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Memoria tells the seemingly ordinary story of a woman overwhelmed by grief when her lover abandons her. The loss opens an old wound: some 20 years ago Emma’s teenage sister vanished without a trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but the return to joy is painfully slow. Rarely has the loss of love, as well as the subtle dislocation of a family hit by tragedy, been evoked more poignantly than in this luminous novel. In Memoria’s multi-layered narrative, the reader is irresistibly drawn into the slow reconstruction of Emma’s outer and inner world, a world of dizzying sensuality, deep...

Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize One of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2015 A Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island of Kabakon. His goal: to establish a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old. In his first novel to be translated into English, internationally bestselling author Christian Kracht uses...

In this essay about the challenges, decisions, and conflicts that surround men in contemporary Mexico, Juana In�s Dehesa applies the analytical intelligence and humor that characterize her as an author. She explores why men want to be single (at least in her experience), why they don't call you, why they disappear after the third date, how the define love, and what their emotional aspirations are that govern their lives. This highly anticipated response to Treintona, soltera y fant�stica, gives a strong but loving dose of reality.

All in, Sinatra es un minucioso vértigo narrativo, una máquina de sentido en medio del desierto de burocracia. Un estallido. Génesis Montesinos es profesor de literatura en una universidad mexicana. Tiene 64 años de edad, es especialista en Francis Scott Fitzgerald y aficionado a Frank Sinatra. Ha dedicado su vida adulta al culto a los libros y a la corte de la academia. Su plan de carrera se ha cumplido: tiene un doctorado y un cubículo. También, un hastío absoluto. Por ello, decide viajar a Las Vegas y apostarlo todo. Y terminar con su insípida vida. No obstante, jugando al póquer, ...