Ana Belén Costas Books

Había una vez un arroz que fue plantado en la tierra, caído del cielo y recogido de entre las piedras, un arroz que no se pasaba nunca que llegó de lejos de la mano de tres jóvenes llenos de ilusiones y sueños… "Arroz de Palma" es la historia de una familia, la de José Custódio y Maria Romana, emigrantes en Brasil a principios del siglo XX. Durante la preparación de la fiesta para celebrar el centenario de la boda de José y Maria, su hijo mayor, Antonio, ya un abuelo, repasa las vidas de sus padres, de su tía, de sus hermanos, de sus hijos y nietos y, por supuesto, la suya. Antonio sabe que la familia es un plato de compleja elaboración y que la felicidad se cocina día a día. Pero ellos tienen un ingrediente secreto: el arroz de la tía Palma, cuya magia se extiende más allá del fuego y del tiempo.

Paulo Coelho, one of the world's best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting new novel set in London.

This is a modern-day adventure story featuring Paulo's supernatural encounter with angels - who appear as warrior women and travel through the Mojave desert on their motorbikes.

Set in Paris and in the enchanting landscape of central Asia, this new novel by the author of the international bestsellers The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes follows the journey of a man obsessed with finding the wife who left him without an explanation. The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges that money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who, despite her professional success and freedom from the conventional constraints of marriage, is facing an existential crisis. When she disappears along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover, the authorities question the narrator. Was Esther kidnapped, killed, or did she simply abandon a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn't have any answers but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail, the man with whom Esther was last seen, finds the narrator and promises to take him to his wife. In his attempt to recapture a love lost, the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself.