Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar, Volume 4 brilliantly combines inventive visuals and a paradigm-shifting narrative to create a stunning multisensory reading experience. When a viral video puts twelve-year-old Xanther under a spotlight of scrutiny at school, her little white cat—still slumbering, still unnamed—offers the only escape, though it comes at a price. Not even Xanther’ parents can deny the strange currents now shuddering around their eldest, touching off inexplicable happenings. Entities troubling the dreams of the twins seem to have singled out Freya. Despite invitations to a gala at The Met, Anwar fears the solution to their financial difficulties might expose more than just his family to dangerous consequences. Something greater is at hand, something terrible is at stake. And all the while, faces unfamiliar to the Ibrahims draw closer and closer: Jingjing, in Singapore, clutching charms, boards a plane for Los Angeles; Cas and Bobby, with visions of Xanther in Mefisto’s Orb, must elude attacks from the sky. Strangers collide . . . though will those intersections lead to alliances or war? And does the dance at the center of Volume 4 augur the liberation of our better angels or the release of a creature set to feast on the wings of hope?

The Season One finale of this riveting multisensory masterpiece from the visionary author of House of Leaves.The Familiar Volume 1 Wherein the cat is found . . . The Familiar Volume 2 Wherein the cat is hungry . . . The Familiar Volume 3 Wherein the cat is blind . . .The Familiar Volume 4 Wherein the cat is toothless . . . The Familiar Volume 5 Wherein the cat is named . . . The astonishing series about a young girl who befriends a cat hunting humanity continues with Volume 5, and the Season One finale, in which the consequences of how we encounter one another come into poignant and terrifying relief—especially on one September night, when an unexpected phone call demanding the return of the little white cat challenges everything the Ibrahims hold dear. They are not alone. Jingjing must contend with a rival he could never have anticipated, while Xanther must relinquish all she thought she knew as a far greater responsibility is set before her. Light wavers and pomegranates reveal their price as the effects of a great transition start to reverberate around everyone, Shnorhk's efforts to resume playing music cannot escape history's ghosts. Cas, in upstate New York, comes face-to-face with her lifelong nemesis in a candlelit rendezvous that presages the international crisis soon to come. As more lines tangle, Özgürand Luther brawl with a future that may have chosen them long ago, and Isandòrno crosses a line that will force him over the border into a country he has until now steadfastly refused. All the while, a terrible power roaming the world continues to grow...

The Familiar, Volume 1 Wherein the cat is found...The Familiar, Volume 2 Wherein the cat is hungry...From the universally acclaimed, genre-busting author of House of Leaves comes the second volume of The Familiar, a novel [which] goes beyond the experimental into the visionary, creating a language and style that expands the horizon of meaning . . . hint[ing] at an evolved form of literature.*In The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest, the lives of the disparate and dynamic nine characters introduced in One Rainy Day in May begin to intersect in inexplicable ways, finding harmonies and echoes in each other. What once seemed remote and disconnected draws closerslowly, steadilytoward something inevitable... At the center of it all is Xanther, a twelve-year-old girl, for whom the world around her seems to be opening, exposing doors and windows, visions and sounds, questions and ideas previously unknown. With each passing day, she begins to glimpse something she does not understand but unequivocally cravesthe only thing that will bring her relief and keep her new friend alive.

Will Navidson, un famoso fotoperiodista premiado con el Pulitzer, se traslada con su familia a una casa en el entorno rural de Virginia en un intento de salvar su matrimonio, seriamente perjudicado por sus viajes continuos y su adiccion al trabajo. Ademas de Navidson, la familia esta compuesta por la hermosa ex-modelo Karen Green y los dos hijos pequeños de ambos. Muy pronto, Will descubre que la casa presenta una anomalia arquitectonica singular: su espacio interior es ligeramente mas grande que el que deberia ocupar segun sus dimensiones exteriores. Will tratara de averiguar que secreto esconde "La casa de hojas", al mismo tiempo que procurara poner a salvo a su familia. Un viaje para el que recabara la ayuda de todos los medios a su alcance, incluida la de su hermano gemelo Tom.

Sam:They were with us before Romeo & Juliet. And long after too. Because theyre forever around. Or so both claim, carolling gleefully:Were allways sixteen.Sam & Hailey, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from Model T to Lincoln Continental, career from the Civil War to the Cold War, barrelling down through the Appalachians, up the Mississippi River, across the Badlands, finally cutting a nation in half as they try to outrace History itself.By turns beguiling and gripping, finally worldwrecking, Only Revolutions is unlike anything ever published before, a remarkable feat of heart and intellect, moving us with the journey of two kids, perpetually of summer, perpetually sixteen, who give up everything except each other.

Casa de hojas fue el magistral debut de Mark Z. Danielewski, un monumento entre el terror, la erudición académica y el juego posmoderno en el que encontramos múltiples referencias a Stephen King, Umberto Eco, el simbolismo de Moby Dick y la audacia formal de James Joyce. Un clasico indiscutible de la novela del siglo XXI.Will Navidson, un famoso fotoperiodista premiado con el Pulitzer, se traslada con su familia a una casa del entorno rural de Virginia en un intento de salvar su matrimonio, seriamente perjudicado por sus continuos viajes y su adiccion al trabajo. Pronto, Will descubre que la casa presenta una anomalia singular: su espacio interior es ligeramente mas grande que el que deberia ocupar segun sus dimensiones exteriores. Asi comienza El expediente Navidson, un fascinante documento que narra los sucesos acaecidos en la casa de Ash Tree Lane, la Casa de hojas.Navidson tratara de averiguar que secreto esconde la casa, mientras procura poner a salvo a su familia con el apoyo de su hermano gemelo Tom, y recurriendo a todos los medios a su alcance, incluida una temeraria expedicion espeleologica.Mientras Will se enfrenta a los peligros de esa casa encantada, Johnny Truant, un joven tatuador de con problemas con las drogas, malvive en un sucio apartamento de Los Angeles. Las historias de Truant y Navidso...

NATIONAL BEST SELLER From the author of the international best seller "House of Leaves" and National Book Award nominated "Only Revolutions" comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting. "The Familiar (Volume 1) "ranges from Mexico to Southeast Asia, from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, with nine lives hanging in the balance, each called upon to make a terrifying choice. They include a therapist-in-training grappling with daughters as demanding as her patients; an ambitious East L.A. gang member contracted for violence; two scientists in Marfa, Texas, on the run from an organization powerful beyond imagining; plus a recovering addict in Singapore summoned at midnight by a desperate billionaire; and a programmer near Silicon Beach whose game engine might unleash consequences far exceeding the entertainment he intends. At the very heart, though, is a twelve-year-old girl named Xanther who one rainy day in May sets out with her father to get a dog, only to end up trying to save a creature as fragile as it is dangerous . . . which will change not only her life and the lives of those she has yet to encounter, but this world, too or at least the world we think we know and the future we take for granted. (With full-color illustrations throughout.)"

Released for the summer from the perils of school, Xanther and her nameless cat are settling into a comfortable routine at home.However, the rest of the Ibrahim family is growing more and more unsettled. Astair fears their stretched finances are already at a breaking point. Not even a visit from an old friend can mitigate Anwars feeling that hes failing to support those he loves and that even worse things are to come. The twins, Freya and Shasti, sense something too and blame their older sister. Honeysuckles haunt the air and smell of offerings...Meanwhile, Cas and Bobbys survival may depend on facing the one person they fear most. And on the other side of the world, Jingjing and Tian Li set out to find what was lost: their missing cat.With spectacular visuals and the vibrant wordplay that are his trademark, The Familiar (Volume 3) is a beautiful and singular reading experience that could come only from the imagination of Mark Z. Danielewski.

Will Navidson, un famoso fotoperiodista premiado con el Pulitzer, se traslada con su familia a una casa en el entorno rural de Virginia en un intento de salvar su matrimonio, seriamente perjudicado por sus viajes continuos y su adiccion al trabajo. Ademas de Navidson, la familia esta compuesta por la hermosa ex-modelo Karen Green y los dos hijos pequeños de ambos. Muy pronto, Will descubre que la casa presenta una anomalia arquitectonica singular: su espacio interior es ligeramente mas grande que el que deberia ocupar segun sus dimensiones exteriores. Este es el arranque de El expediente Navidson, un fascinante documento que narra los sucesos acaecidos en la casa de Ash Tree Lane, es decir La casa de hojas.Will Navidson tratara de averiguar que secreto esconde La casa de hojas, al mismo tiempo que procurara poner a salvo a su familia. Un viaje para el que recabara la ayuda de todos los medios a su alcance, incluida la de su hermano gemelo Tom, un profesor universitario y hasta toda una expedicion de espeleologos.Mientras Will y sus seres queridos se enfrentan a los peligros de esa casa encantada, un joven tatuador de Los Angeles, el carismatico y tierno Johnny Truant, malvive y quema las noches a una velocidad vertiginosa de la mano de su inseparable escudero, Lude. Las historias de Truant y Navidson se entrelazaran gracias a un hallazgo que cambiara la vida de todos los personajes inolvidables que atraviesan esta monumental novela.

Tras el gran éxito de crítica y lectores que supuso la publicación de La casa de hojas en España, presentamos esta edición de una de las obras de culto de la alabada trayectoria del norteamericano Mark Z. Danielewski, La espada de los cincuenta años.Esta novela con apariencia de poema en prosa fue publicada inicialmente en Holanda en 2005, en una edicion limitada de mil ejemplares ahora imposible de encontrar fuera de circulos de coleccionistas, y a finales de 2012 vio la luz en Estados Unidos y en el Reino Unido en 2013 su version ampliada, dotada de una bateria de ilustraciones visualmente cosidas a las paginas que, como no podia ser de otra forma, interactuan con el texto y el tempo de la narracion y complementan, e incluso enfatizan, la panoplia de sensaciones que cabe obtener de su lectura. Podriamos decir que estamos ante una historia mas o menos clasica de terror para adultos, escrita sobre la base estilistica de El corazon de las tinieblas, de Joseph Conrad, con la ruptura narrativa de voces de Las olas de Virginia Woolf, una encomiable economia de medios que sin embargo logra con nota el dificil objetivo de transmitir mas con menos con la marca distintiva del taller Danielewski: la experimentacion formal.La voz narradora de la novela pertenece a una costurera que acaba de divorciarse de su marido a causa de la infidelidad de este con la mujer cuyo cumpleaños se esta celebrando en la fiesta en la que se desarrolla la accion. En ella, un misterioso cuentacuentos supuestamente profesional narra su historia a una audiencia compuesta por cinco niños huerfanos. El narrador tiene delante una caja negra y alargada en la que, es de suponer, se encuentra la espada que da titulo a la novela. Con un estilo mistico y poetico, el hombre relata a los niños su busqueda epica de una espada forjada por un herrero magico para satisfacer una revancha. Los niños asisten aterrados y expectantes a la evolucion de la historia, que se saldara con un oscuro final. Una narracion de terror clasico bellamente ilustrada conducida con mano diestra por uno de los mayores maestros vivos del genero.