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Texas welder Llewelyn Moss makes a dubious discovery while out hunting antelope near the banks of the Rio Grande: a dead man, a stash of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Moss packs out the money, knowing his actions will imperil him for the rest of his life. He's soon on the run, left to his own devices against vengeful drug dealers, a former Special Forces agent, and a psychopathic freelance killer with ice blue eyes. Shades of Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, and Faulkner resonate in McCarthy's blend of lyrical narrative, staccato dialogue, and action-packed scenes splattered with bullets and blood. McCarthy fans will revel in the author's renderings of the raw landscapes of Mexico and the Southwest and the precarious souls scattered along the border that separates the two. Many are the men here who maim in the name of drugs. "If you killed 'em all," says the local sheriff, "they'd have to build an annex onto hell."

Inquietante y lúcida, la última novela del gran Cormac McCarthy tiene como escenario un terreno baldío, un páramo carbonizado que es lo único que queda de lo que alguna vez fue Norteamérica. Ya no existe más vida sobre la tierra que la humana y los hombres se comen los unos a los otros. Un padre y su hijo recorren este mundo apocalíptico sin saber cuál es su destino. El protagonista recuerda los viejos tiempos, pero no sabe con certeza si esa memoria no es más que un mito, una necesidad de crear una historia fundacional que dé sentido a la desolación que le rodea. Una demoledora fábula sobre el futuro del ser humano, destinada a convertirse en la obra maestra del autor.

Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is: - How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations; - An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante; - A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying; - Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. But most of all, Selin does not expect to embark on a study of precisely how baffling love can be when you are trying to forge a self...

** The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** ** The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller ** The UK's best selling hardback debut novel of 2016 Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Evening Standard, Observer and The Times California. The summer of 1969. In the dying days of a floundering counter-culture a young girl is unwittingly caught up in unthinkable violence, and a decision made at this moment, on the cusp of adulthood, will shape her life.... 'This book will break your heart and blow your mind.' Lena Dunham Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air and the sidewalks radiate heat. Until she sees them. The snatch of cold laughter. Hair, long and uncombed. Dirty dresses skimming the tops of thighs. Cheap rings like a second set of knuckles. The girls. And at the centre, Russell. Russell and the ranch, down a long dirt track and deep in the hills. Incense and clumsily strummed chords. Rumours of sex, frenzied gatherings, teen runaways. Was there a warning, a sign of things to come? Or is Evie already too enthralled by the girls to see that her life is about to be changed forever?

«Il luogo sottile», secondo la mitologia celtica, è quello in cui si fa più cedevole la membrana fra il mondo fisico e quello spirituale; in questo romanzo originalissimo e affabulatorio, il luogo sottile è Varennes, piccolo centro attorno a un lago del New England dove si intrecciano le vite e le voci di un coro di personaggi: la giovane Mees, che scopre all’improvviso di avere il potere di restituire la vita a ciò che è morto, le sue amiche sul limitare dell’adolescenza, le anziane (ma tutt’altro che spente) signore della casa di riposo, un impenitente dongiovanni di mezza età, due minacciosi sconosciuti che turbano la quiete della cittadina (e saranno protagonisti di un drammatico finale) – ma anche i cani e i gatti degli abitanti, i castori che popolano il lago, perfino i licheni e i fiori che ne ricoprono le sponde. Un microcosmo brulicante di vita – misteriosa, paradossale, a volte violenta – che Kathryn Davis sa ritrarre con la maestria di una scrittrice già «classica».