LETRAS

A powerful exploration of how we pay attention that will transform the ways we connect with one another – at home, at work, and beyond. Paying attention is a crucial human skill, yet many of us have forgotten how to listen carefully and observe intentionally. Deluged by social media and hobbled by the increasing social isolation it fosters, we need to rediscover the deeply human ways we connect with others.

Nadie ha retratado la psicología humana como lo hizo Fiódor Dostoyevski. Su obra, fiel reflejo de una personalidad compleja y atormentada, marca una de las cimas de la narrativa universal. Admirada por generaciones de lectores y autores, Crimen y castigo narra el asesinato cometido por Rodión Raskólnikov, un estudiante arrogante y endeudado cuyo nihilismo anticipa la literatura existencialista. Su descenso a los infierno corre en paralelo al de la ciudad de San Petersburgo, en plena decadencia, que Dostoyevski retrata con pulso firme y una galería de personajes absolutamente memorables.

The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation.

Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who was brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband—and herself.

A servant girl escapes from a settlement. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her.