Mcsweeney's Issue 30 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)

Gigi L. Leung

On a weekend morning, college roommates, Ah Li and Panda, wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-gassed in the streets of their city after joining tens of thousands of others to protest a national security law that would effectively spell the end of democracy in Hong Kong. Ah Li couldn't get out of bed, her heart heavy with the...

Lee Onhwa

For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, and The Midnight Library, a sweetly magical and uplifting novel about a young woman who inherits an enchanted bakery that spirits visit on their last stop before the afterlife. Twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa has inherited a neighborhood bakery from her grandmother. Curiously, her grandmother's wil...

Lisa Genova

**National Bestseller** A "riveting page-turner" (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee) about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally "normal" life for a career in stand-up comedy.Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, n...

Jewell, Lisa

Discover the debut novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell in which the residents of an apartment building confront one another's attractions, distrust, secrets, and lies. Perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton and Jojo Moyes.Welcome to 31 Almanac Road where the walls don't talk, but the people sure do. First, we have Ralph and Smith. Roommates and life-long b...

Xiaolu Guo

"A propulsive powerhouse of a read."--Marie Claire (UK) "Ambitious, brave, and strange."--Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author, a feminist reimagining of Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman and a diverse, swashbuckling crew I must work on a ship as a man . . . I must find freedom on...

Rebecca Armitage

An irresistible modern fairy tale about a British princess who must decide between her duty to her family--or to her own heart It's New Year's Day in Tasmania and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely: she's in the second year of her medical residency, she lives on a beautiful farm with her two best friends Finn and Jack, and she's about to finally...

Eggers, Dave

DespuésdeElCírculo,regresa Dave Eggers con unasátira apasionante quenosmuestra unfuturototalitariosobre ladictadura yelmonopolio de Google, Facebook y Amazon.«Unvisionario. Uno de losmejoresautores desugeneración».IkerSeisdedos, El PaísCuando la empresa de internet del momento, El Círculo, se fusiona con la mayor plataforma comercial online del planeta, da paso al monopolio más...

Eggers, Dave

En esta emocionante y conmovedora novela, Dave Eggers narra la vida de Valentino Achak Deng, uno de los niños perdidos de la guerra civil de Sudán. La historia comienza cuando las milicias árabes arrasan su pueblo. Sin saber qué ha sido de sus padres, Valentino emprende, junto a otros niños, un viaje a pie hacia los campos de refugiados de Etiopía y Kenia. Qué es el qué recrea ...

Eggers, Dave

Eggers, Dave

Una novela siniestramente verosímil sobre los peligros de la era digital.El día que Mae Holland es contratada para trabajar en el Círculo, la empresa de internet más influyente del mundo, sabe que se le ha concedido la oportunidad de su vida.A través de un innovador sistema operativo, el Círculo unifica direcciones de email, perfiles de redes sociales, operaciones bancarias y c...

Eggers, Dave

In eight illustrated books, elegantly held together in a single beribboned case, McSweeney's 28 explores the state of the fable--those astute and irreducible allegories one doesn't see so much anymore in our strange new age, when everyone is wild for the latest parable or apologue but can't find time for anything else. Featuring fable-length work by Daniel Alarcon, Sheila Heti,...

Eggers, Dave