Invisible Cities [50Th Anniversary Edition]

Lisa See

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Lisa See draws on the vibrancy and turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles to tell the story of three Chinese women who managed to survive and, eventually, thrive, despite all odds.In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is entranci...

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...

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...

Rachel Hochhauser

A breathtaking reimagining of Cinderella, as told through the eyes of its iconic "evil" stepmother, revealing a propulsive love story about the lengths a mother will go to for her children Twice-widowed, Lady Etheldreda Verity Isolde Tremaine Bramley is solely responsible for her two children, a priggish stepdaughter, a razor-taloned peregrine falcon, and a crumbling manor. Fi...

Italo Calvino

«La empresa de tratar de escribir novelas apócrifas, que me imagino escritas por un autor que no soy yo y que no existe, la llevé a sus últimas consecuencias en este libro. Es una novela sobre el placer de leer novelas; el protagonista es el lector, que empieza diez veces a leer un libro que por vicisitudes ajenas a su voluntad no consigue acabar. Tuve que escribir, pues, el in...

Italo Calvino

Para Calvino, «el cuento fantástico es uno de los productos más característicos de la narrativa del siglo XIX y, para nosotros, uno de los más significativos, pues es el que más nos dice sobre la interioridad del individuo y de la simbología colectiva. Para nuestra sensibilidad de hoy, el elemento sobrenatural en el centro de estas historias aparece siempre cargado de sentido, ...

Italo Calvino

Cuando tenía doce años, Cosimo Piovasco, barón de Rondó, en un gesto de rebelión contra la tiranía familiar, se encaramó a una encina del jardín de la casa paterna. Ese mismo día, el 15 de junio de 1767, encontró a la hija de los marqueses de Ondarivia y le anunció su propósito de no bajar nunca de los árboles.Desde entonces y hasta el final de su vida, Cosimo permanece fiel a ...

Italo Calvino

Esta sabia y conmovedora novela de Italo Calvino encierra en su brevedad y aparente sencillez una hondura sutil que solamente los grandes maestros son capaces de transmitir.Corriere della SeraDel mismo modo que el observatorio que lleva su nombre, el señor Palomar mira y analiza el mundo. El señor Palomar observa y piensa, entre la aparente no actividad y la enorme actividad in...

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino