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Los emigrados es una meditación sobre la memoria y la pérdida: un relato melancólico, nada épico, sobre el desarraigo, la desesperación y la muerte. Sebald recrea las vidas de cuatro exiliados –o cinco, si se incluye su propio autorretrato indirecto– a través de lo que narran ellos mismos, de recuerdos ajenos, fotografías y objetos encontrados.

El escritor emprende un viaje a pie por el condado de Suffolk, en la costa este de Inglaterra, para llenar el vacío que se ha apoderado de su interior al haber concluido un trabajo importante. Mientras contempla paisajes solitarios y pequeñas poblaciones costeras se topa con vestigios de un pasado que le remite a la totalidad del mundo, enmarcado en multitud de épocas, espacios y personajes diferentes. Sebald funde magistralmente la autobiografía con la historia y con historias, anécdotas, conjeturas y recuerdos a caballo entre la realidad y la ficción, en los que la civilización y la naturaleza se muestran en sus variedades más amplias.

If only she had been a boy. What good is being fearless and wild at heart when her family’s rigid demands are suffocating her? Mary has an insatiable desire to break free, but in the upper echelon of Maltese society, repressed and painfully Catholic in 1937, there is no escape from her insulated, structured existence. A talented ballerina, she dreams of dancing and flying airplanes but instead is forced into marriage by her mother, her only other option to become a nun. When Mussolini drops his bombs relentlessly on the small yet mighty British colony of Malta, life is turned upside down.

An Immediate Bestseller | A Bloomberg Best Book of 2025 When the Ritz becomes the Nazis’ favourite spot, its Jewish bartender has no choice but to keep working. Paris, 1940. Despite the Occupation, the prestigious Ritz Hotel has managed to remain open. Its bar becomes a favourite spot for...

Now a national bestseller from the #1 New York Times author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz who returns with a masterful new novel that captures the astonishing bravery of ordinary people in extraordinary times. In 1942, the Nazis come for a Jewish family living in the Montparnasse area of...

This program is read by Ben Miles, who played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies “[Ben] Miles’ charming, yet dastardly narration makes Cromwell an anti-hero worth rooting for no matter how hard you try not to.”—TIME on Wolf...

The sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. The basis for the TV show on BBC and PBS Masterpiece starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell. Though he...

Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1 million copies have been sold worldwide...

Le 20 mai 2019, mon cœur s’est brisé sur des rails de train. Happy, mon chien, mon âme à quatre pattes, a été fauché en quelques secondes, et avec lui s’est effondrée cette partie de moi que je croyais solide et éternelle. On m’a dit que ce n’était qu’un chien, que la vie continue, que le temps arrange tout, mais ceux qui ont aimé un animal au point d’y déposer leurs fragilités, leurs silences et leurs peurs savent que l’on ne perd pas qu’un chien. On perd une respiration.

"The many listeners enthralled by the earlier two volumes in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy will find all their expectations met in this final installment... Here is a narrative achievement of the highest order." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner This program is read by Ben Miles...

Un’aggressione violenta a Granada, e Luz in una notte perde tutto. Unico, misterioso lascito della madre: una scatola bianca con un logo a forma di labirinto, una lettera di presentazione fasulla e un biglietto per Venezia. È così che la ragazza, sedici anni e muta per scelta, si ritrova a...

Una foto in bianco e nero, postata per caso su un social network, riapre una ferita e dà l’avvio a un’indagine. Sorridono, eleganti e innamorati, Leman e Asllan Ypi: è il 1941, la guerra infuria, eppure nulla sembra turbare quella luna di miele sulle Alpi. Ma per la loro nipote Lea...

'WALKER BRINGS TO LIFE A COMPLETE COMMUNITY AND THE CHIEF OF POLICE WHO IS ITS PROTECTOR, TEACHER AND FRIEND' - Literary Review In rural Dordogne, Bruno, Chief of Police, knows that WW2 casts the longest shadow. Rare bank notes are found, linking to the famous Neuvic train robbery of 1944 in the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025 A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025 A Guardian Book of the Year 2025 An Observer Book of the year 2025 'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times...

Anna Roth, jeune documentaliste à Princeton, a une mission : rencontrer Adèle, la veuve de Kurt Gödel, l'un des plus grands mathématiciens du XXe siècle, afin de récupérer les documents laissés par le grand mathématicien. Par petites touches, Adèle dévoile peu à peu l'histoire d'amour improbable, l'horreur nazie, le génie et les folies de son mari Kurt Gödel.

Der neue große Generationenroman der Bestsellerautorin, von der Weimarer Republik bis heute. Lena eckt an, seit sie denken kann: in der Schule, im Studium, in Beziehungen und in ihrem politischen Engagement. Als sie mit ihrer Mutter Anja die Wohnung der Großmutter ausräumt, entdeckt sie das Vermächtnis von Anjas Großtante Clara, über deren Leben stets der Schatten von etwas Unausgesprochenem lag. Im Berlin der 1920er-Jahre interessiert sich die junge Clara kaum für Politik.

Dans "Dix-sept ans", Éric Fottorino évoquait le fantôme qui hantait le début de son roman familial : une petite fille née trois ans après lui et aussitôt arrachée à sa mère, Lina, puis adoptée dans la clandestinité d’une institution religieuse bordelaise. "Mon enfant, ma sœur" est d’abord la quête de cette inconnue. Ce monologue sensible, long poème en prose, se transforme peu à peu en une sidérante enquête qui conduira le narrateur sur la trace de sa sœur disparue.

Franz Werfel erzählt eine Geschichte zum Wundern über Wunder und das Wunderbare. Er erzählt von dem Mädchen Bernadette Soubirous, das von tiefer Liebe zu einer Erscheinung erfasst wird, die sie nicht begreift und auch gar nicht begreifen will. Ihr genügt die Liebe. Aber die Welt und die Kirche lassen ihr keine Ruhe und wollen an dieser Liebe teilhaben, gierig, geringschätzig, argwöhnisch und unangemessen. Welt und Kirche könnten sich mit dem Wunder der Quelle von Massabielle zufriedengeben und Bernadette und ihre Liebe in Ruhe lassen.

Liberta di pensiero è libertà di movimento. La faccia immersa nella neve, come ovatta soffice che che gli toglie il fiato. È la vertigine dell'apnea. Pochi attimi prima Lorenzo stava sciando insieme a Johanna, la sua fidanzata. Un momento spensierato come tanti, ormai irrimediabilmente ricacciato indietro, in un passato lontano. Poi la corsa in ospedale in elicottero, il coma farmacologico e un'operazione di nove ore alla colonna vertebrale. Dai capezzoli in giù la perdita completa di sensibilità e movimenti. D'ora in avanti Lorenzo e il suo corpo vivranno da separati in casa.

In the governor’s palace in Luanda, the Portuguese courtiers whisper in shock: a woman! Sent to make a treaty with the invaders, Nzinga of Angola is swept into world history, a generation after Elizabeth I ruled England. For 40 years, Queen Nzinga fights to destroy the imperial colonists who seek to enslave her people.