Esta novela, la primera de la reconocida historiadora y Premio Nacional de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Sonia Montecino, es un brote particular en la literatura chilena.
A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick - Booker Gems THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE 'Astonishing' Zadie Smith 'Stunning' Spectator 'Extraordinary' TLS An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist All over the world, doors are appearing.
Los hechos del Terrorismo de Estado en la Argentina durante la última dictadura militar, por lo reciente, aún han transitado un corto camino a través de la historia de la literatura, del mundo audiovisual y, en fin, de nuestros lenguajes artísticos en general.
Simone Perez, Architect of the Capitol, is stunned when a terrible explosion rocks the capitol, totally collapsing the tunnel which connects the House and Senate Chambers and trapping several people.
A speechwriter shot during a botched assassination starts to recover powers of speech along with pieced-together memories of the campaign he served and the candidate he helped make president of a "e;bankrupt and volatile"e; republic.
*WINNER of the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award 2013*'Andrew Taylor wrote superb historical fiction long before Hilary Mantel was popular' Daily TelegraphFrom the No.
Am Anfang der US-amerikanischen Unterhaltungskultur steht eine Schwarze Frau, von der das Publikum nicht weiß, ob es sich um einen 161 Jahre alten Menschen, einen Schwindel oder um einen Automaten handelt: Joice Heth, George Washingtons »Mammy«, mit der P.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
From the acclaimed author of the dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed is an inventive, thought-provoking and darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation.
Ignatius Donnelly's Caesar's Column (1890) is a grim speculative romance that imagines New York in 1988 as a technological marvel ruled by plutocrats, militarized police, and predatory finance.
Pasqual Maragall i Mira (Barcelona, 1941), alcalde de Barcelona i president de la Generalitat, és una de les figures polítiques més destacades de la història contemporània del país.
Mark Aldanow erzählt in diesem großen Gesellschaftsporträt mit Ironie und Scharfsinn von einem Epochenbruch, wie wir ihn fast hundert Jahre später wieder erleben.
'It is impossible to read Toibin without being moved, touched and finally changed' - Independent on SundayColm Toibin's The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland's high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least outwardly, from his own childhood.
'Magical and disturbing' Adam ThirlwellAn astonishing, mind-bending novel about a woman discovering a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers.
DISCOVER THE SAGA BEHIND THE APPLE TV+ ORIGINAL SERIESFrom a grand master of science fiction comes the long awaited final novel of one of the greatest series ever told.
**Jage den Elfenfeind und schütze die magischen Völker**Seit langer Zeit herrscht Frieden in der zauberhaften Welt der magischen Königreiche, wo Elfen, Hexen, Drachen und viele andere Wesen in Eintracht miteinander leben.
"Der Untertan" von Heinrich Mann ist ein scharfsinniger Gesellschaftsroman, der die Untertanenmentalität des deutschen Bürgertums im Kaiserreich kritisch beleuchtet.
Rachel Jedinak, geboren im April 1934, überlebte die größte Massenverhaftung der Juden in Paris, die als »Razzia vom Vélodrome d'Hiver« in die Geschichte einging.
The Bostonians is Henry James's incisive tragicomic study of post-Civil War American reform culture, centered on the contest between Olive Chancellor, a fervent Boston feminist, Basil Ransom, a conservative Southern lawyer, and Verena Tarrant, the gifted young speaker they both seek to possess.
'Some of the most beautiful prose being written in Ireland today' Irish TimesA Harper's most talked-about thriller novel 2025A Irish Times Book of the Year 2025A Critic Book of the Year 2025A Guardian Crime Book of the Year 2025Lorraine would say afterwards that she was smitten straight off with Paddy Farrell.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2025'Enormously entertaining'THE TIMES'Unputdownable' HARPER'S BAZAAR'Funny, sharp and insightful .
