Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's mi...more

Haruki Murakami is arguably one of Japan's finest, modern writers and is, increasingly, being seen as one of the top authors working today. The last novel of his to find its way to these shores, Norwegian Wood, was a delightful, if slightly one-dimensional coming-of-age tale. The pyrotechnics of his previous, more surreal novels (Wind Up Bird Chron...more

Hajime, el narrador, nacio «la primera semana del primer mes del primer año de la segunda mitad del siglo XX», una fecha singular, como su nombre: «Principio» en japones. Sin embargo, le marco mucho mas el hecho de ser hijo unico, porque en las demas familias, si no eran dos hermanos, eran tres; si no eran tres, eran dos. De ahi que ...more

In this fourth installment of the adventures of Captain Alatriste, Pérez-Reverte’s most popular hero returns from Flanders and undertakes a dangerous mission in Seville, the most fascinating 17th Century city. He is instructed to recruit a motley group of brave swordsmen for a risky job involving the contraband gold that the Spanish galleons bri...more

Enlisted as aide of Captain Alatriste in the Spanish regiments, Íñigo de Balboa tries to survive in a world where he needs to get very close to his enemy in order to kill him with his sword. He witnesses a historical moment, the surrender of Breda, which he would retell later to his friend Velázquez for a famous painting. Description in Spanish...more

Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly ...more