LA MIRADA DE UN NIÑO
A MILE DOWN: THE TRUE STORY OF A DISASTROUS CAREER AT SEA
If you've ever owned a sailboat or had a friend who did, you know how it begins: with a dream. You dream about the ship, and gradually the dream consumes you. Practical considerations lose all meaning ...until, inevitably, the dream morphs into a nightmare. David Vann is familiar with that nightmare. His begins in Turkey: a thirty-year-old tourist, he stumbles across the steel frame of a ninety-foot sailboat that cries out to be built. From friends, family, and credit cards, he borrows the $150,000 to construct the ship. The Turkish builders take shameless advantage of him, eventually charging him over $500,000. On the edge of financial ruin, Vann starts a chartering business. But, when some new part of the ship isn't falling apart, he encounters freak storms. As his debts escalate, Vann begins to wonder if he is merely repeating his father's dreams and failures at sea--which ended with his father's suicide. At once a page-turning true story of adventure on the open ocean and an archetypal tale of one man's attempt to overcome fate and realize his dream, A Mile Down is an unforgettable story of struggle and redemption by a writer at the top of his form.
BRAHMÁN
BYE BYE LÁGRIMAS
DIEZ RAZONES PARA ESTAR EN CONTRA DE LA PERESTROIKA
LA BALADA DEL TRAMPERO SENTIMENTAL
El Gran Cosme, furtivo retirado al borde de la vejez, debe romper su promesa y volver al monte de sus correrías legendarias. La Guardia Civil, su leal adversario, lo reclama para emprender una búsqueda insólita: en la sierra se esconde un homicida con delirios de santón y cazador. Cosme, una vez más, se interna en un laberinto privado de barrancos y bojes. En su peculiar duelo con un trampero demasiado sentimental, no tarda en entender que se enfrenta a una naturaleza, la propia, tan hostil como desconocida.
LITTLE MISS MAGIC (9)
THE MOUNTAIN SHADOW
Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In The Mountain Shadow, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set of rules. It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. Lin returns from a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. Many of his old friends are long gone, the new mafia leadership has become entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues, and a fabled holy man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love and life. But Lin can't leave the Island City: Karla, and a fatal promise, won't let him go.
¡ARRE, MOISÉS!
Esta novela de Eduardo Valdivia, publicada originalmente en 1972, trata sobre la guerra civil española, pero está escrita desde una perspectiva muy original. El novelista crea con cojos y mancos el grotesco Regimiento de San Martiniano y sigue sus andanzas por tierras aragonesas hasta el exterminio en el frente de guerra. No es una novela histórica sino una reflexión sobre la condición humana en una situación extrema (la guerra) y realizada por unos seres tarados que tratan de superar sus deficiencias acometiendo acciones heroicas.
MAIGRET ET LA VIEILLE DAME
Qui pouvait vouloir tuer la vieille Valentine Besson, dont la servante, Rose, est morte d'avoir bu un verre d'eau destiné à sa patronne, et contenant des somnifères ? Maigret, appelé à faire la lumière sur ce meurtre, soupçonne un moment Arlette, la fille de Valentine, qui semble avoir une vie privée assez trouble avec son mari, Théo. Mais la cupidité ne peut être le mobile : la vieille dame ne possède plus que des copies de bijoux, répliques de la fabuleuse collection jadis constituée par son mari. Sur ces entrefaites, Valentine abat d'un coup de revolver un « rôdeur » qui n'est autre que le frère de Rose. Pour Maigret, qui vient de découvrir une émeraude authentique, les pièces du puzzle commencent à s'assembler... Dans une atmosphère de vacances balnéaires, ce sont de bien sombres mystères qui vont peu à peu être dévoilés par le sagace enquêteur.
