Offering a wide variety of theme, occasion, mood, and form - ';The Essential Gibran' is a volume of selected passages celebrating Gibran's style and thoughtKahlil Gibran's essential style is captured in reflective poetic prose, dramatic sketches, allegories and parables, national and international addresses, and romantic writings of all kinds.
A SPELLBINDINGLY CREEPY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, FROM AN ARGENTINIAN LITERARY STAR 'The Grimm brothers and Franz Kafka pay a visit to Argentina in Samanta Schweblin's darkly humorous tales.
Offering a wide variety of theme, occasion, mood, and form - ';The Essential Gibran' is a volume of selected passages celebrating Gibran's style and thoughtKahlil Gibran's essential style is captured in reflective poetic prose, dramatic sketches, allegories and parables, national and international addresses, and romantic writings of all kinds.
A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last 1,500 years.
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 ';Peter Fiennes's road trip around Greece [is] engagingly described' Mary Beard, TLS ';Fiennes is a brilliant and generous guide through Greece' Observer ';A wonderful really profound meditation on what it means to hope a gorgeous excursion into Greece and across the centuries on an environmental quest' BBC Radio 4 Open Book Book of the Year choice by Anita Roy What do the Greek myths mean to us today?
More than five years have passed since the publication of Behind my front door, in which Truusje van Zanten told her story about the domestic violence that she and her children had to endure and how she managed to escape it and bring her two children to safety.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDR SIMON DRINKS AWARD 2026ONE OF FORBES' BEST WINE AND SPIRITS BOOKS FOR 2025'A beautifully written, and also beautifully designed, guide to the huge world of agave spirits, from someone who really knows it from the inside.
"Los cuentos —piensa Beatriz Espejo— son unos taimados y no sólo divierten sino dicen más de lo que dicen; abarcan poco y aprietan mucho, imponen leyes difíciles de cumplir, desechan sin el menor remordimiento todo lo inservible a sus propósitos y se ufanan de que las cosas complicadas parezcan fáciles.
"En esta antología hay mujeres voladoras, mujeres lobas, mujeres serpientes, brujas, vírgenes, mártires, víctimas y victimarias, extranjeras en su propia ciudad, prisioneras, videntes, asesinas".
Two groundbreaking texts from the German Enlightenment-one written on the eve of the French Revolution, the other during its early years-available in modern English translation for the first time.
Agotamiento físico y mental, dificultades para dormir, dolor constante, fallas en la memoria, tránsito intestinal irregular, angustia y la lista sigue.
Leer a Rossi es disponerse a contemplar la realidad desde el ojo del lince: en sus narraciones y ensayos memoriosos, implacables, cosmopolitas a mas no poder todo es sugerente, todo esta despierto y cada hilo conduce a luz meridiana de una idea sorprendente.
