Libros del Asteroide
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EAN: 9788492663545
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
James Sveck is an isolated young adult caught in the summer before he is to begin college at Brown University. The only person in his life with whom he is able to successfully relate to is his grandmother; otherwise, James prefers solitude. Cameron’s use of first-person narration allows the reader t..
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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: 9788416213641
Dept. of Speculation
In the beginning, it was easy to imagine their future. They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and of their love for each other. “Dept. of Speculation” was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay ahead. Then they got married, had a child and navigated the familiar calamiti..
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EAN: 9788492663187
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Tina Balser is a sophisticated housewife living in Manhattan who seems to have everything she could wish for: money, two beautiful daughters, and a husband who is a successful lawyer. When her fears and neuroses begin to overwhelm her, Tina starts a diary in which, through her sharp and hilarious ob..
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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: 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: 9788419089670
The Crane Wife
Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. What if you released yourself from traditional narratives of happiness? What if you..
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EAN: 9788419089212
Lean Fall Stand
A small Antarctic expedition ends in tragedy after a strong storm. One of the team members has disappeared and another, Robert Doc Wright, a veteran of field work in Antarctica who has the keys to what happened, has lost his speech and some mobility. Back home, the consequences of the accident reach..
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EAN: 9788417007379
The Hand That First Held Mine
Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war Soho. She learns to be a r..
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EAN: 9788419089205
The Promise
The Swarts are a white family who have lived for generations on a farm outside Pretoria, South Africa. After the death of the mother, all the members gather for the funeral at the family home. Amor and Anton, two of her children, reject what the family represents and do not forget the promise that t..
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