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La obra maestra de David Grossman, autor galardonado con el Man Booker International Prize 2017. A las cinco de la mañana los soldados pueden llamar a tu puerta para comunicar lo que ya temías: tu hijo ha muerto defendiendo la tierra de Israel. Para ahuyentar esta visita, Ora, una mujer madura que ha tropezado más de una vez con el dolor, decide dejar su hogar y andar sin rumbo por los campos que rodean Jerusalén. Intuye que, mientras ella camine, su hijo Ofer, enrolado como voluntario en el ejército, estará a salvo. Reseña: «La obra maestra de David Grossman. Si Flaubert creó a Emma ...

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Cuatro venganzas. Cuatro castigos. Cuatro novelas cortas sumamente sorprendentes y enormemente impactantes. No las podrás olvidar. «Creo que existe otro hombre dentro de cada hombre, un extraño...» son palabras de la confesión que escribe Wilfred Leland James en «1922», el primer relato de este cuarteto hipnotizador y profundamente oscuro. El ser desconocido que James lleva dentro se despierta cuando su esposa Arlette le anuncia que piensa vender el terreno que acaba de heredar y que va a trasladarse a la ciudad. Sus palabras le empujan hacia el asesinato y la locura. En «Camionero...

Perfecta: the Game is straightforward. The Game is played by the best professional killers in the business. The rules: Ten names go on a list. Place a bet of one million dollars. Pick the exact order in which the victims will be killed. Collect the pot.Perfecta: the town no longer exists. A church and a bar are all that remain of what was once Perfecta, Texas. Two brothers and one renegade live there, divided, as dissimilar as the two building left standing. Eugene Green, a would-be preacher, attempts to uphold the unattainable family legacy. His twin Gordon, just wants to drink his problems...