Anagrama
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EAN: 9788433924322
A Handful of Arrows
One night, during his stay in Buenos Aires for the filming of his film Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola told María Gainza: «The artist comes into the world with a quiver that contains a limited number of golden arrows. He can shoot all his arrows as a young man, or shoot them as an adult, or even as an o..
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EAN: 9788433929143
Your King no Longer Treads the Earth
An eccentric and resentful abbess, whose mysterious death is announced from the first pages, a friar who has exhausted his life searching for God through reason, a quarrelsome marquis, his wife, Doña Hilda, who goes to the convent to swear her virginity, a strange lackey who makes paper balls, a coo..
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EAN: 9788433929709
I Limited Myself to Loving You
Inspired by a true story: a coming-of-age novel about the loss of innocence, the wounds we carry, and the compelling need to find support and understanding when everything collapses around us. Omar is ten years old and spends his days by the window, waiting for his mother to come home. He hasn't see..
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EAN: 9788433929730
The Light of the Dead Stars
At the heart of this book is our relationship to the traumatic experience of loss. What happens inside us when we lose someone we love deeply? What emptiness opens up? What work awaits us in returning to life? And what happens when this work is impossible and we feel lost along with those we have lo..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433914699
Ham on Rye
Here is an autobiographical novel which strikes as heavy a blow as a carefully aimed uppercut, showing us a very different side of the American Dream: the childhood, adolescence, and youth of Henry Chinaski in Los Angeles, during the years of the Depression and the Second World War. His brutal fathe..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433927460
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Tara Selter and her husband Thomas live in Clairon-sous-Bois and are antiquarian booksellers. On November 17, Tara travels to Bordeaux to attend an auction and then takes a train to Paris. On November 18, she visits a second-hand bookshop and then goes to bed at her hotel. And then something incredi..
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EAN: 9788433922977
The Vulnerables
Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how o..
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EAN: 9788433960771
Silk
This is not a novel. It is not even a story. It is a history. It begins with a man who travels the world. The man’s name is Hervé Joncour. You could call it a love story, but if it was only this it would not have been worth telling. The book combines desires and sorrows that have no name...
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EAN: 9788433927484
Dispatches
When Michael Herr went to Vietnam in 1967 as a correspondent for Esquire, he was a virtually unknown writer. But he was unanimously praised after publishing his famous article "Hellish Sips," and his reputation grew as more and more of his work appeared. Dispatches confirmed what his early admirers ..
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EAN: 9788433961037
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through space, aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Gu..
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EAN: 9788433928818
The Book of All Books
With his unique perspective, Calasso recounts biblical stories such as those of the kings of Israel, Saul, David and Solomon, episodes such as that of the Queen of Sheba or the flight to Egypt, and the role of Moses and Freud's interpretation of his figure. A journey that goes from the creation of t..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433927477
White Holes
What lies behind a black hole? This book is a journey to the literal confines of the universe, beyond the end of time; a lulling slide into its interior, a fall through that crack in the cosmos. We dive into its interior and see how geometry bends, time and space pull and stretch, and, at the epicen..
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