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"No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you''re not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college-as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete''s critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated. The agency of Kepesh''s undoing is Consuela Castillo, the decorous and humblingly beautiful 24-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged-helplessly, bitterly, furiously-into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling this descent, Philip Roth performs a breathtaking set of variations on the themes of eros and mortality, license and repression, selfishness and sacrifice. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.

Sota el títol de El saber del cor trobem set narracions d’un extraordinari lirisme on l’autora ens presenta un seguit de relacions sentimentals duals entre personatges famosos i el seu entorn familia

Bienvenue à Pont-aux-Rats. mais prudence ! Dans les rues pavées de la ville, ainsi que sous les pavés, il se passe des choses plus que louches. Préparez-vous à rencontrer un assortiment de créatures - pas toutes fréquentables, hélas! Préparez-vous surtout à trembler pour le jeune Arthur, aux prises avec l'odieux Grapnard et sa clique. Soutenu par des amis de toutes sortes -un vol entier de corbeaux freux, un avocat en retraite, deux ou trois choutrognes, une bande de bricoliaux et quelques pirates-, Arthur parviendra-t-il à déjouer le monstrueux complot ourdi par Grapnard et ses sbires ?. PONT-AUX-RATS EST EN PERIL.

Upon an immense stretch of flat ground at the mouth of a river bathed in sunlight rises Hyperpolis. It stands there, surrounded by its four asphalt car-parks, to condemn us - a huge enveloping supermarket. Each of us will see ourselves reflected in the characters who move mindlessly about Hyperpolis, but The Giants is a call to rebellion. This bold and inventive novel is the work of a tremendously talented writer and both an intoxicating and exhilarating read.

Going back is never easy ...Adam Chase has spent the last five years in New York trying to forget. When he left North Carolina, Adam left for good. Now he has no choice but to return -- and being remembered as a murderer doesn't help. Within hours of arriving, Adam is beaten up, accosted and has to face the hostility of those closest to him, including Grace, the young woman he cannot forget. Nothing has changed. And then people start turning up dead. For a man only just acquitted of murder, Adam's homecoming does not go well. And he has a dark streak, a history of violence. Everyone doubts. No one trusts him. And as the past threatens to overshadow the present, Adam becomes the prime suspect for the new murders. He alone can clear his name ...

Samuel Spendlove, one of the brightest young academics at Oxford, has given it all up to work undercover for William Barton, owner of a massive media empire. His reasons are complicated, but he's finding he gets a thrill out of working for Khan, the legendary market trader, working out of the Paris office of Ropner's Bank, whose dealings have been known to bring nations to their knees. Barton wants information about Khan. He wants revenge over a man who has bested him once. Spendlove assumes he wants to ensure it is only the once Spendlove enjoys both sides of this game, until it all unravels and he finds himself simultaneously accused of almost bringing down the global economy and of the murder of Kaz Day, a glamorous colleague on the trading floor. He goes into hiding in the surreal and dangerous world of underground Paris chased by the police, by Khan, the bank and William Barton...and helped by Kaz's bi-curious lover, Lauren. But who framed him and why?

Newmark''s transcendent debut follows a penniless orphan in Renaissance Venice as he is swept up form the streets and into a world of immeasurable passion and power on a journey that leads not only t

Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture a sojourn as the writer in residence on a cruise liner a visit to her sister, a missionary in Africa, who is receiving an honorary degree, an occasion which both recognise as the final opportunity for effecting some form of reconciliation and a disquieting appearance at a writers'' conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly amongst the audience. She has made her life''s work the study of other people yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the continuing search for a means of articulating her vision and the verdict of future generations.

Virgil Flowers, tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop''s, kicked around for a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First it was the Army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport brought him into the BCA, promising him, "We''ll only give you the hard stuff." He''s been doing the hard stuff for three years now - but never anything like this. In the small town of Bluestem, where everybody knows everybody, a house way up on a ridge explodes into flames, its owner, a man named Judd, trapped inside. There is a lot of reason to hate him, Flowers discovers. Years ago, Judd perpetrated a scam that drove a lot of local farmers out of business, even to suicide. There are also rumors swirling around: of some very dicey activities with other men''s wives; of involvement with some nutcase religious guy; of an out-of-wedlock daughter. In fact, Flowers concludes, you''d probably have to dig around to find a person who doesn''t despise Judd. And that isn''t even the reason Flowers came to Bluestem. Three weeks before, there''d been another murder - two, in fact - a doctor and his wife, the doctor found propped up in his backyard, both eyes shot out. There hadn''t been a murder in Bluestem in years, and now suddenly three? Flowers knows two things: This wasn''t a coincidence, and this had to be personal. But just how personal is something even he doesn''t realize, and may not find out until too late. Because the next victim ... may be himself.

This beautiful, fully-illustrated coffee table book provides a closer look at Christmas and the St. Nicholas of history and legend. Full of historical information and rare illustrations from Christian traditions around the world, this book will entertain, inform, and inspire readers as it teaches the true meaning of Christmas giving. Joe Wheeler and Jim Rosenthal use stories and pictures to reclaim the historical St. Nicholas that inspired the Santa Claus story. Ultimately the authors show that the tradition of St. Nicholas can make the celebration of Christmas more meaningful.

Vatanen est journaliste à Helsinki. Alors qu'il revient de la campagne, un dimanche soir de juin, avec un ami, ce dernier heurte un lièvre sur la route. Vatanen descend de voiture et s'enfonce dans les fourrés. Il récupère le lièvre blessé, lui fabrique une grossière attelle et s'enfonce délibérement dans la nature. Ce roman-culte dans les pays nordiques conte les multiples et extravagantes aventures de Vatanen remontant au fil des saisons vers le cercle polaire avec son lièvre fétiche en guise de sésame. Il invente un genre : le roman d'humour écologique.

Gunter Grass wurde am 16. Oktober 1927 in Danzig geboren, absolvierte nach der Entlassung aus amerikanischer Kriegsgefangenschaft eine Steinmetzlehre, studierte dann Grafik und Bildhauerei in Dusseldorf und Berlin. 1956 erschien der erste Gedichtband mit Zeichnungen, 1959 der erste Roman ''Die Blechtrommel''. 1965 erhielt der Autor den Georg-Buchner-Preis, 1994 den Karel-Capek-Preis. 1999 wurde ihm der Nobelpreis fur Literatur verliehen und 2009 wurde er zum Ehrenprasidenten des P.E.N. ernannt. Grass lebt in der Nahe von Lubeck.

Sylvia is about to meet her father for the time in thirty years, to ask him to give he away at the wedding. Although she has a promising career as a photographer and secure relationship, Sylvie feeds restle and, as she prepares for the reunion, her thoughts turn to last, fateful summer she spent with her father, when she was twelve, and visiting his commune just outside. Sylvia esta a punto de ver a su padre despues de treinta años, para pedirle que sea el padrino de su boda. Aunque tiene una prometedora carrera como fotografa y una relacion estable, Sylvia se siente intranquila, y, mientras se prepara para la reunion, sus recuerdos vuelven a aquel aciago verano que paso con su padre, cuando tenia doce años, y fue a visitar la comuna que tenia alli cerca.

From a young writer who radiates charisma and talent comes a sweeping, stylish historical novel of Jamaican slavery that can be compared only to Toni Morrison's Beloved.

We love. We lose. And sometimes we love again... Back when neither could have imagined what lay ahead, Angela`s husband Jonathan made her a promise - that if he died before she did, he would see to it that she wasn`t on her own. He would send her someone to love. Now two years have passed since Jonathan`s sudden death, but the pain of losing him is as sharp as ever. Feeling cut adrift in his native Canada, Angela whisks her vivacious mother off to a Greek island, thinking a holiday might be just the prescription she needs. But being with your mum who`s afraid of dying, when you yourself are afraid of living, is hardly the formula for a laid-back week in the sun. It`s only when Angela meets two very different men who seem to have the uncanny ability of seeing right into her soul, that she starts to think about Jonathan`s promise to her. Can something magical be happening? Is one of these men the lover her husband has sent for her?

_Una mica d'amor_ és el segon dels dos volums que reuneixen per primera vegada en llibre tota la narrativa curta de Puig i Ferreter. Conté els dos reculls que va publicar l'autor, _Una mica d'amor_ i _On son els pobres?, i altres histories de Nadal_, i un conte inedit fins ara, "El misteri de la casa Blanc". Amb l'anterior volum publicat en aquesta col·leccio, permet una lectura completa de les narracions breus del gran prosista que va ser Joan Puig i Ferreter.

"No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you''re not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college-as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete''s critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated. The agency of Kepesh''s undoing is Consuela Castillo, the decorous and humblingly beautiful 24-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged-helplessly, bitterly, furiously-into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling this descent, Philip Roth performs a breathtaking set of variations on the themes of eros and mortality, license and repression, selfishness and sacrifice. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.

Sota el títol de El saber del cor trobem set narracions d’un extraordinari lirisme on l’autora ens presenta un seguit de relacions sentimentals duals entre personatges famosos i el seu entorn familia

Bienvenue à Pont-aux-Rats. mais prudence ! Dans les rues pavées de la ville, ainsi que sous les pavés, il se passe des choses plus que louches. Préparez-vous à rencontrer un assortiment de créatures - pas toutes fréquentables, hélas! Préparez-vous surtout à trembler pour le jeune Arthur, aux prises avec l'odieux Grapnard et sa clique. Soutenu par des amis de toutes sortes -un vol entier de corbeaux freux, un avocat en retraite, deux ou trois choutrognes, une bande de bricoliaux et quelques pirates-, Arthur parviendra-t-il à déjouer le monstrueux complot ourdi par Grapnard et ses sbires ?. PONT-AUX-RATS EST EN PERIL.

Upon an immense stretch of flat ground at the mouth of a river bathed in sunlight rises Hyperpolis. It stands there, surrounded by its four asphalt car-parks, to condemn us - a huge enveloping supermarket. Each of us will see ourselves reflected in the characters who move mindlessly about Hyperpolis, but The Giants is a call to rebellion. This bold and inventive novel is the work of a tremendously talented writer and both an intoxicating and exhilarating read.

Going back is never easy ...Adam Chase has spent the last five years in New York trying to forget. When he left North Carolina, Adam left for good. Now he has no choice but to return -- and being remembered as a murderer doesn't help. Within hours of arriving, Adam is beaten up, accosted and has to face the hostility of those closest to him, including Grace, the young woman he cannot forget. Nothing has changed. And then people start turning up dead. For a man only just acquitted of murder, Adam's homecoming does not go well. And he has a dark streak, a history of violence. Everyone doubts. No one trusts him. And as the past threatens to overshadow the present, Adam becomes the prime suspect for the new murders. He alone can clear his name ...

Samuel Spendlove, one of the brightest young academics at Oxford, has given it all up to work undercover for William Barton, owner of a massive media empire. His reasons are complicated, but he's finding he gets a thrill out of working for Khan, the legendary market trader, working out of the Paris office of Ropner's Bank, whose dealings have been known to bring nations to their knees. Barton wants information about Khan. He wants revenge over a man who has bested him once. Spendlove assumes he wants to ensure it is only the once Spendlove enjoys both sides of this game, until it all unravels and he finds himself simultaneously accused of almost bringing down the global economy and of the murder of Kaz Day, a glamorous colleague on the trading floor. He goes into hiding in the surreal and dangerous world of underground Paris chased by the police, by Khan, the bank and William Barton...and helped by Kaz's bi-curious lover, Lauren. But who framed him and why?

Newmark''s transcendent debut follows a penniless orphan in Renaissance Venice as he is swept up form the streets and into a world of immeasurable passion and power on a journey that leads not only t

Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture a sojourn as the writer in residence on a cruise liner a visit to her sister, a missionary in Africa, who is receiving an honorary degree, an occasion which both recognise as the final opportunity for effecting some form of reconciliation and a disquieting appearance at a writers'' conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly amongst the audience. She has made her life''s work the study of other people yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the continuing search for a means of articulating her vision and the verdict of future generations.

Virgil Flowers, tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop''s, kicked around for a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First it was the Army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport brought him into the BCA, promising him, "We''ll only give you the hard stuff." He''s been doing the hard stuff for three years now - but never anything like this. In the small town of Bluestem, where everybody knows everybody, a house way up on a ridge explodes into flames, its owner, a man named Judd, trapped inside. There is a lot of reason to hate him, Flowers discovers. Years ago, Judd perpetrated a scam that drove a lot of local farmers out of business, even to suicide. There are also rumors swirling around: of some very dicey activities with other men''s wives; of involvement with some nutcase religious guy; of an out-of-wedlock daughter. In fact, Flowers concludes, you''d probably have to dig around to find a person who doesn''t despise Judd. And that isn''t even the reason Flowers came to Bluestem. Three weeks before, there''d been another murder - two, in fact - a doctor and his wife, the doctor found propped up in his backyard, both eyes shot out. There hadn''t been a murder in Bluestem in years, and now suddenly three? Flowers knows two things: This wasn''t a coincidence, and this had to be personal. But just how personal is something even he doesn''t realize, and may not find out until too late. Because the next victim ... may be himself.

This beautiful, fully-illustrated coffee table book provides a closer look at Christmas and the St. Nicholas of history and legend. Full of historical information and rare illustrations from Christian traditions around the world, this book will entertain, inform, and inspire readers as it teaches the true meaning of Christmas giving. Joe Wheeler and Jim Rosenthal use stories and pictures to reclaim the historical St. Nicholas that inspired the Santa Claus story. Ultimately the authors show that the tradition of St. Nicholas can make the celebration of Christmas more meaningful.

Vatanen est journaliste à Helsinki. Alors qu'il revient de la campagne, un dimanche soir de juin, avec un ami, ce dernier heurte un lièvre sur la route. Vatanen descend de voiture et s'enfonce dans les fourrés. Il récupère le lièvre blessé, lui fabrique une grossière attelle et s'enfonce délibérement dans la nature. Ce roman-culte dans les pays nordiques conte les multiples et extravagantes aventures de Vatanen remontant au fil des saisons vers le cercle polaire avec son lièvre fétiche en guise de sésame. Il invente un genre : le roman d'humour écologique.

Gunter Grass wurde am 16. Oktober 1927 in Danzig geboren, absolvierte nach der Entlassung aus amerikanischer Kriegsgefangenschaft eine Steinmetzlehre, studierte dann Grafik und Bildhauerei in Dusseldorf und Berlin. 1956 erschien der erste Gedichtband mit Zeichnungen, 1959 der erste Roman ''Die Blechtrommel''. 1965 erhielt der Autor den Georg-Buchner-Preis, 1994 den Karel-Capek-Preis. 1999 wurde ihm der Nobelpreis fur Literatur verliehen und 2009 wurde er zum Ehrenprasidenten des P.E.N. ernannt. Grass lebt in der Nahe von Lubeck.

Sylvia is about to meet her father for the time in thirty years, to ask him to give he away at the wedding. Although she has a promising career as a photographer and secure relationship, Sylvie feeds restle and, as she prepares for the reunion, her thoughts turn to last, fateful summer she spent with her father, when she was twelve, and visiting his commune just outside. Sylvia esta a punto de ver a su padre despues de treinta años, para pedirle que sea el padrino de su boda. Aunque tiene una prometedora carrera como fotografa y una relacion estable, Sylvia se siente intranquila, y, mientras se prepara para la reunion, sus recuerdos vuelven a aquel aciago verano que paso con su padre, cuando tenia doce años, y fue a visitar la comuna que tenia alli cerca.

From a young writer who radiates charisma and talent comes a sweeping, stylish historical novel of Jamaican slavery that can be compared only to Toni Morrison's Beloved.

We love. We lose. And sometimes we love again... Back when neither could have imagined what lay ahead, Angela`s husband Jonathan made her a promise - that if he died before she did, he would see to it that she wasn`t on her own. He would send her someone to love. Now two years have passed since Jonathan`s sudden death, but the pain of losing him is as sharp as ever. Feeling cut adrift in his native Canada, Angela whisks her vivacious mother off to a Greek island, thinking a holiday might be just the prescription she needs. But being with your mum who`s afraid of dying, when you yourself are afraid of living, is hardly the formula for a laid-back week in the sun. It`s only when Angela meets two very different men who seem to have the uncanny ability of seeing right into her soul, that she starts to think about Jonathan`s promise to her. Can something magical be happening? Is one of these men the lover her husband has sent for her?

_Una mica d'amor_ és el segon dels dos volums que reuneixen per primera vegada en llibre tota la narrativa curta de Puig i Ferreter. Conté els dos reculls que va publicar l'autor, _Una mica d'amor_ i _On son els pobres?, i altres histories de Nadal_, i un conte inedit fins ara, "El misteri de la casa Blanc". Amb l'anterior volum publicat en aquesta col·leccio, permet una lectura completa de les narracions breus del gran prosista que va ser Joan Puig i Ferreter.