Jim Crace

This used to be America, this river crossing in the ten-month stretch of land, this sea-to-sea. It used to be the safest place on earth. America as we know it has fragmented. Its machines have stopped, its communities have splintered, its history is virtually forgotten, and the great migration has started: eastwards, through the mountains and down the perilous Dreaming Highway, to ships rumoured to sail to a land of greater promise. Into this landscape stumbles Franklin, who has left his home only to find new ties in a pesthouse perched above a valley. Margaret, suffering the early stages of plague, has been carried up from Ferrytown to recuperate or die alone. When her village is destroyed, she and Franklin set out together, compelled to leave everything they know behind them. "The Pesthouse" is realized with the flair, conviction and intensity for which Crace is admired all over the world. It is the story of an America adapting to a 'medieval future' without technology, without science, without social cohesion; and it is the story of how two people find strength in one another against all the odds.

Celebrated actor Felix Dern lives in the glorious and mysterious City of Kisses. His joy is that he has loved several wonderful women. His curse is that every one he sleeps with bears him a child. Even his dramatic successes as Don Juan on stage are matched by his emotional failures off it. For Felix, there is no escape from his past entanglements. His six children are an ever-present reminder of his astonishing potency - of what he did and who with, in pursuit of an elusive and all-transforming love.

Premio de la Crítica de Estados Unidos 2001.La vida y la muerte de una pareja de zoólogos, personas en apariencia insignificantes, y los múltiples vínculos que enlazan su existencia y la nuestra con la naturaleza, para hacerla partícipe de un ciclo inagotable, son el tema central de esta subyugante y originalísima novela, de una de las voces más personales de la narrativa británica comtemporánea.Con un estilo brillante, que alterna el lirismo con la observación casi científica del universo, Jim Crace compone en Y amanece la muerte todo un canto a la vida, al tiempo que desarrolla una concepción del ser humano ante la que ningún lector permanece indiferente.

Novedad MayoIncluso las estrellas deben descomponerse, deteriorarse y abrasarse en el cielo. Todo ha nacido para irse. El universo ha aprendido a sobrellevar la muerte.La vida y la muerte de una pare

From the acclaimed author of Quarantine, a mesmeric novel that breathes life into a distant age.

As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of Walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell it ...

A celebration of the modern city . . . in such vivid prose that you can almost see the bloom on the peaches, taste the sun-ripened oranges and smell the coffee at the market traders stalls Sunday Tim

Dos milenios atrás, tres hombres y una mujer se internan en el desierto de Judea para ayunar y purificar sus almas. Apartado de este grupo, un joven también desea pasar cuarenta días en ayuno. Procede de Galilea y se le atribuyen dotes de milagrero.