Mario Biondi es un autor italiano, reconocido por su trabajo con la ficción angloamericana. Como hábil crítico y traductor de escritores notables, ha aportado su distintiva voz literaria a numerosas obras. Su propia escritura, que abarca tanto la poesía como la prosa, ofrece profundas perspectivas sobre la psique humana y los temas sociales, estableciéndolo como una figura única en el panorama literario.
These richly hypnotic tales enfold the reader into Isaac Bashevis Singer's special world of imps, demons, lovers, and other mischievous creatures. His world is a world of feelings, driven by lust, lechery, greed, madness, and love. All of his creatures are seen with a clear but loving eye; all seem and are in fact possessed by good and evil, caught in fascinating dilemmas, now terrible, now wryly comic. Here is a dazzling new collection of stories from the fertile genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of today's most entertaining and original writers. (from back cover)
"Sean Courtney was raised in cattle country, and accidently maimed his twin brother Garry as a boy. In inflicting weakness, Sean came to despise weakness in all. This, plus his own strength, was to dictate Sean's iron resolve to win, no matter how much the gamble cost. After a stint fighting the Zulu tribes, Sean trys his luck in the gold fields. Venturing an impossible claim which miraculously proves out, Sean gains wealth beyond counting and power. Power that was unmanageable without cunning. But cunning was an art he was to learn the hard way."
In 1860 Robyn Ballantyne and her brother return to Africa to search for their missing father and face the terrors of near certain death and the uncertainties of love in the heart of the Dark Continent
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 Sólo en casos muy excepcionales una primera novela que sorprende y gusta a los críticos más exigentes y recibe un premio tan prestigioso como el PEN/Faulkner pasa a ser, además, una de las obras más vendidas en el mundo. Éste es el caso. Un joven pescador es hallado muerto, atrapado entre las redes de su barco, en las aguas de una pequeña y tranquila isla del Pacífico Norte. La sospecha de asesinato perturbará la calma existente entre los habitantes de la isla, para los que las heridas de Pearl Harbor y la confrontación entre norteamericanos y japoneses en la guerra parecen no haberse cerrado. Kazuo Miyamoto, amigo de la infancia del joven pescador asesinado, es el principal sospechoso. Ishmael Chambers, director del periódico local, se encarga de cubrir el caso y observa cómo el juicio consigue sacar a la luz ciertos acontecimientos ocultos. En este ambiente, Ishmael se reencontrará con Hatsue, su gran amor de adolescencia y esposa del acusado. El juicio y una espiral de acontecimientos despertarán viejos fantasmas y revelarán rencores soterrados. Mientras, la nieve sigue cayendo sobre los cedros y la historia va descubriendo perversas ambigüedades, arreglos de cuentas con el pasado y sentimientos subyacentes, como el racismo, la culpa, la moral individual y el amor. Una novela soberbia y hermosa que sigue sumando, año tras año, miles de lectores.
With three wickedly funny and harrowing tales of love and its ups and downs, the ever-surprising Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, virtually re-invents a new genre of fiction: the chemical romance. In Lorraine goes to Livingston, a best-selling author of Regency romances, paralysed and bedridden, plans her revenge on a gambling, whoring husband with the aid of her nurse, Lorraine. In Fortune's Always Hiding, flawed beauty Samantha Worthington enlists a smitten young soccer thug to find the man who marketed the drug that crippled her from birth - in order to give him a taste of his own disastrous medicine. In the upbeat final tale, The Undefeated, we experience the transfiguring passion of the miserably married young yuppie Heather and the raver Lloyd from Leith - a grand affair played out to a house music beat.
1954, Stati Uniti: San Pedro è un'isola di rara bellezza, ma così sperduta che nessuno dei suoi abitanti può permettersi di avere nemici. Quando però un pescatore muore in circostanze sospette e un membro della locale comunità giapponese viene accusato di omicidio, il precario equilibrio del microcosmo si dissolve sotto la bufera dei pregiudizi, delle differenze culturali ed etniche, dei rancori sedimentati nel corso degli anni.
