Written from 1904 through 1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic per…
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the origi…
Silent Spring is an environmental science book. The book documents the adverse environmental effects caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading d…
A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murder, from one of Mexico's greatest living writers (Jonathan Lethem).
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authors” (Silvia Moreno-Ga…
Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of making it rain, and the official town scapegoat bear…
La vida de Natàlia, la protagonista i narradora de La plaça del Diamant, es capgira quan coneix Quimet: el seu nom canviarà i passarà a dir-se Colometa, i la seva petita vida personal, plena de maldec…
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory…
En Sofoco, los personajes respiran aires de anhelo y amenaza. Estos nueve cuentos recorren paisajes en los que en los que el imaginario popular se encuentra con la expresión literaria. La obra fue gan…
Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is simply seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to se…
Entre 1997 y 1999, una oleada de suicidios conmovió a la pequeña localidad petrolera de Las Heras, situada prácticamente en medio de la nada y perteneciente a la provincia argentina de Santa Cruz, en …
