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The new novel by one of the most outstanding authors of the last decades. Ali Smith dazzles us with Fragua, a book that closes the famous seasonal Quartet. One day, in post-Brexit Britain and in the midst of the pandemic, artist Sandy Gray receives an unexpected phone call from a college acquaintance, Martina Pelf. Martina is calling Sandy for help with a mysterious question she's been asked after spending half a day locked in a room by border...

Los autores de este libro nos llevan a un viaje por las distintas formas de habitar una casa. Partiendo de ilustraciones de Pep Carriâo realizadas con marcadores acrâilicos, la escritora Marâia Josâe Ferrada recurre al lenguaje poâetico y al humor para proponer un conjunto de microrrelatos que invitan a los lectores a observar sus propias formas de habitar el mundo. (S0 (BLa casa tiene que ver con el espacio fâisico, pero tambiâen con el espac...

Stalin is no longer among the living. In 1954, after three decades imprisoned, Ivan Grigorievich returns to Moscow to find that life there has continued without him. From the reunion with his cousin Nikolai, a scientist who has always remained faithful to the Party, or the walk through the place where the woman he loved lived, Iván becomes aware of the magnitude of the tragedy: freedom has not only been assassinated in politics, but also in ag...

World War II left Europe in chaos. Landscapes and crops destroyed, cities completely devastated and more than 35 million dead. In most of the continent, institutions such as the police, the media, transportation, local and national governments, had ceased to exist. Crime rates rose, economies collapsed, and European citizens were on the brink of exhaustion. In this gripping study of the post-war years, Keith Lowe describes a continent still wr...

In a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into "seven strands"―including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar―he traces the ways Jewish comedy has mirrored, and sometimes even shaped, the course of Jewish history. Dauber also explores th...

It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high--a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm." In a book that has become a classic, Sebastian Junger explores the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and the candid accounts of the people whose lives the storm touched. The Perfect Storm is a real-life thriller that makes us feel like we've be...

At twenty, Lilja falls in love with a bright and attractive young university student who quotes Derrida and prepares vegetarian meals. Very soon she finds herself trapped in a dynamic of manipulation and psychological abuse, and enters a whirlwind of personal degradation and obsession with pleasing him -sexually, intellectually and culinary-, a self-destructive drift of which she is aware but before which, isolated and humiliated, she, can't r...

«If you listen carefully to a story, you will never be the same again, since that story will enter your heart and, like a worm, it will end up gnawing away at all the obstacles that oppose the divine. So even if you read the stories in this book just to pass the time, there's no guarantee that one of them won't end up breaking down your defenses and exploding when you least expect it. You're warned!" With as much humor as lyricism, with as muc...

Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the twenties--Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and others--and the big bands and arrangers--Fletcher Henderson, Bennie Moten, and especially Duke Ellington--placing...

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Ariel needed money, and Joseph Hortha had plenty of it. United by gratitude toward the late Chilean president Salvador Allende and the persistent need to know whether murder or suicide ended his life during the 1973 coup, the two men embark on an investigation that will take them from Washington, DC, to New York. to Santiago and Valparaíso, and finally to London. But as they review and analyze Salvador Allende's political struggle, his death, ...

Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. Now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter? As she faces the future, memories of her own childhood loss flood into her consciousness, threatening to overwhelm her. Combining the beauty and unease of a dream, th...

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Winter is coming, the nights are longer. There are those who gather under the mistletoe with their family and friends while others advocate the abolition of the Christmas spirit under the slogan "Ban Christmas or Die." Among the pages of this collection of stories lurk ghosts and haunted houses, but also everyday problems that are much more recognizable and no less terrifying. They all have one thing in common: the cold. That cold that runs do...

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losse...

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We have been taught that the shortcut is not recommended, that it is a tricky resource, the lazy trick. However, for Marcus du Sautoy it is a legitimate tactic: in mathematics, the realm of strategic thinking that emulates the logic of nature, the shortcut provides us with the solution of a problem in the shortest time and with the least expenditure of energy possible. It is no coincidence that we owe a large part of what we call progress to t...

Controversial Dialectic is the art of disputing, as to hold one's own, whether one is in the right or the wrong. A man may be objectively in the right, and nevertheless in the eyes of bystanders, and sometimes in his own, he may come off worst. For example, I may advance a proof of some assertion, and my adversary may refute the proof, and thus appear to have refuted the assertion, for which there may, nevertheless, be other proofs. In this ca...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short story of horror and romance, written by Washington Irving in 1820, in his collection of essays and short stories The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. The story is set in 1784, around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded valley called Sleepy Hollow known for its ghost stories and the haunted atmosphere that permeates the imagination of its inhabitants and visitors. The mos...