Murder In The Age Of Enlightenment

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...