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Ritos de pasaje, adolescentes fanatizadas con estrellas de rock, inframundos donde conviven seres que han complotado para que Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious y Jim Morrison mueran repentinamente y pasen a la historia... En Éste es el mar, Mariana Enriquez alcanza una nueva forma de escritura, hurga en lo macabro, atraviesa el universo de lo desconocido y lo monstruoso para posicionarse en un territorio poco explorado de la literatura argent...

Agosto de 1976: el jet Falcon se estrella a pocos kilómetros de Acapulco. Aparentemente, los restos destrozados suman tres cuerpos: los de dos tripulantes y el del pasajero que contrató el vuelo, un banquero judío-argentino que hace negocios a la vez con el Mossad y con Montoneros. Abril de 1989: una hermosa joven, hija del magnate, desaparece en Cancún. El Hombre que sabía morir recibe la noticia en un ri...

«Uno se da cuenta que no tiene veinte años, de pronto advierte que ya no es joven... y mientras tanto el mundo cambió; mientras uno estaba pensando en otra cosa.» Cincuenta años. Un cumpleaños anticipado con expectación no por lo que deja atrás, sino por lo que se abre delante; que llega y pasa sin estridencias, y sólo unos meses después, un comentario aparentemente banal, ...

Un hombre pblico es asesinado das antes de declarar sobre delitos de lesa humanidad. Una mujer enamorada aborda un avin en el extranjero, hasta donde la llev la promesa de un amor, sin saber que se encamina hacia uno de los eventos ms fatdicos de la historia contempornea.
En su nueva coleccin de relatos, Ruiz Guiaz instala a sus personajes en escenarios reales y despliega una mirada intimista que le permite contar nuestro pas y sus sec...

Aos 20 anos, o carioca Raphael Montes impressionou crítica e público com Suicidas, um caudaloso romance policial que lhe garantiu vaga entre os dez finalistas do prêmio São Paulo de Literatura na categoria autor estreante. Após ler seu primeiro livro, Scott Turow, um dos autores policiais de maior prestígio no mundo, disse que Raphael está “entre os mais brilhantes ficcionistas jovens” da atualidade. “Ele certamente redefinirá a literatura pol...

Featuring over twenty candid essays from memoirists sharing their experiences and advice, as well as exercises for writing about others in your memoirs and essays, The Truth of Memoir will give you the courage and confidence to write your story--and all of its requisite characters--with truth and grace.

Mount Kailash is a holy mountain on the western edge of the Tibetan Plateau in China. Over recent decades, this eerily symmetrical mountain, holy to Bonpos, Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, animists and New Age seekers, has emerged as a globally important site for pilgrimage and tourism. This mountain lies close to the point where the borders of north India and western Nepal meet China. What has been relatively little known to the general audience is...

This book lucidly illustrates how a leader can bring out the very best in people by coaching them, and how coaching can unleash creativity as well as innovation while inspiring teams to play to their potential. It also examines how coaching helps leaders maintain a fine balance between managing and guiding, and between appraising and supporting their teammates. While many excellent books have been written about leadership, talent and coaching,...

The predatory neo-liberal capitalism that has become the norm in India over the last two decades raises many uncomfortable questions. Today, consumption defines what we are. And with the western capitalist model reigning supreme, all of us seem to have been reduced to being just consumers in the eyes of the government. The effect on India s peasantry has been tremendous. The recent tragic stories played out in Kalinganagar, Singur and Nandigra...

Autobiography of a woman college professor, historian, and vice-chancellor from Calcutta, India.

On 1 September 1965, Pakistan invaded Chamb district in Jammu and Kashmir, triggering a series of tank battles, operations and counter-operations. It was only the bravery and well-executed strategic decisions of the soldiers of the Indian Army that countered the very real threat of losing Kashmir to Pakistan. Recounting the battles fought by five different regiments, the narrative reconstructs the events of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war, outlinin...

The question of the partition of India into Muslim and Hindu zones assumed importance after the All-India Muslim League passed a resolution in its favour in March 1940 in Lahore. Most of India Divided was written in prison and it was published in 1946, a year before India was partitioned. It specifically examines the theory that the Hindus and Muslims of India were two nations, and concludes that the solution for the Hindu Muslim issue should ...

After the catastrophic World War III that nearly destroys the human race, the future is now Pangea, run according to The Principles: 'We will survive as one world, one country, one race'. True harmony can only exist if everyone genuinely believes in the Pangean way. So, anyone who holds deviant beliefs is 'washed' of their memories and implanted with a more Pangean disposition. Seventeen-year old Suni is about to begin the perfect Pangean life...

And then finally I felt sadness, aided perhapsby those futile notes, by the dust that keeps thickening, by the untouchable past, the inevitable future, and by everything else that pushesus around.' Ib lives with his schizophrenic father and his 'nice' mother negotiating life, not knowing what to do, steered by uncaring winds and pushy people. From his slimy, unmiraculous birth to the tragic death of a loved one, Ib wanders the city, from one t...

Not very differently from their big-city cousins, we discover in the wonderfully comic 'Chandu and the Bissyaar', one of eighteen evocative stories in Neelum Saran Gour's third book of fiction. The making and unmaking of a poet is described in 'A Lane in Lucknow', two old men find solace in 'Winter Companions', and a nurse examines the quality of her faith in 'The Knitting Needle'. In a vivid kaleidoscope of provincial bazaars, claustrophobic ...

Each story in this collection illuminates a particular universe, completely authentic in texture and detail, giving us writing that is not only pleasurable, but finely-crafted as well'-Indian Review of Books In 'A New Year's Party', Geoffrey finds all his attempts to throw a successful party come to naught as his inappropriately chose guests make their dislike for each other very vocal, the wonderful camaraderie that can exist between a four-y...

A timeless adventure story that will keep generations of readers in thrall... Journey into a land of fantasy and adventure with a master storyteller. Bogey and his sister rumu are agonizing over the disappearance of a beloved pet when they find solace and understanding from an unexpected quarter-their wise servant Jhogru. From the yellow bird whose feather has turned their dog into a little boy, to the existence of the mythical winged horse, t...