Editorial Periférica
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EAN: 9788410171015
Swim
Kat has traveled with her teenage daughter to Lutrá, in Greece, where she must make a decision. Lutrá – “baths” in Greek – is the town of her father, who has just died. The natural pools that form under six small waterfalls trace the perimeter of the town. Its waters are said to have healing propert..
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EAN: 9788418838712
Rombo
In Rombo, a word that designates the dark roar that the earth makes when it trembles, nature and oral history intertwine to illuminate a vibrant story about the effects, both physical and psychological, of natural disasters. In May and September 1976, two earthquakes devastated northeast Italy and c..
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EAN: 9788418838491
The Fourth World
In The Fourth World, the third novel in Diamela Eltit’s prolific career, a twin brother and sister compete for the reader’s attention in the same way that, before being born, they competed for space in the mother’s womb, the place of enunciation chosen by the writer to make her characters speak at t..
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EAN: 9788417800666
Cherry
Who saw it coming? is one of the fundamental questions of this book. A question about the past and the future, about identity and about that time of naivety and rebellion that is adolescence. Who are we at twelve years old? And at sixteen? Who do we hope to be and what do we become? And even more co..
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EAN: 9788418264849
Everything Under
Gretel, the thirty-something protagonist of this fascinating and at times disturbing novel, reunites with her mother, Sarah, who now suffers from Alzheimer's, sixteen years after she abandoned her. Gretel is a lexicographer and makes a living updating dictionary entries, so she knows well that words..
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New
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EAN: 9788416291670
Vida en tiempo de paz
The novel tells the life of engineer Ivo Brandani in a single day while waiting for a flight, retracing his existence in reverse. From his youth in peaceful times to the horrors of the post-war era, the story showcases his personal experiences and those of a country marked by corruption, bureaucracy..
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New
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EAN: 9788418838521
Yo soy Jesús
I Am Jesus reimagines Jesus' lost years from a deeply human perspective, far from religious dogma. Giosuè Calaciura crafts a coming-of-age story where Jesus is an antihero: beggar, cynic, lover, even skeptic. With powerful prose, it blends history, myth, and fantasy to present a profoundly human Jes..
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EAN: 9788418838293
Love
A young prostitute walks through a nocturnal city with imprecise boundaries, perhaps Tel Aviv. She calls herself Libby, "my heart" in Hebrew. She gets in and out of cars with laconic drivers and shares moments of humor and sisterhood with other sex workers. Her life is like a dream that happens to a..
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EAN: 9788418838095
Em
Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Em is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose homonym—aimer, to love—res..
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EAN: 9788418838828
Solitude of Self
In 1892 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist, abolitionist and pioneer in the fight for women's rights, wrote a deeply feminist and existentialist speech in which she defended the full autonomy of women based precisely on the immeasurable and radical loneliness of all humans. Denying women a good prep..
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EAN: 9788418838620
Transparent Pilgrim
Henry Price, an English painter in the service of the Chorographic Commission, a scientific expedition touring Colombia in 1850, is following the trail of a mysterious and skilled local artist whose identity is scarcely known or is only rumored in popular circles. What begins as a mere professional ..
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EAN: 9788410171039
Antonio
On the eve of the birth of his son, a young man decides to reconstruct the story of his father, who died years ago ravaged by illness and poverty after a long process of mental decline. To do this, he turns to the only three living people who could shed light on that biography, marked by a dark fami..
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