Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the vi…
Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.” Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more …
The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before.
Kenzaburō Ōe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of…
Like The Catcher in the Rye or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Botchan, a hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, is a classic of its kind. Among Jap…
Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won't handle. Everything in his life is going just…
En esta sección de columnas, publicadas a lo largo de más de cinco años en la contraportada de El País, Leila Guerriero, una de las grandes firmas del periodismo narrativo latinoamericano, se coloca a…
«Con los años he llegado a descubrir que las fuentes son lugares mágicos y liminales a los que hay que acudir sin prisa, como quien va a visitar a un amigo [...] Las fuentes cantan y nos hablan direct…
El Eternauta: La historieta original. Edición especial: literatura complementaria. Ni de paz ni de amor. La noche que abre El Eternauta es de angustia y desolación. La nevada que cae sobre Buenos Aires…
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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living t…
