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In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same woman—Se-yeon—who tears at both of them as they all try desperately to find real connection in an atomized world. A spectral, nameless narrator haunts the edges of their lives as he tells of his work helping the lost and hurting find escape through suicide. Dreamlike and beautiful, the South Korea brought forth in this novel is cinematic in its urgency and its reflection of contemporary life everywhere—far beyond the boundaries of the Korean peninsula. Recalling the emotional tension of Milan Kundera and the existential anguish of Bret Easton Ellis, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself achieves its author’s greatest wish—to show Korean literature as part of an international tradition. Young-ha Kim is a young master, the leading literary voice of his generation.

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In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same woman—Se-yeon—who tears at both of them as they all try desperately to find real connection in an atomized world. A spectral, nameless narrator haunts the edges of their lives as he tells of his work helping the lost and hurting find escape through suicide. Dreamlike and beautiful, the South Korea brought forth in this novel is cinematic in its urgency and its reflection of contemporary life everywhere—far beyond the boundaries of the Korean peninsula. Recalling the emotional tension of Milan Kundera and the existential anguish of Bret Easton Ellis, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself achieves its author’s greatest wish—to show Korean literature as part of an international tradition. Young-ha Kim is a young master, the leading literary voice of his generation.

Macías Peredo Arquitectos es un estudio de arquitectura con sede en Guadalajara, México, fundado en 2012 por Salvador Macías y Magui Peredo. El estudio ha cosechado una serie de premios y reconocimientos tanto a nivel nacional como internacional entre los que destacan el primer premio en el concurso "Pabellón ECO" del Museo Experimental el Eco en Ciudad de México en 2013, el premio "Emerging Voices" de la Architectural League of New York en Estados Unidos en 2014, el primer premio concurso Cemex (Hotel Punta Caliza) en 2018, la Medalla de Plata del Premio Oscar Niemeyer de Arquitectura Latinoamericana (Torre AVANCER) en 2022, así como su participación en el Pabellón de México de la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia, Italia, en 2016 y 2021. Salvador Macías y Magui Peredo fueron nombrados en 2021 como miembros de la Academia Nacional de Arquitectura, Capítulo Guadalajara.

The book "Twenty -three Something they do not tell you about capitalism" is more like what is a vital legion to understand and manage our lives, and solve many of the puzzles surrounding it. And because we all live in the nose of the capitalist system, according to its conditions, and its areas that he draws, the reading of this book, and the sailing in its chapters is not intellectual luxury. The book, which was written by the South Korean economist Ha-JOON Chang, appeared to the light at the time; In the aftermath of the global economic crisis in the year (two thousand and eight), which the writer considered the second largest economic crisis in the history of mankind after the great thirties in the last century. It was not surprising that his book topped the best -selling lists, and his writer knocked on iron while he was hot, as there is no voice between humans that prevail over the sound of the global economic crisis that shook the world at the time.

Un imprescindible de la literatura latinoamericana. Horacio Castellanos Moya es una de las voces más provocadoras, originales y relevantes de la generación de Bolaño. José Zeledón, hombre silencioso y huraño, vive atormentado por su violento pasado. Tras huir de El Salvador con una nueva identidad después de la guerra civil, ha logrado pasar desapercibido durante años en Estados Unidos. Ahora debe dejar atrás Texas y empezar de nuevo en Wisconsin, donde un antiguo compañero de la guerrilla le ha conseguido una habitación amueblada en la ciudad universitaria de Merlow City y un trabajo de conductor de autobús escolar. Su anodina nueva vida se verá alterada al descubrir que otro compatriota salvadoreño, el experiodista Erasmo Aragón, ejerce como profesor en el Merlow College mientras busca esclarecer la muerte del poeta revolucionario Roque Dalton. Castellanos Moya es uno de los autores más incisivos y singulares de su generación y el único que, según Roberto Bolaño, ha sabido narrar «el horror, el Vietnam secreto que durante mucho tiempo fue Latinoamérica». Al igual que otros personajes de Moronga, Zeledón y Aragón son supervivientes del horror, seres paranoicos y en permanente estado de alerta. Ambos nos cuentan en primera persona historias en las que asoma su pasado, la guerrilla y el narco, mientras el autor entreteje una intrincada telaraña de violencia que atrapa al lector hasta alcanzar un trepidante final en el que todos los caminos se unen. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION An essential work in Latin American literature. Horacio Castellanos Moya is one of the most thought provoking, original, and relevant voices of the Bolaño generation. José Zeledón, a quiet and shy man, lives tormented by his violent past. After fleeing from El Salvador with a new identity after its civil war, he has managed to go unnoticed for years in the United States. Now he must leave Texas behind and start a new life in Wisconsin. His peaceful new life will be altered when he discovers that another Salvadorian, journalist Erasmo Aragon, is a professor at Merlow College while he works on finding the truth about the revolutionary poet Roque Dalton's death. Castellanos Moya is one of the most incisive and singular authors of his generation and the only one who, according to Roberto Bolaño, has been able to narrate "the horror, the secret Vietnam that was Latin America for a long time". Zeledón and Aragón are both survivors of the horror; both tell their first-person stories about their past, the guerrilla, and the narcos, while the author weaves an intricate cobweb of violence that soon reach a point where all roads cross.

Alguien tiene un secreto¡El nuevo libro de la autora de Alguien está mintiendo / One of Us is Lying, el thriller Young Adult best seller a nivel mundial! Ellery es nueva en Echo Ridges, pero ya lo sabe todo sobre el pueblo. Aquí, a veces, las chicas desapare-cen... y sus asesinatos siguen sin resolverse. Aunque las clases no han empezado aún, la futura reina del baile ha sido amenazada y una chica ha desaparecido... y todo apunta a que Ellery también está peligro. Y es que en Echo Ridges, todo el mundo tiene un secreto, y algunos secretos son peligrosos... *** Ellery tiene diecisiete años y una obsesión con el misterio. La hermana gemela de su madre desapareció cuando era adoles-cente en Echo Bridges, un pueblito de Nueva Inglaterra que ha vuelto a los titulares hace poco por el asesinato de otra chica, la reina del baile del instituto local. Cuando Ellery y su propio hermano gemelo Ezra se tienen que mudar con su abuela al pueblo, la obsesión de Ellery se topa con la realidad. Otra chica ha desaparecido, alguien ha amenazado públicamen-te a la siguiente reina del baile, y el chico que le gusta a Ellery es el principal sospechoso de la policía. Ellery sabe bastante de secretos. Su madre los tiene; su abuela también. Y cuanto más tiempo pasa en Echo Ridge, más claro queda que allí todos esconden algo... pero no todos han sabido en quién confiar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "When it comes to YA suspense, Karen M. McManus is in a league of her own. Fresh off her best-selling breakout Alguien está mintiendo / One of Us Is Lying . . . the author has returned with a juicy second novel. It's even better than what came before." -EW The New York Times bestselling "must-read YA thriller" (Bustle) from the author of Alguien está mintiendo / One of Us Is Lying! Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone has declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing. Ellery knows all about secrets. Her mother has them; her grandmother does too. And the longer she's in Echo Ridge, the clearer it becomes that everyone there is hiding something. The thing is, secrets are dangerous-and most people aren't good at keeping them. Which is why in Echo Ridge, it's safest to keep your secrets to yourself. 2 STARRED REVIEWS! Praise for Karen M. McManus's One of Us Is Lying A New York Times Bestseller An EW.com Best YA Book of the Year A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year A Popcrush Best Young Adult Book of the Year " Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club ....so make room for One of Us Is Lying in your bags, because this is one carry-on you won't want to put down ." -EW.com " A whodunit with a Breakfast Club twist ...following four unique voices on a chase to find the killer, this one will keep you guessing until the very, very end." - Popcrush "This is no ordinary whodunit ...surprising and relevant."- USA Today

Un imprescindible de la literatura latinoamericana. Horacio Castellanos Moya es una de las voces más provocadoras, originales y relevantes de la generación de Bolaño. José Zeledón, hombre silencioso y huraño, vive atormentado por su violento pasado. Tras huir de El Salvador con una nueva identidad después de la guerra civil, ha logrado pasar desapercibido durante años en Estados Unidos. Ahora debe dejar atrás Texas y empezar de nuevo en Wisconsin, donde un antiguo compañero de la guerrilla le ha conseguido una habitación amueblada en la ciudad universitaria de Merlow City y un trabajo de conductor de autobús escolar. Su anodina nueva vida se verá alterada al descubrir que otro compatriota salvadoreño, el experiodista Erasmo Aragón, ejerce como profesor en el Merlow College mientras busca esclarecer la muerte del poeta revolucionario Roque Dalton. Castellanos Moya es uno de los autores más incisivos y singulares de su generación y el único que, según Roberto Bolaño, ha sabido narrar «el horror, el Vietnam secreto que durante mucho tiempo fue Latinoamérica». Al igual que otros personajes de Moronga, Zeledón y Aragón son supervivientes del horror, seres paranoicos y en permanente estado de alerta. Ambos nos cuentan en primera persona historias en las que asoma su pasado, la guerrilla y el narco, mientras el autor entreteje una intrincada telaraña de violencia que atrapa al lector hasta alcanzar un trepidante final en el que todos los caminos se unen. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION An essential work in Latin American literature. Horacio Castellanos Moya is one of the most thought provoking, original, and relevant voices of the Bolaño generation. José Zeledón, a quiet and shy man, lives tormented by his violent past. After fleeing from El Salvador with a new identity after its civil war, he has managed to go unnoticed for years in the United States. Now he must leave Texas behind and start a new life in Wisconsin. His peaceful new life will be altered when he discovers that another Salvadorian, journalist Erasmo Aragon, is a professor at Merlow College while he works on finding the truth about the revolutionary poet Roque Dalton's death. Castellanos Moya is one of the most incisive and singular authors of his generation and the only one who, according to Roberto Bolaño, has been able to narrate "the horror, the secret Vietnam that was Latin America for a long time". Zeledón and Aragón are both survivors of the horror; both tell their first-person stories about their past, the guerrilla, and the narcos, while the author weaves an intricate cobweb of violence that soon reach a point where all roads cross.

Alguien tiene un secreto¡El nuevo libro de la autora de Alguien está mintiendo / One of Us is Lying, el thriller Young Adult best seller a nivel mundial! Ellery es nueva en Echo Ridges, pero ya lo sabe todo sobre el pueblo. Aquí, a veces, las chicas desapare-cen... y sus asesinatos siguen sin resolverse. Aunque las clases no han empezado aún, la futura reina del baile ha sido amenazada y una chica ha desaparecido... y todo apunta a que Ellery también está peligro. Y es que en Echo Ridges, todo el mundo tiene un secreto, y algunos secretos son peligrosos... *** Ellery tiene diecisiete años y una obsesión con el misterio. La hermana gemela de su madre desapareció cuando era adoles-cente en Echo Bridges, un pueblito de Nueva Inglaterra que ha vuelto a los titulares hace poco por el asesinato de otra chica, la reina del baile del instituto local. Cuando Ellery y su propio hermano gemelo Ezra se tienen que mudar con su abuela al pueblo, la obsesión de Ellery se topa con la realidad. Otra chica ha desaparecido, alguien ha amenazado públicamen-te a la siguiente reina del baile, y el chico que le gusta a Ellery es el principal sospechoso de la policía. Ellery sabe bastante de secretos. Su madre los tiene; su abuela también. Y cuanto más tiempo pasa en Echo Ridge, más claro queda que allí todos esconden algo... pero no todos han sabido en quién confiar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "When it comes to YA suspense, Karen M. McManus is in a league of her own. Fresh off her best-selling breakout Alguien está mintiendo / One of Us Is Lying . . . the author has returned with a juicy second novel. It's even better than what came before." -EW The New York Times bestselling "must-read YA thriller" (Bustle) from the author of Alguien está mintiendo / One of Us Is Lying! Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone has declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing. Ellery knows all about secrets. Her mother has them; her grandmother does too. And the longer she's in Echo Ridge, the clearer it becomes that everyone there is hiding something. The thing is, secrets are dangerous-and most people aren't good at keeping them. Which is why in Echo Ridge, it's safest to keep your secrets to yourself. 2 STARRED REVIEWS! Praise for Karen M. McManus's One of Us Is Lying A New York Times Bestseller An EW.com Best YA Book of the Year A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year A Popcrush Best Young Adult Book of the Year " Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club ....so make room for One of Us Is Lying in your bags, because this is one carry-on you won't want to put down ." -EW.com " A whodunit with a Breakfast Club twist ...following four unique voices on a chase to find the killer, this one will keep you guessing until the very, very end." - Popcrush "This is no ordinary whodunit ...surprising and relevant."- USA Today

Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world?from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña?gathered in one magnificent volume. Daughters of Latin America collects the intergenerational voices of Latine women across time and space, capturing the power, strength, and creativity of these visionary writers, leaders, scholars, and activists?including 24 Indigenous voices. Several authors featured are translated into English for the first time. Grammy, National Book Award, Cervantes, and Pulitzer Prize winners as well as a Nobel Laureate and the next generation of literary voices are among the stars of this essential collection, women whose work inspires and transforms us. An eclectic and inclusive time capsule spanning centuries, genres, and geographical and linguistic diversity, Daughters of Latin America is divided into 13 parts representing the 13 Mayan Moons, each cycle honoring a different theme. Within its pages are poems from U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and celebrated Cervantes Prize?winner Dulce María Loynaz; lyric essays from New York Times bestselling author Naima Coster, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Guggenheim Fellow Maryse Condé; rousing speeches from U.S. Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and Lencan Indigenous land and water protector Berta Caceres; and a transcendent Mazatec chant from shaman and poet María Sabina testifying to the power of language as a cure, which opens the book. More than a collection of writings, Daughters of Latin America is a resurrection of ancestral literary inheritance as well as a celebration of the rising voices encouraged and nurtured by those who came before them. En un recorrido por diferentes épocas, estilos y tradiciones, esta magnífica colección reúne piezas fundamentales de 140 escritoras, académicas y activistas latines de todo el mundo ?desde la poeta guerrera Audre Lorde hasta la novelista Edwidge Danticat, la escritora y artista Elizabeth Acevedo y la poeta Cecilia Vicuña?. Hilas de América Latina recoge las voces de mujeres latinas de distintas generaciones, a través del tiempo y el espacio, para capturar el poder, la fuerza y la creatividad de estas escritoras, líderes, académicas y activistas, incluidas 24 voces indígenas. Entre las luminarias que integran esta colección esencial se encuentra ganadoras de Grammys, del National Book Award, del Premio Cervantes y del Pulitzer, así como premios Nobel y la actual generación de voces literarias, mujeres visionarias cuyo trabajo nos ha inspirado y transformado. Cápsula del tiempo inclusiva y ecléctica que abarca siglos, generaciones y diversas regiones geográficas y lingüísticas, Hijas de América Latina se divide en 13 partes que representan las 13 lunas mayas; cada ciclo honra un tema diferente. En sus páginas se encuentran poemas de la galardonada poeta estadounidense Ada Limón y de Dulce María Loynaz, ganadora del Premio Cervantes; ensayos líricos de Naima Coster, autora bestseller del New York Times, de Quiara Alegría Hudes, acreedora del Premio Pulitzer, y de Maryse Condé, merecedora de una beca Guggenheim; potentes discursos de Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, diputada de los Estados Unidos, y Berta Caceres, protectora del agua y la tierra de las comunidades indígenas lencan; y un hermoso canto mazateca de la chamana y poeta María Sabina, que atestigua el poder curativo del lenguaje; con él, se inaugura el libro. Más que una colección de escritos, Hijas de América Latina es una resurrección de la herencia literaria ancestral.

This companion novel to Abigail Hing Wen's New York Times bestselling debut, Loveboat, Taipei, takes readers back to Taipei through the eyes of fan favorites Sophie and Xavier - on an unforgettable journey of glittering revelry and self-discovery that's perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Mary H. K. Choi. Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh have what some would call a tumultuous past. Hearts were broken, revenge was plotted - but at least they're friends now. They left the drama behind them back in Taipei - at their summer program, Loveboat - forever. Now that fall is here, they're focusing on what really matters. Sophie has sworn off boys and is determined to be the best student Dartmouth's ever had. Xavier just wants to stay under his overbearing father's radar, collect his trust fund when he turns eighteen, and concentrate on what makes him happy. But the world doesn't seem to want Sophie and Xavier to succeed. Sophie's college professor thinks her first major project is "too feminine." Xavier's father gives him an ultimatum: finish high school or be cut off from his inheritance. Then Sophie and Xavier find themselves on a wild, nonstop Loveboat reunion, hatching a joint plan to take control of their futures. Can they succeed together . . . or are they destined to combust? Praise for New York Times bestseller Loveboat, Taipei: "A unique story from an exciting and authentic new voice." -Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes "Equal parts surprising, original, and intelligent. An intense rush of rebellion and romance." -Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval "Fresh as a first kiss." -Stacey Lee, award-winning author of Outrun the Moon "Fresh, fun, heartfelt, and totally addictive, a story about finding your place-and your people-where you least expected." -Kelly Loy Gilbert, author of the William C. Morris Award finalist Conviction

La obra emblemática de una de nuestras escritoras canónicas, acompañada de un dossier crítico. Ixtepec es un pequeño poblado que ha sobrevivido los embates de la violenta presencia de las tropas de los ejércitos revolucionarios enfrentados en una lucha fratricida y sin tregua. Sus pobladores, desencantados porque la "revolución" no les llevó justicia ni progreso, llevan una vida anodina y nostálgica que se fractura otra vez ante un nuevo conflicto armado, la Guerra Cristera, que promete próximas desgracias. Las autoridades han designado al general Francisco Rosas para que se haga cargo de mantener el orden y haga cumplir las disposiciones que el gobierno central disponga, en especial lo relativo al cese del culto religioso. Las vidas del general Rosas, así como las de sus colaboradores más cercanos y las de sus amantes, las de las prostitutas, beatas, perros callejeros, locos y de los miembros más conocidos de las familias pudientes de Ixtepec, se verán mezcladas y llevadas a un destino trágico, donde no tienen cabida ni la ilusión ni el amor. Esta obra, considerada por muchos dentro de la corriente del realismo mágico, sustenta la fuerza de la narración en recursos poéticos que, lejos de confundir, potencian la trama; contada a través de varias voces, nos muestra un complejo entramado de planos narrativos entretejidos por la voz pétrea y sombría de los pobladores de Ixtepec, dejando al descubierto sus más íntimos y oscuros deseos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The emblematic work of one of Mexico's canonical writers, accompanied by a critical analysis. Ixtepec is a small village that has survived the battering of the violent presence of revolutionary troops pitted against each other in a ceaseless, fratricidal fight. Its residents, disillusioned because the "revolution" brought them neither justice nor progress, lead dull, nostalgic lives that are fractured again in the face of a new armed conflict, the Cristero War, which promises further misfortune. The authorities have charged Francisco Rosas with maintaining order and carrying out the wishes of the central government, especially those relating to ending religious worship. The lives of General Rosas, his closest collaborators, and his lovers, along with the lives of the prostitutes, clergy, street dogs, madmen, and most well-known members of Ixtepec's powerful families become intertwined and led to a tragic destiny, where there is no room for dreams or love. This work, considered by many to be in the vein of magic realism, supports the strength of its storytelling with poetic devices which merely enhance the plot. Told through various voices, this novel shows us a complex web of narrative planes that are interwoven through the stony, somber voices of Ixtepec's residents, exposing their darkest, most intimate desires.

Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world?from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña?gathered in one magnificent volume. Daughters of Latin America collects the intergenerational voices of Latine women across time and space, capturing the power, strength, and creativity of these visionary writers, leaders, scholars, and activists?including 24 Indigenous voices. Several authors featured are translated into English for the first time. Grammy, National Book Award, Cervantes, and Pulitzer Prize winners as well as a Nobel Laureate and the next generation of literary voices are among the stars of this essential collection, women whose work inspires and transforms us. An eclectic and inclusive time capsule spanning centuries, genres, and geographical and linguistic diversity, Daughters of Latin America is divided into 13 parts representing the 13 Mayan Moons, each cycle honoring a different theme. Within its pages are poems from U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and celebrated Cervantes Prize?winner Dulce María Loynaz; lyric essays from New York Times bestselling author Naima Coster, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Guggenheim Fellow Maryse Condé; rousing speeches from U.S. Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and Lencan Indigenous land and water protector Berta Caceres; and a transcendent Mazatec chant from shaman and poet María Sabina testifying to the power of language as a cure, which opens the book. More than a collection of writings, Daughters of Latin America is a resurrection of ancestral literary inheritance as well as a celebration of the rising voices encouraged and nurtured by those who came before them. En un recorrido por diferentes épocas, estilos y tradiciones, esta magnífica colección reúne piezas fundamentales de 140 escritoras, académicas y activistas latines de todo el mundo ?desde la poeta guerrera Audre Lorde hasta la novelista Edwidge Danticat, la escritora y artista Elizabeth Acevedo y la poeta Cecilia Vicuña?. Hilas de América Latina recoge las voces de mujeres latinas de distintas generaciones, a través del tiempo y el espacio, para capturar el poder, la fuerza y la creatividad de estas escritoras, líderes, académicas y activistas, incluidas 24 voces indígenas. Entre las luminarias que integran esta colección esencial se encuentra ganadoras de Grammys, del National Book Award, del Premio Cervantes y del Pulitzer, así como premios Nobel y la actual generación de voces literarias, mujeres visionarias cuyo trabajo nos ha inspirado y transformado. Cápsula del tiempo inclusiva y ecléctica que abarca siglos, generaciones y diversas regiones geográficas y lingüísticas, Hijas de América Latina se divide en 13 partes que representan las 13 lunas mayas; cada ciclo honra un tema diferente. En sus páginas se encuentran poemas de la galardonada poeta estadounidense Ada Limón y de Dulce María Loynaz, ganadora del Premio Cervantes; ensayos líricos de Naima Coster, autora bestseller del New York Times, de Quiara Alegría Hudes, acreedora del Premio Pulitzer, y de Maryse Condé, merecedora de una beca Guggenheim; potentes discursos de Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, diputada de los Estados Unidos, y Berta Caceres, protectora del agua y la tierra de las comunidades indígenas lencan; y un hermoso canto mazateca de la chamana y poeta María Sabina, que atestigua el poder curativo del lenguaje; con él, se inaugura el libro. Más que una colección de escritos, Hijas de América Latina es una resurrección de la herencia literaria ancestral.

LO SUPO DESDE EL PRIMER DÍA. NO DEBÍA PERDERSE EN SUS OJOS NI EN SU VOZ. Y, AUN ASÍ, SE ENAMORÓ DE MIA. La vida de Nika ha sido un infierno desde que tiene uso de razón. Cuando llega a Soleil huyendo de sus demonios, no espera demasiado de ese pueblucho en medio de la nada. Sin embargo, allí conoce a la persona que le cambiará la vida. Dividido entre el amor, la lujuria y el terror de sucumbir a su lado más oscuro, Nika debe decidir si puede llegar a ser lo bastante bueno para Mia, para amarla y cuidarla, o si debería alejarse de ella antes de hacerle daño. Y es que, tarde o temprano, el pasado siempre vuelve a llamar a la puerta... Toda historia tiene dos versiones. Ya conoces la de Mia. ¿Te atreves a conocer la de Nika? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION HE KNEW IT FROM DAY ONE. HE SHOULDN'T BE GETTING LOST IN HER EYES OR IN HER VOICE. AND STILL, HE FELL IN LOVE WITH MIA. Nika's life has been hell for as long as he can remember. When he arrives at Soleil running from his demons, he doesn't expect much from that small shabby town in the middle of nowhere. However, that is where he meets the person who will change his life forever. Torn between love, lust, and the horror of succumbing to his darker side, Nika must decide if he can ever be good enough for Mia, to love and care for her, or if he should walk away from her before he hurts her. Because sooner or later, the past always comes knocking at the door again... Every story has two sides. You already know Mia's side. Do you dare to know Nika's?

This companion novel to Abigail Hing Wen's New York Times bestselling debut, Loveboat, Taipei, takes readers back to Taipei through the eyes of fan favorites Sophie and Xavier - on an unforgettable journey of glittering revelry and self-discovery that's perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Mary H. K. Choi. Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh have what some would call a tumultuous past. Hearts were broken, revenge was plotted - but at least they're friends now. They left the drama behind them back in Taipei - at their summer program, Loveboat - forever. Now that fall is here, they're focusing on what really matters. Sophie has sworn off boys and is determined to be the best student Dartmouth's ever had. Xavier just wants to stay under his overbearing father's radar, collect his trust fund when he turns eighteen, and concentrate on what makes him happy. But the world doesn't seem to want Sophie and Xavier to succeed. Sophie's college professor thinks her first major project is "too feminine." Xavier's father gives him an ultimatum: finish high school or be cut off from his inheritance. Then Sophie and Xavier find themselves on a wild, nonstop Loveboat reunion, hatching a joint plan to take control of their futures. Can they succeed together . . . or are they destined to combust? Praise for New York Times bestseller Loveboat, Taipei: "A unique story from an exciting and authentic new voice." -Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes "Equal parts surprising, original, and intelligent. An intense rush of rebellion and romance." -Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval "Fresh as a first kiss." -Stacey Lee, award-winning author of Outrun the Moon "Fresh, fun, heartfelt, and totally addictive, a story about finding your place-and your people-where you least expected." -Kelly Loy Gilbert, author of the William C. Morris Award finalist Conviction

*WINNER OF 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL * FINALIST FOR THE NEBULA AWARD, and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES RAY BRADBURY PRIZE "The Mountain in the Sea is a wildly original, gorgeously written, unputdownable gem of a novel. Ray Nayler is one of the most exciting new voices I've read in years." -Blake Crouch, author of Upgrade and Dark Matter Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them. She travels to the islands to join DIANIMA's team: a battle-scarred securityagent and the world's first (and possibly last) android. The octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. As Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves. But no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. Or what they might do about it. A near-future thriller, a meditation on the nature of consciousness, and an eco-logical call to arms, Ray Nayler's dazzling literary debut The Mountain in the Sea is a mind-blowing dive into the treasure and wreckage of humankind's legacy.

La obra emblemática de una de nuestras escritoras canónicas, acompañada de un dossier crítico. Ixtepec es un pequeño poblado que ha sobrevivido los embates de la violenta presencia de las tropas de los ejércitos revolucionarios enfrentados en una lucha fratricida y sin tregua. Sus pobladores, desencantados porque la "revolución" no les llevó justicia ni progreso, llevan una vida anodina y nostálgica que se fractura otra vez ante un nuevo conflicto armado, la Guerra Cristera, que promete próximas desgracias. Las autoridades han designado al general Francisco Rosas para que se haga cargo de mantener el orden y haga cumplir las disposiciones que el gobierno central disponga, en especial lo relativo al cese del culto religioso. Las vidas del general Rosas, así como las de sus colaboradores más cercanos y las de sus amantes, las de las prostitutas, beatas, perros callejeros, locos y de los miembros más conocidos de las familias pudientes de Ixtepec, se verán mezcladas y llevadas a un destino trágico, donde no tienen cabida ni la ilusión ni el amor. Esta obra, considerada por muchos dentro de la corriente del realismo mágico, sustenta la fuerza de la narración en recursos poéticos que, lejos de confundir, potencian la trama; contada a través de varias voces, nos muestra un complejo entramado de planos narrativos entretejidos por la voz pétrea y sombría de los pobladores de Ixtepec, dejando al descubierto sus más íntimos y oscuros deseos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The emblematic work of one of Mexico's canonical writers, accompanied by a critical analysis. Ixtepec is a small village that has survived the battering of the violent presence of revolutionary troops pitted against each other in a ceaseless, fratricidal fight. Its residents, disillusioned because the "revolution" brought them neither justice nor progress, lead dull, nostalgic lives that are fractured again in the face of a new armed conflict, the Cristero War, which promises further misfortune. The authorities have charged Francisco Rosas with maintaining order and carrying out the wishes of the central government, especially those relating to ending religious worship. The lives of General Rosas, his closest collaborators, and his lovers, along with the lives of the prostitutes, clergy, street dogs, madmen, and most well-known members of Ixtepec's powerful families become intertwined and led to a tragic destiny, where there is no room for dreams or love. This work, considered by many to be in the vein of magic realism, supports the strength of its storytelling with poetic devices which merely enhance the plot. Told through various voices, this novel shows us a complex web of narrative planes that are interwoven through the stony, somber voices of Ixtepec's residents, exposing their darkest, most intimate desires.

*WINNER OF 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL * FINALIST FOR THE NEBULA AWARD, and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES RAY BRADBURY PRIZE "The Mountain in the Sea is a wildly original, gorgeously written, unputdownable gem of a novel. Ray Nayler is one of the most exciting new voices I've read in years." -Blake Crouch, author of Upgrade and Dark Matter Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them. She travels to the islands to join DIANIMA's team: a battle-scarred securityagent and the world's first (and possibly last) android. The octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. As Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves. But no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. Or what they might do about it. A near-future thriller, a meditation on the nature of consciousness, and an eco-logical call to arms, Ray Nayler's dazzling literary debut The Mountain in the Sea is a mind-blowing dive into the treasure and wreckage of humankind's legacy.

The 7 Key Principles to achieving YOUR business and life goals What could a graffiti artist, eminent neurologist, star athlete, celebrity chef, fashion designer, rocket scientist, and Grammy Award-winning musician possibly have in common? In this groundbreaking new book, Rana Florida shares their formula, giving you the tools to achieve unimaginable success in work and life. Upgrade gathers the best practices, not just from CEOs and business executives but from entrepreneurs, innovative thinkers, and creative leaders. Upgrade includes interviews with Sir Ken Robinson, Dan Pink, Mark Cuban, Andre Agassi, Kenny Scharf, Zaha Hadid, Governor Martin O'Malley, Tory Burch, Tim Brown, and many other leading figures. Despite this cast's vastly different backgrounds and skills, Florida's research concludes that there are seven key principles to achieving your business and life goals: Envision the future Find your passion Get creative Design your time Collaborate Take risks Embrace failure Unfortunately, this is exactly what the majority of us don't do. Instead of developing a real strategy to upgrade and optimize our lives, too many of us just slog through life in a state of "managed dissatisfaction." But it's never too late to envision an entirely different future-or to actively upgrade your life. It's not about finding more time, money, or resources. Anyone can do it. This smart and entertaining guide delves deep into each principle, giving you the insights, tools, and inspiration to take your life from ordinary to extraordinary. Praise for Upgrade "Why ride in coach, when you can upgrade? A must-read for a better journey through life." Don Tapscott, bestselling author, Wikinomics and Grown Up Digital "Upgrade is an a-ha book that will change how you look at life's challenges and give you tools to upgrade your life." Touré, cohost of MSNBC's The Cycle "Read Upgrade for its stories, examples, and strategies and get ready to live the life you always wanted." Frank Toskan, founder, M.A.C. Cosmetics "Creative and innovative strategies to upgrade your work and life, with seven simple principles." Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com, Inc., and New York Times bestselling author of Delivering Happiness "Rana's perspective on business and life is a fresh new take, breaking the traditional corporate mold. Upgrade is a must-read for anyone not buying into the conventional wisdom." Ali Velshi, CNN Chief Business Correspondent; anchor, CNN-I World Business Today; and host, CNN Your Money "Upgrade welcomes you to take a fresh approach to everything you do to get the most out of work and life." Nelly Furtado, Grammy Award-winning musician "If I'm going to listen to anyone's good advice about how to improve my approach to work and life, it's Rana's." Kate Betts, contributing editor, TIME, and columnist, The Daily Beast "Rana's voice is refreshing--as real as a memoir and a great vessel for this self-help and business book wrapped up in one easily-digestible package." Paper Magazine "A very interesting book." Business Learning Solutions

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: It is widely accepted that John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger was a turning-point in the history of British theatre, a milestone introducing the era of the New British Drama. Osborne remembers: "On 8 May 1956 [...] Look Back in Anger had its opening at the Royal Court Theatre. This [...] particular date seems to have become fixed in the memories of theatrical historians" and Lacey emphasises: "The moment of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger [...] was undoubtedly a symbolic one in the history of post-war British theatre and of post-war culture generally." However, Look Back in Anger was not perceived as a break-through right from the beginning. Rather, Osborne had to cope with shattering criticism and at first, his play was a crushing defeat. Osborne himself summarized the reactions towards Look Back in Anger in his autobiography about thirty years later: "There was a vehement, undisputed judgement: the play was a palpable miss." Nearly all reviews focused on the play's hero Jimmy Porter, whose nature they depicted as the reason for the "essential wrongness" of the play. Jimmy was seen as "a bitter young misfit," "a boor, self-pitying, self-dramatising rebel" and a "cynical, neurotic [young man] of working-class stock," whose "continuous tirade against life [...] ha[d] a deadening effect upon the whole play." Cecil Wilson sharpened the criticism when she exclaimed that Jimmy Porter's bitterness and his savage and often vulgar talk "crie[d] out for a knife." However, the attitudes towards Osborne and his first play changed with the publication of Kenneth Tynan's testimony in the Sunday newspaper a week later stating that he could hardly "love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger. It is the best young play of its decade." This provocative review suddenly shed a new light on the play. Overnight, Look Back in Anger had become a success, its (anti-)hero Jimmy Porter "the first young voice to cry out for a new generation that had forgotten the war, mistrusted the welfare state and mocked its established rulers with boredom, anger and disgust" and John Osborne had become a celebrated young writer. Owing to its literary key role in the history of British Drama I would like to give a brief overview of the critical opinions about Look Back in Anger before I move on to developing my own thesis.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: It is widely accepted that John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger was a turning-point in the history of British theatre, a milestone introducing the era of the New British Drama. Osborne remembers: "On 8 May 1956 [...] Look Back in Anger had its opening at the Royal Court Theatre. This [...] particular date seems to have become fixed in the memories of theatrical historians" and Lacey emphasises: "The moment of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger [...] was undoubtedly a symbolic one in the history of post-war British theatre and of post-war culture generally." However, Look Back in Anger was not perceived as a break-through right from the beginning. Rather, Osborne had to cope with shattering criticism and at first, his play was a crushing defeat. Osborne himself summarized the reactions towards Look Back in Anger in his autobiography about thirty years later: "There was a vehement, undisputed judgement: the play was a palpable miss." Nearly all reviews focused on the play's hero Jimmy Porter, whose nature they depicted as the reason for the "essential wrongness" of the play. Jimmy was seen as "a bitter young misfit," "a boor, self-pitying, self-dramatising rebel" and a "cynical, neurotic [young man] of working-class stock," whose "continuous tirade against life [...] ha[d] a deadening effect upon the whole play." Cecil Wilson sharpened the criticism when she exclaimed that Jimmy Porter's bitterness and his savage and often vulgar talk "crie[d] out for a knife." However, the attitudes towards Osborne and his first play changed with the publication of Kenneth Tynan's testimony in the Sunday newspaper a week later stating that he could hardly "love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger. It is the best young play of its decade." This provocative review suddenly shed a new light on the play. Overnight, Look Back in Anger had become a success, its (anti-)hero Jimmy Porter "the first young voice to cry out for a new generation that had forgotten the war, mistrusted the welfare state and mocked its established rulers with boredom, anger and disgust" and John Osborne had become a celebrated young writer. Owing to its literary key role in the history of British Drama I would like to give a brief overview of the critical opinions about Look Back in Anger before I move on to developing my own thesis.

El mundo de Mariana Enriquez no tiene por qué ser el nuestro, y, sin embargo, lo termina siendo. Bastan pocas frases para pisarlo, respirarlo y no olvidarlo gracias a una viveza emocional insólita. Con la cotidianidad hecha pesadilla, el lector se despierta abatido, perturbado por historias e imágenes que jamás conseguirá sacarse de la cabeza. Las autodenominadas "mujeres ardientes", que protestan contra una forma extrema de violencia doméstica que se ha vuelto viral; una estudiante que se arranca las uñas y las pestañas, y otra que intenta ayudarla; los años de apagones dictados por el gobierno durante los cuales se intoxican tres amigas que lo serán hasta que la muerte las separe; el famoso asesino en serie llamado Petiso Orejudo, que sólo tenía nueve años; hikikomori, magia negra, los celos, el desamor, supersticiones rurales, edificios abandonados o encantados... En estos once cuentos el lector se ve obligado a olvidarse de sí mismo para seguir las peripecias e investigaciones de cuerpos que desaparecen o bien reaparecen en el momento menos esperado. Ya sea una trabajadora social, una policía o un guía turístico, los protagonistas luchan por apadrinar a seres socialmente invisibles, indagando así en el peso de la culpa, la compasión, la crueldad, las dificultades de la convivencia, y en un terror tan hondo como verosímil. Mariana Enriquez es una de las narradoras más valientes y sorprendentes del siglo XXI, no sólo de la nueva literatura argentina a cargo de escritores nacidos durante la dictadura sino de la literatura de cualquier país o lengua. Mariana Enriquez transforma géneros literarios en recursos narrativos, desde la novela negra hasta el realismo sucio, pasando por el terror, la crónica y el humor, y ahonda con dolor y belleza en las raíces, las llamas y las tinieblas de toda existencia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling author Mariana Enriquez brings contemporary Argentina to vibrant life as a place where shocking inequality, violence, and corruption are the law of the land, while military dictatorship and legions of desaparecidos loom large in the collective memory. In these stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortázar, three young friends distract themselves with drugs and pain in the midst a government-enforced blackout; a girl with nothing to lose steps into an abandoned house and never comes back out; to protest a viral form of domestic violence, a group of women set themselves on fire. But alongside the black magic and disturbing disappearances, these stories are fueled by compassion for the frightened and the lost, ultimately bringing these characters--mothers and daughters, husbands and wives--into a surprisingly familiar reality. Written in hypnotic prose that gives grace to the grotesque, Things We Lost in the Fire is a powerful exploration of what happens when our darkest desires are left to roam unchecked, and signals the arrival of an astonishing and necessary voice in contemporary fiction.

Más de un millón de ejemplares vendidos. El murmullo de las abejas tiene todos los ingredientes esenciales para convertirse en un clásico de la literatura mexicana contemporánea. El murmullo de las abejas, el descubrimiento literario del año La autora que despierta la historia de México y recupera su lugar en nuestros corazones. En Linares, al norte del país, con la Revolución mexicana como telón de fondo.Un buen día, la vieja nana de la familia abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que parecía eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeños bultos, uno en cada brazo: de un lado un bebé misterioso y del otro un panal de abejas. Ante la insistencia de la nana por conversar y cuidar al pequeño, la familia Morales decide adoptarlo. Cubierto por el manto vivo de abejas que lo acompañarán y guiarán para siempre, Simonopio llega a cambiar la historia de la familia que lo acoge y la de toda una región. Para lograrlo, deberá enfrentar sus miedos, el enemigo que los acecha y las grandes amenazas de la guerra: la influenza española y los enfrentamientos entrelos que desean la tierra ajena y los que protegerán su propiedad a toda costa. El murmullo de las abejas huele a lavanda, a ropa hervida con jabón blanco, a naranjas y miel: una historia impredecible de amor y de entrega por una familia, por la vida, por la tierra y por un hermano al que se ha esperado siempre, pero también, la de una traición que puede acabarlo todo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution. From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family, because when the uncannily gifted child closes his eyes, he can see what no one else can—visions of all that’s yet to come, both beautiful and dangerous. Followed by his protective swarm of bees and living to deliver his adoptive family from threats—both human and those of nature—Simonopio’s purpose in Linares will, in time, be divined. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the devastating influenza of 1918, The Murmur of Bees captures both the fate of a country in flux and the destiny of one family that has put their love, faith, and future in the unbelievable.

'Padura ya es el mejor escritor contemporáneo de su país, y uno de los más importantes de Hispanoamérica.' José Manuel Martín Medem, El Mundo 'Un nuevo libro de Padura es una forma de entender la realidad cubana.' The New Yorker La vida de Rodolfo siempre ha estado marcada por el trauma de la guerra de Angola , pero sobre todo por el asesinato de su padre a manos de su hermano Geni, apodado Caballo Loco. Ahora, recién jubilado, Rodolfo se encuentra con que recobra la intimidad inesperada de su cuñada Nora, viejo amor de juventud , pero también con una noticia inquietante: van a excarcelar a su hermano parricida, aquejado de una enfermedad incurable, y no tiene otro destino que la casa familiar. En esa tensa espera, y durante poco más de una semana, se reavivarán viejos rencores, secretos familiares que creían enterrados , y en especial los detalles del sangriento asesinato que cambió la vida de todos en la familia. Solo la llegada de la hija de Rodolfo, y la intervención de un joven triunfador en una Habana desahuciada, darán el último y desesperado apoyo a Rodolfo. Un relato dramático, una novela magistral, que cuenta cincuenta años de historia de un país. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Padura is already the best contemporary writer in his country--and one of the most important voices in Latin America." José Manuel Martín Medem, El Mundo "A new Padura book is a way to understand Cuban reality." The New Yorker Rodolfo's life has always been shaped by the trauma of the war in Angola , but even more so by his father's murder at the hands of his brother Geni, nicknamed Crazy Horse. Now retired, Rodolfo finds himself reconnecting with his sister-in-law Nora, a long-lost love from his youth , but also facing disturbing news: his parricidal brother is being released from prison due to a terminal illness--and he's headed back to the family home. Over the course of just a week, old grudges and buried family secrets resurface , especially the bloody details of the murder that changed all their lives. Only the arrival of Rodolfo's daughter and the help of a young rising star in a crumbling Havana offer Rodolfo one last desperate lifeline. A powerful story, a masterful novel that spans fifty years of a nation's history.

La Vida Nueva tal como Zurita lo concibió: un verdadero acontecimiento en la poesía contemporánea.. Esta es la historia azarosa de un proyecto en el que Raúl Zurita ha empeñado la mitad de su vida. En 1983, tras haber cambiado para siempre la poesía chilena con Purgatorio y Anteparaíso, Zurita comenzó a escribir La Vida Nueva, libro con el que cerraría una trilogía poética de proyecciones inauditas. A pesar de trabajar en él durante más de una década, tan solo pudo ver publicada una versión reducida en 1994, tras lo cual los manuscritos se extraviaron. Cuando, por fortuna, Zurita logró recuperarlos gracias a un coleccionista, el proyecto inicial se reveló ante él en toda su magnitud. Hoy, más de veinticinco años después, se presenta por fin la edición final de La Vida Nueva. Un libro -un universo- donde los vecinos anónimos, los ríos que hablan y padecen y aman, las fotografías de un país desolado, los detenidos desaparecidos, las ciudades, los sueños, el amor, y la «hermana luna», la «hermana noche» y la «hermana muerte» se entrelazan en un canto delirante que le devuelve a la poesía el aliento épico y la grandeza, y que confirma a Zurita como una de las más grandes voces de la poesía contemporánea. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The New Life just as Zurita intended it: this is a truly remarkable event in contemporary poetry. This is the story of a project for which Raúl Zurita has devoted half of his life. In 1983, after having changed Chilean poetry forever with Purgatory and Anteparadise, Zurita began to write The New Life, a book that would close an unprecedented poetic trilogy. Despite working on it for more than a decade, he could only see a reduced version of it published in 1994, after which the manuscripts were lost. When Zurita was fortunate to recover them thanks to a collector, he was able to see to fruition his initial project in all its magnitude. Today, more than twenty-five years later, the final edition of The New Life is finally revealed. It is a book -a universe- where the mysterious neighbors, rivers that speak and feel and love, the photographs of a desolate country, those that disappeared, the cities, the dreams, the loves, "sister moon", "sister night", and "sister death" are intertwined in an emotional song that gives greatness back to poetry, and confirms Zurita as one of the greatest voices of contemporary poetry.

Más de un millón de ejemplares vendidos. El murmullo de las abejas tiene todos los ingredientes esenciales para convertirse en un clásico de la literatura mexicana contemporánea. El murmullo de las abejas, el descubrimiento literario del año La autora que despierta la historia de México y recupera su lugar en nuestros corazones. En Linares, al norte del país, con la Revolución mexicana como telón de fondo.Un buen día, la vieja nana de la familia abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que parecía eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeños bultos, uno en cada brazo: de un lado un bebé misterioso y del otro un panal de abejas. Ante la insistencia de la nana por conversar y cuidar al pequeño, la familia Morales decide adoptarlo. Cubierto por el manto vivo de abejas que lo acompañarán y guiarán para siempre, Simonopio llega a cambiar la historia de la familia que lo acoge y la de toda una región. Para lograrlo, deberá enfrentar sus miedos, el enemigo que los acecha y las grandes amenazas de la guerra: la influenza española y los enfrentamientos entrelos que desean la tierra ajena y los que protegerán su propiedad a toda costa. El murmullo de las abejas huele a lavanda, a ropa hervida con jabón blanco, a naranjas y miel: una historia impredecible de amor y de entrega por una familia, por la vida, por la tierra y por un hermano al que se ha esperado siempre, pero también, la de una traición que puede acabarlo todo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution. From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family, because when the uncannily gifted child closes his eyes, he can see what no one else can—visions of all that’s yet to come, both beautiful and dangerous. Followed by his protective swarm of bees and living to deliver his adoptive family from threats—both human and those of nature—Simonopio’s purpose in Linares will, in time, be divined. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the devastating influenza of 1918, The Murmur of Bees captures both the fate of a country in flux and the destiny of one family that has put their love, faith, and future in the unbelievable.

'Padura ya es el mejor escritor contemporáneo de su país, y uno de los más importantes de Hispanoamérica.' José Manuel Martín Medem, El Mundo 'Un nuevo libro de Padura es una forma de entender la realidad cubana.' The New Yorker La vida de Rodolfo siempre ha estado marcada por el trauma de la guerra de Angola , pero sobre todo por el asesinato de su padre a manos de su hermano Geni, apodado Caballo Loco. Ahora, recién jubilado, Rodolfo se encuentra con que recobra la intimidad inesperada de su cuñada Nora, viejo amor de juventud , pero también con una noticia inquietante: van a excarcelar a su hermano parricida, aquejado de una enfermedad incurable, y no tiene otro destino que la casa familiar. En esa tensa espera, y durante poco más de una semana, se reavivarán viejos rencores, secretos familiares que creían enterrados , y en especial los detalles del sangriento asesinato que cambió la vida de todos en la familia. Solo la llegada de la hija de Rodolfo, y la intervención de un joven triunfador en una Habana desahuciada, darán el último y desesperado apoyo a Rodolfo. Un relato dramático, una novela magistral, que cuenta cincuenta años de historia de un país. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Padura is already the best contemporary writer in his country--and one of the most important voices in Latin America." José Manuel Martín Medem, El Mundo "A new Padura book is a way to understand Cuban reality." The New Yorker Rodolfo's life has always been shaped by the trauma of the war in Angola , but even more so by his father's murder at the hands of his brother Geni, nicknamed Crazy Horse. Now retired, Rodolfo finds himself reconnecting with his sister-in-law Nora, a long-lost love from his youth , but also facing disturbing news: his parricidal brother is being released from prison due to a terminal illness--and he's headed back to the family home. Over the course of just a week, old grudges and buried family secrets resurface , especially the bloody details of the murder that changed all their lives. Only the arrival of Rodolfo's daughter and the help of a young rising star in a crumbling Havana offer Rodolfo one last desperate lifeline. A powerful story, a masterful novel that spans fifty years of a nation's history.

An instant New York Times Bestseller and Indie Bestseller! Now adapted for the screen! Catch Love in Taipei , starring Ashley Liao (Physical, Fresh Off The Boat), Ross Butler (To All The Boys I've Loved Before franchise, Shazam!), and Nico Hiraga (Booksmart) and Chelsea Zhang (Daybreak), now available on multiple streaming platforms, including Paramount+, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV! Don't miss Loveboat Reunion and Loveboat Forever, the next two companion novels in the Loveboat series! #1 Cosmopolitan Audiobook of the Year Featured in Entertainment Weekly, Seventeen, Boston Globe, South China Morning Post, World Journal, UK Evening Standard, Book Riot, Bustle, Nerd Daily, Forbes, Bloomberg, NBC Bay Area, ABC7 Barnes and Noble YA Book Club Pick Praised as “an intense rush of rebellion and romance” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Garber, this romantic and layered debut from Abigail Hing Wen is “a roller-coaster ride of romance and self-discovery.” (Kirkus) “Our cousins have done this program,” Sophie whispers. “Best kept secret. Zero supervision.” And just like that, Ever Wong's summer takes an unexpected turn. Gone is Chien Tan, the strict educational program in Taiwan that Ever was expecting. In its place, she finds Loveboat: a summer-long free-for-all where hookups abound, adults turn a blind eye, snake-blood sake flows abundantly, and the nightlife runs nonstop. But not every student is quite what they seem: Ever is working toward becoming a doctor but nurses a secret passion for dance. Rick Woo is the Yale-bound child prodigy bane of Ever's existence whose perfection hides a secret. Boy-crazy, fashion-obsessed Sophie Ha turns out to have more to her than meets the eye. And under sexy Xavier Yeh 's shell is buried a shameful truth he'll never admit. When these students' lives collide, it's guaranteed to be a summer Ever will never forget. “A unique story from an exciting and authentic new voice.” —Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes “Equal parts surprising, original, and intelligent. An intense rush of rebellion and romance.” —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval “Fresh as a first kiss.” —Stacey Lee, award-winning author of Outrun the Moon "Fresh, fun, heartfelt, and totally addictive, a story about finding your place—and your people—where you least expected." —Kelly Loy Gilbert, author of the William C. Morris Award finalist Conviction

El mundo de Mariana Enriquez no tiene por qué ser el nuestro, y, sin embargo, lo termina siendo. Bastan pocas frases para pisarlo, respirarlo y no olvidarlo gracias a una viveza emocional insólita. Con la cotidianidad hecha pesadilla, el lector se despierta abatido, perturbado por historias e imágenes que jamás conseguirá sacarse de la cabeza. Las autodenominadas "mujeres ardientes", que protestan contra una forma extrema de violencia doméstica que se ha vuelto viral; una estudiante que se arranca las uñas y las pestañas, y otra que intenta ayudarla; los años de apagones dictados por el gobierno durante los cuales se intoxican tres amigas que lo serán hasta que la muerte las separe; el famoso asesino en serie llamado Petiso Orejudo, que sólo tenía nueve años; hikikomori, magia negra, los celos, el desamor, supersticiones rurales, edificios abandonados o encantados... En estos once cuentos el lector se ve obligado a olvidarse de sí mismo para seguir las peripecias e investigaciones de cuerpos que desaparecen o bien reaparecen en el momento menos esperado. Ya sea una trabajadora social, una policía o un guía turístico, los protagonistas luchan por apadrinar a seres socialmente invisibles, indagando así en el peso de la culpa, la compasión, la crueldad, las dificultades de la convivencia, y en un terror tan hondo como verosímil. Mariana Enriquez es una de las narradoras más valientes y sorprendentes del siglo XXI, no sólo de la nueva literatura argentina a cargo de escritores nacidos durante la dictadura sino de la literatura de cualquier país o lengua. Mariana Enriquez transforma géneros literarios en recursos narrativos, desde la novela negra hasta el realismo sucio, pasando por el terror, la crónica y el humor, y ahonda con dolor y belleza en las raíces, las llamas y las tinieblas de toda existencia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling author Mariana Enriquez brings contemporary Argentina to vibrant life as a place where shocking inequality, violence, and corruption are the law of the land, while military dictatorship and legions of desaparecidos loom large in the collective memory. In these stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortázar, three young friends distract themselves with drugs and pain in the midst a government-enforced blackout; a girl with nothing to lose steps into an abandoned house and never comes back out; to protest a viral form of domestic violence, a group of women set themselves on fire. But alongside the black magic and disturbing disappearances, these stories are fueled by compassion for the frightened and the lost, ultimately bringing these characters--mothers and daughters, husbands and wives--into a surprisingly familiar reality. Written in hypnotic prose that gives grace to the grotesque, Things We Lost in the Fire is a powerful exploration of what happens when our darkest desires are left to roam unchecked, and signals the arrival of an astonishing and necessary voice in contemporary fiction.

This companion novel to Abigail Hing Wen’s New York Times bestselling debut, Loveboat, Taipei, takes readers back to Taipei through the eyes of fan favorites Sophie and Xavier—on an unforgettable journey of glittering revelry and self-discovery that’s perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Mary H. K. Choi. Stream Love in Taipei, the movie adaptation of Loveboat, Taipei, now available on multiple streaming platforms, including Paramount+, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV! Don't miss Loveboat Forever, the third companion novel in the series, on sale November 2023! Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh have what some would call a tumultuous past. Hearts were broken, revenge was plotted—but at least they’re friends now. They left the drama behind them back in Taipei—at their summer program, Loveboat—forever. Now that fall is here, they’re focusing on what really matters. Sophie has sworn off boys and is determined to be the best student Dartmouth’s ever had. Xavier just wants to stay under his overbearing father’s radar, collect his trust fund when he turns eighteen, and concentrate on what makes him happy. But the world doesn’t seem to want Sophie and Xavier to succeed. Sophie’s college professor thinks her first major project is “too feminine.” Xavier’s father gives him an ultimatum: finish high school or be cut off from his inheritance. Then Sophie and Xavier find themselves on a wild, nonstop Loveboat reunion, hatching a joint plan to take control of their futures. Can they succeed together . . . or are they destined to combust? Praise for New York Times bestseller Loveboat, Taipei: “A unique story from an exciting and authentic new voice.” —Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes “Equal parts surprising, original, and intelligent. An intense rush of rebellion and romance.” —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval “Fresh as a first kiss.” —Stacey Lee, award-winning author of Outrun the Moon "Fresh, fun, heartfelt, and totally addictive, a story about finding your place—and your people—where you least expected." —Kelly Loy Gilbert, author of the William C. Morris Award finalist Conviction