Claude Demanuelli Libros

Reissue of this highly acclaimed Virago title, a 'finely written, beautiful and tragic novel' - Hermione Lee, FT

Entre mentiras, recuerdos e imaginación se teje la vida de la señora Winter, una famosa novelista ya muy entrada en años que pide ayuda a Margaret, una mujer joven y amante de los libros, para contar por fin la historia de su misterioso pasado. «Cuénteme la verdad», pide Margaret, pero la verdad duele, y solo el día en que Vida Winter muera sabremos qué secretos encerraba "El cuento número trece", una historia que nadie se había atrevido a escribir.

Novela ganadora del prestigioso premio PEN/FAULKNER, el DISCOVERY AWARD y el PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOKSELLERS AWARD. «Tanto en el mundo real como en la ficción, nunca he leído una crónica más absorbente de un litigio.» JOHN GRISHAM. «Cautivador...estremecedor. Elegante e impecablemente escrito.» THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW. En casos excepcionales, una primera novela sorprende y agrada a críticos exigentes, convirtiéndose en un bestseller. Un joven pescador es hallado muerto, atrapado entre las redes de su barco, en una tranquila isla del Pacífico Norte. La sospecha de asesinato altera la calma de los isleños, cuyas heridas de Pearl Harbor y la confrontación entre norteamericanos y japoneses aún no han sanado. Kazuo Miyamoto, amigo de la infancia del fallecido, es el principal sospechoso. Ishmael Chambers, director del periódico local, cubre el caso y observa cómo el juicio revela acontecimientos ocultos. En este contexto, Ishmael se reencuentra con Hatsue, su amor de adolescencia y esposa del acusado. El juicio desata viejos fantasmas y rencores soterrados, mientras la nieve cae sobre los cedros. La historia explora ambigüedades, arreglos de cuentas con el pasado y sentimientos como el racismo, la culpa, la moral individual y el amor. Una novela hermosa que sigue atrayendo lectores año tras año.

One of the most talked about fictional deacute;buts of the last decade, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing among many other things with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book.

John Updike's twentieth novel unfolds in a single day, featuring 78-year-old painter Hope Chafetz as she reflects on her life during an interview with Kathryn in central Vermont, spring 2001. Their dynamic explores themes of identity and the complex relationship between women, while recounting the evolution of postwar American art.

A wonderful new collection of short stories, most of which are published here for the first time.Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life (as the Duchess of Windsor) as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone — friend, foe or journalist — to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, had forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her.This superb story plays with the selectiveness of why does Wallis recall the seemingly unimportant, while forgetting the glory days of her notoriety? She can remember her first two husbands — one a bit of a brute, the other very boring — but not the world-famous third one.The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and an East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose in life. He tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his “frame” — or does he? And there’s a Christmas story set in a seedy hotel.From the Hardcover edition.

"It is twenty-five years after Lord Lucan's mysterious disappearance in the wake of the savage murder of his children's nanny and the vicious attack on his wife. The celebrated psychiatrist Dr. Hildegard Wolf is approached in her Paris consulting rooms by not one but two men, both claiming to be Lord Lucan. Dr. Wolf is intrigued. Which, if either, of the men is the real 'Lucky' Lucan? Will Lucan's daily appetite for smoked salmon and lamb chops provide the clue?". "Aiding and Abetting is a novel which races between Paris, London, the wilds of Scotland and central Africa, taking in blackmail, stigmata, Interpol investigations and Scottish monasteries along the way."--BOOK JACKET.