Anagrama
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EAN: 9788433922250
Metaphysical Animals
Oxford, May 1, 1956. In the solemnity of the Bodleian Library, the university faculty has met to decide whether to grant an honoris causa to former United States President Harry S. Truman. One of the people present, the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, vehemently opposes it, because she believes that..
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EAN: 9788433999023
1980
1980 is the story of a family like any, or almost all: idiot. I mean, normal. Here is an open-minded mother in Madrid in the late 1970s, who suddenly becomes a widow and discovers freedom, but she also has to raise her children. There is also a cruel grandmother who takes care of those children. And..
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EAN: 9788433997975
For the Actors
In this book you will find a constellation of stars: Spanish movie stars such as Ángela Molina, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Coronado, Ana Belén, Eduardo Noriega and Alfredo Landa. Spanish film director Gutiérrez Aragón describes the actors that he has worked with in his movies and also gives his own..
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EAN: 9788433960399
Open all Night
As Ambrose Bierce said, "home is the only place open all night". And in this first novel by David Trueba, the home belongs to the Belitre, a family as numerous as it is absurd. The people who inhabit this book only listen to the voice of their heart, while reason keeps an impassive silence. / Como ..
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EAN: 9788433980472
Blood and Guts in High School
In the Mexican city of Merida, ten-year-old Janey lives with Johnny ?her “boyfriend, brother, sister, money, amusement, and father”? until he leaves her for another woman. Bereft, Janey travels to New York City, plunging into an underworld of gangs and prostitution. / Janey se va de casa porque su ..
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EAN: 9788433973498
The Lay of the Land
After years of emotional instability, Frank Bascombe finds himself growing older relatively happily. He continues to work as an estate agent in Sea-Clift, where he had gone to live with his second wife who unexpectedly left him. Soon after he discovers that he has prostate cancer. Once again we acco..
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EAN: 9788433980892
Agatha
A beautiful and exciting novel about loneliness, fears, empathy, human relationships and second chances."An intelligent and well-put together narrative about loneliness, the complexities of human relationships and the search for meaning and a place in the world" (Martin Chilton, The Independent).A p..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433977557
August, October
The pressure in Tomás’ teenage years reaches the point of no return when he travels with his family to a small town where they usually spend their summer vacations. In that moment, everything begins in an unstoppable chain of events: the discovery of sex, violence, death and disobedience. / La tens..
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EAN: 9788433908070
Al Capone
Through rigorous research and exclusive access to Capone’s family, Deirdre Bair cuts through the mythology, uncovering a complex character who was flawed and cruel but also capable of nobility. At once intimate and iconoclastic, Al Capone gives us the definitive account of a quintessentially America..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433976246
Albertine Gone
During the summer and fall of 1922, Marcel Proust worked on the manuscript of the pages of the Albertine dissapearance, Albertine being the woman with whom Proust once lived. Now, his great-niece Nathalie Mauriac has taken charge of the definitive edition of the penultimate story. / Durante el vera..
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EAN: 9788433981004
Just like You
Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she’d been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she’s a nearly divorced, forty-one-y..
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EAN: 9788433980687
To Love Lawrence
The mysteries of female desire. Catherine Millet addresses the life and work of D. H. Lawrence. Catherine Millet, author of the scandalous The Sex Life of Catherine M., delves into the work of D. H. Lawrence, author of the once scandalous Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Why Lawrence?..
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