"Mircea Cartarescu, born in 1956, is one of Romania's leading novelists and poets. This translation of his 1989 novel Nostalgia, writes Andrei Codrescu, 'introduces to English a writer who has always had a place reserved for him in a constellation that includes the Brothers Grimm, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Bruno Schulz, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, and Milorad Pavic, to mention just a few.'"--Description from Amazon.com
Discover William Maxwell's classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic 'A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic... Will melt many a reader to tears' TIME Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her elder son, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. And to her husband, James, she is the foundation on which his family rests and life without her is unimaginable. As the dark winter of 1918 dawns and the shadow of Spanish flu starts to disturb day-to-day life, a moving portrait of Elizabeth takes shape, set against the lives and fate of the Morison family. 'As you read They Came Like Swallows, you catch yourself from time to time being astonished at how tightly you're gripping the pages... There isn't a word that has dated. It could have been written yesterday, or tomorrow' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
"¿Terminará el ser humano adorando a las máquinas? ¿Tendrán las máquinas derechos? ¿Cómo se está transformando el paisaje interior de las personas ante la mutación del paisaje exterior? En La vía del futuro Edmundo Paz Soldán, una de las referencias ineludibles de la actual literatura latinoamericana, explora las perturbadoras y laberínticas relaciones del ser humano con la inteligencia artificial: todo un viaje insólito que abre las puertas de lo posible a un futuro que ya está aquí. Así, a través de una Iglesia cuya divinidad es la Inteligencia Artificial, comunidades de trabajo dirigidas por un holograma, avistamientos de ovnis, androides de compañía, astronautas sin memoria y drogas que te transportan a otra dimensión, Paz Soldán mira de frente este mundo inquietante poblado de preguntas en ocho cuentos independientes pero relacionados entre sí, como planetas de una misma galaxia"--Page 4 of cover.