No Longer Human (Revised)

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dazai, Osamu

Indigno de ser humano es la obra maestra de Osamu Dazai. Su protagonista Yozo, autorretrato crudo y revelador del propio Dazai, narra en primera persona las circunstancias de su vida desde su nacimiento en una familia de la aristocracia rural hasta su ruina y decadencia en Tokio. Un periplo vital que es un viaje sin retorno a través las sombras de la alienación, la adicción y l...

Dazai, Osamu

Kazuko, la joven narradora de "El declive", vive con su madre en una casa del pudiente barrio tokiota de Nishikata. La muerte del padre, y la derrota de Japón en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, han reducido considerablemente los recursos de la familia, hasta el extremo de tener que vender la casa y trasladarse a la península de Izu. La frágil armonía de la vida en el campo, donde Ka...

Dazai, Osamu

Impresionista y autobiográfico, Cien vistas del monte Fuji se inserta en la larga tradición representativa de la estampa natural más conocida de Japón.En este relato, siguiendo la estela de artistas como Buncho, Hiroshige y, por supuesto, Hokusai, Dazai Osamu reconstruye su particular visión del Fuji, enlazándola con las distintas experiencias que vive durante su estancia en el...

Dazai, Osamu

A completely new translation of Osamu Dazai's great masterpiece by award-winning translator Juliet Winters Carpenter. "A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist" --Damian Flanagan, The Japan Times No Longer Human is the story of Yozo Oba, who, from early childhood, finds it impossible to form meaningful relationships with family or friends. As a ch...

Dazai, Osamu

Cuentos japoneses políticamente incorrectos. Una versión cínica y descarada de los cuentos más célebres de Japón en la que Dazai se ríe de los estereotipos y la tradiciónSuenan las sirenas. Las baterías antiaéreas rugen con su estruendo atronador. Los bombarderos B-29 se aproximan a Tokio para soltar su mortífera carga. Pero, en un estrecho refugio casero, un padre con una imag...

Dazai, Osamu

La figura de Dazai Osamu brilla con luz propia en el olimpo de los escritores japoneses más admirados del siglo XX. Venerado por legiones de incondicionales, a los que se suman nuevos lectores generación tras generación, Dazai se ha convertido en el icono más transgresor del inconformismo y en el portavoz más autorizado del ambiente desolador de los primeros años de la posguerr...