El Pez Globo

2018 NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION'S 5 UNDER 35 HONOREE A fevered, lyrical debut about two young women drawn into an ever-intensifying friendship set against the stark, haunted landscape of the Sonoran desert and the ecstatic frenzy of New York City. Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, grows up in the arid lands of desert suburbia outside of Phoenix. In a stark landscape where coyotes prowl and mysterious lights occasionally pass through the nighttime sky, Ahlam’s imagination reigns. She battles chronic fever dreams and isolation. When she meets her tempestuous...

Campos de fresa para siempre de Javier Reverte es una nostálgica novela de amor en tiempos de la dictadura al compás de las canciones de los Beatles. Cristina Santamaría, una joven abogada, busca al que fuera el gran amor de su vida en el Berlín de los años previos a la caída del Muro, una ciudad que reflejaba mejor que ninguna el espíritu dividido de aquella época de la historia del mundo. Durante esos días, Cristina irá reconstruyendo sobre sus recuerdos el perfume de aquel amor prolongado durante veinte años. Al mismo tiempo, en un relato construido en forma de thriller, se irá ...

In a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, a lazy writer creates the perfect novel without the bother of writing it through a unique device placed under the tongue that records all the sights and sounds through his brain and onto a disk drive.

Ever since her husband, Doug, left her suddenly and without explanation, Galla spends her days on the couch, staring at the magnolia on the patio and fantasizing about throwing herself off the balcony to escape excruciating pain blamed on herself. During her first solo trip, to Munich, she accidentally walks into a museum where the work of the German painter Gabriele Münter is exhibited and her works so full of color and so devoid of joy mesmerize her. From that moment on, Gabriele's voice enters Galla's life: it torments and mocks her as she recounts her long love story with Kandinski, much ...