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Es su primera temporada en Londres y la joven Annabel Winslow ya ha conseguido un pretendiente: el conde de Newbury, un anciano repugnante que solo busca heredero para su fortuna, le ha propuesto un matrimonio de conveniencia que solucionaría la penuria e

Isabel Zuloaga en contra de las tradiciones que hasta ahora se han mantenido en su familia, reivindica su modernidad y su libertad. Al mismo tiempo, su primo, que convive en la misma casa, se enamora de ella. Es secreto pero, un día, se delata, y desde entonces con paciencia espera a que ella le quiera.

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...

As Ambrose Bierce said, "home is the only place open all night." And in this first novel by David Trueba, the home belongs to the Belitre, a family as numerous as it is absurd. The people who inhabit this book only listen to the voice of their heart, while reason keeps an impassive silence.