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Javier Calvo Perales

    Haunted
    Lullaby
    The blood miracles
    The sympathizer
    The God of the Woods
    Narrativa del Acantilado - 76: La comedia humana
    • The God of the Woods

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      From the New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River comes an immersive novel about a missing child whose disappearance sends shockwaves through three distinct worlds: an opulent Adirondack summer estate, a rustic teen summer camp, and the blue-collar community that serves them. When Barbara Van Laar goes missing from her camp bunk in August 1975, a frantic search ensues. Her disappearance is particularly tragic as she is the daughter of the wealthy family that owns both the camp and the nearby estate. This incident is eerily reminiscent of a past tragedy—Barbara’s older brother vanished sixteen years earlier, never to be found. Liz Moore crafts a richly textured drama, balancing emotional depth with a compelling mystery. As the narrative unfolds, the secrets of the Van Laar family and the surrounding community are revealed, drawing readers into the lives of characters forever altered by this harrowing summer. This ambitious novel explores themes of love, inheritance, identity, and second chances, delving into the tensions between family and community, and the haunting legacy of secrets that bind them all.

      The God of the Woods2024
      4.1
    • The blood miracles

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      The second novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning The Glorious Heresies 'Fast paced, compelling, and thrilling, Lisa McInerney writes the type of fiction that is both beautifully crafted and immensely enjoyable' Louise O'Neill 'The Blood Miracles has all the brio, street smarts and vicious linguistic verve of The Glorious Heresies, but with this follow up Lisa McInerney also reminds us just how brilliantly accomplished and ruthlessly focused a storyteller she is' Colin Barrett Like all twenty-year-olds, Ryan Cusack is trying to get his head around who he is. This is not a good time for his boss to exploit his dual heritage by opening a new black market route from Italy to Ireland. It is certainly not a good time for his adored girlfriend to decide he's irreparably corrupted. And he really wishes he hadn't accidentally caught the eye of an ornery grandmother who fancies herself his saviour. There may be a way clear of the chaos in the business proposals of music promoter Colm and in the attention of the charming, impulsive Natalie. But now that his boss's ambitions have rattled the city, Ryan is about to find out what he's made of, and it might be that chaos is in his blood.

      The blood miracles2018
      3.8
    • It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.THE SYMPATHIZER is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, THE SYMPATHIZER explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.

      The sympathizer2017
      4.0
    • Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanising sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book, and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way. Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy. In that order. It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet.

      Lullaby2015
      3.8
    • Haunted

      • 412 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      When a group of people reply to an ad proclaiming 'abandon your life for three months', most believe they are shedding the distractions of real life so they can release the masterpiece that lurks within. However, their 'home' for three months turns out to be a desolate theatre - and their plight is about to become distinctly acute.

      Haunted2006
      3.6
    • Homer Macauley trabaja como mensajero para una compañía de telégrafos y se convierte en testigo de la vida cotidiana de los habitantes de Ithaca, una pequña población del valle de San Joaquín, en California, que ve como muchos de sus soldados, en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, no regresan al frente.

      Narrativa del Acantilado - 76: La comedia humana2004
      4.1