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Tartt, Donna

Donna Tartt ha puesto al día las reglas de los grandes maestros del siglo XIX, siguiendo a Dickens pero también a los personajes de Breaking Bad, para escribir El jilguero, probablemente el primer clásico del siglo XXI.El jilguero ha sido galardonada con el Premio del Círculo de Críticos Nacional del Libro en 2013 y con el Premio Pulitzer a la mejor obra de ficción en 2014.A...

Riley, Lucinda

Lucinda Riley, autora superventas mundial, nos presenta una nueva y emocionante serie basada en la mitología griega y en la astrología que hará las delicias de sus lectoras.A la muerte de su padre seis hermanas irán en busca de su origen y lo que descubran les hará comprender que su amor estaba escrito en las estrellas.Maia D'Apliese y sus hermanas regresan a la impresionant...

Pratchett, Terry / Stephen Baxter

La segunda entrega de una serie escrita a cuatro manos por el aclamado Terry Pratchett, creador del Mundodisco, y el prestigioso autor de ciencia ficción británica, Stephen Baxter: una nueva aventura tan inteligente como divertida, que indaga las consecuencias de un mundo ilimitado.La Tierra Larga es un sinfín de mundos paralelos a solo un paso de distancia. La humanidad ha ...

Kate Morton / Morton, Kate

Una historia de misterio orquestada por personajes pintorescos y ambientada entre los años treinta y la actualidad. Una novela absorbente como solo Kate Morton, autora de El jardín olvidado, sabe hacerlo.Todas las familias tienen secretos.Y, para algunas, basta solo un acontecimiento para cambiarlo todo.Un niño desaparecido...Junio de 1933: en Loanneth, la mansión en el campo ...

Malraux, Andre

Ambientada en Shangai en 1928, en el curso de la lucha que opuso a los comunistas Chiang-Kai-shek, La condición humana es una obra coral llena de recovecos y de profundidabes, que aborda la historia de un grupo de personajes, la mayoría de ellos comunistas, cuyos diversos destinos los han llevado a coincidir en estas circunstancias de violencia y de terror que devienen el escen...

Coetzee, J.m.

La nueva novela del Premio Nobel de Literatura J.M. Coetzee, secuela de La infancia de Jesús, es una hermosa historia sobre la identidad, la amistad y la fuerza de los lazos familiares.«Cuando cruzas el océano en barco, todos los recuerdos se te borran y empiezas una vida completamente nueva. Así es la cosa. No hay nada antes. No hay Historia. El barco amarra en el puerto, b...

Rushdie, Salman / Salman Rushdie

En un futuro próximo, después de una gran tormenta, comienza la Era de la Extrañeza. Un jardinero descubre que sus pies no tocan el suelo. Un dibujante de cómic se convierte en superhéroe. Un bebé identifica a los impuros marcándolos con erupciones en la piel. Descienden de unas criaturas mágicas y caprichosas conocidas como yinn. Su mundo se ha mezclado con el nuestro y ellos,...

Sir Thomas Browne

Los mejores libros jamás escritos.«A mí me gusta abandonarme a los misterios, perderme en ellos, hacer llegar a mi razón hasta un O altitudo.»Forjador de palabras y frases de ingenio shakespeariano y poseedor de una erudición laberíntica, sir Thomas Browne es uno de los mayores estilistas de la literatura inglesa, cuya voz sigue retumbando, con sonoridad e identidad propia, ...

Hamid, Mohsin

"In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors--door...

Kate Williams

Sinclair Lewis

Can't Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes shar...

Kelly, Martha Hall

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah's Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the h...

Donald Ray Pollock

La nueva novela del norteamericano Donald Ray Pollock es un western que se mueve en el territorio de McCarthy, Faulkner y O'Connor, y que mezcla la sátira con saludables dosis de violencia cinematográfica al más puro estilo de Peckinpah, Tarantino o los Cohen.Año 1917, en algún lugar olvidado de la frontera entre Georgia y Alabama. El anciano Pearl Jewett muere dejando a sus...

Donald Ray Pollock

La colección de relatos cargados de realidad, violencia y un oscuro y magistral sentido del humor, que aupó a Donald Ray Pollock a la primera línea del panorama literario.«Uno de los mejores libros que leerán jamás.»Kiko AmatBienvenidos a Knockemstiff, Ohio, una hondonada en medio de ninguna parte a la que a duras penas se puede otorgar la categoría de pueblo. Un lugar del q...

Georgia Hunter

An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who are separated at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive—and to reunite It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new ba...

Elif Batuman

"The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to...

Gaiman, Neil

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Neil Gaiman returns to the territory of his masterpiece, American Gods (soon to be a Starz Original Series), to once again probe the dark recesses of the soul. God is dead. Meet the kids. Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never k...

Sparks, Nicholas

At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home in Charlotte. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear...and no one is more surpris...

Lewis Carrol

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.' In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in a bizarre and nonsensical place when she passes through a mirror and enters a looking-glass world where nothing is quite as it seems. From her guest appear...

Twain, Mark

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.' An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work ...

London, Jack

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and ...he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.' Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California and sold to dog traders. He soon finds himself aboard a ship, on ...

Austen, Jane

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.' Humble and lowly, a young Fanny Price goes to live with her wealthy Aunt and Uncle at their grand house, Man...

Crane, Stephen

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.' Following one soldier's journey from naive recruit to hardened survivor, The Red Badge of Courage is a vivid and powerfully psychological take on the A...

Tolkien, J. R. R.

Special collector's film tie-in hardback of the best-selling classic, featuring the complete story with a sumptuous cover design inspired by THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and brand new reproductions of all the drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hol...

Ann Patchett

No.1 New York Times Bestseller The acclaimed, bestselling author-winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize-tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed ...

Sweeney, Cynthia D'aprix

"Humor and delightful irony abound in this lively first novel." —New York Times Book ReviewEvery family has its problems. But the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point when Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather in New York City to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly re...

Laurent Binet

"HHhH blew me away... It's one of the best historical novels I've ever come across."--Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho and Less Than ZeroA Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionA Financial Times Best Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceHHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The...

Daly, Elizabeth

«Elizabeth Daly es mi escritora norteamericana favorita». AGATHA CHRISTIE Si nos situamos en una elegante mansión inglesa, hogar de varias generaciones formadas en la Universidad de Oxford, donde de pronto alguien aparece asesinado misteriosamente, tendremos la quintaesencia de la novela policiaca clásica. Pero si resulta que los herederos estudian en Yale y la propiedad se...

Hart, Megan

De vez en cuando, Stella compraba un billete de avión para dejar su vida atrás. Su casa era un lugar con demasiados recuerdos, y marcharse era la mejor distracción para ella.En cuanto llegaba a su destino, iba al bar del aeropuerto, pedía una copa y esperaba a que apareciera el tipo idóneo. Un hombre de negocios aburrido, un mochilero, un mozo de equipajes que acabara de termin...

Wharton, Edith

Al amable mundo de convenciones sociales estrictas en el que se mueve, aparentemente sin roces ni contrariedades, la alta sociedad de Nueva York de finales del siglo pasado, regresa de Europa la inquietante condesa Olenska. Independiente, osada, «diferente», Ellen involucrará muy pronto en su misterio a su joven primo Newland Archer y perturbará sin poder evitarlo el encanto de...