Abandonarse a la pasión (Relato)

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love. Perfectly constructed, funny, and moving, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a tale of modern Japan and...

Una tendra i bella celebració del regal de la vida. Novembre del 1944. Una bomba de la Luftwaffe està a punt d'impactar contra la ciutat de Londres, truncant, en un sol instant, la vida de cinc nens. Novembre del 1944. Aquesta bomba mai no arriba a impactar contra el seu objectiu. Una porció ínfima de temps ha estat alterada, i la vida d'aquests cinc nens prossegueix el seu curs, endinsant-se als profunds canvis que van modelar la segona meitat del segle xx. Perquè potser sempre hi ha altres futurs possibles. Altres possibilitats. Llum perpètua és una història del nostre dia a dia,...

From the author of The Good Earth, an "Oprah's Book Club Selection." On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife, and thus arranges for a young country girl to come take her place in bed. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, which changes the life of all that surround her. On the fringes of WWII the family is at crossroads, facing betrayal, communism and Western thought, and underlying all, the quest for...

El adolescente es una novela del autor ruso Dostoievski, publicada por primera vez en 1875. En El adolescente, Dostoievski retoma la figura del narrador autodiegético escribiendo en primera persona que ya había utilizado en Noches blancas. El texto consiste en las Memorias del protagonista, Arkadiy Dolgoruki, escritas un año después de los hechos. En ellas relata la formación de su carácter, juzga a su padre e incluye «digresiones» sobre su infancia.

Edición crítica de la conocida novela del último Galdós, en la que el escritor canario realiza una dura crítica social y política de la España de la Restauración.