NOVEDADES

After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.

A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve . . . Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary. The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford who spends her weekends in the same seaside village where Gabriel once lived under an assumed identity. Her murder appears to be the work of a diabolical serial killer who has been terrorizing the Cornish countryside. But there are a number of telltale inconsistencies, including a missing mobile phone. And then there is the mysterious three-letter cypher she left behind on a notepad in her study.

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree. But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

Ataviado con sombrero de fieltro y una pipa entre los dientes, el Dante de Seymour Chwast no puede ser más actual. Si La divina comedia se ha convertido en un clásico, quizá se deba a cuán poco se parece a la obra de los contemporáneos del autor, que no solo inventó un mundo como lo han hecho muy pocos, sino que es el gran pionero de la autoficción. Podría deberse también al atrevimiento de Dante de escribir como hablaba realmente la gente de su tiempo y su lugar, la Toscana, y no en latín, según se había esperado de un literato. Chwast, un héroe de la ilustración y el diseño, ya casi centenario, condensa de una manera tan audaz como efectiva toda la complejidad de un clásico que no siempre se animan los lectores a abordar. Y en la estela de Dante, convierte la poesía del original en una obra alejada de la convención del arte secuencial en favor de páginas sorprendentes. Por su forma singular de reimaginar el clásico medieval, Chwast es fiel y digno heredero de un autor al que se considera el padre de la lengua italiana. Como en el poema original, el Dante de Chwast recorre junto a su maestro Virgilio los círculos del Infierno. Juntos atraviesan el Purgatorio y llegan hasta el Paraíso, donde encuentran a Beatriz, la difunta amada de Dante, porque la Comedia acaba bien y recuerda, a quien quiera saberlo, que existe una luz divina. Pero no hacemos spoilers, lo que importa es cómo transcurre el viaje y cómo se cuenta. La serie de personajes que van encontrando a lo largo del viaje.

The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams…. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion. With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like. But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.

1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide…

Jude Portman pronto aprendió a hacerse invisible para sobrevivir. Hija de una estrella de la música que se apagó con su nacimiento, creció bajo la sombra de una leyenda rota… y bajo las miradas de un pueblo convencido de que traía mala suerte. Hasta que llegó Isaac, un chico que veía la vida en colores, pensaba con canciones y convertía el mundo gris de Jude en un lugar habitable. Con él, Jude descubrió algo que nunca habría imaginado: la posibilidad de mirarse sin miedo. ¿Y si crecer significara dejar de ser la villana en la historia de otros y ser la protagonista de la tuya? ¿Y si tu vida no fuera una maldición, sino un capítulo mal contado? Esta no es la historia de su madre. Tampoco de su pueblo. Ni siquiera de Isaac.

En las sociedades primitivas, las primeras normas se referían al uso de bienes y territorios, a la vida y a la integridad física. A medida que las sociedades se vuelven más complejas, surgen normas que rigen a toda la comunidad, su vida y sus relaciones. Nace así el primer embrión del derecho, y el deseo de que “el derecho a la fuerza” sea sustituido por “la fuerza del derecho”. El autor identifica cinco fases en la historia de los derechos de la persona: la teorización, codificación, internacionalización, universalización y globalización. El trasfondo individualista, en el que nace la teoría de los derechos subjetivos, justifica la posición inicial de la Iglesia católica. Se analizan también algunos debates sobre los derechos fundamentales y, en particular, la visión antropológica: solo si se acierta en esto ―defiende el autor― es posible el “desarrollo humano integral” y una sociedad mejor.

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