LETRAS

On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones—those who are lost—will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets. Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop’s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike its other customers, for he offers help instead of seeking it. Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana’s father and the stolen choice—by way of rain puddles, rides on paper cranes, the bridge between midnight and morning, and a night market in the clouds. But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own—and risk making a choice that she will never be able to take back.

Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family.

«Desde el principio supimos que la unión entre esos dos no era la recomendable para armar una familia como todos los que venían a la Villa». Un extraño matrimonio llega a un pueblo de la costa, con un pasado incierto detrás y la determinación de instalarse en el lugar. Comprar el Hotel Habsburgo será algo que nadie olvidará. En poco tiempo, ese noble húngaro dedicado al arte, esa mujer sensual que lleva adelante el negocio, y sus dos hijos aún más extraños que ellos, se irán volviendo de manera imperceptible, pero definitiva, el hilo que enhebra la miseria, la corrupción y las bajezas de todos los pobladores. Narrada por una voz profundamente literaria, Arderá el viento permite oír la conciencia que late en toda ciudad pequeña, y es capaz de capturar el horror en la vida de una villa de mar y la belleza que todavía anida en ella. Guillermo Saccomanno se apropia de un territorio, de sus habitantes, de su pasado y de sus secretos, para mostrar ese entramado de complicidad entre la política, el narco, la policía y el periodismo, en medio del cual las personas corrientes sobreviven a su propia existencia.

Silicon Valley has lost its way. Our most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies. Their efforts secured the West’s dominant place in the geopolitical order. But that relationship has now eroded, with perilous repercussions. Today, the market rewards shallow engagement with the potential of technology. Engineers and founders build photo-sharing apps and marketing algorithms, unwittingly becoming vessels for the ambitions of others. This complacency has spread into academia, politics, and the boardroom. The result? An entire generation for whom the narrow-minded pursuit of the demands of a late capitalist economy has become their calling. In this groundbreaking treatise, Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska offer a searing critique of our collective abandonment of ambition, arguing that in order for the U.S. and its allies to retain their global edge—and preserve the freedoms we take for granted—the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our most urgent challenges, including the new arms race of artificial intelligence. The government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that has propelled Silicon Valley’s success.

Maisie Jones usa un par de gafas diferentes cada día, ama las novelas policíacas y su trabajo como médica residente en el Hospital Whitestone, el cual no quiere perder. No por su asma y definitivamente no por Grant Masterson: el enfermero que sonríe cada vez que la ve y que logra que se le acelere el pulso. Pero es que Maisie nunca pensó mucho en el amor, hasta ahora. Y cuando decide finalmente permitirse sentirlo, podría ser ya demasiado tarde...

La novela más bestial, conmovedora e hilarante que se ha escrito sobre el despertar sexual de un adolescente. Dick Loveman es un galán espaciotemporal que vive todo tipo de peripecias lujuriosas a través de los siglos. Por desgracia, Dick solo existe en la cabeza de Franki Prats, un quinceañero católico, virgen y erotizado, a quien atormentan la propia imaginación y los «placeres solitarios». Durante cuatro meses de su vida, Franki, ayudado por su mejor ―único― amigo Bruno Berniola, alias el sexperto, atravesará una variopinta serie de pruebas eróticas (oníricas, familiares, amicales, incluso zoológicas) mientras lucha contra los traumas del pasado y la escuálida realidad de su pueblo natal.