This Great Hemisphere is powerful, captivating novel about how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love. With the worldbuilding of N. K. Jemisin’s novels and blazing defiance of Naomi Alderman’s work, it is also a story about what happens when we resist the narratives others write about us.
Northwestern Hemisphere, 2529: an Earth on which half of people are now born literally invisible. Sweetmint, a young woman, is one of them and thus relegated to second-class citizenship. She has done everything right her entire life, from school to landing a highly sought-after apprenticeship. But all she has fought so hard to earn comes crashing down when she learns that her brother (whom she had presumed dead) is not only alive and well but also the primary suspect in a high-profile political murder.
A must-have collector's edition of Junot Diaz's bestseller and National Book Award finalist, brilliantly illustrated by celebrated comic artist Jaime Hernandez A major "New York Times "bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award, "This Is How You Lose Her "is Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz's celebration of love in all its facets--obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. For this gorgeous new edition, Jaime Hernandez--deemed "one of the twentieth century's most significant comic creators"--has crafted stunning full-page illustrations, one for each story, that brilliantly capture the love-haunted spirit of the book and of the gutsy women whom irrepressible, irresistible Yunior loves and loses.
Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her best friend’s younger brother. Lucy and Felix’s chemistry is unreal, but the list of reasons why they need to stay away from each other is long, and they vow to never repeat that electric night again.
It’s easier said than done.
Each year, Lucy escapes to PEI for a big breath of coastal air, fresh oysters and crisp vinho verde with her best friend, Bridget. Every visit begins with a long walk on the beach, beneath soaring red cliffs and a golden sun. And every visit, Lucy promises herself she won’t wind up in Felix’s bed. Again.
Un libro lleno de sensaciones, reflexión y gran belleza, RTL.
Barbery disecciona a través de un grupo de personajes la amistad como una conversación que continúa más allá del tiempo y las fronteras, Harper's Bazaar.
Cautivador de principio a fin, Marie France.
Una emocionante meditación sobre lo que separa y une a los vivos y a los muertos, el amor y la amistad, la inocencia y la corrupción, la magia de los lugares que habitamos…, Madame Figaro.
Muriel Barbery busca y encuentra la armonía, Le Monde des Livres
Margaux se presenta en el entierro de un amigo de la infancia, Thomas Helder, años después de abandonar a los suyos sin explicación. En la casa familiar de Thomas, en plena campiña occitana, resurgen con fuerza los recuerdos de su pasado en Ámsterdam y de ese rincón de Francia en el que crecieron, se amaron y, a veces, se mintieron.
Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter Debbie is getting married, and she hasn’t even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail’s ex-husband Max arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay and without even a suit.
But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband-to-be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max’s past.
Told with deep sensitivity and a tart sense of humor, full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage and family life, Three Days in June is a triumph, and gives us the perennially bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the height of her powers.
Amity es una pequeña población de la costa atlántica de Estados Unidos que vive principalmente del turismo. Un día cualquiera, al alba, poco antes de empezar la temporada de verano aparecen en la playa los restos de una joven que al parecer ha sido devorada por un tiburón. La policía, la prensa y los comerciantes ocultan la noticia que podría espantar a los veraneantes. Pero a los pocos días un bañista ve desde la costa cómo un animal gigantesco ataca a un muchacho. Entonces empieza la batida: un grupo de hombres hábiles y decididos se lanzarán al mar para enfrentarse a la bestia.
Publicada en 1974, Tiburón alcanzó el éxito inmediatamente. Al año siguiente se estrenó la célebre adaptación al cine dirigida Stephen Spielberg, y en la que Peter Benchley colaboró como co-guionista,. Desde entonces, Tiburón se ha consagrado como un absoluto clásico contemporáneo de la cultura pop.
Esta edición incluye contenido adicional de los archivos de Peter Benchley, como reproducciones del manuscrito original, fotografías del rodaje y varios textos del autor en los que narra en primera persona la escritura de Tiburón y su colaboración con Steven Spielberg.