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What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and Bill's--an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men, their wives, Erica and Violet, and their sons, Matthew and Mark.The families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art, but the bonds between them are tested, first by sudden tragedy, and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. A beautifully written novel that combines the intimacy of a family saga with the suspense of a thriller, What I Loved is a deeply moving story about art, love, loss, and betrayal.

White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, their selfish love and cruel behaviour, and the search for love and identity.Astrid has been raised by her mother, a beautiful, headstrong poet. Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life. Astrid's fierce determination to survive and be loved makes her an unforgettable figure. 'LIQUID POETRY' - Oprah Winfrey 'Tangled, Complex and extraordinarily moving' - Observer

There were six of them. Professional men and their waiter. They gather at the Milano Restaurant once a month for good food and good conversation. But lately the Black Widowers have added a new entertainment to their meetings. They have begun to solve mysteries, murders, and conspiracies of seemingly impossible dimensions -- book cover

The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events -- the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague and the Fire of London -- Pepys provides a definitive eyewitness account. As well as recording public and historical events, Pepys paints a vivid picture of his personal life, from his socializing and amorous entanglements, to his theatre-going and his work at the Navy Board. Unequaled for its frankness, high spirits and sharp observations, the diary is both a literary masterpiece and a marvelous portrait of seventeenth-century life.Previously published as The Shorter Pepys, this edition is edited and abridged by Robert Latham, Fellow and Pepys Librarian at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Macon Leary se dedica a escribir guías para lo que llama turistas accidentales, personas que no están acostumbradas a viajar y necesitan tener cualquier imprevisto bajo control. Él mismo odia todas las eventualidades que rompen su rutina: no quiere que nada se le escape de las manos. La muerte de su hijo en un atraco y la ruptura de su matrimonio ponen a Macon entre la espada y la pared.. Descubre, por fin, que su vida carece de sentido. Pero pronto Muriel Pritchett una alegre adiestradora de perros, romperá con todos sus esquemas.

Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

Ambientada en el Nápoles del siglo XVIII y basada en las vidas de sir William Hamilton, su famosa mujer, Emma, y lord Nelson, acompañados por muchas de las grandes figuras del momento, esta novela histórica poco convencional, firmada por una de las grandes pensadoras del siglo, nos habla del sexo y la revolución, del destino natural, del arte y de la obsesión del coleccionista, pero, sobre todo, del amor. «Una novela de ideas apasionada, y a menudo radical, que contiene todos los placeres al viejo estilo de las novelas históricas tradicionales.» The New York Times Un examen apasionadamente feminista del cambio acaecido en la civilización occidental desde el Siglo de las Luces.

Toby Hood, a young Englishman, shuns the politics and the causes his liberal parents passionately support. Living in Johannesburg as a representative of his family's publishing company, Toby moves easily, carelessly, between the complacent wealthy white suburbs and the seething, vibrantly alive black townships. His friends include a wide variety of people, from mining directors to black journalists and musicians, and Toby's colonial-style weekends are often interspersed with clandestine evenings spent in black shanty towns. Toby's friendship with Steven Sithole, a dashing, embittered young African, touches him in ways he never thought possible, and when Steven's own sense of independence from the rules of society leads to tragedy, Toby's life is changed forever.

En el corazón del siglo XVIII, en una sociedad que habita entre las artes oscuras del viejo mundo y la nueva luz de la Razón, sobresale la figura fascinante de James Dyer, un hombre insensible al dolor, al amor, al odio y a la compasión. Un cirujano sin alma que domina el cuchillo con tanta habilidad como desapego. Dyer vive en carne propia las consecuencias de una época triste, sugerente y terrible que privilegia la razón por encima de los sentimientos.

Virginia Miner, una profesora universitaria soltera de más de cincuenta años, está en Londres para trabajar en su nuevo libro sobre rimas populares infantiles. A pesar de llevar un pasaporte estadounidense, Vinnie se siente esencialmente inglesa y mira con desdén a sus compatriotas. Sin embargo, se ve arrastrada a un affair embarazoso y extrañamente satisfactorio con un turista de Oklahoma que se viste de manera poco convencional. También en Londres está su colega Fred Turner, un joven apuesto, sin dinero, recién separado y completamente miserable, que intenta concentrarse en su propia investigación. En cambio, se distrae con una hermosa e impredecible actriz inglesa y el mundo al que pertenece. Ambos, estadounidenses y en el extranjero, experimentan una confusa alienación y vertiginosas relaciones románticas en la novela ganadora del Premio Pulitzer de Alison Lurie. Con una prosa inteligente, conmovedora y llena de ingenio, "Asuntos exteriores" se mantiene como una obra maestra cómica perdurable.

Een tienjarige weesjongen uit Edinburgh achterhaalt tijdens zijn verblijf bij zijn excentrieke oom in de Schotse Hooglanden de volledige waarheid omtrent zijn afkomst.

Vier Chinese vrouwen in San Francisco vertellen elkaar over hun jeugd in China.