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Apeirogon: A Novel
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart.”—Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire FINALIST FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Independent • The New York Public Library • Library Journal From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers. Bassam Aramin is Palestinian....
Bluets
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
This Must Be the Place
A top-ten bestseller 2016, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by Maggie O'Farrell crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. 'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet? Her husband Daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one another be enough to bring Daniel back home?
Barcelona Tales
Barcelona is one of the most visited cities in Europe, a multilingual capital of an autonomous region that longs to be independent of Spain. The city is famous for its painters, modernist architecture, style of football, and its history, but as Peter Bush reveals it has always been a major centre of literary talent and creativity. Barcelona Tales presents a selection of newly translated short stories by 16 writers, many of them Catalan. The stories explore the themes of migration and class conflict in a city renowned in world literature from the day rural innocents Don Quixote and Sancho Panza visited its streets at the beginning of the seventeenth-century, and witnessed the wonders of the printing press and the cruelties of slavery. Together, they open up the city in ironic, tragic, and lyrical ways, inviting readers to explore fictional lives and literary styles that reflect the dynamic, conflict-ridden character and history of this great European city.
The Book of Barcelona
A slighted wife escapes her wealthy family for the evening and stumbles into the city's red-light district... The head of security at Barcelona's container port searches for a figure that only he has seen sneak in... An elderly woman brings home a machine that will turn her body into atoms, so she can leave behind a city that is no longer recognisable... Historically, Barcelona is a city of resistance and independence; a focal point for Catalan identity, as well as the capital of Spanish republicanism. Nestled between the Mediterranean coast and mountains, this burgeoning city has also been home to some of the greatest names in modern art and architecture, and attracts visitors and migrants from all over the world. As a result, the city is a melting-pot of cultures, and the stories gathered here offer a miscellany of form and genre, fittingly reminiscent of one of Gaudi's mosaics. From the boy-giant outgrowing his cramped flat on the city's outskirts, to the love affair that begins in a launderette, we meet characters who are reclaiming the independence of their city by challenging common misconceptions and telling its myriad truths.
Exhalació
En Bruce Pike, conegut com a Pikelet, creix en un petit poble d'una bellesa esfereïdora i salvatge on, a la nit, el rugit de les onades alimenta els seus somnis d'aventura. És un adolescent solitari i introvertit fins que topa amb en Loonie, un noi de la seva edat que va pel mal camí, i es fan amics. En Loonie l'arrossega fins a la platja, territori que els seus pares li han prohibit trepitjar, i junts passen els dies, van a escola, fan campana i competeixen a veure qui aguanta més sota l'aigua. Un dia, al mar, coneixen en Sando, un antic campió de surf de trenta-sis anys que ha viatjat per tot el món perseguint amb la seva planxa l'onada més alta, posant-se en llocs perillosos i en s...
Gro
La Gro és una noia de 13 anys amb una cicatriu misteriosa a la cara que viu amb la seva mare i una gossa vella i cega que es diu Laika. Li encanta passar l'estona a la llibreria del senyor Sakarias i escriure històries estranyes al seu quadern, històries que de vegades cobren vida. Però quan coneix en Frank, un home misteriós, la seva vida es capgirarà per sempre i es veurà empesa a viure una aventura emocionant i perillosa més enllà de tot allò conegut. Les portes del Bosc Biblioteca aviat es tancaran per sempre. Quan això passi, les històries estan condemnades a desaparèixer i els humans entrarem en una era sense sentit: no s'escriuran ni s'explicaran mai més històries noves. Es cantaran les mateixes cançons, es faran les mateixes pel·lícules i s'escriuran els mateixos llibres una vegada i una altra. La Gro serà l'última esperança per salvar-les.
Translation Studies and Ecology
This innovative collection explores the points of contact between translation practice and ecological culture by focusing on the relationship between ecology and translation. The volume’s point of departure is the idea that translations, like all human activities, have a relational basis. Since they depend on places and communities to which they are addressed as well as on the cultural environment which made them possible, they should be understood as situated cultural practices, governed by a particular political ecology. Through the analysis of phenomena that relate translation and ecological culture (such as the development of ecofeminism; the translation of texts on nature; translation...
Reflections in a Golden Eye
A reprint of the 1941 novel about the sad and tragic lives of the Pendertons and the Langdons, two military couples living on an army base in the American South in the 1930s.
El llop
Durant les vacances, el protagonista d'aquesta història es veu obligat a anar a un campament enmig del bosc. Allà l'esperen els mosquits, els bastons de senderisme, els peus plens de butllofes i les activitats a la natura. Li toca compartir cabana amb en Jörg, un noi de la seva classe diferent de la resta. Sí, d'acord, tots i cadascun de nosaltres som especials i diferents a la nostra manera. Però hi ha gent que encara viu més als marges. Que no encaixa. Que no és benvinguda. I al nostre protagonista, tot això l'intriga; comença a ser conscient de com els altres tracten en Jörg i com tot s'escalfa lentament al grup però no acaba mai d'enfrontar-se als qui li fan la guitza al seu company i es limita a observar. Quan es fa de nit, un llop se li apareix en somnis. Què deu voler dir? Quin és el preu a pagar per ser com la majoria i no ser un marginat? El llop és un llibre sobre l'amistat, l'empatia i el coratge que es necessita per aixecar la veu. Una història explicada de manera brillant pel guardonat autor Saša Stanišić.
