Mariolein Sabarte Belacortu Book order (chronological)

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A masterclass in suspense' PAULA HAWKINS'A spellbinding nightmare' FERNANDA MELCHOR'A book of intense power' PHILIPPE SANDS

Alla periferia di Buenos Aires, dietro alti muri perimetrali, al di là di cancelli rinforzati e affiancati dalle garitte della vigilanza, si trova il complesso residenziale di lusso Altos de la Cascada. Fuori, la strada, la baraccopoli di Santa Maria de los Tigrecitos, l’autostrada, la città, il resto del mondo. Ad Altos de la Cascada vivono famiglie facoltose che hanno lo stesso stile di vita e che vogliono mantenerlo, costi quel che costi. In quest’oasi dorata di pace e tranquillità, un gruppo di amici si riunisce una volta alla settimana lontano dalla vista dei figli, delle donne di servizio e soprattutto delle mogli che, escluse da questi incontri virili, si autonominano, ironicamente, “le vedove del giovedì”. Ma una notte la routine si spezza rivelando il lato oscuro di una vita “perfetta”. Un complesso residenziale di lusso pervaso da un dolciastro odore di gelsomino e tre cadaveri in una piscina. “Un romanzo agile, un’analisi feroce di un microcosmo sociale in un accelerato processo di decadenza.” José Saramago

Quismondo, Toledo, 18 de julio de 1956. En su finca La Maestranza, veinte años después del estallido de la guerra civil, los Avendaño han decidido celebrar por última vez la ceremonia expiatoria en la que, ritualmente, en cada aniversario, reproducen la ejecución del hermano menor a manos de los campesinos. Entre los invitados, un hispanista norteamericano intrigado por tan extraña costumbre, y un comisario de la Brigada Político Social empeñado en dar con un tal Federico Sánchez, agente comunista. Por diferentes motivos, ambos comparten el mismo interés en indagar en la historia reciente de la familia, sobre todo en las relaciones secretas de la bellísima y enigmática viuda, Mercedes Pombo. En la fragmentada sucesión de encuentros y tiempos, se superponen y complementan las versiones, que van reconstruyendo los hechos fatídicos que dieron origen a la ceremonia, pero también surgen aciagas revelaciones de ocultas relaciones eróticas en el ambiente espeso y violento de la posguerra.

Toen Florentino Ariza de dertienjarige Fermina zag, werd hij getroffen door de vonk van de eeuwige liefde. Na meer dan een halve eeuw, waarin Fermina getrouwd is met een ander en Florentino zelf 622 affaires heeft, sterft Fermina´s man en kan Florentino haar opnieuw zijn eeuwige trouw beloven. Op ongeëvenaarde wijze brengt Márquez de grote thema´s liefde, dood, ouderdom,noodlot en begeerte samen in een mild en menselijk universum.

Een jonge Amerikaanse geheim agent gaat tijdens het Proces van Neurenberg vlak na de oorlog op zoek naar het hoofd van het atoombomonderzoek van nazi-Duitsland en vindt vooral zichzelf.

Remo Erdosain's Buenos Aires is a dim, seething, paranoid hive of hustlers and whores, scoundrels and madmen, and Erdosain feels his soul is as polluted as anything in this dingy city. Possessed by the directionlessness of the society around him, trapped between spiritual anguish and madness, he clings to anything that can give his life meaning: small-time defrauding of his employers, hatred of his wife's cousin Gregorio Barsut, a part in the Astrologer's plans for a new world order... but is that enough? Or is the only appropriate response to reality - insanity?Written in 1929, The Seven Madmen depicts an Argentina on the edge of the precipice. This teeming world of dreamers, revolutionaries and scheming generals was Arlt's uncanny prophesy of the cycle of conflict which would scar his country's passage through the twentieth century, and even today it retains its power as one of the great apocalyptic works of modern literature.

Published to worldwide critical acclaim, with more than one million copies already in print, this is the lush, wondrous story of an unrequited love that survives half a century and more than 600 distractions.

An apocalyptic prophet in the Brazilian backlands creates the state of Canudos. In it there is no money, property, marriage, income tax, decimal system, or census.

Angela Vicario's new husband is furious when he discovers she's not a virgin, and he returns her to her family home. Angela's mother beats her and her brothers set out to find the man who violated her. Waking to the thoughts of the previous night's revelry, Santiago Nasar is unaware that there are people who want to kill him.

As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through dusty corridors in search of their tyrannical leader, they cannot comprehend that the frail and withered man lying dead on the floor can be the self-styled General of the Universe.