The Enchanting Lives Of Others

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...

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

En esta cuidada selección se recogen los relatos capitales de una de las autoras más relevantes del panorama literario chino contemporáneo, cuyo nombre se menciona siempre en relación a genios como Kafka o Borges, y como una de las candidatas favoritas al Premio Nobel de Literatura. Can Xue invita a entrar a los lectores en un paisaje envolvente, profundamente orgánico y lleno...

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...