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The Elin Hilderbrand Literati Book Club Pick! Recommended by Entertainment Weekly * CNN * Harper's BAZAAR * E! Online * Refinery 29 * Bustle * Shondaland * Vulture * The Millions * Lit Hub * Electric Literature * Parade * MSN * and more! “For when you want a coming-of-age novel with a dark...

One of the greatest works in literature, Dante's story-poem is an allegory that represents mankind as it exposes itself, by its merits or demerits, to the rewards or the punishments of justice. A single listen will reveal Dante's visual imagination and uncanny power to make the spiritual visible.

Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass. As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As friends, only disloyalty to each other is forbidden. When a little girl from the slums disappears, the limits of a perverse and sacred bond will be tested in ways none of them could have imagined.

Aclamada por el jurado del Fondo Nacional de las Artes y ganadora del primer premio en la categoría novela, La fauna divina juega con las fronteras de lo políticamente incorrecto y derrumba todos los prejuicios sobre la deformidad, la enfermedad y la salud. En boca de un antihéroe faunesco y...

Etere Divino nasce, e nascendo genera il mondo in cui viene al mondo. Etere Divino, astro di terracotta, singolarità gravitazionale, si muove in questo mondo creato da sé medesimo - un po' Walser un po' flaneur - e il mondo si fa intorno a lui, così che si dispiega davanti al lettore un universo che nasce, si espande, va morendo; un universo a cui capita, per clinamina imprevedibili, di essere il nostro.

In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are interwoven with classic stories of the Middle East. Here are Abraham and Isaac; Ishmael, father of the Arab tribes; the beautiful Fatima; Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders; and a host of mischievous imps.

Jérôme, Sacha, Marc et David sont quatre quadragénaires qui partagent tout depuis l'adolescence. Lorsque Jérôme meurt d'une crise cardiaque, ses amis vont à Honfleur disperser ses cendres dans la mer. Mais durant ce week-end de deuil, leur amitié est mise à l'épreuve...

Para mí, eres divina narra la historia de Olivia, una chica cualquiera que vive en un plantío de café en medio de las verdes y frondosas montañas de Guatemala. Al igual que su madre y muchas otras mujeres en las mismas condiciones, parece destinada a convertirse en un ser desechable...