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‘Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places,’ muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán’s novel Where was the Angel Going?. ‘People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We’ve forgotten that we’ve forgotten.’ Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin’s case, part of his ‘punishment’ is his ever-present memory of an Eden from which he had been expelled. The prototypical outsider, a member of a minority community within a minority community (a Protestant in the overwhelmingly agnostic Czech...

Malayerba is one of the most violent books of recent times, as well as one of the most interesting, necessary, and extraordinary. It is a fragmented chronicle of the violence of drug trafficking in northern Mexico and how it appears reflected in everyday life and language in the area. This book marks Javier Valdés Cárdenas's definitive entrance into the genre in Mexico. 'Malayerba' es uno de los libros más violentos que se han publicado en los últimos años, y también de los más interesantes, precisos, extraordinarios. Es la crónica, necesariamente fragmentaria, de la violencia del...

La historia de cuatro hermanas que deciden unirse, todas para una y una para todas, cuando el destino las enfrenta a una tragedia de fatales consecuencias. Candy, Tammy, Sabrina y Annie. Cuatro hermanas que, a pesar de haberse labrado su futuro en ciudades muy distintas, han conseguido mantenerse unidas a lo largo de los años. Uno de sus rituales es la celebración del Cuatro de Julio, para la que siempre se reúnen en la casa familia. Hasta que en uno de estos encuentros la tragedia sacude su hogar: su madre muere en un accidente de coche y una de las hermanas, Annie, se queda ciega a causa ...

A richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune explores the intersections of the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way--or not--in New York City.