The Empusium

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...

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...

Tokarczuk, Olga

Un tour de force de la Premio Nobel polaca: una mirada feminista sobre la Europa de principios de siglo. Görbensdorf, Baja Silesia, 1913. El joven polaco Miecysław Wojnicz, estudiante de ingeniería, llega al sanatorio local en busca de aire puro y una cura para su tuberculosis. Se aloja en la pensión para caballeros de Wilhelm Opitz, donde coincide con otros enfermos de...

Tokarczuk, Olga

Vuelve la Premio Nobel con una novela total sobre las andanzas de Jacob Frank, que se autoproclamó Mesías en pleno Siglo de las Luces. Jacob Frank, el protagonista de esta novela, parece por sus peripecias un personaje ficticio que solo la mente de una novelista podría concebir. Sin embargo, resulta que existió, y su vida está históricamente documentada. La Premio Nobel Olga To...

Tokarczuk, Olga

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies ar...

Tokarczuk, Olga

Una novela mágica: la historia de un pueblo y sus excéntricos habitantes, que es al mismo tiempo la historia de un siglo y un país. «Antaño es un lugar situado en el centro del universo»: con esta frase arranca esta novela. Antaño es un pueblo mítico situado en el corazón de Polonia, un microcosmos habitado por personajes singulares y excéntricos: Genowefa, Espiga, Misia, el Ho...

Tokarczuk, Olga

Una novela única, ligera y honda a la vez, que indaga en las posibilidades del género para hablar sobre el cuerpo, el mundo y las estrategias siempre insuficientes con que intentamos cartografiarlos. Este es un libro inquieto e inquietante, hecho de «historias incompletas, cuentos oníricos» subsumidos en un libérrimo cuaderno de viaje a base de excursos, apuntes, narraciones y ...

Tokarczuk, Olga

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the DeadA woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There's the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that h...