Anagrama - Böcker

There is no doubt that Valentine Besson, appreciated by all her neighbors in the Norman village of Étretat, is a charming old woman: fragile, petite, with a rosy complexion and fine features. The relationship with her main relatives, however, is m...

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The novel by Giovanni Falcone. Falcone died in 1992 - along with his wife and three bodyguards - when his car was blown up on the highway that leads to Palermo from the airport. Saviano is still alive - writing and denouncing - but threatened, und...

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Two themes articulate the suggestive plot of The Argon Shot: the gaze and the city. A defined space serves as a link: Dr. Suárez's eye clinic, the Mexican version of the famous Barraquer Clinic in Barcelona. House of signs, the building built by S...

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A letter from Neal Cassady to his best friend and travelling companion Jack (On the Road) Kerouac. Kerouac received the letter from Cassady in 1950 and later told the Paris Review that it had inspired On the Road along with his new literary style;...

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A comparative and historical perspective, a synthesis of his research on economic inequalities, this accurate text by Thomas Piketty analyzes issues such as education, inheritance, taxation and the persistent gender gap, while stressing the need t...

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What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the enemy of memory not time but other memories? How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue, or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? Might we someday control a rob...

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Consent has become a key concept in sexual relationships. At first glance, it seems clear. But is it really like that? This text reflects on the nuances, fissures and paradoxes that accompany it. Can the desire be verbalized with absolute clarity,...

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A portrait of current Peru and the human condition through a group of characters who intersect in the so-called "Chinese bar" Tito. A waiter whose father was murdered by a paramilitary squad at the time of Fujimori's all-out war against ...

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What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) for Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. ...

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The arrival of thirty-two violent children of unknown origin completely disrupts the life of San Cristóbal, a small tropical city. Twenty years later, one of its protagonists wrote the Luminous Republic, a chronicle about how the city was forced t...

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Oxford, May 1, 1956. In the solemnity of the Bodleian Library, the university faculty has met to decide whether to grant an honoris causa to former United States President Harry S. Truman. One of the people present, the philosopher Elizabeth Ansco...

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This is a novel about the past coming back. About family, former friends, an ex-girlfriend and Mexico. About the maturation process of a son whom his mother always accused of sneaking away, of avoiding the problem, of running away so as not to fac...

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For Recalcati, Jesus's reckoning in the Garden of Gethsemane is at once an instance of human weakness and an encounter with the Divine. It is the story where the Divine and the Human meet most forcefully, first in company, then in solitude, and wh...

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The culmination of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy saga. Second part of the saga... After the appearance in this collection of The Galactic Hitchhikers, which brings together the initial trilogy, this volume adds the other two novels - "...

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An essay on job insecurity. Between the chronicle and the essay, a chilling x-ray of the labor dynamics in the tourism sector, just when the climate crisis is going to change the map of tourist destinations worldwide from top to bottom.

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A novel about the rage and restlessness of youth and about literature as the engine of the world. Amélie Nothomb's twenty-ninth novel is a kind of praise for reading, but nothing trivial, nothing predictable and, above all, nothing innocent.

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A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment: a historical novel like no other... It's the eighteenth century, and Celine is in trouble. Her husband is mostly ab...

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In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, infamous dictator, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation,&q...

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Novelized portrait of Mercè Rodoreda, one of the greatest writers of 20th century Europe. [Mercè Rodoreda] wrote beautiful and hard novels in splendid Catalan that you don't find in many' (Gabriel García Márquez).

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Feminism for all audiences. An effective tool to identify and deactivate the mandates of patriarchy, still so valid despite the advances of feminism.

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Stories of ghosts, of possession, of murderous clothing and jewelry, stories about the transformation of the body or about the cult of a girl who drowned in a water tank, or about the hyenas that can still be heard in a place where a zoo burned.

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What to do in the face of a global political crisis like the one we are experiencing? Expansive democracy reviews the foundations of current democracy to propose a new, renewed and global paradigm that distances us from political disaster. Against...

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A gateway to one of the most personal, fun and unusual intelligences of Spanish essay writing in the last 20 years. Compendium of texts on gender issues that the author has published over 12 years in newspapers, magazines, catalogs and collective ...

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This is a science-fiction novel with the hallmarks of Justo Navarro, "one of the great Spanish prose writers of recent decades" (Antonio Lozano, Librújula): interest in memory and concern for the future, presence of the figure of the dou...

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An exceptional book between story, autobiography and philosophical essay: the leap to narrative by Pau Luque, winner of the Anagrama Essay Prize.

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It all started with a viral video in Senegal. We see how a corpse is dug up, then dragged out of a cemetery by a crowd. As soon as he watches it, Ndéné Gueye, a young literature professor disappointed by teaching and tired of the moral hypocrisy o...

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The right to be oneself has reached the zenith of its social projection: we live in the phase of the historical consummation of the culture of authenticity.

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An invitation to build a habitable world beyond the walls of our house. Literature committed to the present: an accurate view that, from the intimate, illuminates the social. In first person, he reflects on the growing stratification of life in th...

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