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Pat Conroy returns with a sprawling novel that serves as a love letter to Charleston and lifelong friendship. Set against the lush backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, the story follows Leopold Bloom King, the son of a loving science teacher and a well-known Joyce scholar. After the tragic suicide of his older brother, Leo grapples with the profound impact of loss and seeks connection. He eventually finds solace in a close-knit group of high school seniors, including the glamorous twins Sheba and Trevor Poe, the resourceful Niles and Starla Whitehead, socialite Molly Huger, and her boyfriend Chadworth Rutledge X. Their relationships evolve over two decades, navigating the complexities of the 1960s counterculture to the onset of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. The bonds among this diverse group withstand the tests of time, enduring through marriages, unrequited loves, and Charleston's deep-rooted issues of racism and class. However, a final challenge awaits them in San Francisco, one that none of them are prepared for. This novel showcases Conroy's unparalleled passion for life and language, highlighting the enduring nature of friendship amidst life's trials.

Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or remember, they hold an enduring power. In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred boundary between lived events and recreated images, and the desires that lead us to record our lives.

'One of the finest novels I have read in years' John Banville, Observer 'It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn't open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that drifted around lesser places . . . ' Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to make a life for themselves. In the harsh and uncompromising world of the seventies and eighties, they are outsiders, misfits, dreamers without a blueprint. But as they form a new kind of relationship, a new approach to family and love - questioning so much about the world around them - so they hope to create a space, a home, in which to live. 'Intensely, almost painfully intimate. A superb and major novel' David Leavitt 'A writer of great gifts. Cunningham's voice reaches that lyrical beauty in which even the grimmest events suggest their potential for grace' TheNew York Times Book Review 'As well as being fluent and attractive, this intimate saga of our times is immensely wise' Mail on Sunday 'Cunningham writes with power and delicacy of his three characters. Yet each one retains the mystery that in people is called soul, and in fiction is called art' TheLos Angeles Times

“Toda familia tiene su oveja negra; en la nuestra era el tío Petros”, dice el sobrino favorito de Petros Papachristos, quien narra las peripecias de su tío en esta novela de Apostolos Doxiadis. El anciano vive alejado de la vida social, dedicado a su jardín y al ajedrez. Sin embargo, su sobrino descubre que Petros fue un matemático eminente, profesor en Alemania e Inglaterra, y un niño prodigio obsesionado con sus investigaciones. Su vida ha estado centrada en la demostración de la Conjetura de Goldbach, un problema aparentemente sencillo que ha desafiado a matemáticos durante más de dos siglos: “Todo número par superior a dos se puede escribir como suma de dos números primos”. La forma en que se plantea el problema es magnífica. El sobrino, interesado en estudiar matemáticas, busca consejo de su tío, quien le propone un reto: demostrar que cualquier número par mayor que dos es la suma de dos primos. El sobrino no logra resolverlo y abandona las matemáticas, hasta que un compañero le revela la trampa de su tío. A partir de ahí, Doxiadis nos lleva a una extraordinaria aventura personal en el mundo de las matemáticas, donde personajes ficticios interactúan con grandes matemáticos del siglo pasado, mostrando el esfuerzo y sufrimiento de un científico por resolver un enigma y la lucha del ser humano por conquistar lo imposible.

The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs—the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them—a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .

Un grupo de americanos e ingleses afincados en Pars. Personajes desgarrados, errticos y descritos con tal veracidad que acabarn dando nombre a esa Generacin Perdida, terminada la Primera Guerra Mundial. Sus andanzas desde la Rive Gauche a los Sanfermines, narradas con pulso tenso, en una atmsfera desesperadamente vital, y amenazante.

Testi successivi alla raccolta dei Quarantanove Racconti pubblicati in volumi e riviste, pubblicati originariamente come "Part II" e "Part III" de "The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway"

A twentieth-century adventure that will plunge you into the heart of Africa with three intrepid adventurers, in a desperate bid to find the fabulous diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj. In it you will encounter the Kigani cannibals, flaming volcanoes, feroc

22x15. Encuadernación editorial con sobrecubierta. 372 pgs.

'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe- lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...

En las profundidades del océano Pacífico se descubre la presencia de una misteriosa nave espacial de grandes dimensiones. Las autoridades norteamericanas envían a un grupo de científicos para que investigue el inquietante hallazgo. Una de las novelas mas escalofríantes.

Un avión secuestrado explota sobre el Canal de la Mancha. Dos actores indios, Gibrel y Saladin, caen en una playa inglesa, donde sufren extrañas transformaciones: Gibrel adquiere un halo, mientras Saladin desarrolla pezuñas. Comienza así una odisea que fusiona lo real con lo imaginado, simbolizando lo angelical y lo maligno.

Adam Dalgliesh tendrá que desvelar en esta ocasión el misterio que rodea el asesinato de dos hombres a los que la muerte ha unido, pero que en vida raramente habrían coincidido: un barón y un vagabundo alcohólico. Antes de alcanzar su objetivo, no obstante, deberá enfrentarse a un crimen que conmueve la opinión pública e introducirse en las mansiones de la enigmática clase alta londinense. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Adam Dalgliesh unravels the murder of two men that death has united who never coincided in life: a noble and a homeless alcoholic. He will explore the web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet eyed-pregnant widow.

En la Inglaterra de 1867, el joven Charles Smithson conoce a Sara Woosroff, a la que llaman «la mujer del teniente francés». Entre ambos nace un amor apasionado que chocará con la rígida moral victoriana. Jugando ingeniosamente con las convenciones de la novela decimonónica, el autor construye un brillante libro que relata una pasión, recrea minuciosamente el período victoriano y propone una aguda reflexión sobre el sentido último de la literatura.

Left alone by her partner's suicide, Cordelia Gray struggles to manage the private detective agency they once shared.