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At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger.

Acaso sea Crónica de una muerte anunciada la obra más «realista» de Gabriel García Márquez, pues se basa en un hecho histórico acontecido en la tierra natal del escritor. Cuando empieza la novela, ya se sabe que los hermanos Vicario van a matar a Santiago Nasar -de hecho, ya le han matado- para vengar el honor ultrajado de su hermana Ángela, pero el relato termina precisamente en el momento en que Santiago Nasar muere.

Twelve American tourists join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China - dubbed the true Shangri-La - and heads south into the jungles of Burma. But after the mysterious death of their tour leader, the carefully laid plans fall apart, and disharmony breaks out among the pleasure-seekers.

Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Café. It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother’s estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid forming ties or even getting to know her father’s side of the family, Anna Kate finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quirky Southern town her mother ran away from so many years ago, and the mysterious blackbird pie everybody can’t stop talking about.

(…) Gardel solo quiere elevarse, que lo dejen en paz para elevarse. Hace mucho tiempo que está atrapado en la zona inferior, reclamado continuamente por los que escuchan sus discos y gente como usted, que estudian su vida. Todo eso lo tira hacia abajo, ¿comprende?, no lo deja ascender.

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by chance, she runs into her old friend Mr. Takaoka, who offers friendship, love, and an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick of living inside her dreams. And so, each night, she sinks into another life: first as a high-ranking courtesan in the 17th century, and then as a serving lady to a princess in the late Middle Ages.

Una maravillosa muestra del talento narrativo de Murakami que nos abre las puertas a otras realidades y nos lleva de la mano a mundos fantásticos. Un hombre que se obsesiona con la insólita y misteriosa desaparición del elefante de un zoo, un abogado en paro que recibe el encargo de su mujer de encontrar a su gato, una pareja de recién casados que deciden atracar un MacDonald's en plena noche, una curiosa digresión sobre los canguros, un enano diabólico que baila, un joven empeñado en burlarse de su futuro cuñado, un pirómano confeso.

One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish to English. But all is not as it seems and Anna soon finds herself at the heart of a mystery that threatens her very way of life. In New York in the present day, Sarah Harper boards a plane bound for the West Coast of Ireland. But once there, she finds she has unearthed dark secrets – secrets that tread the line between the everyday and the otherworldly, the seen and the unseen.

Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she’d spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend.

This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the Earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

Nella più triste delle città, così triste da aver persino dimenticato il proprio nome, vivono il cantastorie Rashid Khalifa, lo Scià del Bla-bla, e suo figlio Harun. Rashid è dotato del magico dono di saper raccontare, incantando con la sua voce chi lo ascolta. Non appena schiude le labbra, ne sgorgano saghe piene d'amore e di magia, con eroi, battaglie, principesse... Finché un giorno dalla bocca dello Scià del Bla-bla non esce che un orribile verso.

Uno studente senza nome sta per abbandonare gli studi in una prestigiosa università a Kyoto dopo due anni disastrosi: a causa di una serie di scelte sbagliate, prima fra tutte la compagnia del suo peggiore e unico amico, il teppista Ozu, si è rovinato la reputazione e la carriera accademica, al punto che la “rosea vita universitaria” che tanto sognava, ossia trovare una bella fanciulla dai capelli corvini, avere successo nello studio e avere tanti amici, sembra ormai impossibile da raggiungere. Ma il destino ha in mente per lui altri piani.

Trapped between his unfulfilling career, a dwindling grasp on reality and his childhood memories, Jay Mackintosh takes the snap decision to buy a derelict French farmhouse, running from London to the village of Lansquenet. Returning to his childhood haunt, Jay is forced to confront a ghost from his past, a secretive widow and the terrible secret she's hiding.

A sister disappears and returns as a tiger. A mother’s voice compels the truth from any tongue. A granddaughter divines secrets in others’ dreams. These women are all of one lineage—a Korean family split across decades and borders by Japanese imperialism. At this saga’s heart is Young-Ja, a girl who infuses food with her emotions. She revels in her gift for cooking, nourishing the people she loves with her cheerfulness. But her sunny childhood comes to an end in 1931 when Japanese soldiers crush her family’s defiance against the Empire.

This is an epic saga of two families living at the dawn of the Dark Ages who are brought together not only through the power of magic, but by love and passion that survives through many lifetimes. Together, they work to restore Britain to its glory, battling against political opposition on all sides as the country sinks deeper into despair and oppression. In this series, you will revisit some of your favorite "fairy tale" stories from the past with a new and "grown up" perspective.

This is a story of love and discovery "against all odds" as experienced by Richard Grey, a boy growing up through adolescence to young adulthood. But Richard's upbringing is subject to a series of sometimes hilarious sometimes traumatic shocks. For example, his eccentric grandmother Blanche Grieve insists on his wearing a gas mask watching hockey games on TV, because he’s desperately allergic to the cat his sister has brought home from a nearby forest. As he grows into a dreamy, moody teenager, then a young adult, Richard faces many challenges.

Sarah Miller struggles to remain conscious while medical teams work diligently to save her life. As she slips into a deep sleep, she enters an ethereal realm where her grandfather, Ralph Miller, awaits her under the protective canopy of a large oak tree beside a still pond. But this is no ordinary tree! As Sarah gazes into its glittering leaves, she is whisked away into one memory after another. With her grandfather's ever-changing tie, Ralph guides Sarah into understanding life's tragedies and the power of decisions.

A peculiar pet shop in Tokyo has been known to offer customers a unique opportunity: the chance to adopt one of seven special cats whose "magic" is never promised, but always received. But there are rules: these cats must be returned after three days. They must eat only the food supplied by the owner, and they must travel to their new homes with a distinctive blanket. In The Blanket Cats, we meet seven customers, each of whom is hoping a temporary feline companion will help them escape a certain reality.

Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones – those who are lost – will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets. Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop's new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike other customers. For he offers help, instead of seeking it.

Told through three distinctive voices, Small Hours is an evocative, moving and illuminating story of a family in crisis and the ghosts of the past who still haunt them, of life-changing conversations in the early hours of the morning, and of a great love between two people whose time left together is running short.