Tarantela es una novela con forma de galaxia: el centro de gravedad es un fichero que registra, de manera cuidadosa, los últimos días en la vida de Jano, internado en el hospital por haber ingerido veneno para ratas.
Esta es una historia de la vida real contada por su protagonista, una novia que pierde a su prometido el día antes de la boda Por los designios de la muerte y el implacable destino, las almas profundamente enamoradas de Julián Ramírez Arbeláez y Andrea García Baena tuvieron que separarse.
'Every page bursts with heart' Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See'Compelling, moving, lyrical' - Claire North, author of Ithaca and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry AugustFor Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 A NEW YORK TIMES '10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR' PICK Washington Post's Top Ten Books of the Year 2025Los Angeles Times 15 Best Books of 2025New York Public Library's Books of the Year 2025A Book of the Year 2024 for the Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, ABC and BookRiot'The fact that Stone Yard Devotional not only stays aloft but soars would seem to deny the laws of literary physics' Ron Charles, Washington Post'A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life' Sunday Times'Exquisite, wrenching' New York Times'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel' Guardian'It leaves the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged' Anne EnrightBurnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia.
'The most gripping account of motherhood since Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work' IndependentA single mother wakes to blood in her mouth and flesh under her fingernails.
The Book of Common Courage is a collection of prayers, poems, and blessings to help you find a flicker of strength in the small and hard moments of life.
En épocas de duras incertidumbres, de difíciles pruebas para nuestra mortalidad, si me preguntan en cuál lenguaje, en cuál refugio literario me ocultaría, no dudaría en afirmar que en este hermoso y delicado resquicio de humanidad, en este espejo solitario del universo, armado por intensos ecos y fantasmales recuerdos del amor más intenso posible.
»Vorsicht, zerbrechlich«Manchmal würde ich mir den Aufkleber gern auf die Stirn kleben,weil unter meinem Alltags-Ichso viele Zerbrechlichkeiten liegen.
