Secretos del destino

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 surprise tornado, she battles predators, bad luck, and the uncertainty of a future that may not look anything like the one she always imagined. Intimate and startlingly original, this slender novel is filled with wisdom, sorrow and joy. As the year unfolds, we come to know the small band of loved...

La historia de la guerra desde el periodo clásico hasta nuestros días contada a través de más de 170 mapas que muestran los cambios de las fronteras y los movimientos de tropas. Desde la mítica batalla del Kadesh de Ramsés II contra el Imperio Hitita, hasta la invasión de Iraq por el ejército estadounidense en 2003.

Elso Bari regenta un restaurante en Chicago. Es un tipo con estilo, detective ocasional especialista en encontrar a gente que no quiere que le encuentren. Su último caso, en el que se mezclan asesinato, sexo y traición, le llevará a cruzar el charco hasta Barcelona. Elso está acostumbrado a moverse dentro de la ambigüedad, entre sombras, pero al final no sabrá ni para quién trabaja, ni a quién busca y mucho menos para qué. Una novela negra norteamericana trasladada al Mediterráneo, con un detective privado, una asesina a sueldo demasiado lista para que la cace cualquiera y toda una...

'Fresh, energetic, and completely hilarious, The Wangs vs. the World is my favorite debut of the year.' Jami Attenberg, author of Saint Mazie and The Middlesteins Charles Wang has just lost the cosmetics fortune he built up since emigrating to the US. Gone are the houses, the cars, and the incredible lifestyle. Faced with this loss, he decides to take his family on a trip to China and attempt to reclaim his ancestral lands. But first they must go on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of his eldest daughter, Saina. Charles takes his other ...