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Un libro sobre el poder y las luchas internas de la Iglesia católica, con el estilo de thriller característico de Santiago Roncagliolo. Abril de 2025. La Iglesia católica está al borde de la ruptura. Se disputan el poder dos teologías, quizá dos dioses. Uno vive en la tradición y en los...

Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1 million copies have been sold worldwide...

A boy in Bolivia stands on his toes at a schoolroom window. Nobody invited him in. He went anyway.Forty years later, he is looking back — across a border crossing at thirteen, a sixth-grade demotion he refused to accept, a bowl of cold cereal in Tijuana, a Coca-Cola cup too large for one...

Svend Tveskæg var ægte viking og en af de mest markante skikkelser i den danske kongerække. Han regerede i Danmark og til dels i Norge fra 986 til 1014 – og han erobrede England, som gik i arv til sønnen Knud, den senere Knud den Store. Romanen ”Svend Tveskæg – min konge” er en...

Je ne pouvais pas continuer à trahir Christine Schwartz plus longtemps, ça suffisait, et à vivre soi-disant protégée par ce nom de Angot. À quel prix ? Quel prix j'allais encore payer pour passer pour une autre, et me croire avec la majorité, à l'abri, sous la protection paternelle d'une famille classique, bourgeoise et dominante. Christine Angot interprète avec talent ce récit intime, et nous livre une réflexion bouleversante sur l'identité et le nom.

A new queen must prove she deserves the throne God gave her, while the path everyone insists will secure it might cost her everything.Against all odds, Elizabeth Tudor has become Queen of England. Determined to fulfill what she sees as a divine responsibility, she sets out to heal a country...

"Güçlü, hırslı bir at kişnemesi ovanın dört bir yönüne dağıldı. Dağınık düzen otlayan sekiz on at başlarını kaldırdılar ve kulaklarını diktiler. (...) İçlerinde güçlü kuvvetlileri vardı. Kimi kahra uğramış zavallı, kimi yılkının alışığı..." Hesaptan düşülmüş, defterden silinmiş Doru Kısrak'ın yılkıya bırakılma öyküsüdür. Kışın dağda, belde başının çaresine bakacak, çıplak tabiatla savaşacak, ömrü olur da bahara yılkıdan sağ dönerse, o zaman ona bir iş düşünülecektir.

En 1893, à Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Émiliana Cyr, la fille unique de Louis Cyr, l’homme le plus fort de tous les temps, a six ans. Grâce à la force héritée de son père, que l’on prétend être un don de Dieu, elle marque son époque, présentée sur toutes les scènes comme l’enfant prodige du xixe siècle.

Birmingham, Alabama, 1921: after the Great War, the city of coal and steel is a crucible of money and power. Fortunes are there to be won or lost, with race and class used as means to that end. Father Jimmy Coyle swims passionately against that tide, building inclusive congregations and speaking out against the rise of white supremacy. Dedicated, determined, ambitious, naturally inclined towards human rights–he is a thorn in the side of the Ku Klux Klan, until he isn’t ...

Hur kunde Pedro Alonso López nästan obemärkt våldta och mörda uppemot 300 unga flickor i Ecuador, Colombia och Peru på 1970-talet? Kan hans dåd förklaras av hans uppväxtmiljö, eller är han bara helt enkelt en produkt av ren och skär ondska? I ”Monstret från Anderna” målar...

Blending family drama with page-turning suspense, My Lethal Obsession confronts the eternal hatred one group has faced throughout history in very human, very personal terms, and honors the unbreakable will to survive and begin anew. Gideon Wistreich is haunted by visions of his family’s...

Nach einer schmerzhaften Trennung kehrt Sue in die Villa ihrer Familie am Gardasee zurück. Sie sucht Abstand, Klarheit und den Mut, endlich herauszufinden, wer sie wirklich ist. Da ist Michele, der im Hotel ihrer Schwester Jule wohnt und sie gleichermaßen anzieht, wie ihr Kopfschmerzen bereitet. Und Luca, der Pizzabäcker mit süditalienischen Wurzeln, der mit seiner Leidenschaft für Kulinarik etwas in ihr berührt, das sie nicht erwartet hätte. Als ihr Vater Christoph sie schließlich mit einer schockierenden Wahrheit konfrontiert, beginnt Sue ihre Pläne neu zu überdenken.

It's 1901 and immigrants are the engine that drives the industries of America. A Japanese nobleman of the samurai class with terminal tuberculosis—escaping an arranged marriage and rigid social expectations—discovers in an Alaskan cannery how expendable workers are, especially if they dare to ask for fair wages and safe working conditions.

Новелла «Встреча» была написана мной после рассказа одной женщины — это действительно её история. Это чистая правда, такая встреча была на самом деле. Я принципиально не меняла ни профессию главной героини, ни место этой встречи.

The first novel written about the enigmatic literary legend Australia, 1901. Miles Franklin, the young daughter of poor bush farmers, manages to publish her first novel against all odds. A work of remarkable boldness and passion, it becomes an immense success in the English-speaking world. While...

The life Oscar Wilde never had — reimagined by John Boyne in his most ambitious and emotionally powerful novel yet. Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed? When the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February...

En La última hermana María, una mujer de origen chileno sofisticada, alegre y superficial, asiste atónita a la ocupación alemana de París, que trunca para siempre su vida hasta entonces despreocupada e intranscendente. El azar la lleva a conocer la persecución a la que someten los nazis al...

La vida de una figura legendaria, y la historia de una democracia confiscada: la de Estados Unidos. «Sin duda, lo mejor que he leído sobre este legendario joven forajido.» Yannick Haenel, Charlie Hebdo «Un anti-western que ilumina admirablemente los excesos y la violencia de Estados Unidos...

Hvor mange ved, at den franske impressionismes vugge var dansk og stod på Sankt Thomas i Dansk Vestindien? Maleren Camille Pissarro begyndte livet som Jacobo Pizzarro i en dansk-jødisk familie, der havde søgt tilflugt for jødeforfølgelserne på Sankt Thomas. Her bliver hans mor, Rachel, som...

Inspired by true events, this richly researched novel offers an intimate portrait of the woman who reigned over America's Gilded Age —and the unforgettable night that tested her power, her convictions, and her heart. New York City, 1896 On the eve of her annual winter ball, Caroline Schermerhorn Astor reflects on her life and all that has led up to this moment. She is about to reintroduce her daughter, Charlotte, into society after a scandalous divorce. Society dictates that divorced women simply disappear, but Caroline refuses to ban her daughter from her rightful place.