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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...

Camus, Albert

Este volumen resume la experiencia de Albert Camus, un escritor envuelto, durante cuatro años, en la vida pública de Francia, su país. Se encontrará en él una selección de los editoriales publicados en Combat hasta 1948.Se trata, pues, de un balance.En estas páginas, el lector reencontrará a un estilista impar, a un escritor extraordinario: Albert Camus (1913-1960), cuya obra f...

Camus, Albert

Después de recibir el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1957, Albert Camus escribió una carta a su antiguo profesor en Argel, Louis Germain, sin el cual «no habría sucedido nada de todo esto» y le expresó todo su reconocimiento. El conjunto de la correspondencia entre estos dos hombres, nunca antes publicada integra, y un fragmento de El primer hombre donde apareció el personaje de...

Camus, Albert

Las imborrables impresiones que registró Albert Camus en sus viajes por América del Norte y América del Sur durante los años cuarenta Publicado a título póstumo en 1978, Diarios de viaje contiene los apuntes que Albert Camus tomó durante dos periplos por América del Norte y América del Sur en los años cuarenta. Una primera parte describe su estancia en los Estados Unidos y ...

Camus, Albert

La tercera y última novela publicada en vida de Albert Camus, un monólogo con gran ritmo narrativo sobre la idea de la justicia y los excesos de la vida moderna Publicada originalmente en 1956, La caída es la tercera novela de Albert Camus y la última que vio la luz en vida del autor. Consiste enteramente en la confesión que el narrador y protagonista, Jean-Baptiste Clamence...

Camus, Albert

Los textos que dieron a conocer al premio Nobel Albert Camus y le hicieron emerger como un líder moral e intelectual. «En esta noche sin igual concluyen cuatro años de una guerra monstruosa y de una lucha indecible en la que Francia bregaba con su vergüenza y su rabia. Quienes nunca perdieron la esperanza ni en sí mismos ni en su país hallan bajo este cielo su recompensa. Es...

Camus, Albert

«Mamá se ha muerto hoy. O puede que ayer, no lo sé.» Publicada originalmente en 1942, El extranjero es la primera novela de Albert Camus y una de sus obras más emblemáticas. Ahora con nueva traducción al español de María Teresa Gallego Urrutia y Amaya García Gallego, este libro capital para la cultura del siglo XX transcurre en Argelia y narra la anodina vida de Meursault, un ...

Rooney, Sally

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep...

Plath, Sylvia

The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a cont...

N. H. Kleinbaum

Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passio...

Reid, Taylor Jenkins

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives will change forever.Malibu: August 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer a...

Atwood, Margaret

A stunning deluxe edition for the fortieth anniversary of an unparalleled cornerstone of feminist literature, featuring the original cover art and a short, unpublished essay penned in 1986 by Margaret Atwood, "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (The New York Times).In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a...