Para no morir tan despacio

�No cierres los ojos�. Es lo que repite Lizzy Gardner una y otra vez en su cabeza. A los 17 a�os fue secuestrada a unas manzanas de su casa y torturada durante meses, pero consigui� huir convirti�ndose as� en la �nica v�ctima superviviente del psic�pata al que apoda Spiderman. Catorce a�os despu�s, Lizzy intenta llevar una vida normal trabajando como investigadora privada y dando clases de defensa personal a adolescentes, con el fin de olvidar ese oscuro episodio de su pasado que la mantiene en un constante estado de alerta. Sin embargo, sus miedos reviven cuando Jared,...

Quince relatos de uno de los nuevos talentos de la narrativa mexicana Con Cocaína, Julián Herbert se descubrió como un narrador que vino para quedarse. Forman el libro relatos tensos y afilados, en los que puede aparecer citado desde Sherlock Holmes hasta Lou Reed. Epopeyas sin héroes que dan cuenta, con humor y furia, del lado áspero de la vida. Una obra que sacude, que deja un poso quizá aún más duro que la misma realidad.

From his village in post-war France, Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life, all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one had expected to see him again. One day, a flamboyant stranger rides into the village, upsetting the fragile balance of everyday life. Soon he is named the Anderer, "the other," and tensions rise until, one night, the newcomer is murdered. Brodeck is instructed to write an account of the events leading to his death, but his report delivers much...

Soon to be a Netflix film directed by Charlie Kaufman. Jake and his girlfriend are on a drive to visit his parents at their remote farm. After dinner at the family home, things begin to get worryingly strange. And when he leaves her stranded in a snowstorm at an abandoned high school later that night, what follows is a chilling exploration of psychological frailty and the limitations of reality. Iain Reid’s intense, suspenseful debut novel will have readers’ nerves jangling. A series of tiny clues sprinkled through the relentlessly paced narrative culminate in a haunting twist on the...