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QUERCUS es un libro para sentir. Para sobrecogerse al sonido encadenado de las palabras y llorar de rabia, de ternura, de pasión. Para viajar a las entrañas de la sierra y al corazón de los hombres. El fenómeno del abandono del mundo rural, tiene unos orígenes y unas causas. Igual que las enfermedades. Y eso, precisamente, es lo que intenta desentrañar esta impresionante novela. El joven Abel huye del horror de la guerra para refugiarse en una cueva. En ella pasará unos años poniendo a pru...

"¿Qué son los árboles? Tendremos que contestar a esta pregunta aparentemente simple interesándonos directamente por ellos, pero también por las formas de vida con las que interactúan. No siempre han sido grandes y gruesos o han tenido un tamaño monumental. Tendremos que remontarnos en el tiempo." Los árboles también tienen una historia, que cuentan a todos aquellos capaces de atender a las pequeñas señales inscritas en su corteza, a la forma de una de sus ramas o a la amistad que guardan c...

4 A.M. End of December . . .Clinton Street, New York. A lonely goldsmith reflects on his life. He decides to return to his home village in Spain, hoping to see again an older woman with whom he had a passionate affair as a teenager.Instead he meets a young woman who captivates him instantly. Their affair feels so natural it evokes an eerie familiarity, as if he were playing a role already played out. The Goldsmith's Secret is a remarkable story of a love trapped be...

"A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrión has gone and visited them all. We can't travel right now, but we can travel in books." MARGARET ATWOODWhy do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester,...

Tormented by past heartbreak and contemporary politics, for Edgar 'Lefty' Mendieta the news of the murder of lawyer Bruno Canizales represents just another day at the office in the drug-ridden city of Culiacán.It soon becomes clear that there is no shortage of suspects in a city where it's hard to tell the gangsters from the politicians. Canizales was the son of a former government minister and the partner of a drug baron's daughter, with his own penchant for cross-dressing and dan...

In a small town in the mountains of Colombia, Ismael, a retired teacher, spends his mornings gathering oranges in the sunshine and spying on his neighbour as she sunbathes naked in her garden.Returning from a walk one morning he discovers that his wife has disappeared. Then more people go missing, and not-so-distant gunfire signals the approach of war. Most of the villagers make their escape, but Ismael cannot leave without hisOtilia. He becomes an unwilling witness to the s...

Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately in love. When he serenades her on the eve of the ceremony, Natalia's father unwittingly invites him to the festivities. There they dance a tango charged with passion, before Diego vanishes, knowing she is lost to him.Soon after the marriage Natalia's father dies, and her husband is lost at sea, presumed dead. Penn...

Ernesto Durán is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andrés Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Durán resolves to stalk him. The fixation has its own creeping effect on Karina, Miranda's lonely secretary, who cannot resist becoming involved. Meanwhile, Dr Miranda has troubles of his own: he has diagnosed his father's illness, but cannot summon the courage to tell him. In trying to find the perfect opportunity to break th...

It is December 2001 and Argentina is in political and economic meltdown. Pablo Martelli, once in an elite branch of the police force known to all as the 'National Shame', is a shadow of his former self, scraping by as a bathroom salesman. He cannot forget the enigmatic woman he met in a dance hall. She left him when she found out who he was working for, and he has never recovered from the blow.Late one evening, Martelli is summoned to a friend's coastal retreat. He arrives to find ...

When Father Almida is summoned to an audience with the parish's principal benefactor, a stand-in is found in Father Matamoros, a drunkard with an angel's voice whose sung mass is mesmerizing to all. But Matamoros hides a darker side, and when the church's residents throw a feast for him he encourages them to lose all their inhibitions and give free reign to their most Bacchanalian desires.A satire on the iniquities of the Catholic church in Colombia, Good Offices is at onc...

A passenger liner runs aground on the muddy banks of the Río de la Plata. One by one, its passengers are abducted by Buenos Aires' criminal classes.As the kidnapping of three foreign businessmen sends stock markets into freefall, the job of solving the chaos falls onto the weary shoulders of Deputy Inspector Walter Carroza of the serious-crime squad.But top of his agenda is former Miss Bolivia Ana Torrente. Why are the bodies of the men who try to take her to bed always fou...