M.V. Versluys Orden de los libros (cronológico)

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En vísperas de las Segunda Guerra Mundial, el joven Stephen es enviado a la casa de su familia, en Japón, para recuperarse de una tuberculosis. Allí descansará, nadará en las sanas aguas del mar y pintará bajo la brillante luz que baña la costa. Estará en un ambiente tranquilo y solitario hasta el encuentro con cuatro residentes locales: una hermosa joven japonesa y tres personas de edad más avanzada. Lo que surge a continuación es una narración, a un mismo tiempo, clásica y extraordinariamente singular. El joven protagonista tendrá su propia aventura existencial, pero será el despliegue de la historia de Matsu, Sachi y Kenzo lo que atraerá la atención y lo que el lector recordará al terminar las páginas de este apasionante libro.

Amsterdam, 1667. Pieter Blaeu, a young publisher, meets the aged, destitute painter Rembrandt van Rijn, and is powerfully drawn into his orbit. Together with a poet named Clara he begins a pursuit of the elusive man's confidence, in a quest that is at once a love affair and a layered, luminous portrait of a most mysterious artist and his world. "Here are the sights, smells, sounds and colours of the Dutch golden age alchemised into fictional gold...The marriage of art, history and fiction has rarely been so alive. A cause for celebration" - "The Times". "It is no mean feat for a young writer to pitch herself against the great master and attempt to achieve in prose the explorations of identity that Rembrandt achieved in paint...Van Rijn returns us to [the paintings] with a renewed sense of wonder" - "TLS". "An enticing journey into the past, well observed and researched, and providing a tour of the alternative artistic life of the seventeenth century" - "Sunday Times".

Después del gran éxito mundial de su novela El negociador, Forsyth ofrece una apasionante recreación de los servicios británicos de inteligencia en la década de 1980 a través de cuatro importantes casos protagonizados por uno de sus personajes más memorables: Sam McCready, el Manipulador. McCready es uno de los agentes secretos británicos más valiosos, una leyenda viviente tras siete años al frente del Departamento de Desinformación y Operaciones Psicológicas

Chili Palmer, a loan shark with a knack for trouble, finds himself working for his old rival, Ray Bones, years after a personal confrontation. Tasked with collecting a debt from the seemingly deceased Leo Devoe, Chili discovers Leo is alive and in Las Vegas with a hefty insurance payout. This revelation leads him into the glitzy world of Hollywood, where he navigates the film industry while pursuing Leo. The journey blurs the lines between crime and cinema, revealing that success in both realms requires savvy and determination.

The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course, in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel

Sonia Riccardi, impetuous and sensual, is a woman no man could resist. And Larry Astell, heir to a champagne fortune, knows their passion is the most important part of his life. Until war places in jeopardy all they held dear - love, family and country.From the Left Bank of the 1930s to Nazi-occupied Paris, A FAREWELL TO FRANCE is a magnificent epic, played out against the tumultuous background of the time: a decadent French government, the life of a foreign correspondent, the grandeur of the champagne regions and the glory of the French Resistance.

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