A Book Of Common Prayer

O'farrell, Maggie

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger."A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, ...

Picoult, Jodi

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now in a stunning tenth-anniversary edition, "the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written" (The Washington Post) tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn't offer easy answers.This deluxe edition includes a brand-new introduction from the author and cover art in addition to gorgeous sprayed edges and a stampe...

Kang, Han

From Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English—a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture.In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs, a...

Yuzuki, Asako

A Paperback Original From the author of the international bestseller Butter comes a chilling and perceptive novel about obsession, female friendship, and the slow unraveling of two lives Eriko's life looks perfect--from her prestigious job at a Japanese trading firm to her spotless apartment and devoted parents. Her newest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile Perch in...

Sohn, Won-Pyung

From the bestselling author of Almond, The Devil Wears Prada meets The Office in this witty, humane, and ultimately transformative story of a group of young workers who rebel against the status quo, now available in a convenient pocket-sized portable Nomad Edition. Jihye is an ordinary woman who has never been extraordinary. In her administrative job at the Academy, she silen...

Nishi, Kanako

Available in English at last, the international bestseller from one of Japan's most acclaimed authors, a touching tale of a broken family contending with the pain of the past to live in the present, helped by the unforgettable dog who becomes their lifeline. Sakura is the story of a family who is happy, until it isn't. Skipping back and forth in time, it begins when the narra...

Didion, Joan

El diario inédito de Joan Didion. Un libro extraordinario que completa un tríptico compuesto también por El año del pensamiento mágico y Noches azules. «Escribo estrictamente para averiguar qué estoy pensando, qué estoy mirando, qué veo y qué significa». En noviembre de 1999, Joan Didion empezó a visitar a un psiquiatra porque, como escribió a un amigo, su familia había estado ...

Didion, Joan

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue NightsIn November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had "a rough few years." She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne.For several months, Didion recorded co...

Didion, Joan

Elogiada por Tennessee Williams y Joyce Carol Oates, recuperamos la mejor novela de Joan Didion. «Un logro extraordinario».Los Angeles Times Una liturgia común (1977), la novela más lograda de Joan Didion y uno de los íconos de la novelística del siglo XX, es la historia de una tragedia personal y política que sucede en Boca Grande, un imaginario estado centroamericano dominad...

Didion, Joan

Unas apasionantes memorias sobre la California natal de Joan Didion, autora de El año del pensamiento mágico, narradas con la inconfundible mirada personal y emotiva que caracteriza su obra. «Irresistible [...]. Un canto al lugar dónde su familia ha vivido durante generaciones, pero uno lleno de preguntas y dudas».The New York Times Joan Didion dedica estas memorias a su Cal...

Didion, Joan

Una colección atemporal de algunos de los primeros artículos y crónicas de la icónica escritora y periodista norteamericana. «Una excelente introducción a la aguda mirada de Didion sobre la vida estadounidense.»Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post «Escribo estrictamente para averiguar qué estoy pensando, qué estoy mirando, qué veo y qué significa.» Lo que quiero decir recopi...

Didion, Joan

Una antología de los mejores artículos y ensayos de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion. «En la tierra dorada el futuro siempre es atractivo, porque nadie recuerda el pasado.» Joan Didion es una de las cronistas fundamentales de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. En una edición a cargo de Claudio López de Lamadrid, Los que sueñan el sueño dorado reúne por primera vez en castellan...