Un Camino Inesperado

Un mensaje encontrado en una botella desvela una asombrosa noticia: el capitán Grant sobrevivió al naufragio de su barco. Sin tiempo que perder, lord Glenarvan y su esposa organizan una expedición para recorrer medio mundo en compañía de los dos hijos del capitán y rescatarlo.

El poeta de Gaza es la segunda novela de Yishaï Sarid es uno de los mayores exponentes de la narrativa israelí actual. Ofrece una perspectiva diferente, cercana, sobre el conflicto árabe-israelí. Ha sido traducida a más de ocho idiomas. Una novela de intriga fascinante que además de ofrecernos la voz de uno de los escritores israelís más importantes de la actualidad, arrastra al lector a lo largo de un tumultuoso viaje hasta lo más hondo del conflicto israelí. Un agente de los servicios de seguridad del estado de Israel, entregado a la labor de prevenir ataques terroristas suicidas, ...

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent―to his dismay―to the provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by an epidemic of fox possession. Believing it's all a hoax, he considers the assignment an insulting joke, until he sees a fox moving under the skin of a young beauty... Next he travels to Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and Freud―whose...

'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 ...