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I was eight years old when my grandfather took me by the hand and did not let go until we found my parents in Athens. Who knows what might have happened if I had stayed in the village. It was 1946. Early spring 1946. The almond trees were blooming side by side and the countryside was in full bloom.' Thus begins the most autobiographical novel by Theodor Kallifatides and one of the most appreciated by its hundreds of thousands of readers. A week before Kallifatides fled the town, a group of fascists with guns in their hands had forced all the people to gather in the cemetery. There they stood, ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Diana Gabaldon returns with the “vast and sweeping” (The Washington Post) new novel in the epic Outlander series. War leaves nobody alone. Neither the past, the present, nor the future offers true safety, and the only refuge is what you can protect: your family, your friends, your home. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years of loss and heartbreak to find each other again. Now it’s 1779, and Claire and Jamie are finally reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and...

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student when he discovers a mysterious book. He reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this book and desperate to make sense of it, Zachary finds a series of clues that lead him to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth.

La muerte violenta de un pacifico boticario dispara una investigación inusual por lo sangriento del caso. Un detective bisoño devela inimaginables proyecciones del aparentemente aislado episodio, que pone a la ciudad de Iquique en primer plano de las noticias globales. Intrincadas elucubraciones en el bajo mundo, en la desconocida orbe y el desierto, sacuden poderes enterrados en lo profundo de un volcán y echan a rodar un complot inimaginable con un inesperado final.

El anciano Daniel Ponty, ya muy enfermo, dicta a su nieta sus memorias y le hace saber detalles íntimos de su vida, que fue privilegiada, pues le tocó vivir parte de ella en París y Viena, entre 1890 y 1939, y conocer, tratar o estar cerca de personajes cuyos nombres son ahora parte de la historia, entre ellos sus tres amores: Lou Andreas-Salomé, Hannah Arendt, Alma Mahler; pero además Rilke, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Klimt, Rodin... Cada uno dejó huella en él, ya sea porque conmovió sus sentimientos o porque le dejó enseñanzas invaluables. La trama nos hace conocer, sobre todo a...