The Shining Girls – $295

21 February, 2017 by rgonzalezr

The girls who wouldn’t die hunts the killer who shouldn’t exist. The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.” Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he […]

Categories: Novela Ficción, Uncategorized • Tags: killer, Lauren Beukes, Little Brown, Mullholland Books, Thriller

The Flame Alphabet – $275

21 February, 2017 by rgonzalezr

In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones. The sound of children’s speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam and Claire, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther. But they find it isn’t so easy to leave someone you love, […]

Categories: Novela Ficción, Uncategorized • Tags: 2012, ben marcus, Fiction, Vintage

His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae – $345

25 October, 2016 by rgonzalezr

A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path? And will he hang for his crime? Presented as a collection of documents discovered by the author, His Bloody Project opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers of Culdie, Ross-shire. They offer conflicting […]

Categories: Novela Ficción, Uncategorized • Tags: 2016, asesinat, esocia, ficcion, Macrae, manbooker, murder, Novel, Novela, Scotland, Skyhorse, Thriller

Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel – $540

25 October, 2016 by rgonzalezr

“In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old.” Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations―those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. At the center of this epic story are two young women, Marie and […]

Categories: Novela Ficción, Uncategorized • Tags: 2016, China, Madeleine Thien, novel fiction, W. W. Norton & Company

The Girls: A Novel – $495

5 June, 2016 by rgonzalezr

An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong—this stunning first novel is perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad.   Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless […]

Categories: Misterio, Novela Ficción, Uncategorized • Tags: 2016, eerie, Emma Cline, girls, mystery, Random House, Thriller

The Seed Collectors: A Novel – $545

15 May, 2016 by rgonzalezr

“The Seed Collectors is entrancing: it’s a sharply observed contemporary novel of real people and real plants and real desire and real hurt, and it’s somehow also one of the sharpest fantasies I’ve encountered. A sour-and-sweet delight.” —Neil Gaiman Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time […]

Categories: Novela Ficción, Uncategorized • Tags: enlightenment, Novel, Scarlett Thomas, seed, seed collectors, soft skull press

The Magicians Trilogy Box Set – $875

15 May, 2016 by rgonzalezr

The entire #1 New York Times bestselling trilogy that inspired Syfy’s The Magicians, now available in a gorgeous boxed set, including The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician’s Land Including four fan-designed character cards, this beautiful boxed set makes a perfect gift for readers of the beloved fantasy series praised by George R. R. Martin, Junot Díaz, and Erin Morgenstern. The Magicians Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s […]

Categories: Boxed Set, Fantasía, Novela Ficción, Uncategorized • Tags: 2015, Boxed set, Fantasy, Grossman, Magic, magicians, penguin

The Trace – $300

10 February, 2016 by rgonzalezr

A Mexican road novel of love, hate, drugs, and the Mexican Revolution. The Trace is a masterful, poetic novel about a journey through Mexico taken by a couple recovering from a world shattered. Driving through the Chihuahua Desert, they retrace the route of nineteenth-century American writer Ambrose Bierce (who disappeared during the Mexican Revolution) and try to piece together their lives after a devastating incident involving their adolescent son. With tenderness and precision, Gander explores the intimacies of their relationship […]

Categories: Novela Ficción, Uncategorized • Tags: Drugs, Fiction, Forrest Gander, hate, Love, México, mexican revolution, Novel, The trace, violence

The Trumpets of Jericho – $325

22 November, 2015 by rgonzalezr

This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Zürn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin in the 1950s. Beginning in the relatively straightforward, if disturbing, narrative of a young woman in a tower (with a bat in her hair and ravens for company) engaged in a psychic war with the parasitic son in her belly, The Trumpets of Jericho dissolves into a beautiful nightmare of […]

Categories: Novela Ficción, Uncategorized • Tags: 2015, Berlín, childbirth, disturbing, Experimental, Germany, Jericho, mythical, nightmare, Unica Zürn, Wakefield Press

El balcón del frangipani – $200

17 November, 2015 by rgonzalezr

António Emílio Leite Couto (Beira, Mozambique, 1955), mejor conocido como Mia Couto, es biólogo, periodista y escritor, y una figura clave de la literatura mozambicana y africana. Como periodista colaboró en el diario Tribuna, fue director de la Agência de Informação de Moçambique, de la revista Tempo y del diario Notícias de Maputo. Es autor de más de treinta libros, y ha sido galardonado con un sinfín de premios literarios, entre los que destacan —el más prestigioso en lengua portuguesa— […]

Categories: Novela Ficción, Uncategorized • Tags: Africa, Elefanta, Frangipani, Mia Couto, Mozambique, Novela

Eileen: A Novel – $385

11 August, 2015 by rgonzalezr

A lonely young woman working in a boys’ prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in fiction So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: 2015, Boston, crime, Fiction, Moshfegh, Noir, Novel, Novela, Ottessa, penguin

Speak: A Novel – $375

6 August, 2015 by rgonzalezr

A thoughtful novel that explores the creation of Artificial Intelligence—illuminating the very human need for communication, connection, and understanding. In a narrative that spans from the Atlantic Ocean in the seventeenth century, to a correctional institute in Texas in the near future, and told from the perspectives of five very different characters, Speak considers what it means to be human, and what it means to be less than fully alive. A young Puritan woman travels to the New World with her unwanted […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: A.I., Artificial Intelligence, communication, Computer, Louisa Hall, Turing

The Cold Eye of Heaven (Irish Literature Series) – $285

6 August, 2015 by rgonzalezr

Farley, a seventy-five year old man, lies on his bathroom floor, having just suffered a stroke. As his mind sifts through his past, we are introduced to the loyal friend he once was, his loving wife, the city of Dublin, and the question of how this very ordinary man has become so lonely at the end of his life. Told in reverse, from Farley’s penultimate day to decades before, Christine Dwyer Hickey’s bestseller is a jarring look at a life […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: 2015, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Dalkey Archive, Dublín, Fiction, Irish, Novel

Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas – $325

20 July, 2015 by rgonzalezr

An outrageous, fantastical, uncategorizable novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts. In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago, in German New Guinea. His destination: the island Kabakon. His goal: to establish a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old. Christian Kracht’s Imperium uses the outlandish details of Engelhardt’s life […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: 2015, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Fiction, Imperium, Island, Kracht, Novel, Novela

The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May – $435

8 June, 2015 by rgonzalezr

From the author of the international best seller House of Leaves and National Book Award–nominated Only Revolutions comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting. The Familiar (Volume 1) ranges from Mexico to Southeast Asia, from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, with nine lives hanging in the balance, each called upon to make a terrifying choice. They include a therapist-in-training grappling with daughters as demanding as her patients; an ambitious East L.A. gang member contracted for violence; […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: 2015, Fiction, Mark Danielewski, Novel, Novela, Pantheon, Rainy Day, The Familiar, Xanther