Hoia-Baciu

La primera vez que vi a Casey Hendriks, sólo era un hipotético cliente para mí, un cliente guapo, instruido y guapo... guapo... Perdón, posiblemente leer esa palabra reiteradamente está molestándote, pero créeme, cuando lo ves es lo único que puedes pensar, porque Casey es el hombre más guapo con el que me he encontrado en la vida, y mirarlo anula el resto de sus cualidades y derrite las bragas de cualquier mujer. Pero... volvamos al principio, a cómo nos conocimos. Mi padre me arrojó a los leones porque me negué a ceder a su voluntad, y para que recapacitara me quitó su ayuda...

From one of the most original narrative writers of the 20th century comes an anthology of stories full of sharp humor, fierce social criticism, and strange, diverse characters. A crazy psychiatrist-turned-counselor to the families of murder victims concocts a cruel plot to make money off of the instincts of his paranoid patients; a family discovers the consequences of telling a magical invention their deepest secrets; and a man becomes trapped in a Kafkaesque world after he gets on the bad side of the boss who dominates the underworld of a small New York town. Published posthumously in 2009,...

Told through the eyes of a very grumpy yet lovable mutt, a funny and touching tale of aging, death, friendship, and life that proves sometimes a dog's story is the most human of all. Tassen has always been a one-man dog. When his human companion, Major Thorkildsen, dies, Tassen and Mrs. Thorkildsen are left alone. Tassen mourns Major by eating too many treats, and Mrs. T by drinking too much. But the two unexpectedly find common ground in researching Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole led by a pack of intrepid dogs. But the quiet days Tassen and Mrs. T spend together at the...

Memoria tells the seemingly ordinary story of a woman overwhelmed by grief when her lover abandons her. The loss opens an old wound: some 20 years ago Emma’s teenage sister vanished without a trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but the return to joy is painfully slow. Rarely has the loss of love, as well as the subtle dislocation of a family hit by tragedy, been evoked more poignantly than in this luminous novel. In Memoria’s multi-layered narrative, the reader is irresistibly drawn into the slow reconstruction of Emma’s outer and inner world, a world of dizzying sensuality, deep...