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Paisajes del aislamiento
Cuando en un rectángulo convergen treinta autores seleccionados en una convocatoria abierta, doce textos invitados y más de cuarenta ilustraciones, obtienes esto: una seductora antología sobre la experiencia del aislamiento. Una vez que te asomes en ella te sorprenderá la variedad de sensaciones, hallazgos, temores y deseos que puede suscitar en cada ser humano el abrazo de las cuatro paredes, mientras el aire del contagio masivo sopla en la calle. Mírate en este espejo, amable lector: encontrarás en él no una sola imagen sino un mosaico de breves prosas poéticas, ensayos e incluso narraciones que trazan un paisaje literario multicolor. Descubre algo de ti en estas páginas y averigua a dónde llevan los portales que el distanciamiento social ha abierto en las pantallas de nuestra conciencia.
El español hablado en Guadalajara
A cinco años de haber iniciado el proyecto del Corpus sociolingüístico del habla de Guadalajara, hemos concluido la transcripción y terceras revisiones de las 72 grabaciones representativas de hombres y mujeres de tres niveles de instrucción y de tres grupos generacionales, según la metodología del Proyecto de Estudios Sociolingüísticos del Español de España y de América (PRESEEA), coordinado por Francisco Moreno Fernández, con el apoyo de Ana María Cesteros Mancera en la coordinación técnica. El presente volumen se compone de cinco partes. En la primera, «El estudio del habla de Guadalajara. Antecedentes», abordamos los corpus sobre el habla de la ciudad que han antecedido...
Minificciones desde el encierro
Repentinamente, en marzo de 2020 nos colmamos de incertidumbre, fatalismo y esperanza. Como si alguien más hubiera escrito justo lo que temíamos, sentíamos o imaginábamos con locura, de pronto notamos que el mundo ya giraba diferente y que habría de resguardarse en casa: el enemigo invisible extendía su alcance y su rastro. Esas lejanas, peliculescas distopías se volvieron la inquietante realidad. Como algo había que hacer con ella para preservar unas pizcas de cordura, la convertimos en un concurso literario. Minificciones desde el encierro antologa los cincuenta microrrelatos ganadores de esa convocatoria, lanzada apenas unos días después del inicio de la cuarentena que nos tomó a todos incrédulos pero también creativos. Nunca sabremos si los autores habrían escrito otras historias ya habituados al confinamiento, lo que sí es seguro es que estos magníficos textos —junto con algunos más de plumas consagradas— son un testimonio de la forma en que afrontamos, desde el ingenio verbal, la crisis sanitaria causada por el COVID-19.
Empty Wardrobes
A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.
Lore
From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Darkest Minds comes a high-octane story of power, destiny and redemption. A lifetime ago, Lore Perseous left behind the brutal, opulent world of the Agon families - ancient Greek bloodlines that participate in a merciless game every seven years. A game that is about to begin again ... For centuries, Zeus has punished the gods with a game called the Agon, which turns them mortal for one week, and at the mercy of being hunted by those with godly ambitions. Only a handful of the original Greek gods remain, the rest replaced by the mortals who killed them and ascended. After her family's sadistic murder by a rival bloodline, Lore escapes and...
The Last Children of Tokyo
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades yet, but he knows his beloved great-grandson - born frail and prone to sickness - might not survive to adulthood. Day after day, it takes all of Yoshiro's sagacity to keep Mumei alive. As hopes for Japan's youngest generation fade, a secretive organisation embarks on an audacious plan to find a cure - might Yoshiro's great-grandson be the key to saving the last children of Tokyo?
Home Reading Service
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...
The Things We've Seen
Written in three parts, War Trilogy is a dazzling and anarchic exploration of social relations which offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of humanity, history, violence, art and science. The first part follows a writer who travels to the small, uninhabited island of San Simon, where he witnesses events which impel him on a journey across several continents, chasing the phantoms of nameless people devastated by violence. The second book is narrated by Kurt, the fourth astronaut who secretly accompanied Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins on their mythical first voyage to the moon. Now living in Miami, an ageing Kurt revisits the important chapters of his life: from serving in the Vietnam War to his memory of seeing earth from space. In the third part, a woman embarks on a walking tour of the Normandy coast with the goal of re-enacting, step by step, the memory of another trip taken years before. On her journey along the rugged coastline, she comes across a number of locals, but also thousands of refugees newly arrived on Europe's shores, whose stories she follows on the TV in her lodgings.
The Membranes
It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she’s too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city’s best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality. First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculati...
