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Esu: la entidad más incomprendida del universo» es una obra maestra. Maravillosamente escrita e ilustrada por Darren López y Eddaviel, este absorbente trabajo colorea de manera elocuente los múltiples matices del gran orisha yoruba, Esu: uno de los más reverenciado y a menudo temido del panteón. López y Eddaviel magistralmente muestran cómo este jactancioso embaucador de los cruces de caminos, cuyo poder ha cautivado el África Occidental y las Américas, está aquí para ayudarnos a ser lo mejor de nosotros mismos. Dotada de simpleza, arte y el característico humor e ironía de Esu, esta amalgama de historias y moralejas es ideal tanto para el joven como para el adulto.

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. “Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves,” they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity. By the time they are adults, their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never conceived of. As a coder thrilled by the internet’s early egalitarian promise, Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward monetization and surveillance. And as a community activist, Ellen confronts the increasing gentrification and policing overwhelming her New York City neighborhood. Over time their friendship matures and changes, their definitions of success become complicated, and their sense of what matters evolves. Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcultures of the 1990s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, Memory Piece is an innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying lives in a world that turns out to be radically different from the one they were promised.

It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that’s held power for over a decade. Efforts to cement its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president has control of the media, but he is beginning to lose control of the streets. Many fear he’ll stop at nothing to remain in the White House. Suddenly, he collapses in the middle of an address to the nation. After an initial flurry of misinformation, the administration reluctantly announces his death. A cover-up ensues, conspiracy theories abound, and the country descends into a new type of civil war.

En este breve pero inmenso libro es el hijo, el sociólogo y profesor José Henrique Bortoluci, quien nos regala ahora las palabras de su padre, camionero de profesión durante cincuenta años, para relatarnos una vida llena de maravillosas anécdotas en la carretera. La distancia entre el hijo académico, el primero de la familia que pudo estudiar, y el padre jubilado, ahora consumido por el cáncer, parece insalvable, pero Bortoluci consigue acercarse a su mundo y resolver el enigma de un padre ausente que recorrió todo Brasil y participó en enormes proyectos de infraestructuras, como la Carretera Transamazónica: un plan que conllevó la brutal deforestación del Amazonas y que, como tantos otros planes encabezados por la junta militar, carcomió un país que en su día fue salvaje y que a día de hoy arrastra una profunda herida. Siguiendo los pasos de autores como Annie Ernaux y Svetlana Aleksiévich#, en este conmovedor y brillante testimonio de amor filial Bortoluci revisa la historia reciente de Brasil para mostrarnos las cicatrices inscritas en la piel tanto de las personas como de los países.

Patricia Fernández inaugura en este poemario una mitología en la que la poesía brota y se transmite bajo la mirada de la Luna. Una Luna lorquiana testigo de las pérdidas, el duelo y las ausencias. Pero también una Luna erótica que atesora el renacer, el regreso a las raíces y la aceptación del cambio. Todo ello construye un círculo donde la muerte y el nacimiento se encuentran. La Anciana, la Mujer y la Niña convergen allá donde nace la vida: el útero, el agua y el Mar.