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Una colección excepcional que reúne todos los cuentos de Gabriel García Márquez, ganador del Premio Nobel.

An Amazon Best Romance of the Month! “Be quiet and listen: He is cheating on you. The name of your soulmate is Alistair George Arthur Lennox. You will be passed over for the promotion. The winning numbers are 5-8-12-24-39-43. And I’m very sorry to tell you this, but you will die next Sunday...

A debut novel full of magic, adventure, and romance, The Book of Doors opens up a thrilling world of contemporary fantasy for readers of The Midnight Library, The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, The Night Circus, and any modern story that mixes the wonder of the unknown with just a tinge of...

Brought to you by Penguin. ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice' Gabriel García Márquez's...

La casa de Piranesi no es un edificio cualquiera: sus habitaciones son monumentales, con paredes llenas de miles de estatuas, y sus pasillos, interminables. Dentro del dédalo de corredores hay un océano aprisionado en el que las olas retumban y las mareas inundan los aposentos.

In TopKnotch, three Shih Tzu girls—Ginger, Hapi, and Missy—scheme to extricate their late 20-something owner, Robin, from a series of foibles. Robin is an engineer who works for her uber-successful, but domineering dad, Fritz. She’s engaged to marry Sean, who works as the intellectual properties attorney for their firm, Rosencratz & Dessein.

From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the listener to a world that is at once fanciful and real.

Basta pochissimo tempo per dare un senso alla vita. Basta conoscere l'amore. Kusunoki impara la lezione entrando in uno strano negozio vuoto. "Benvenuto!" gli dice una ragazza con gli occhiali. Kusunoki ha bisogno di soldi e gli hanno detto che lì è possibile vendere il tempo che ti resta in cambio di una somma di denaro. Tutto considerato si può fare. Fino a quel momento la vita del ragazzo è stata piuttosto anonima, nessuna passione particolare, pochi obiettivi da raggiungere, nessuna soddisfazione.

Brought to you by Penguin. Would you rewrite your destiny if it meant losing a part of your past? On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones – those who are lost – will find a place to pawn...

One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back . . . If you could relive one day of your life, which would you choose? In a cosy photography studio in the mountains between this world and the next, someone is waking up as if from a dream. A kind man will hand them a hot cup of tea...

"Utterly charming . . . I would read a hundred of these stories." —Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures Seven struggling customers are given the unique opportunity to take home a "blanket cat" . . . but only for three days, the time it’ll take to...

Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations. From that moment on, his fate is mysteriously handcuffed to the history of his country. But Saleem's story starts almost 30 years earlier, when his grandfather, Dr Aadam Aziz, falls in love with a woman concealed behind a perforated sheet. That pivotal moment in Kashmir in 1919 sparks a series of bizarre events that will lead to the birth of a boy with an extraordinary destiny.

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Dal momento in cui la piccola Klara Gulla viene al mondo, il cuore del padre Jan comincia a battere e il miracolo di quel battito, di quella tardiva scoperta di un'emozione mai provata, della felicità e della sofferenza che ne sono le immancabili compagne, trasformerà tutta la sua vita, dandole valore e significato. L'amore diventa la lente attraverso la quale vede la realtà e, quando questa è troppo squallida e amara, la trasfigura.

Sono passati gli anni, e a Girifalco le vite seguitano a orbitare come corpi celesti, traiettorie che s'intersecano e si allontanano rispondendo alle misteriose leggi dell'universo. La mattina dopo San Lorenzo, notte delle stelle, arriva a Girifalco un circo: è una carovana avvolta da un'aura incantata, un corteo sfavillante di elefanti e domatori, trapezisti, lanciatori di coltelli e illusionisti. La novità scuote la gente ed eccita gli animi, e cambierà per sempre le sorti di alcuni dei protagonisti del romanzo.

Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. He will learn to handcraft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there’s something you want to forget, he can help. If there’s something you need to erase, he can assist. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible.

We know the Greek gods from mythology, and assume their stories ended there. They did not. This is a compelling new story about the Olympic gods in our century. True to form, they continue to challenge our modern morality.

Vinte anos depois de desaparecer sem deixar rastro, João Grilo volta a Taperoá e reencontra Chicó, que passou todo esse tempo propagando a história de que Nossa Senhora operou um milagre e trouxe o amigo do mundo dos mortos. Agora, visto como uma espécie de santo, João chama a atenção de políticos poderosos, que querem usá-lo como cabo eleitoral.

O que você procura? Essa é a pergunta que a enigmática Sayuri Komachi faz a quem visita a biblioteca do Centro Comunitário de Tóquio em busca de ajuda. A lista de livros que ela recomenda sempre contém um título inusitado que se torna o agente de uma mudança. Em cinco histórias independentes que se entrelaçam de maneira sutil, você conhecerá pessoas que estão em momentos diferentes da vida, lidando com situações como a frustração no trabalho, a falta de oportunidades, o medo do fracasso e a vontade de começar de novo.

So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Tomorrow by Damian Dibben, read by George Blagden. Tomorrow tells the story of a 217-year-old dog and his search for his lost master. His adventures take him through the London Frost Fair, the strange court of King Charles I, the wars of the Spanish...

A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and meaning for our lives, and the surprising connections that bind us. Lime green plastic...

El 26 de octubre de 1949 el reportero Gabriel García Márquez fue enviado al antiguo convento de Santa Clara, que iba a ser demolido para edificar sobre él un hotel de cinco estrellas, a presenciar el vaciado de las criptas funerarias y a cubrir la noticia. Se exhumaron los restos de un virrey del Perú y su amante secreta, un obispo, varias abadesas, un bachiller de artes y una marquesa.

*Winner of the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Director of a Motion Picture* *Winner of the 2018 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director* Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable talent in this haunting, heartbreaking...

Kimiko, giovane scrittrice di romanzi rosa, esce con Goro, che convive con Yukiko, una lontana parente molto più grande di lui. Una sera, dopo una visita all'acquario di Tokyo a vedere i delfini, Kimiko fa l'amore con Goro, ma capisce subito che la loro storia non ha futuro. Temendo di legarsi troppo a lui, decide allora di abbandonare Tokyo. Nel tempio vicino al mare in cui trova rifugio, conosce Mami, una ragazza con doti soprannaturali, e da lei viene a sapere di essere incinta.

This “powerful” (BuzzFeed) award-winning debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you’ve closed its covers. “Quietly moving . . . connected by a kind of dream logic . . . deeply felt . . . There is joy and...

"Genre-bending and darkly comic, Grushin's fourth novel is a weird and wonderful triumph." –O, the Oprah Magazine Cinderella wants her Prince Charming dead in this sophisticated fairy-tale for the twenty-first century. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. “This potent book about America’s most...

Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling author, continues her spellbinding series set in the Hidden Legacy world where magic controls everything…except the hearts of those who wield it. As Prime magic users, Catalina Baylor and her sisters have extraordinary powers—powers their ruthless...

Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he is focused on his duties as chief of a Maori tribe in Whangara, on the East Coast of New Zealand - a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'. In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now there is no male heir - there's only Kahu. She should be the next in line for the title, but her great-grandfather is blinded by tradition and sees no use for a girl. Kahu will not be ignored.

From the author of the international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese café. In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years...

Un roman qui concentre à lui seul tout le réalisme magique de Haruki Murakami. Dans une petite cité spectrale vivent des gens privés d'ombre et de sentiments. Parmi eux, un nouveau venu a pour tâche de lire les "vieux rêves" dans des crânes de licornes, attrapant des fragments de mémoire d'une autre vie, d'une autre dimension.

"In these irreverent pages, a shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle." —O, The Oprah Magazine “HOT” (Maggie Nelson) “TIGHT” (Eileen Myles) “DEEP” (Michelle Tea) A Kirkus...

A vengeful spirit wills itself into existence in a land where people are property and dreams of freedom incite rebellion against those who profit from slave labor in this magical realism story rooted in West African mythology. 1794, Benin, Africa. Bako is one of 162 men stolen from their...

On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, mechanic Rusty Wilson takes a bullet to save the patrons of a small-town Colorado diner—and awakens to a strange realm between life and death. However, he finds that this limbo is not the end. There are still choices to be made and a lifetime to review. Paths open for a man who believes the life he did live was one of disappointments, grief, and devastating family estrangements.

In G.G. Silverman’s debut fairytale-horror collection, The Blood Year Daughter, a woman builds husbands out of gravel and slaughterhouse feathers, two sisters eat cinnamon-scented pieces of their mother, and a charming doctor’s murdered brides whisper warnings to his newest wife...

Cloistered in a dreary Bogotá apartment, Ignacio’s light has dimmed, leaving his teenage daughter, Valentina, to raise herself in the wake of her mother Alma’s death. Lonely and love-starved, Valentina aches to discover the details of her mother’s drowning, and for her father to snap out of his depression. But Ignacio can’t. He spends listless afternoons smoking cigarettes in long blonde wigs, telenovelas humming in the background, haunted not only by matrimonial guilt, but by memories of a young man he once loved and betrayed.

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: The father who could not allow his daughter to get married A woman who...

Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It's called The Dellawisp and it's named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother's apartment at The Dellawisp, she meets her quirky, enigmatic neighbors including a girl on the run, a grieving chef whose comfort food does not comfort him, two estranged middle-aged sisters, and three ghosts. Each with their own story.