Murder In The Age Of Enlightenment

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...

Akutagawa, Ryonosuke

Mientras el infame pintor Yoshihide realiza un biombo infernal, tienen lugar una serie de sucesos inexplicables. Este relato sigue uno de los principales estilos de Akutagawa: la actualización de cuentos antiguos para reflejar la psicología moderna. Akutagawa da nombre a uno de los premios literarios más importantes de Japón, pero además es un autor irreductible al tiempo, cuy...

Akutagawa, Ryonosuke

Dado a conocer fuera de Japón fundamentalmente por su obra Rashomon, popularizada por la película homónima (1950) de Akira Kurosawa, Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) tuvo una existencia atormentada y marcada, en especial en sus últimos años, por el miedo a la locura, conflicto interior al que dio fin mediante el suicidio. Vida de un idiota y otras confesiones reúne algunas de su...

Akutagawa, Ryonosuke

Ryunosuke Akutagawa nació en 1892 y murió en 1927. A pesar de su corta vida (se suicidó a los treinta y cinco años tras ingerir barbitúricos), Akutagawa está considerado como una de las figuras literarias más relevantes del siglo XX en Japón. Su obra se compone, principalmente, de cuentos y relatos breves, célebres por su brillante estilo y extraordinario talento narrativo, d...