Publisher's description. From one of Spain's most acclaimed literary voices comes a rich and complex portrait of mutual deception, toxic love and cruel, lingering guilt. A youth caught in the middle of someone else's bitter marriage; a beautiful woman scorned; a man torn between conscience and will. Step into the melancholic, unforgiving world of Javier Marías. Penguin
Set against the backdrop of New Year's Eve 1975, two poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, embark on a quest from Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala to find the elusive Cesárea Tinajero, a vanished poet. Their journey takes a violent turn in the Sonora desert, forcing them into a life on the run for twenty years. This ambitious novel captures their experiences through the perspectives of various characters they encounter across Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. Among them are the enchanting Font sisters, their father in a Mexico City asylum, a devoted follower of Octavio Paz, a brash American grad student, a French girl with a penchant for the Marquis de Sade, the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky, a Chilean stowaway gifted with numbers, an anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire, and an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola, alongside a host of critics, lovers, and vagabonds. Roberto Bolaño, a literary descendant of Borges and Pynchon, explores the intricate relationship between literature and violence, revealing a world where national boundaries blur and death is ever-present in the avant-garde. This work stands as a remarkable testament to the vitality of contemporary Latin American literature.
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
Every day, Maria Dolz stops at the same cafe. And every day she watches a couple following the same routine. Then one day they aren't there. She comes across a photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street. When the woman returns with her children, who are then collected by a different man, a new light is shed on the death."
Ricardo conosce la "ragazza cattiva" da adolescente, a Lima, e per trent'anni la rincorre in lungo e in largo per il mondo, colpito da un amore folle e sconsiderato. Lei ama nascondersi sotto false identità, è sempre in fuga da qualcosa, irretita da ideali politici, alla ricerca di libertà, ma anche di patrimoni da depredare. La rincontra a Parigi, dove lei è di passaggio, guerrigliera della MIR destinata all'addestramento a Cuba: sull'isola seduce un capo castrista, poi un diplomatico francese che la riporta con sé in Europa. Seduce poi un benestante inglese, per poi finire con un mafioso giapponese, che la devasta nel morale e nel fisico con ripetute, terribili violenze sessuali. Ogni volta Ricardo è lì a proteggerla. E ogni volta lei riprende la sua via di fuga.
This work, the first volume of a planned trilogy, is the memoir of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez. It contains details of people, places, events, family, work, politics, books and music, his beloved Colombia and parts of history and incidents that later appeared in his fiction.
Mario Vargas Llosa nigdy nie był grzecznym chłopcem. W swojej autobiografii i bez cenzury pisze o wybrykach młodości, szalonych miłościach i początkach pisarstwa. Trudna relacja z ojcem, który zostawił matkę w ciąży, i pisanie jako rodzaj buntu przeciwko niemu. Lata spędzone w szkole wojskowej Leoncio Prado, które stały się kanwą jego głośnego debiutu Miasto i psy . Skandaliczny ślub z "ciotką Julią", miłość do kuzynki Patrycji, która stanie się jego drugą żoną, czy burdel zwany Zielonym Domem. To tylko niektóre z wielu sensacji, jakie odkrywa przed nami niezwykły pisarz. Kto czytał powieści Vargasa Llosy, odnajdzie tu wiele znanych już wątków, a kto nie czytał, nabierze wielkiej ochoty...
Een Argentijnse jonge man laat de pampa achter zich en ontdekt zichzelf in Europa
Autobiografisch getint relaas van de speurtocht van een Argentijnse jongeman in de jaren '50 naar het Europa van zijn ouders.
With high black humor, a visiting Spanish lecturer bends his gaze over that most British of institutions, Oxford University.
Cela was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1989, and this novel is considered by many to be his masterpiece. It is the story of an ignorant Castillian peasant and multiple murderer, and it tells of the savage impulses behind his crimes and his redeeming characteristics.
