Javier: 1131 books
Between Eternities
And Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A new, exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. A Vintage Books Original.
Javier Marías is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist,...
by Javier Marías
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe).
In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS),...
by Javier Marías
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Premio de la Crítica - Premio Dulce Chacón de Narrativa Española - Premio Lettura 2018 de Il Corriere della Sera (Italia)
Mejor libro del año según Babelia (El País).
Seleccionado entre los mejores libros del año en ABC Cultural y La Vanguardia y recomendado por El Periódico...
The Fifth World
An eShort Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra offers up a heartpounding short story that occurs in the hours leading up to midnight of 12/21/12—when the Mayan calendar predicts the world will come to an end.
The Mayan sacred astronomers believed that every 5,126 years the world experienced...
by Javier Olivera Ravasi
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Solapa de tapa
El P. Dr. Javier Olivera Ravasi, nació en San Juan, Argentina, el 12 de Septiembre de 1977. Egresó (1994) del Colegio La Salle de Florida (Bs.As.) y se graduó como abogado en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).
En el año 2002 ingresó al...
The Anatomy of a Moment
Thirty-five Minutes in History and Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2011
In February 1981, Spain was still emerging from Franco's shadow, holding a democratic vote for the new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras, a band of right-wing soldiers burst in with automatic weapons, ordering everyone to get down....
Uncanny Magazine Issue 9
March/April 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The March/April 2016 issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Rachel Swirsky, Shveta Thakrar, Max Gladstone, Kelly Sandoval, and Simon Guerrier, classic fiction by Daryl Gregory, essays by Jim C. Hines, Kyell Gold, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, and Mark Oshiro, poetry by C.S.E. Cooney,...
The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War
Narrative, Time, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The literary archive of the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848) opens to view the conflicts and relationships across one of the most contested borders in the Americas. Most studies of this literature focus on the war's nineteenth-century moment of national expansion. In The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican...
The Speed of Light
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
Javier Cercas' third and most ambitious novel has already been heralded in Spain as "daring," "magnificent, complex, and intense," and "a master class in invention and truth."As a young writer, the novel's protagonist-perhaps an apocryphal version of Cercas himself-accepts a post at a Midwestern university...
by Javier Marías
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Doce poemas de William Faulkner, pertenecientes a A Green Bough, traducidos por Javier Marías.
Los comentarios del gran autor español, en parte inéditos, y el recorrido por el Mississippi de Faulkner de la mano de Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, constituyen un extraordinario homenaje a William...
by Javier Quirce
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 5, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 5, 2019
Mejor novela negra del año 2019
Primer caso de la fascinante serie negra sobre el investigador Juan Steinberg.
Personajes inolvidables, ambientaciones espectaculares, intriga, misterio, lucha contra la corrupción, aventuras, ciudades que atrapan y crítica social en la primera parte...
Que no te la cuenten II. La falsificación de la historia
Que no te la cuenten, #2
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 28, 2015
La segunda parte de Que no te la cuenten acentúa la intención esclarecedora realizada por el P. Javier Olivera Ravasi en su primer tomo del mismo título. En la época en que vivimos, caracterizada por un bombardeo televisivo e informático deliberadamente perverso y alienante, la expresión cotidiana...
Patients of the State
The Politics of Waiting in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration...
The Taken
True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
A massive wave of violence has rippled across Mexico over the past decade. In the western state of Sinaloa, the birthplace of modern drug trafficking, ordinary citizens live in constant fear of being “taken”—kidnapped or held against their will by armed men, whether criminals, police, or both....