Libros de Versió original

Némirovsky, Irène

Cal Carre

«Ismaël continuava cantant i el cor se li feia lleuger.» En una població a la riba del mar Negre on conviuen russos, tàrtars i jueus, neix Ismaël Baruch, fill duna família pobra en un barri humil. Als deu anys sen va a buscar-se la vida al port; als tuguris dels mariners aprèn a beure alcohol. Als tretze, les dones li ensenyen com es fa lamor. I ell canta. Té un do que fa ente...

Quiroga, Xabier

Xerais

Luís leva unha vida triste e retirada, froito dun desengano amoroso na xuventude que o deixou marcado e o converteu nunha persoa «un tanto pusilánime e algo indecisa». Ata que un día, inesperadamente, acompañada dun billete de avión a Marrakech, recibe unha estraña mensaxe. Esa é a chispa que lle acende de novo a existencia, a que esperta o ser sentimentalmente aletargado en q...

Mcfadden, Freida

Piatkus

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh.I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... Every day I clean the Win...

Beauchemin, Jean-François

Gata Maula

El petit rei és una novel·la que ens reconcilia amb la vida, un elogi de la serenitat i de les coses esenciales, que ens recorda com fins i tot enmig de la foster hi ha Lloc per la llum, la tendresa i la gratitud. l'autor ens obra les portes d'una vida sencilla, compartida amb el seu germà. En aquests capítols breus, plens de silenci, natura i afecte, l'autor reflexiona sobre ...

Kuan, R.f.

Harpercollins Publishers, Ltd

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...

Ypi, Lea

Allen & Uwin

‘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 ...

Orwell, George

Vintage Books

JOIN THE OBSESSION'These might be the most beautiful books I've ever seen? Get them in an art gallery''The marbled paper ...

Welsh, Irvine

Jonathan Cape

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 ...

Oates, Joyce Carol

Fourth State

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...

Giraldez, Diego

Xerais

Logo de saber que padece unha demencia agresiva, a escritora Pilar Fonte recibe a encarga de escribir unha obra póstuma. Pilar, xa con moitas dificultades, vaille ditando a unha amiga que a acompaña algunhas pasaxes da súa vida e, sobre todo, a súa particular relación co centro psiquiátrico San Simeón, que contemplou dende pequena asomada á venta do seu cuarto. Mais o vínculo ...

Fraga, Manuel A.

Xerais

Ana viaxa polo leste de Islandia con Xurxo, a súa parella, cando a erupción do volcán Askja pon en pausa a súa vida. Confinada nunha casa de hóspedes mentres agarda a evacuación, o tempo parece dilatarse e a atmosfera faise cada vez máis irreal. Ana aproveita a paréntese para rememorar varios episodios cos homes da súa vida e decidir se realmente está namorada de Xurxo. Porén,...

Walsh, Chloe

Piatkus

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...