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En La última hermana María, una mujer de origen chileno sofisticada, alegre y superficial, asiste atónita a la ocupación alemana de París, que trunca para siempre su vida hasta entonces despreocupada e intranscendente. El azar la lleva a conocer la persecución a la que someten los nazis al...

From the most famous of the Beat writers and the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac’s intoxicating love story of two young bohemians Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration...

Written in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man. This book presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz—Kerouac’s alter ego—beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in...

The first book in Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, a novella detailing the writer’s early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother Unique among Jack Kerouac’s novels, Visions of Gerard captures the scenes and sensations of earliest childhood, the first four years in...

Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade...

A tour de force in the tradition of Hawksmoor and Chatterton, Peter Ackroyd’s new novel of deceit and betrayal is a witty reimagining of a great nineteenth-century Shakespeare forgery. Charles and Mary Lamb, who will achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare for children...

Paleontologist Howard Beamish is flying to Nairobi on a professional mission when his plane is forced to land in the imaginary country of Callimbia. Journalist Lucy Faulkner, on assignment to write a travel piece for a Sunday magazine, is on the same flight. What happens to Howard and Lucy in...

From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation—certain to become the definitive version—of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized account of Fyodor Dostoevsky's life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. Sentenced to death for advocating...

Another action-packed mystery by Maurice LeBlanc! This story has to do with the final Will of a man named Mornington, who, in the year 1900, left behind the sum of $400 million francs. Of that, three-fourths went to his adopted country - which left $100 million francs to be distributed to his heirs. The executor of the estate was Mornington's friend, Don Luis Perenna (AKA Arsene Lupin). The problem, however, was that no one knew where (or even who) some of the heirs were. If no heirs were to be found within 3 months, the entire $100 million francs would go to Perenna.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of History of Violence by Edouard Louis, read by Joseph Kloska. The radical and urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012. I was going home after a meal with friends, at around four in the morning. He...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Jeff Woodman and Scott Shina. THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVEL ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOOD From the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud...

Under sin opvækst i Belfast, gør Sean alt, hvad er forventes af ham. Han arbejder hårdt, han studerer, og han holder sig - for det meste - ude af problemer, men da Sean vender hjem fra universitetet, har intet ændret sig. Det er de samme venner, som tager de samme stoffer på de samme...

Lorsque George Mallory disparaît en 1924 lors de son ascension de l'Everest avec l'alpiniste Andrew Irvine, personne ne sait s'ils ont atteint le plus haut sommet du monde. C'est la plus grande énigme de l'histoire de l'alpinisme et le point de départ de Baku Yumemakura pour Le Sommet des dieux. Quand on retrouve le corps de Mallory, en 1999, deux objets manquent parmi ses effets personnels : son appareil photo, qui aurait permis d'attester de son exploit, et le portrait de son épouse qu'il avait promis de déposer au sommet.

Madrid, 1889. La capital es una ciudad de contrastes vibrantes. En ese mundo en ebullición, una joven de catorce años se enfrenta a la prematura muerte de su madre. Su nombre es Julia Loewe. Inteligente, audaz y con una visión prodigiosa, Julia comprende que ha nacido una «nueva mujer», que recorre el mundo, que trabaja, que monta en bicicleta y que, para conquistar su independencia, necesita algo revolucionario: una nueva moda.

Wenn Onkel Warfsmann Geschichten erzählte, von denen seine Frau Mia sagte, das sei doch alles Seemannsgarn, so enthielten sie doch Weisheiten und Wahrheiten, die für den jungen Klaus-Peter Wolf wichtig waren und bis heute sein Schreiben beeinflussen. Immer wieder hat ihn sein Onkel darin bestärkt, sich nicht von seinen Träumen abbringen zu lassen und mutig den eigenen Weg zu gehen. Die über 100 Kolumnen erzählen von Onkel Warfsmann, der aus Liebe zu seiner Frau vom ostfriesischen Seefahrer zum Bergmann im Ruhrgebiet wurde.

Ce livre est la somme des promesses que j'aurais aimé tenir pour Kalyna, l'homme de Koudoukou et tant d'autres, et des promesses impardonnables que j'ai faites à Sacha et Bohdan parce que, dans l'intensité du moment, j'ai oublié les limites invisibles de mon rôle. Alors j'ai repensé à Joseph Kessel et ses mots désespérés, ceux qui se cognent dans chaque reporter qui rentre, terrassé par son impuissance : « J'aurais voulu tellement dire et j'ai dit si peu.

Marco cultural dos anos 1950, Junky descreve o périplo de um viciado em drogas pesadas. O livro entra agora para o time de clássicos malditos da coleção Má Companhia. Cotidiano modorrento, um atestado de dispensa do serviço militar e alguns trambiques. Assim o narrador de Junky descreve...

Ein bewegender Familienroman und zugleich die unvergleichliche Erfolgsgeschichte der Firma LEGO Billund 1924. Der dänische Tischler Ole Kirk Christiansen liebt seine Familie über alles. Doch nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag muss er seine vier Söhne allein großziehen, und seine Zimmerei...

This literary thriller set at Oxford University puts talented mathematics student G at the center of a murder mystery sparked by the discovery of hidden secrets in the life of famed author Lewis Carroll. Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE From the #1 nationally bestselling author of By Gaslight, a novel of exquisite emotional force about love and art in the life of one of the great writers, reminiscent of Colm Tóibín's The Master, or Michael Cunningham's The Hours. In...