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Par John Le Carré. 2022
"Julian Lawndsley has left a high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small…
English seaside town. A few months later, he is approached by a Polish émigré with dangerous knowledge of Julian's family. Julian is soon approached by a spy chief." -- Provided by NLSLa mujer de la escalera (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain). Policiaca #398)
Par Pedro A González Moreno. 2018
"A suicide and a mysterious murder serve as the starting point for this story in which two recent university graduates…
face a mission that will change their lives forever: to locate some ancient medieval theater books. Thus begins a thrilling search in which the characters will end up finding themselves and their own destiny, outlining at the same time the portrait of a bridge generation that struggled to find its own space in the Spain of the late seventies and early eighties. A gripping story of intrigue, of ambitions and grudges, of love and heartbreak, of frustrations and desires, where the murkiest and the noblest feelings intermingle and clash dramatically, always against the backdrop of the theatrical world, that metaliterary space in which, as in a game of mirrors, not everything is what it seems...." Translation provided by NLSLa librería del Señor Livingstone
Par Mónica Gutiérrez. 2020
"Agnes Martí is a young archaeologist from Barcelona who decides to move to London in search of a job opportunity.…
After several weeks without success, a sudden rainfall surprises her while she is taking a walk and she enters Moonlight Book. By chance, its owner, Edward Livingstone, is looking for an assistant and offers her the job. The young woman accepts and little by little she discovers the charm of this small bookstore. Until one day, when one of her most precious and oldest books disappears and police inspector John Lockewood enters the scene to take charge of the investigation and turn Agnes's life upside down." -- Translation provided by NLSSudor
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2016
"Wildly piercing and corrosively funny, Sudor (Sweat) is an editor's raw look at the absurd and oftentimes dysfunctional inner workings…
of the literary world. When his run-of-the-mill existence is suddenly turned upside down by the arrival of a famous author and his spoiled, defiant son, Alf, a junior editor at a large publishing house, embarks on a whirlwind three days that will change his life forever. Taking a page from Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, Sweat is a piercing look at the mad circus that are author book tours-lavish parties, larger-than-life expectations, explosive egos and a whole industry that subsists on catering to the intellectual elite. The author of Bad Vibes, a novel that pulverized every boundary of the post-Pinochet era, plunges readers head first into the gay underworld where feelings are relegated to a second tier in favor of a series of ephemeral and extreme sexual encounters courtesy of Grindr, the popular app that Alf, the novel's protagonist, uses just as often as his authors use him. Meanwhile Santiago, the city where it all unfolds, emerges as a rare and alluring presence. A masterfully crafted and electrifying novel, Sudor confirms Fuguet as one of the most relevant voices in Latin America today." -- Provided by the publisherLa montaña de las mariposas
Par Homero Aridjis. 2011
"The discovery of the poetic vocation joins the astonishment of a child before the spectacle of the arrival of the…
Monarch butterflies to his village, in Michoacán. An autobiographical memoir of childhood and youth, where Aridjis narrates his progressive awakening to nature, poetry, and eroticism, symbolized in the beauty and fragility of the butterfly." -- Translation provided by NLSLa ciudad de los libros prohibidos
Par Maribel Carvajal. 2016
"The City of Forbidden Books immerses the reader in an agile and entertaining reading through dizzying plots and an exquisite…
historical setting. A surprising literary debut that is hard to put down. Year 68 of our era: the peaceful Hispanic colony of Augusta Emerita is involved in surprising events that will test the faith and courage of its inhabitants. The City of Forbidden Books weaves a labyrinth of intrigues in which the characters will lose their souls in order to be reborn free and recover their ideals. In the pages of this book we witness the virulence of some deaths that will eventually bring to light some prophetic books that pursue powerful imperial groups willing to do anything to prevent their dissemination. The plot serves the author to show us the portrait of a fascinating society with its cults, its laws, its gods, its leisure or its image. A great love story, which runs through the novel, makes us reflect on the value of friendship, loyalty and duty." -- Translation provided by NLSEl libro de la fiebre (Libros del tiempo (Madrid, Spain) #329)
Par Carmen Martín Gaite. 2016
"In 1949, Carmen Martín Gaite suffered an episode of very high fevers that introduced her into a labyrinth of delirium…
and dreamlike images. Out of that experience came |The Fever Book|, a poetic, surrealist text, in which she tried to rescue the fleeting visions she had had. Her enthusiasm for publishing what she had written turned into disillusionment when she realized that the people around her did not value her work positively, and the text remained unpublished almost in its entirety, kept in the "writer's workshop," as an example of fantastic writing in its infancy. In 2007, after Martín Gaite's death, this first essay of hers was published, in which we can glimpse many of the themes that the author from Salamanca developed in her later work: the symbolism of objects and places, the blurred boundaries between dream and reality, the construction of the self through memory, the reflection on writing.... All these motifs refer us to her narrative world, and allow the unconditional reader to peek into the beginnings of one of the great authors of the Spanish twentieth century." -- Translation provided by NLS; Spanish LanguageEl laberinto de la soledad y otras obras (Penguin ediciones)
Par Octavio Paz. 1997
"Octavio Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character,…
and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains Octavio Paz' most famous work, a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico's quest for identity that gives us an unequaled look at the country hidden behind the mask. Also included are Postscript, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, and Mexico and the United States, all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America." -- GoodreadsEl caso de la dama zurda (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #02)
Par Nancy Springer. 2018
"London, 1889. Eluding her brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola sets up her own detective agency in London under…
an assumed name. Using many disguises and costumes, Enola investigates the disappearance of sixteen-year-old Lady Cecily, who may have eloped." -- Provided by NLSObras reunidas: II, Narrativa (Colección obras reunidas)
Par Margo Glantz. 2014
"This second volume of Margo Glantz's |Collected Works| offers her reconstructed chronicle |The Genealogies|, her story-essays |The Day of Your…
Wedding|, |Two Hundred Blue Whales|, |Shipwreck Syndrome|, and |On the Loving Inclination to Get Tangled Up in One's Hair|, plus her novel |Appearances|." -- Translation provided by NLSCarolina entre líneas (Secretos y papeles #01)
Par Tatiana M Alonzo. 2018
"In addition to being community manager at the bookstore Café y letras, and trying to get out of my routine…
even in my dreams, I have tried to write at least twenty stories in which I find true love in the way I least expect and with whom I least expect; from a millionaire who loves my shyness to an unruly man for whom I represent a challenge. Because come on, let's be frank, in real life that won't happen and fortunately it's not a crime to daydream. Hello, my name is Carolina and I'm addicted to love stories. And everything was going well in my stupid fantasy world until I started exchanging emails with the writer Alexander Donoso, whom I don't know anything about; because that name...is a pseudonym." -- Translation provided by NLSObedeciendo tus reglas (Tus reglas, mi juego #02)
Par Violeta Boyd. 2018
"Astrid Fissher is a quiet girl who dreams of going unnoticed in her second year of school after her older…
brother, Patrick, suffered at the hands of Mika McFly, a self-centered, deranged, manipulative boy who, along with his two inseparable friends, controls the halls of Jackson thanks to three drastic rules: 1. Don't touch them. 2. Don't look at them. 3. No talking to them. Astrid tries to follow those rules discreetly, because she knows the danger she is in if Mika discovers that she is the sister of the man who dared to confront him. However, one small mistake will uncover their secret and, with it, truths neither of them imagines." -- Translation provided by NLSEl mundo sin las personas que lo afean y lo arruinan (Literatura Mondadori #413)
Par Patricio Pron. 2010
"The eighteen stories that make up the book put an end to all the conventions of the genre, while being…
an extraordinary exploration of identity, memory, lies and, above all, of writing as a profession, an art and a way of life. |The World without People Who Ruin It and Make It Ugly| reminds us that the struggle and determination of writers, and their foolish pride, sometimes also lead to intimate and secret glory. Here is a writer we can no longer overlook." -- Translation provided by NLSColombian psycho
Par Santiago Gamboa. 2021
"Some human bones are unexpectedly discovered in the mountains of La Calera, east of Bogota. It's prosecutor Edilson Jutsiñamuy's mission…
to find their owner, hand in hand with agent Laiseca and the rest of his team. Julieta Lezama, his journalist friend, will join the investigation to unravel a chain of atrocious crimes that will lead her to get to know the writer Santiago Gamboa and his work, where she will find a fundamental key to understand the mystery of that disturbing discovery. The shrewd and intuitive Jutsiñamuy and the intrepid but troubled Lezama return in a dizzying story full of unique characters, including an indigenous professor who practices polyamory and an enigmatic Argentinean mercenary. Colombian Psycho is a fascinating plot of mirrors between reality and fiction, but also within the author's own fictions, who stakes his life on this disturbing X-ray of national reality." -- Translation provided by NLSEl caso del mensaje de despedida (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #06)
Par Nancy Springer. 2021
"Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes--Sherlock's much-younger sister--tackles two mysteries: finding the missing Lady Blanchefleur, who disappeared in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century…
London, and deciphering a message from her own estranged mother." -- Provided by NLSEl caso del pictograma (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #05)
Par Nancy Springer. 2020
"London, late 1850s. Enola, the much-younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when Enola's investigation into…
the disappearance of her landlady Mrs. Tupper, a Crimean War widow, grows cold." -- Provided by NLSEl caso del marqués desaparecido (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #01)
Par Nancy Springer. 2018
"England, 1888. When her sixty-four-year-old mother disappears on Enola's fourteenth birthday, Enola sends telegrams to her much older brothers Mycroft…
and Sherlock Holmes. After deciphering why her mother left, Enola escapes to London to search for her and becomes involved in a second mystery." -- Provided by NLSCambiando tus reglas (Tus reglas, mi juego #03)
Par Violeta Boyd. 2019
"Murphy Reedus is a young fanatic romance reader who is a freshman in college and claims to meet all the…
requirements to be the protagonist of a love story; however, as in every novel, Murph needs an ideal boy like out of a book to complement her. To do so, she has created three rules about how that dream guy should be: 1. He must be honest, both with her and with others. 2. He must not be an irresponsible guy. 3. He must love and respect her. With her three rules ready and studied, Murph searches for the perfect candidate for her historical book romance. But instead of finding one, she stumbles upon the crafty, lying, joking, womanizing Jax Wilson who, to top it all off, will be her new Vocal Expression partner." -- Translation provided by NLSLa casa de caramelo
Par Jennifer Egan. 2022
Uno de los 10 mejores libros del año según The New York Times. La culminación de un gran proyecto narrativo…
iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer) La casa de caramelo, que culmina el ambicioso proyecto narrativo de Jennifer Egan iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer en 2011), cuenta la historia de Bix Bouton, un brillante empresario informático en horas bajas que acaba patentando una exitosa herramienta tecnológica que permite acceder a nuestros recuerdos y compartirlos, y que ha seducido a miles de personas. Con una asombrosa variedad de recursos narrativos, Egan pone el foco en el mundo digital y de las redes sociales y nos cuenta la historia de diversos personajes que buscan una conexión real en un mundo cada vez más digitalizado e hiperconectado. La crítica ha dicho:«Un trepidante paseo polifónico por Estados Unidos en las garras de una tecnología que permite a los demás introducirse en tu mente».Margaret Atwood «Una novela compleja para un mundo complejo e hiperconectado. [...] Una novela que se ajusta a la época como un guante, sin renunciar a lo importante: la literatura.» El Mundo«Una auténtica golosina.» El Periódico «¿Ha escrito Jennifer Egan la Gran Novela Americana de la era de las redes sociales? [...] La casa de caramelo permanece fiel a ese peculiar estilo poliédrico con el que Egan consigue adaptar la forma al contenido de una era de la dispersión.» The Objective«La casa de caramelo y El tiempo es un canalla son las novelas neoyorquinas y tecnológicas más importantes de nuestro tiempo».The New York Times «Una hazaña increíble. [...] Que empiece el culto».New York Times Book Review «Trasciende mundos y dimensiones mientras examina lo que ocurre cuando nuestros recuerdos se ponen a disposición del consumo de otros. [...] Una lectura compleja y convincente que muestra el talento narrativo de Egan».TIME «Compuesta por piezas cortas interconectadas, […] está unida por la omnipresencia de una tecnología de ciencia ficción que no parece tan alejada de nuestra realidad actual».VOGUE «Una brillante demostración de los placeres incuantificables de la gran ficción».The Washington Post«El mejor libro de Jennifer Egan hasta la fecha».Publishers Weekly «Una novela contundente y fragmentada sobre un futuro aterradoramente posible».Library Journal «Una hermosa indagación sobre la pérdida, la memoria y la historia, una crítica sobre lo que se pierde cuando vivimos nuestras vidas en línea».The San Francisco Chronicle«Profundo. Egan explora con brillantez las vidas interconectadas de quienes abrazan la tecnología y de quienes la rechazan por completo. Hipnótico».People «Una obra de ficción especulativa maravillosa y de gran inventiva».Booklist «Tan apasionante y estimulante que exige ser leída y releída».Kirkus ReviewsEl Sueño de América: Una Novela
Par Esmeralda Santiago. 1996
América Gonzales es empleada de un hotel en una isla en la costa de Puerto Rico, donde limpia los cuartos…
de extranjeros ricos que miran de reojo. Su madre alcohólica le tiene resentimiento...su novio Correa, quien es casado le pega...y su hija de catorce años piensa que su vida seria mejor en cualquier otro lugar menos donde esté America.Asi que cuando le ofrecen la oportunidad de trabajar como criada y niñera para una familia en el municipio de Weschester, Nueva York, America cree que ha encontrado una puerta de escape. Pero al mismo tiempo en que disfruta del lujo relativo de su nueva vida atreviéndose incluso a querer a otro hombre que no sea Correa, América tiene que luchar contra la constante sensación de que nunca podra escapar su pasado, no importa lo que haga.