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Alex Halberstadt's quest takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth, where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. In Ukraine, he tracks down his paternal grandfather, most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin. He revisits Lithuania, his Jewish mother's home, to examine the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for. He returns to his birthplace, Moscow, where his grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers' wives, his mother consoled dissidents at a psychiatric hospital, and his father made a dangerous living by selling black-market American records. Halberstadt also explores his own story: that of an immigrant growing up in New York, another in a line of sons separated from their fathers by the tides of politics and history.

One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: "A miracle!" Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with gray-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumor, and many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain ground. From journey to journey and from one community to another, Pascal sets off in search of his origins, trying to understand the meaning of his mission. Will he be able to change the fate of humanity? And what will the New World Gospel reveal? For all its beauty, vivacity, humor, and power, Maryse Condé's latest novel is above all a work of combat. Lucid and full of conviction, Condé attests that solidarity and love remain our most extraordinary and lifesaving forces.

Illustrated edition of Perrault's classic story Puss in Boots by Javier Zabala, winner of the 2005 National Illustration Award. It is a popular European tale, compiled in 1697 by Charles Perrault in his Mother Goose Tales which now has multiple adaptations . Puss in Boots bases its intelligence on observation and logic. The translation is new and is a bilingual edition for readers of all ages.

Hadji Murad is a short novel written by Leo Tolstoy. It was Tolstoy's final work. The subject matter is one Hadji Murat, an Avar rebel commander who, for reasons of personal revenge, forges an uneasy alliance with the Russians he had been fighting.

"2014. Rusia ha invadido la regiâon ucrania del Donbâas. En medio de la destrucciâon causada por la guerra, Pasha, un maestro de treinta y cinco aänos, busca a su sobrino de trece que ha quedado atrapado en un orfanato al otro lado del frente de guerra. Pasha se ve obligado a aventurarse en zonas de combate, atravesar fronteras cambiantes y forjar alianzas incâomodas por el camino en un espacio donde la vida civil se ha derrumbado. Y se da cuenta de dâonde estâan sus verdaderas lealtades en una lucha cada vez mâas desesperada por rescatar a su sobrino Sasha y llevarlo a casa. Si toda guerra necesita su magistral cronista, Ucrania tiene a Serhiy Zhadan, merecedor del Premio de la Paz de los Libreros Alemanes y considerado por Timothy Snyder como uno de los mâas importantes creadores culturales en activo de Europa. Siguiendo la estela del paisaje apocalâiptico de La carretera y la narraciâon belica de Adiâos a las armas, Orfanato es una novela inolvidable que muestra con crudeza y compasiâon los daänos humanos provocados por el conflicto desatado por la agresiâon rusa. Escrita con una impresionante intensidad, Orfanato serâa recordada como la novela definitiva de la guerra en Ucrania."--

The Dinosaur is Still Here, the complete work of Augusto Monterroso, brings together for the first time in a single volume all the stories of the master of the micro-story, each one more brilliant, arranged chronologically: those collected in his first Complete Works (and Other Stories) (1959), in The Black Sheep and Other Fables (1962), Perpetual Motion (1972), The Rest is Silence (1978), Journey to the Center of the Fable (1981), The Magic Word (1983); The Letter E. Fragments of a Diary (1986), The Gold Diggers (1993), The Cow (1998), Birds of Latin America (2001), and Literature and Life (2003). A key book that recovers and vindicates the value of one of the best Spanish-speaking writers that the 20th century has given us. "His books must be read hands down: his danger is based on underhanded wisdom and the deadly beauty of lack of seriousness." Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"La sombra exiliada es una novela psicolâogica e intelectual, un collage que entrecruza la vida de un superviviente del Holocausto, su existencia posterior en una dictadura comunista y el exilio en Amâerica, con sus obsesiones, las de un apasionado de la literatura. El discurso narrativo, desarrollado en varios niveles, estâa dominado por su pasiâon por los libros y la intensa intimidad con su hermanastra, con la que compartiâo el horror del campo. La amistad entre el protagonista -el Nâomada Misâantropo- y Gèunther, un rumano de etnia alemana, exiliado en Berlâin, obsesionado por el Holocausto y la culpa alemana, marca una retrospectiva de los dramâaticos acontecimientos del siglo XX, el nacionalismo, el fascismo, el comunismo y el exilio. La metâafora de la sombra como portadora de la identidad reaparece a lo largo de toda la trayectoria âepica, un leitmotiv con variaciones, y expresa la confrontaciâon del exiliado con el extraänamiento que atraviesa. La literatura como forma de vida y expresiâon de la identidad es, de hecho, el tema del relato, potenciado por continuas referencias al clâasico alemâan de Adelbert von Chamisso sobre el (S0 (BHombre que vendiâo su sombra (S1 (By fragmentos del mismo. Un collage de citas significativas y notas de lectura sobre la identidad, el amor y la literatura. Al final de la lectura, el lector se sentirâa, probablemente, compaänero solidario del nâomada melancâolico e irâonico que nos acompaäna con humor, escepticismo y su tenaz empeäno por sobrevivir."--

At the beginning of the 21st century, a man obsessed with invisibility takes the same boat trip that his grandparents did in the middle of the last century on their honeymoon. In Patagonia they met a unique woman, Graciela Pavic, whose mysterious story contains a painful secret. But the origin of her story goes back to the great adventure of another trip, no less mysterious, that took place in the 16th century and was destined to fulfill a secret plan of Felipe II in that territory. Narrated as a modern Thousand and One Nights, this novel covers a journey of five hundred years. In it, the trips that are linked are, in reality, a single and "great trip" to another place and another time. And also towards the fable.

"Tâitulo de la ediciâon original: Krotkëaiìa."--Title page verso.

A collection of more than fifty stories about witches from around the world. There are tales of banshees, crones and beauties in disguise from China, Siberia, the Caribbean, Armenia, Portugal and Australia. The characters featured include Italy's Witch Bea-Witch, Lilith, Kali, and Twitti Glyn Hec. Alluring women, enchantresses, wise old ladies and bewitching women: they are all here and ready to haunt, entice, possess, transform, challenge - and sometimes even to help.

"People go to Huntington Beach in search of the endless parties, the ultimate highs, and the perfect waves. Ike Tucker has come to look for his missing sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In that place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blonds, Ike's search takes him on a journey through a twisted world of crazed Vietnam vets, sadistic surfers, drug dealers, and mysterious seducers. He looks into the shadows and finds parties that drift toward pointless violence, joyless vacations, and highs you may never come down from. And if he's not careful, his is a journey from which he will never return."--

This book imagines a hypothesis: what happened during the year and a half in which Benito Juárez, who would end up being the first indigenous president of Mexico, lived in exile in New Orleans? Accompanied by a small group of political exiles, Juárez landed in 1853 in that stinking city that, located on the banks of a swamp, absorbed them like a sponge. There they surrender to the mud, the jasmine flowers, the music, the strangeness of the language and the unbearable summer, but, above all, they come face to face with the stark reality of the trade in human beings, a market that never ends. stops. They will discover that New Orleans is a hive of heterogeneous identities where imprisoned women are sold in the streets and where capitalism shows its primitive, most grotesque drive.

"Christo ha dejado a sus padres en Atenas y se ha mudado a Estocolmo. A sus poco mâas de veinte aänos, una beca del gobierno sueco le da la oportunidad de estudiar historia de las ideas en la universidad, algo con lo que siempre habâia soänado. Pero estâa demasiado solo en Estocolmo, donde sobrevive con trabajos precarios en empresas regentadas por otros emigrantes como âel. No domina todavâia el idioma y Grecia continâua presente en su cabeza y en su corazâon. Pero cuando conoce a Rania, todo su mundo se pone patas arriba. Amor y morriäna, la novela mâas reciente de Theodor Kallifatides, es una historia câalida y llena de humanidad sobre los muchos obstâaculos con los que topa un emigrante, tambiâen y especialmente a la hora de enamorarse."--

Maurice Hall plays the role of the conventional Englishman, but behind the facade of a modest and generally conformist boy, there is a growing desire and attraction to men. Through Clive, whom he will meet in Cambridge, and Alec, the gamekeeper of Clive's country estate, Maurice will experience an intense and revealing emotional and sexual awakening. A novel of passion, courage and defiance that condemns the repressive attitudes of British society. A moving love story that is both the narrative of an intimate erotic and political discovery. Maurice is a deeply personal novel that Forster finished writing in 1914 but, fearing it would spell the end of his career, he put away for more than fifty years. It was published posthumously in 1971.

The series have starred in what is perhaps the most important cultural phenomenon of the 21st century. Not only for its narrative quality, but also for its ability to emotionally engage large global audiences. The Sopranos, The Wire, Lost, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, Black Mirror or Euphoria are also fundamental works for understanding society, geopolitics or the creative industries of our time. There are only ten of the nearly two hundred series analyzed by the cultural critic Jorge Carrión in this book. To the essay published for the first time in 2011, which immediately became a reference title on the third golden age of television, he has added a hundred new pages in this updated, expanded and definitive edition, which can be read as a reading of television fiction as a whole and as a guide to navigate in this fascinating universe.

"Tâitulo de la ediciâon original: The woman upstairs"--Title page verso.

More than two hundred wooden and ivory figurines, none larger than a matchbox, are the origin of this fascinating book in which Edmund de Waal describes the journey they have taken over the years. A journey full of adventures, war, love and loss, which summarizes, in the story of a family, the history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. An evocative text of great beauty that begins with a small hare with amber eyes that mixes in a pocket with the coins, and ends, like any true journey, with the discovery of oneself.

Pregnant with her second child, Sylvia Plath and her husband Ted Hughes embark on the bucolic project of renovating an old rectory in the country where they can raise their little ones. The world expands and contracts for Sylvia: her life is idyllic on the surface, but her great desire to write about her is constantly frustrated by the obligations of mother and wife. At the same time, she feels completely a prisoner of her love for Ted: without him life has no meaning, but she cannot think, she cannot write while he is near her. Thus, when he decides to leave her to run away with his lover, Sylvia will begin to write frantically in a state of pain, fever and euphoria that will open the poet's stage of greatest artistic splendor, making her name go down in history. The novel, which ends before her suicide in February 1963, tries to reframe the narrative of one of the most famous and infamous writers of the 20th century to focus solely on her life. Euphoria is an extraordinarily modern story, written with fierce intelligence and irreverence, which has earned her the prestigious August Prize and the recognition of the European publishing world, which has hailed her as one of the literary revelations of the year.

There are titles that go down in history for reasons that have more to do with the legend around their publication than with their content. Ulysses' fame is due, above all else, to the immense controversy that accompanies it and that has made it the most fascinating book of the 20th century. It should be remembered that Ulysses is not so much a novel as a colossal experiment that requires patience to understand the rules of the game that James Joyce himself proposes. This unpublished version by Carlos Manzano, careful and conceived based on what has always been considered canonical in its language of origin, that of Gabler from 1986, invites the reader to delve into the particular Joycean universe through more than a thousand pages of experimental walk through the streets of Dublin for a single day.

"La promesa, una originalâisima y conmovedora novela ganadora del premio Booker 2021, estâa considerada como una de las grandes obras literarias en inglâes de la âultima dâecada."--Amazon.

This book addresses a problem that is in the international spotlight: the climate change crisis and the devastating consequences it is having on our planet. The world is heading towards a new energy order, and that requires thinking about the 21st century from the climatic and ecological emergency, because the climate crisis has only made it clear that it is a cultural problem. Olabe offers us a very interesting book and an essential reading to get to know in depth this serious problem that climate change entails and that requires a first-rate response from the main world powers.