Javier: 1131 books

‘Marías geeft in Berta Isla oude vragen opnieuw glans.’ **** de Volkskrant ‘Indringend en moreel aangrijpend.’ **** NRC Handelsblad Een complexe en gelaagde roman over liefde en verlangen en over de invloed van geheimen op ons leven Berta Isla en Tomás Nevinson ontmoeten...

From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write. Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend...

In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence. In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources: archival, legal, literary,...

Darkly comic and highly entertaining, Javier Valdés's stories insinuate themselves in the unsuspecting reader like a heady brew with a strange kick. From the exploits of an urban vigilante to the erotic pleasures exacted from an unrequited love, from a menacing treasure to a family that brings a...

Contentious Lives examines the ways popular protests are experienced and remembered, individually and collectively, by those who participate in them. Javier Auyero focuses on the roles of two young women, Nana and Laura, in uprisings in Argentina (the two-day protest in the northwestern city of Santiago...

San Pedro / Huachuma: Opening The Pathways Of The Heart is an invitation to explore and reconnect with our inner landscapes with the help of San Pedro, also known in South America as Huachuma. San Pedro (Echinopsis pachanoi) is a psychoactive cactus native of the Andes, but more importantly it’s...

Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides—often involving young people—continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight. In Harm's Way...

She looked at me attentively, and I think that she perhaps guessed that instead of feeling like a good-for-nothing, I was beginning to get angry. I saw that her gorgeous green eyes blinked too much. She gave me the impression that she thought for an instant just what she was going to say to me and...

How to reach a stronger and more flexible body? In this collection, Esperanza Romero and Javier Pérez Aparicio Pont, directors of the only center that imparte the original teachings of J. Pilates in Spain, show, step by step and easily, the keys to maximize the benefits of this method, which considers...

Gennaio 1497. L’arrivo di alcune lettere anonime contenenti inquietanti insinuazioni getta la corte di papa Alessandro vi nello scompiglio. A Milano, nel refettorio di Santa Maria delle Grazie, Leonardo da Vinci starebbe ultimando la realizzazione di un’opera dal contenuto blasfemo se non addirittura...

El accionar de la Agrupación de Buzos Tácticos en el Conflicto Bélico del Atlántico Sur de 1982

Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Marías's masterpiece, A Heart So White is a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to...

Javier Sierra consigue combinar en Las puertas templarias los enigmas que rodearon a la fundación de la Orden del Temple y su presencia en la Jerusalén del siglo XII, con una intriga de alta tecnología en la que una red de satélites tropieza por azar con una extraña energía que emana de ciertas...

Javier Sierra, autor del bestseller internacional LA CENA SECRETA, nos ofrece ahora una novela de misterio e intriga sobre una de las leyendas más antiguas y extrañas de América -la dama azul. En Los Ángeles, Jennifer Narody, antigua espía del Departamento de Defensa, sueña repetidamente...