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The culmination of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy saga. Second part of the saga... After the appearance in this collection of The Galactic Hitchhikers, which brings together the initial trilogy, this volume adds the other two novels - "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless" -, which expand the subject to nothing less than a "trilogy in five parts." Follow here the adventures of Arthur Dent and his companions on adven...

Consent has become a key concept in sexual relationships. At first glance, it seems clear. But is it really like that? This text reflects on the nuances, fissures and paradoxes that accompany it. Can the desire be verbalized with absolute clarity, without any ambiguity? The author explores the path traveled between "no means no" and "only yes means yes" from philosophical, historical and political perspectives and, contrary to the dominant dis...

A corpse on Christmas Eve, an albino, an African witch... A surprising and masterful detective novel... On the eve of Christmas 2000, the end of the millennium, biology professor Aníbal Cardevaro is found murdered in his home in Buenos Aires . The crime ruins the vacation of prosecutor Silvia Rey, who must take charge of the proceedings. The clues point to an albino taxi boy nicknamed Copito, who frequented the murdered man's apartment. But wh...

This is a novel about the past coming back. About family, former friends, an ex-girlfriend and Mexico. About the maturation process of a son whom his mother always accused of sneaking away, of avoiding the problem, of running away so as not to face reality... Until reality confronts him and there is no escape.

What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the enemy of memory not time but other memories? How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue, or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts, just as we do our fingers and toes? Why do we dream at night, and what does that have to do with the rotation of the earth? The answers to these questions are right behind our ey...

A letter from Neal Cassady to his best friend and travelling companion Jack (On the Road) Kerouac. Kerouac received the letter from Cassady in 1950 and later told the Paris Review that it had inspired On the Road along with his new literary style, referring to it as "the greatest piece of writing I ever saw." The energy of Cassady's fast-paced, free-flowing, confessional prose pulsates through the 15, 000 word missive, bringing gloriously to l...

A novel about the rage and restlessness of youth and about literature as the engine of the world. Amélie Nothomb's twenty-ninth novel is a kind of praise for reading, but nothing trivial, nothing predictable and, above all, nothing innocent.

This is a true story, full of edges and shadows, about the human condition. The protagonist is Silvia Labayru, an Argentine woman kidnapped in 1976, during the military dictatorship in her country, due to her membership in the Montoneros organization. She was nineteen years old and pregnant, and she was taken to the Navy Mechanics School, where a clandestine concentration center operated. She was tortured, forced to do slave labor, and repeate...

A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment: a historical novel like no other... It's the eighteenth century, and Celine is in trouble. Her husband is mostly absent. Her parents are elsewhere. Meanwhile men are inventing stories about her―about her affairs, her sexuality, her orgies and addictions. All these stories are lies, but the public loves them and sp...

Oxford, May 1, 1956. In the solemnity of the Bodleian Library, the university faculty has met to decide whether to grant an honoris causa to former United States President Harry S. Truman. One of the people present, the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, vehemently opposes it, because she believes that this recognition should not be granted to someone who, by ordering the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was guilty of the death of thousands of ...

In 1749, the French botanist Michel Adanson landed in Senegal to study the flora as part of his research to create a great encyclopedia. He will remain there until 1753, the year in which he returns to Europe. So far the strictly historical facts. From there, the novelist David Diop imagines the existence of secret diaries written by the naturalist during his transformative stay in Africa, a diary that, after his death, will end up in the hand...

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Where can happiness be better found, in Times Square or in a remote village in the Amazon? Can you escape the rush of cities, the internet, the hyper connection, and the noise of modern life? In the world of the 21st century, built on concrete highways and information freeways, one wonders if it's possible to hide somewhere and get away from modernity. A powerful and suggestive book that leads us to a landscape that is inside of us.

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His robberies fill the front pages of the newspapers, his duels with the police keep us in suspense, the messages with which he mocks the nobles he has just robbed go from mouth to mouth and earns everyone's sympathy. Who is he? Lupine, Arsène Lupine, of course, the nightmare of the forces of order, the magician of disguise and the dream of the youngest... No lock can handle him. No safe can resist it. And no one can stop him: whether on a cru...

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