The Enchanting Lives Of Others

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...

Xue, Can

La novela La calle de los cinco aromas (Una actuación rompedora en su título original) es una de las obras más importantes de Can Xue. La novela nosolo nos cuenta la historia de un adulterio infundado que ocurre en la calle Wuxiang, sino que nos describe a la Señora X, una dama atractiva, misteriosa e inconformista que causa una agitación exacerbada entre los habitantes de esta...

Xue, Can

«El sarcasmo de Can Xue puede ser rabioso y delicioso, pero siempre está expresado en situaciones aún más divertidas» New York TimesNubes flotantes ya envejecidas (1986) es una de las primeras y más conocidas obras de la escritora Can Xue mediante la cual lleva al lector a un mundo de lo grotesco y lo surrealista, de espacios inciertos e identidades indeterminadas, de amenazas ...

Xue, Can

En La frontera, la joven protagonista Liu Jin establece su vida en las faldas de la montaña de las Nieves, en la frontera, lugar de aire surrealista, donde los lobos deambulan por las calles y donde ciertas personas iluminadas pueden ver y entrar en un jardín paradisíaco al cuidado de uno de sus habitantes. Explorando la vida en esta localidad fronteriza, a la vista de una doce...