The Invention Of Solitude

Francis King

A witty, heartbreaking tale of unrequited love by "one of the finest and most remarkable English novelists of our time." (The Scotsman) Antonio Valli, a gifted Italian philosopher in his thirties, has left his wife and children behind in Florence for a one-year research fellowship at a provincial English university. Handsome and charming, Antonio is irresistible to men and wome...

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...

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...

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...

Auster, Paul

Un rompecabezas tan escalofriante como conmovedor, un juego que implica al lector para reconstruir la identidad de un hombre misteriosamente confinado.«Los fantasmas de Kafka y Beckett se ciernen sobre esta hábil e ingeniosa novela que atrae al lector inexorablemente a su red de misterio», Sunday Telegraph.«Una de las carreras literarias más poderosas de la segunda mitad del si...

Auster, Paul

Un clásico contemporáneo y una de las obras que consolidaron a Paul Auster como best seller internacional. Tres caras de una misma historia con la que el escritor norteamericano reinventó el género policíaco.En Ciudad de cristal, un escritor de novela policíaca se convierte por azar en protagonista de una investigación real y se ve actuando como un detective por las calles de l...

Auster, Paul

Un fascinante viaje post-apocalíptico hacia la desaparición del ser humano de la faz de la tierra.«Poderoso, enigmático, imaginativo y tratado con maestría… Uno de los mejores intentos modernos de describir el infierno», The Washington Post. «Recuerda en muchos sentidos a 1984 de Orwell. Auster crea en estas páginas un lugar tan real que podría ser nuestro propio país, ...

Auster, Paul

"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner-phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor-has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to ...

Auster, Paul

Meses después del accidente en el que murieron su mujer y su hijo, David Zimmer, escritor y profesor en Vermont, escribe un libro sobre la única persona que ha conseguido devolverle la sonrisa, el actor de cine mudo Hector Mann, desaparecido décadas atrás.En la décima novela de Paul Auster, la narración de la vida de Hector Mann contada por Zimmer se mezcla con lo que le sucede...

Auster, Paul

El único hecho inmutable en la vida de Ferguson es que nació el 3 de marzo de 1947 en Newark, Nueva Jersey. A partir de ese momento, varios caminos se abren ante él y le llevarán a vivir cuatro vidas completamente distintas, a crecer y a explorar de formas diferentes el amor, la amistad, la familia, el arte, la política e incluso la muerte, con algunos de los acontecimientos qu...