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Verónica is late, and Julián is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as a literature professor, developing a novel about a man tending to a bonsai tree on the weekends. He is a narrator, an architect, a chronicler of other people's stories. But as the night stretches on before him, and the hours pass with no sign of Veronica, Julian finds himself caught up in the slipstream of the story of his life of their lives together. What combination of desire and coincidence led them here, to this very night? What will the future and possibly motherless Daniela think of him and his stories? Why tell stories at all? The Private Lives of Trees, Alejandro Zambras second novel, now published in the UK for the first time in a revised translation by Megan McDowell, overflows with his signature wit and his gift for crafting short novels that manage to contain whole worlds.

Red Queen is one of the most extravagantly entertaining novels I've ever read. It's an electrifying serial-killer thriller, fiendishly clever puzzle mystery, and sensitive portrait of a fascinating young woman. I loved every word.' - A.J.

Un roman noir et sensuel au coeur du XIXe

Continues where "The Rainbow" left off, with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from

NOVETAT DE GENER El Futur Folklorista i el Futur Revolucionari es van fer amics en una escola de ball, tot i que a ells no els preocupava gens aprendre'n. De fet, nomes els interessen els contes populars (i despres les cançons, i els jocs) i se'n fan uns grans experts, fins que un dia els governants alteraran el desti de tota la societat i, es clar, el d'ells dos. Entre la tradicio oral i la literaria, cada lector pot reconeixer els personatges i la ciutat on viuen malgrat que no tinguin nom. Tambe el pais on passa tot plegat, el moment historic, els canvis socials. Cada linia del llibre vibrara dins seu amb el record de fets viscuts, coneguts o narrats: la lluita soterrada contra un poder dictatorial, el desig de llibertat plena, el veri paralitzant de la repressio, la força aglutinadora d'una canço... Aquesta novel·la es com cap altra: magica i real, atemporal i contemporania, circular i lineal, freda i ardent, amarada de tradicio i rabiosament moderna.

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accidentor that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansionall while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secretone that might spell the end of her Station and her way of lifeor rescue it from annihilation.

Le livre de méditation N°1, enfin en poche.

La celebració literària d’una generació de dones que són un referent vital.Premi Sant Jordi 2022 La celebració literària d’una generació de dones que són un referent vital. Què somiava ser la teva ma

A heart-wrenching new novel from best-selling author Rebecca Yarros that examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can't bring ourselves to see coming.

When the ghostly victims of a small-town crime lord find him, ex-special forces soldier Max Sinclair realizes the only road to peace is to serve them the justice they crave.But the Bannister clan has tentacles that reach from Eastern Washington into Mexico, trafficking women across the border and into their brothels. Haunted by visions of the dead, Max burns a swath through the Bannister empire, doing his best to set the dead free, but odds are he'll be joining them before he's done.The Hollow Men is the first novel in the Ghost Hunter series about a vigilante who sees the deadMax Sinclair. Haunted by visions and longing for justice and redemption, Max hunts down evil incarnatehis soul hanging in the balance as he walks the line between the dark and the light.

Barcelona, 1925. L'apassionant true crime d'un cas mític de la crònica negra de la ciutat.La mort misteriosa de la jove Dolors Bernabeu, Lolita, esdevinguda al passatge d’Escudellers de Barcelona la

Una novel·la sobre com ens ho fem per sobreviure a les catàstrofes. Sense ni mica de patetisme, parla a fons de què significa haver viscut un gran dol i convertir-se en algú que porta aquest estigma.

The Last Letter is a haunting, heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational love story. (InTouch Weekly) Beckett, If youre reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didnt. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have. I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride. My little sister Ellas raising the twins alone. Shes too independent and wont accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. Its too much for anyone to endure. Its not fair. And heres the kicker: theres something else you dont know thats tearing her family apart. Shes going to need help. So if Im gone, that means I cant be there for Ella. I cant help them through this. But you can. So Im begging you, as my best friend, go take care of my sister, my family. Please dont make her go through it alone.

"Quel que fût le point qui pût retenir M. de Charlus et le giletier, leur accord semblait conclu et ces inutiles regards n'être que des préludes rituels, pareils aux fêtes qu'on donne avant un mariage décidé. Plus près de la nature encore - et la multiplicité de ces comparaisons est elle-même d'autant plus naturelle qu'un même homme, si on l'examine pendant quelques minutes, semble successivement un homme, un homme-oiseau ou un homme-insecte, etc. - on eût dit deux oiseaux, le mâle et la femelle, le mâle cherchant a s'avancer, la femelle - Jupien - ne répondant plus par aucun signe a ce manège, mais regardant son nouvel ami sans étonnement, avec une fixité inattentive, jugée sans doute plus troublante et seule utile, du moment que le mâle avait fait les premiers pas, et se contentant de lisser ses plumes".

Il avait toujours semblé à Antoine avoir l'âge des chiens. Quand il avait sept ans, il se sentait usé comme un homme de quarante-neuf ans ; à onze, il avait les désillusions d'un vieillard de soixant

En 1999 débutait le casting pour trouver le jeune garçon qui allait interpréter Harry Potter et qui, par la même occasion, deviendrait mondialement célèbre. Des centaines d'acteurs furent auditionnés

From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice.Compulsively readable, universally relevant, and deeply resonant . . . in equal parts beautiful and urgent.The New York Times Book Review Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award One of the Best Books of the Year: The Atlantic, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, HuffPost, Medium, Library JournalAmid a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-hos best friend who meets his own fateful end; to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother; and through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope is the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.

The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.With an introduction from Lydia DavisLucia Berlins stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction.With extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of surprise and of grace, with a voice is witty, anarchic, compassionate, and completely unique.

La révélation de L’Autre fille va bousculer toute l’œuvre qu’Annie Ernaux a consacrée à son enfance depuis La Place. « Car il a bien fallu que je me débrouille avec cette mystérieuse incohérence : t