Libros del Asteroide
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EAN: 9788493431501
The Pursuit of Love
In her most successful novel, Nancy Mitford uses real-life elements from her extravagant and famous family in order to weave her story. We become acquainted with the different members of the Radlett family: the ill-tempered father Uncle Matthew, the absent and devout mother Sadie, and the seven chil..
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EAN: 9788417007218
Brightness Falls
As he maps the fault lines spreading through the once-impenetrable marriage of Russell and Corrine Calloway and chronicles Russell's wildly ambitious scheme to seize control of the publishing house at which he works, Jay McInerney creates an elegy for New York in the 1980s. From the literary chimera..
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EAN: 9788417007423
The Good Life
Jay McInerney's two most charismatic characters return to present the social and moral complexity of New York City. In The Good Life, Cameron unveils a story of desires, family, love, and of a conflicting and catastrophic loss, giving birth to his most powerful and searing work thus far...
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EAN: 9788417977405
Weather
Lizzie Benson is a librarian in Brooklyn. She divides her attentions between her son Eli, her husband Ben, and her brother Henry, who is recovering from his drug addiction. In addition, she helps a former professor with the copious mail she receives because of her successful podcast on climate chang..
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EAN: 9788492663040
Moonflower Vine
On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Math..
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EAN: 9788417977238
Bright, Precious Days
After decades together, Russell and Corrine Calloway want a calm and stable family life, something that seems impossible to achieve in New York after the Lehman Brothers crisis. They dream of raising their children in the countryside, but their economic situation does not allow it. In a risky attemp..
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EAN: 9788417007805
The End of the Affair
In 1946, in a London where the scars of war are still visible, Maurice Bendrix meets diplomat Henry Miles by chance, whom he hasn't seen for a long time. Henry is married to Sarah, with whom Maurice had an affair during the war. When Henry confesses that he suspects that Sarah is unfaithful, it will..
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EAN: 9788493431563
Fifth Business
The plot of this novel is woven around the mysterious death of Canadian magnate Boy Staunton. The narration is carried out by Dunstan Ramsay, Staunton's childhood friend, who, when trying to clarify the circumstances of his death, will have no choice but to face the story of his own life. From the b..
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EAN: 9788493659714
Crossing to Safety
Called a “magnificently crafted story... brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, lo..
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EAN: 9788417977979
Brood
Over the course of a single year, our nameless narrator heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless challenges that caring for another creature entails. From the forty-below nights of a brutal Minnesota winter to a sweltering summer which brings a su..
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EAN: 9788419089458
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
Born and raised in the United States, Mildred Harnack was studying for a PhD in Germany when she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi Party. In 1932, together with her husband Arvid Harnack, she promoted the creation of a clandestine group that by 1940 had become the largest anti-Nazi resistance ..
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EAN: 9788417007713
I am, I am, I am
This is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a dist..
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