NOVEDADES

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a Happily Ever After, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke and bogged down with writer’s block. Then one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

En esta nueva aventura, las Tea Sisters viajan a la capital francesa para ayudar a su amiga Martine con un emocionante proyecto artístico. Pero lo que comienza como una exploración de la ciudad y sus tesoros escondidos, pronto se convierte en una investigación llena de misterios: un cuadro antiguo, una dedicatoria enigmática y un secreto oculto en las calles de Montmartre. Este nuevo número mantiene las claves del éxito de la familia Stilton: - Acción. - Humor. - Juegos tipográficos. - Aventuras. Y todo esto junto una cuidada presentación gráfica que incorpora agilidad y dinamismo a la lectura.

«Su escritura inventa el tacto de la palabra». Mónica Ojeda «Laura consigue lo que desea todo escritor, mover de sitio al lector, hacerlo voltear hacia donde nunca imaginó». Guillermo Arriaga ¿Qué pasa cuando someter a otras personas es la única forma de sobrevivir? ¿La desobediencia es posible siempre? ¿Qué redes de complicidad teje el silencio? ¿Cómo distinguir entre víctima y victimario? Aquí hay dos narradoras potentes y perspicaces: Lucero y Dolores. La primera es una adolescente de juicios agudos y la apremiante necesidad de recibir aceptación. La segunda es la madre de Nancy, compañera de secundaria de Lucero, que atraviesa la agonía de buscar a su hija desaparecida. Ambas voces enhebran una historia compleja sobre un grupo de niñas casi adultas cautivo en una casona en los márgenes de la ciudad. Laura Baeza traza una novela entrañable y brutal que añade nuevas notas a las discusiones sobre la violencia, el deseo, la amistad, la ternura y la libertad humana. Con su oído privilegiado y una prosa accesible sin llegar a dócil, la autora nos lleva desde las primeras líneas a un viaje por las contradicciones de la adolescencia. El lugar de la herida es un territorio que sangra y cicatriza al mismo tiempo, símbolo de un país que reproduce y resiste la violencia feminicida en pleno siglo XXI.

What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany have in common? The Balder Scapa: a single barge that served all three roles. Though the name would eventually change to Finnboda 12. And then to Safe Esperia. And later on, to the Bibby Resolution. And after that . . . in short, a vessel with so many names, and so many fates, that to keep it in our sights—as the protagonist of this fascinating economic parable—Ian Kumekawa has no choice but to call it, simply, the Vessel. Despite its sturdy steel structure, weighing 9,500 deadweight tons, the Vessel is a figure as elusive and abstract as the offshore market it comes to embody: a world of island tax havens, exploited labor forces, free banking zones, Thatcherism, Reaganomics, and mass incarceration, where even the prisoners are held offshore. Fitted with modular shipping containers, themselves the product of standardized global trade, the ship could become whatever the market demanded. Whether caught in an international dispute involving Hong Kong, Nigeria, Indonesia, and the Virgin Islands—to be settled in an English court of law—or flying yet another foreign “flag of convenience” to mask its ownership—the barge is ever a container for forces much larger than even its hulking self. Empty Vessel is a jaw-dropping microhistory that speaks volumes about the global economy as a whole. In following the Vessel—and its Sister Vessel, built alongside it in Stockholm—from one thankless task to the next, Kumekawa connects the dots of a neoliberal world order in the making, where regulation is for suckers and “Made in USA” feels almost quaint.

When Norman shows Jim his pet butterfly, Butterfly-Butterfly, Jim is suitably impressed, especially when Norman spouts butterfly facts. Then Norman adds Beetle-Beetle 1 and Beetle-Beetle 2 and so many more to his menagerie. Now Norman spends all his time feeding and caring for his pets and doesn’t have time to play. Grumpy Monkey Jim feels left out. And when all the bugs have babies, Jim declares that Norman has too many and persuades his friend to set them free. But then Norman sees a ladybug…

En estas líneas hay que reconocer que el Premio Nacional de literatura Mateo Morrison es y ha sido uno de los mayores activistas para mantener viva la poética de Juan Sánchez Lamouth. Quien es, sin dudas, uno de los grandes poetas dominicanos de todos los tiempos, acompañando la triada que completan Domingo Moreno Jiménez y Manuel del Cabral, entre otros, eso a decir de algunos críticos dominicanos.