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  • KATABASIS
    KATABASIS
    KUAN, R.F.
    Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and - inconveniently - in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him.But Hell is not as t...

    23,50 €

  • INDIGNITY: A LIFE REIMAGINED
    INDIGNITY: A LIFE REIMAGINED
    YPI, LEA
    ‘There is something about the human spirit, she would say, that withstands all attempts at offence, injury or humiliation ... we call it dignity'When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told records of her grandmother's youth were ...

    23,95 €

  • HOTEL DESCONEGUT
    HOTEL DESCONEGUT
    MCBRIDE, EIMEAR
    ¿Hi pot cabre tota una vida en una habitació d'hotel? ¿O bé deixem fragments de la nostra ànima com petits objectes perduts en hotels desconeguts? Una narradora sense nom comença un viatge a la recerca de la pròpia identitat —d'Avinyó a Oslo, de Praga a Auckland— atrapada entre el regis- tre d'entrada i de sortida, negociarà amb el seu passat totes i cadascuna de les coses qu...

    16,00 €

  • MEN IN LOVE
    MEN IN LOVE
    WELSH, IRVINE
    It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher's Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin - a time for hope, for love, for raving.Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the ...

    22,00 €

  • FOX
    FOX
    OATES, JOYCE CAROL
    Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an u...

    23,95 €

  • RELEASING
    RELEASING
    WALSH, CHLOE
    Lizzie Young has always felt she was too much everything. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, she's never fit in with her family, her friends, her community. Lizzie wants to be accepted and understood, but with few family or friends in her corner, she carries her burdens and her trauma on her own.But when she meets a kind boy on the school bus, things start to look...

    17,95 €

  • THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS
    THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS
    VUONG, OCEAN
    One summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond.When Hai takes a job at a diner to support himself and Grazina, hi...

    22,90 €

  • NEVER LET ME GO
    NEVER LET ME GO
    KAZUO ISHIGURO
    A beautiful anniversary edition to mark twenty years of Kazuo Ishiguro's modern classic, in which he imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of 1990s England.Narrated by Kathy H, as she tries to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, it is a story of love, friendship and memory, charged throughout with...

    16,50 €

  • JAMES
    JAMES
    EVERETT, PERCIVAL
    The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson's Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town.So begins a dangerous and transcendent ...

    16,50 €

  • LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN
    LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN
    SEE, LISA
    According to Confucius, ‘an educated woman is a worthless woman', but Tan Yunxian - born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separation and loneliness - is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. She begins her training in medicine with her grandmother and, as she navigates the male world of medicine, requiring tact and diplomacy, she struggles against the confi...

    16,95 €

  • MOSCOW X
    MOSCOW X
    MCCLOSKEY, DAVID
    A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin.But can Langley trust the Russian at its center?CIA operatives Sia and Max enter Russia to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London firm that conceals the wealth of the super-rich. Max's family business in Mexico - a CIA front since the 1960s - is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a coupl...

    16,95 €

  • THE BEE STING
    THE BEE STING
    MURRAY, PAUL
    The Barnes family are in trouble.Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they're teetering on the brink of bankruptcy - and that's just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda's marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully.Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are risin...

    16,00 €

  • KEEPING 13
    KEEPING 13
    WALSH, CHLOE
    An epic and unforgettable love story continues in Keeping 13, the second book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. ...

    18,00 €

  • HOMECOMING
    HOMECOMING
    MORTON, KATE
    Adelaide Hills, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most mystifying murder investigations in the history of Australia.London, 2018. Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London fo...

    16,95 €

  • EL NEDADOR
    EL NEDADOR
    CHEEVER, JOHN
    Considerat el Txékhov del somni americà, els contes d'aquest recull són dos dels millors que va escriure. «El nedador» és un home alegre que travessa el comtat nedant, seguint la ruta marcada per les piscines del veïnat. A «La ràdio enorme», un jove matrimoni descobreix que la ràdio nova capta les converses dels pisos veïns. La dona queda fascinada pels problemes dels altres i...

    12,85 €

  • PIONERS, OH PIONERS!
    PIONERS, OH PIONERS!
    CATHER, WILLA
    «La seva vida personal, els seus pensaments més íntims, eren com una existència subconscient; com un riu subterrani que de tant en tant aflorava a la superfície.» Emigrats de Suècia, els Bergson s'instal·len a les àrides praderies de Nebraska, una terra salvatge i difícil de domesticar. Ho saben prou perquè s'hi han escarrassat durant anys. Els homes, amb la força dels braços...

    24,50 €

  • UNA SOCIETAT
    UNA SOCIETAT
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    "Una societat" és un grup de dones que es reuneix per dilucidar si el que pensen, escriuen i fan els homes mereix que elles continuïn portant fills al món. A les "Memòries dÆuna novel·lista" hi plana la vida i lÆobra dÆuna autora, imaginària i mediocre. La biògrafa l'enyora perquè els diumenges tenien el costum dÆanar a "Kew Gardens". On passegen els homes. I també els cargols...

    13,50 €

  • SANDITON
    SANDITON
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Sanditon és un poblet de la costa anglesa que respira aire de mar entre el món dels vells costums i el nou món del boom turístic. Un poblet on s'instal·len una lady, un home ambiciós que somia a enriquir-se, les seves germanes i el germà, que pateixen malalties imaginàries, i noies joves sensibles i pobres. Esperen amb ànsia que els estiuejants converteixin el poblet en un ind...

    15,50 €

  • MONÒLEG DE LA MOLLY BLOOM
    MONÒLEG DE LA MOLLY BLOOM
    JOYCE, JAMES
    Molly Bloom té 33 anys, és cantant, de cabells negres, grossa, amb un bon pitram i li agrada tirar-se les cartes. Amb el marit ajaçat al llit, pren la paraula per primera vegada en tota la novel·la. Vet aquí el famós monòleg interior de la Molly Bloom, el final d'"Ulisses", on la magnífica traducció de Joaquim Mallafré arriba als cims més alts. ...

    16,50 €

  • ENTRE ELS ACTES
    ENTRE ELS ACTES
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    L'última novel·la que va escriure Virginia Woolf, acabada pocs mesos abans de suïcidar-se. L'autora la considerava la seva novel·la més ambiciosa i és una porta d'entrada excel·lent a l'obra de Woolf, ja que malgrat la seva brevetat hi concentra tots els temes de la seva narrativa. L'escriptura l'embriagava i li feia oblidar els bombarders de la Segona Guerra Mundial, que tamb...

    20,50 €

  • A LITTLE LIFE
    A LITTLE LIFE
    YANAGIHARA, HANYA
    When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they''re broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor. JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world. Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm. And withdrawn, brill...

    18,25 €

  • SAG HARBOUR
    SAG HARBOUR
    WHITEHEAD, COLSON
    Benji spends most of the year as one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, going to roller disco bar mitzvahs, desperately trying to find his place in the social hierarchy.Then he spends his summers in the African-American community of Sag Harbor on Long Island, and is just as confused. He's way behind on the latest handshakes, baffled by new slang, and ...

    16,95 €

  • DOS RELATS
    DOS RELATS
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA / WOOLF, LEONARD
    «¡Mare meva, quin misteri, la vida! ¡Quina imprecisió, el pensament! ¡Quina ignorància, la humanitat!» Un personatge femení reflexiona i observa. Quatre personatges masculins van amunt i avall, parlen,s'expliquen, es descobreixen. La dona es mira una taca de la paret. Tres homes es passegen per la taverna i pel cementiri, el quart surt a comprar el diari.La marca de la pa...

    11,50 €

  • L'ANY DEL MICO
    L'ANY DEL MICO
    SMITH, PATTI
    "Una vegada vaig tenir set anys, aviat en tindré setanta." L'Any del Mico està a punt de començar. I Patti Smith, des d'un motel de Santa Cruz, es prepara per a un estrany periple. Ja fa uns anys que els qui més s'estima cauen com fulles a la tardor. SAp que hauria d'anar-los a veure abans no sigui massa tard. Però també necessita preparar-se per a un món sense ells. L'ha de ...

    18,90 €

  • ¿QUI ET PENSES QUE ETS?
    ¿QUI ET PENSES QUE ETS?
    MUNRO, ALICE
    "Històries de la Flo i la Rose", diu el subtítol d'aquest volum de contes publicat per l'autora el 1978. De totes les seves obres és la que més s'acosta a una novel·la ja que cada conte narra un nou episodi de la vida de la Rose i la seva madrastra Flo. Un trajecte de la infància a la maduresa d'una dona que es forma, se'n va, s'emancipa i torna -com totes les heroïnes d'Alice...

    19,90 €

  • POPPY WAR, THE (BOOK 1)
    POPPY WAR, THE (BOOK 1)
    KUANG, R.F.
    A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju - the test to find the most talented students in the Empire - it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin's guardi...

    16,00 €

  • CHELSEA GIRLS
    CHELSEA GIRLS
    MYLES, EILEEN
    In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms their life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer artist's life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, laughter, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of how one you...

    17,50 €

  • LOS DIARIOS DE ADÁN Y EVA
    LOS DIARIOS DE ADÁN Y EVA
    TWAIN, MARK
    El mítico ilustrador Francisco Meléndez cumple sus bodas de acero con el silencio, y las interrumpe momentáneamente para esclarecer lo sucedido en el Edén hace cientos de años. Una muestra de su talento intacto y libérrimo, que Mark Twain celebra desde quién sabe dónde.Del diario de Adán:Esta nueva criatura de pelo largo se entromete bastante. Siempre está merodeando y me sigu...

    13,50 €

  • LAS CINCO MÁQUINAS SIMPLES
    LAS CINCO MÁQUINAS SIMPLES
    MCEWEN, TODD
    LA PALANCA, LA RUEDA, EL TORNILLO, LA POLEA, EL PLANO INCLINADO Y LA CUÑA SON LAS MÁQUINAS SIMPLES DE LAS QUE SE SIRVE TODD MCEWEN PARA HACERNOS RECORRER DIFERENTES ETAPAS DE LA VIDA SEXUAL. SEIS HISTORIAS QUE, HACIENDO GALA DE UN HUMOR DESPROVISTO DE LÍ ...

    16,50 €

  • BUSCANDO UN PÁJARO AZUL
    BUSCANDO UN PÁJARO AZUL
    WECHSBERG, JOSEPH
    Joseph abandona Checoslovaquia a mediados de los años veinte con un violín bajo el brazo y la firme intención de conocer mundo. Sus pasos pronto lo conducirán desde los viejos cafés del París de la bohemia a surcar los océanos como segundo violín a bordo de los vapores que recorren las grandes rutas hasta América, China, Japón o Yibuti. En sus viajes, el joven violinista irá s...

    19,00 €