mas secretos de Barcelona.

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

When Laura Cameron, a philosophy professor at a London university, is found dead in a bizarre echo of the Reeva Steenkamp case, the questions are myriad. Her friend and colleague, Esther Luck, is as shocked as everyone else.But Esther knows more than shes letting on. After two years battling ovarian cancer, her notions of what makes life worth living, of what her future holds, have changed utterly. Held in a tense web of intrigue between Lauras widower Jack, her ex Michel, and her conventional family, Esther is given the chance of new life on borrowed time as the mystery of Lauras death deepens.What follows is an exploration of guilt, mortality, freedom, time and the brilliant and beautiful puzzle of being alive.

In an opulent villa near the English Channel lives a family. The father has a safe, a spanner, a candle and a maid called Rose. The son has a swing, a croquet set, a raincoat, a car. Some members of the family read crime novels to fall asleep (the father), some instead of sleeping (the son), and some to ease the loneliness of an unhappy marriage (the mother). Their equilibrium is shattered in the wake of a shocking incident and the twenty minutes of silence that follow. Darkly comedic and wonderfully strange, Twenty Minutes of Silence is a truly original take on the crime genre, inspired by a true story. Here Helene Bessette builds a world of intrigue, a world punctured by startling disruptions and unexpected shifts, and in doing so destroys and remakes the crime novel, creating a form wholly new.

Set in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaros novel is like a precious old mirror: dropped, looking up at you, flashing light and bits of the undeniable. With the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolfs The Waves, but is entirely its own animal: kaleidoscopic, pointedly disorienting in its looseness, and powered along by snatches of speech from its compelling ensemble cast, often vernacular, often overheard. Its a book seemingly drawn from deep wells of Black American reality: Scodellaros female protagonists push back against authority in the very vivacity of their telling, setting afoot a freeing-up and a mysterious inversion of marginalization. A surreal musing, Ruins, Child uses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography and collective listening to create an ethnography of place and an ode to communal ruins.

The writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M. finds herself unable to write, unmoored in a present where the future feels unknowable. When she travels to a nearby country for an event, a twist of fate leaves her stranded in an unfamiliar city, phoneless and untraceable. In this rupture, she feels a flicker of liberation the possibility of starting over but memories of childhood, books, films and tarot cards pull her back, the last fragments of a vanishing world. Then she meets a troupe of circus performers and, for a moment, reinvention seems within reach. Oscillating between reality and dream, written in rich, hypnotic prose, The Disappearing Act is a haunting meditation on identity, language and the fragile desire to disappear by Maria Stepanova, one of the greatest living Russian writers.

Step into the past. Rush headlong at the future. The Age of Calamities is here.Henry VIII wants Anne Boleyn dead, but theres just one small problem - shes alive again by morning, sipping tea at the breakfast table. In the gilded hush of the Winter Palace, the Romanov sisters slip through time and waltz aboard a star-bound spaceship. A woman on the run strikes a sinister bargain with the ghost of Joan of Arc, but can she reclaim her body in time for sunrise?Fiercely inventive and darkly playful, these stories unfold on historys fault lines, where women take their revenge against ill-fated times. With sly wit and piercing poignancy, The Age of Calamities exhumes the past to haunt the present, charting the tragicomic yet hopeful act of living.

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?