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The Chilli Bean Paste Clan
Set in a fictional town in West China, this is the story of the Duan-Xue family, owners of the lucrative chilli bean paste factory, and their formidable matriarch. As Gran's eightieth birthday approaches, her middle-aged children get together to make preparations. Family secrets are revealed and long-time sibling rivalries flare up with renewed vigour. As Shengqiang struggles unsuccessfully to juggle the demands of his mistress and his wife, the biggest surprises of all come from Gran herself...... (Winner of English Pen Award)
12 años de cuaderno de bitácora (2006-2018)
Esta obra contiene las reflexiones de Víctor Manuel Arbeloa sobre el transcurrir histórico, social, cultural y personal desde 2006 hasta 2018. Como indica su título, son doce años de cuaderno de bitácora en los que recoge sus impresiones en breves párrafos o líneas. Según su prologuista, Juan Ramón Corpas Mauleón, "asistimos a un texto heterogéneo y complejo, aunque no exento de unidad. Una especie de diario, puesto que discurre día a día, en el que se contempla, igual que en un espejo, el alma y la conciencia del autor". Según el autor, "escribimos porque creemos que tenemos cosas que decir. Que quizás no las dijimos a tiempo o no nos atrevimos a decírselas a alguien. pero, además y sobre todo, porque siendo el lenguaje, como nos enseñó Heidegger, la casa del ser, volvemos a ella, especialmente en medio de alguna intemperie, buscando un abrigo contra el espanto y la miseria del mismo ser. Y es en el lenguaje escrito donde mejor nos abrigamos y donde mejor podemos reposar".
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
The Italian
An emblematic story of the shipwreck of the Arab Spring At his father's funeral, to the great consternation of all present, Abdel Nasser beats the imam who is celebrating the funeral rite. The narrator, a childhood friend of the protagonist, retraces the story of "the Italian" from his days as a free and rebellious adolescent spirit to the leader of a student movement and then affirmed journalist. Those were crucial years in Tunisia, years of great tension, change, and repression. Against this background full of revolutionary ferments stands the tormented love story between Abdel Nasser and Zeina, a brilliant and beautiful philosophy student. Their dreams will unfortunately end up being wrecked under the ruthless gears of a corrupt and chauvinist society. Abdel Nasser's transformation from a young idealist with high hopes to a successful, but disillusioned and tired journalist is masterfully narrated in a stream of stories, digressions and flashbacks in which the narrative tension is always high. Winner of the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Fernando Aramburu, narrador
Fernando Aramburu (San Sebastián 1959), uno de los escritores en lengua española de más fuerte personalidad y de calidad literaria más sobresaliente hoy, es creador de ficciones fascinantes. Fernando Aramburu, narrador estudia las novelas y cuentos que constituyen su obra narrativa hasta la fecha: explica sus presupuesto literarios, describe cómo fue definiendo el proyecto creativo de cada obra y el proceso de su escritura, y analiza en detalle los materiales con que construye sus relatos y los mecanismos narrativos que emplea en ellos.
