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In this book the anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz recounts the exile of his grandparents, from Eastern Europe to South America, and how, established in Lima in 1924, they became intensely involved in the Peruvian left-wing intellectual environment and strove to link the indigenous past with an emancipatory internationalism that included Jewish culture and thought. They were friends with José Carlos Mariátegui, arguably the most pro...

Written almost a decade before the publication of his magnum opus Ulysses, the fifteen stories that make up Dubliners form James Joyce's first great narrative piece, a tribute to his hometown that already denotes the author's great capacity for observation and mockery, as well as the sensitivity and minimalism typical of his literature. In this collection of stories appear corrupt politicians, failed priests, melancholic adolescents, seducers,...

Candide tells the misadventures of an optimistic traveler who desperately clings to the Leibnizian belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." Cruel, funny and at times outrageous, the immortal tale of the French philosopher takes Candide on a journey around the world to discover that... contrary to the teachings of his distinguished tutor, Dr. Pangloss... Not everything always happens for the best. A work that, in the form of s...

Heidi is the story of a five-year-old orphan girl who has to go live with her grandfather, a lonely and somewhat rude man, in the Swiss Alps. Little by little, Heidi will win the affection of her grandfather and all the inhabitants of the valley. Her life will become complicated when she has to return to the city with her aunt Dete. A book full of innocence, where human values and love for nature are highlighted.

In 1879 Tolstoy came to believe that his achievements and existence were meaningless, plunging him into a state of extreme pain and restlessness that seemed to lead him fatally towards suicide. Written in a vital period that marks a change in his aesthetic trajectory and leads him to the religious field, My Confession recounts this spiritual crisis in an intense and brief chronicle about a search for the truth that will transform his life and ...

There are titles that go down in history for reasons that have more to do with the legend around their publication than with their content. Ulysses' fame is due, above all else, to the immense controversy that accompanies it and that has made it the most fascinating book of the 20th century. It should be remembered that Ulysses is not so much a novel as a colossal experiment that requires patience to understand the rules of the game that James...

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Istanbul, 2001. Maya Duran is a single mother struggling to balance a demanding job at Istanbul University with the challenges of raising a teenage son. Her worries increase when she is tasked with looking after the enigmatic Maximilian Wagner, an elderly German-born Harvard professor visiting the city at the university's invitation. Although he is distant at first, Maya gradually learns of the tragic circumstances that brought him to Istanbul...

Master of story and verse, Rudyard Kipling transports us through these Jungle Books to the wonderful and ruthless world of Mowgli, Bagheera, Baloo, Kaa and Shere Khan. From India to the Labrador peninsula, passing through Alaska, characters like Rikki Tikki Tavi, the young Inuit from Quiquern or Kotock, the white seal, invite us to peek into a universe where difficulties are faced head-on and in which, you are never really alone. A controversi...

A Passage to India is considered E. M. Forster's greatest success, covering the themes of the clash of classes and hypocrisy he was well known for throughout his literary career. The novel was based on his own personal experiences while in India.

Drawing inspiration from the story the world forgot and the Russian government denies, Erin Littleken recounts the crisis of a man-made famine in Ukraine that claimed nearly four million lives. It is 1929 and Katya is sixteen years old, she is surrounded by her family and in love with her childhood friend of hers. When Stalin's activists start pouring into the Ukraine arguing for the greatness of collective farming, they are only a few. But so...

This book brings together thirty-five of the most incisive recommendations conceived by Petrarch in his Remedies for Fortunes --written between 1354 and 1366-- for the punishment of the prosperous and the consolation of the unfortunate. In them, the main passions of the soul enter into a dialogue with reason about the fruit, good or bad, of the various aspects of life: the attributes of the body and soul, distractions, education, art, relative...

The Dinosaur is Still Here, the complete work of Augusto Monterroso, brings together for the first time in a single volume all the stories of the master of the micro-story, each one more brilliant, arranged chronologically: those collected in his first Complete Works (and Other Stories) (1959), in The Black Sheep and Other Fables (1962), Perpetual Motion (1972), The Rest is Silence (1978), Journey to the Center of the Fable (1981), The Magic W...

At the beginning of the 21st century, a man obsessed with invisibility takes the same boat trip that his grandparents did in the middle of the last century on their honeymoon. In Patagonia they met a unique woman, Graciela Pavic, whose mysterious story contains a painful secret. But the origin of her story goes back to the great adventure of another trip, no less mysterious, that took place in the 16th century and was destined to fulfill a sec...

La sombra exiliada es una novela psicolâogica e intelectual, un collage que entrecruza la vida de un superviviente del Holocausto, su existencia posterior en una dictadura comunista y el exilio en Amâerica, con sus obsesiones, las de un apasionado de la literatura. El discurso narrativo, desarrollado en varios niveles, estâa dominado por su pasiâon por los libros y la intensa intimidad con su hermanastra, con la que compartiâo el horror del ca...

2014. Rusia ha invadido la regiâon ucrania del Donbâas. En medio de la destrucciâon causada por la guerra, Pasha, un maestro de treinta y cinco aänos, busca a su sobrino de trece que ha quedado atrapado en un orfanato al otro lado del frente de guerra. Pasha se ve obligado a aventurarse en zonas de combate, atravesar fronteras cambiantes y forjar alianzas incâomodas por el camino en un espacio donde la vida civil se ha derrumbado. Y se da cuen...

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We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with early roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing r...