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LA NUEVA NOVELA INCENDIARIA DEL PREMIADO AUTOR DE QUE DE LEJOS PARECEN MOSCAS: un fenómeno de culto cuya adaptación cinematográfica ha ganado la Mención Especial de la 56.ª edición del Festival de Sitges.

«El ruido de las olas. Los botes meciéndose a lo lejos. El mar es una cosa seria». Mediados del siglo ­­. En el norte de Chile, un niño aprende a nadar en las aguas del río Loa junto a sus amigos. Posee una destreza y una resistencia respiratoria inusuales que lo llevan a convertirse en buzo pescador en una pequeña caleta, donde comparte faenas con los boteros y aprende a sortear las dificultades del oficio y las inclemencias de la naturaleza, y también a hacer vida de familia. Con el tiempo, se lanzará a competir en torneos de caza submarina y a lucirse en un mundial de la disciplina que se organiza en el país. Todo esto mientras, a lo lejos, se dejan sentir las agitaciones sociales que traerían los años sesenta y setenta. Tras haber desarrollado una exitosa carrera, Chungungo Martínez –tal es el nombre del protagonista de Tierra de campeones, la tercera novela de Diego Zúñiga– se enfrenta a un descubrimiento que marcará el resto de sus días y lo conducirá a una especie de desértica temporada en el infierno, una deriva tan inesperada como perturbadora.

La nueva novela de Jacobo Bergareche tras el éxito internacional de Los días perfectos. Diego y Claudia ultiman los preparativos de la fiesta de inauguración de su casa en Menorca. Pocos días antes del evento, mientras pasea con su familia, Diego reconoce en una terraza a una extranjera con la que había coincidido en un festival en Estados Unidos. Esa mujer, cuyo nombre Diego desconoce y a la que lleva veinte años sin ver, le ayudó a superar un suceso traumático. Diego quisiera saludarla pero no se atreve, porque entonces tendría que contarle a Claudia cómo se conocieron. Intrigado, se las ingeniará para verla de nuevo en un encuentro que quizá le cambie la vida. Tras el éxito internacional de Los días perfectos, Jacobo Bergareche regresa a la novela con una emocionante historia que ahonda en la pasión, en la pérdida y en la fuerza del recuerdo. Un libro en el que despliega todo su talento narrativo y que lo confirma como uno de los escritores más prometedores del panorama literario español.

With a seven-year age difference, Ryke Meadows and Daisy Calloway have faced an uphill battle in the eyes of the world and their families. Known as the most adventurous, fast-paced couple, their next step has always been elusive to the rabid media. Behind the scenes, heartbreaking troubles continue to test Ryke and Daisy’s resilience and shape their future together. They promise: To never slow down. To never compromise who they are. To never abandon their love for each other. But preserving their happiness also means taking more risks. As a professional free-solo climber, Ryke is no stranger to danger, but his next step with Daisy wagers more than just his health. With their lives on the line, Ryke and Daisy head towards the vast, wild unknown.

Bran’s Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. After her mother joins a Buddhist colony, Bran is raised by her “common-law stepfather” on Bourdon Farms—a plant nursery that doubles as a cover for a biker gang. She spends her days tending plants, slogging through high school, and imagining what life could be if she had been born to a different family. And then she meets Peter, a beautiful, troubled, and charming train wreck of a college student from the East Coast, who launches his teaching career by initiating her into the world of literature and aesthetics. As the two begin a volatile and ostensibly doomed long-distance relationship, Bran searches for meaning in her own surroundings—attending disastrous dance recitals, house-sitting for strangers, and writing scripts for student films. She knows how to survive, but her happiness depends on learning to call the shots.

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attuned to all varieties of love—from friendship to romance to abiding family ties—with her trademark compassion, wit, and literary derring-do. Readers will find joy (and a little terror) and an affirmation that love goes on, even when we cannot. Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves beneath the fluorescent lights of a high school classroom, almost a year after disappearing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, having long been presumed dead. Which, in fact, they are. With them in the room is their previously unremarkable high school music teacher, who seems to know something about their disappearance—and what has brought them back again. Desperate to reclaim their lives, the three agree to the terms of the bargain their music teacher proposes. They will be given a series of magical tasks; while they undertake them, they may return to their families and friends, but they can tell no one where they’ve been. In the end, there will be winners and there will be losers.