Resultados Editorial "audible studios" en Narrativa literaria

En una pequeña aldea serbia, durante una tarde dominical del año 1980, alrededor de treinta personajes peculiares se reúnen en el cine Uranija para ver una película. El cine se encuentra en lo que otrora fuera el Gran Hotel Jugoslavija, y su techo está cubierto por un papel tapiz que muestra un cielo estrellado. Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la llegada del comunismo, el hotel es nacionalizado y proyecta únicamente películas soviéticas y yugoslavas.

Crispin the mosaicist wants to concentrate on his art. Rustem of Kerakek, a physician, is also on his own journey of self-discovery. But no man may withdraw from society that easily, and both men soon find themselves drawn into the deadly webs of Sarantium. Lord of Emperors is the sequel to Sailing to Sarantium.

Tras la muerte de su madre, en las manos de Sara cae una libreta dorada con un título desconcertante: Confecciones Vidal. Son las memorias de los dos últimos años de la excéntrica difunta. No difieren demasiado del resto de vida de Raquel: un ir y venir de fiestas, joyas y bailes, con apenas unos obstáculos que nunca supo tratar, sus tres hijas. "Madre" es la confrontación entre los recuerdos de dos mujeres, de cómo la relectura convida a un reencuentro y convierte el primer impulso de venganza en una reconciliación.

En Ricard viatja a París amb l'esperança de retrobar-hi un vell amic que el redimeixi del desconcert i la convulsió que l'ofega a la Barcelona del 2017. Més de trenta anys enrere, hi van anar junts fugint d'una Transició que suposava la renúncia als seus ideals, i allà van conèixer filòsofs d'esquerres, artistes bohemis i revolucionaris de cafè, que, com ells, lluitaven amb la força de la paraula per transformar el món.

Todo comienza cuando el diverso grupo de personajes principales decide pintar de azul cielo el techo de su casa de una forma peculiar: quitándolo. A partir de ahí el Cartógrafo, Goran Petrovic, narra y testimonia, con una escritura cercana a la tradición oral, los fantásticos sucesos que giran en torno a la casa sin techo y sus habitantes.

Veinticinco años después, el robo a un banco desencadena una serie de circunstancias que descubrirán lo que se esconde detrás de cada uno de los personajes principales: Daniel Kozlowski, un judío polaco que terminada la II Guerra huyó del campo de refugiados en Caraolos, Chipre, y se radicó en Chicago. Viveka, su joven esposa, que nos conducirá a momentos insospechados.

Capote's previously lost and unpublished tale "Yachts and Things" was recently discovered by Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kasher in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library. Written at the height of his career and socialite life, this short, thinly-veiled work of fiction tells the story of two friends about to take an "idyllic three-week cruise in the Mediterranean aboard a friend's chartered yacht".

Il protagonista, Gregory Reeves, è un gringo che incarna molti dei difetti e delle virtù della nostra società degli ultimi cinquant'anni. La vicenda si svolge in un arco di tempo che va dalla bomba su Hiroshima fino ai giorni nostri, passando attraverso le contestazioni del '68 e la guerra in Vietnam. L'autrice affronta i sentimenti dell'emarginazione sociale e del razzismo, la politica, i contrasti tra opulenza e miseria, l'evoluzione del concetto di famiglia, l'incessante ricerca di amore e di equilibrio interiore.

Los personajes de Las confesiones realzan las mezquindades espirituales y morales del México contemporáneo para presentar una novela colmada de pensamientos, chismes y habladurías funestas que hunden al personaje principal. La narrativa de Luisa Josefina Hernández demuestra cómo en gran parte de la construcción mexicana no existe cabida para la mujer que intenta desafiar los estereotipos impuestos, pero sí para el hombre que se ensalza en la mediocridad.

The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands, but over centuries, seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land, their stern piety has eroded. The Asharite empire has splintered into decadent city-states led by warring petty kings. King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, aided always by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan - poet, diplomat, soldier - until a summer afternoon of savage brutality changes their relationship forever.

"El hotel Ellesmere se halla al sur de Hyde Park, en uno de los barrios más elitistas de Londres, hogar del creador de Peter Pan: el célebre South Kensington." Allí va a parar Lily, admitida en la universidad gracias a una beca y atónita por su lujosa residencia. Para Meredith, ese ambiente es muy común, al igual que para Ava, más interesada en que sus secretos no salgan a la luz pese a la insistencia de Connor, ese chico coreano que siempre acompaña a Rex (del que todos hablan debido a su madre)....

Pages for Her is the story of two women, Flannery and Anne, each at a personal turning point, and the circumstances that lead to their reunion. Twenty years after their brief but passionate affair, chronicled in Sylvia Brownrigg's earlier novel Pages for You, Flannery has the chance once again to meet Anne, who opened young Flannery up to the possibility of love - then left her heartbroken. Pages for Her is an exhilarating, passionate work that explores marriage, sexuality, and the transformative power of love over time.

In a steam-filled diner in a college town, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she's ever seen: a graduate student, reading. The 17-year-old, new to everything around her - college, the East Coast, bodies of literature, and the sexual flurries of student life - is shocked by her desire to follow this wherever it will take her.

In 1909, Clementine steps off a train with her new husband, Winston. An angry woman emerges from the crowd to attack, shoving him in the direction of an oncoming train. Just before he stumbles, Clementine grabs him by his suit jacket. This will not be the last time Clementine Churchill will save her husband. Lady Clementine is the ferocious story of the ambitious woman beside Winston Churchill, the story of a partner who did not flinch through the sweeping darkness of war, and who would not surrender either to expectations or to enemies.

In this world of bribes, vendettas, and swindling, in which heiresses are gambled and won, Trollope's characters embody all the vices: Lady Carbury is 'false from head to foot'; her son Felix has 'the instincts of a horse, not approaching the higher sympathies of a dog'; and Melmotte - the colossal figure who dominates the book - is a 'horrid, big, rich scoundrel...a bloated swindler...a vile city ruffian'. But as vile as he is, he is considered one of Trollope's greatest creations.

The story of a woman's struggle for independence from an abusive husband. Helen 'Graham' has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage and to protect her young son from the influence of his father. Exiled to the desolate moorland mansion, she adopts an assumed name and earns her living as a painter. Gilbert Markham, a local man intrigued by the beautiful young 'widow' offers his friendship but becomes distrustful when her reclusive behaviour sparks rumours and speculation.

'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.' So says Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, utilitarian school board superintendent. Father to Tom and Louisa, he shapes the minds of all the young children, including his own, with the exception of only one: the circus-born Sissy Jupe.

Célian Laurent. Manhattan royalty. Notorious playboy. Heir to a media empire...and my new boss. I could have impressed him, if not for last month's unforgettable one-night stand. I left it with more than orgasms and a pleasant memory - namely, his wallet. Now he's staring me down like I'm the dirt under his Italian loafers, and I'm supposed to take it. But the thing about being Judith "Jude" Humphry is I have nothing to lose. Brooklyn girl. Infamously quirky. Heir to a stack of medical bills and a tattered couch.

At the end of a dinner party, the remaining guests drink wine and tell stories of their first love. For one of them, it will be a dark journey into his past, reawakening unbearable memories of his obsession with the beautiful Zinaida.

Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return with two new novellas from Martha Wells, who continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Her novellas and short stories contain all the elements fans have come to love from the Raksura books: courtly intrigue and politics, unfolding mysteries that reveal an increasingly strange wider world, and threats both mundane and magical.