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Conmemoramos el bicentenario del nacimiento de Melville con la edición de una de sus obras más célebres que incluye, además, una introducción de Enrique Vila-Matas. «Preferiría no hacerlo -repetí yo como si fuera su eco, levantándome muy alterado y cruzando la habitación de una zancada-. ¿Qué quiere decir?» Considerada una obra maestra de la narración corta, Bartleby, el escribiente constituye una pieza anticipatoria de la literatura existencialista y del absurdo. A través del protagonista, un escribiente que se enfrenta a las demandas de la realidad con una inquietante respuesta, «preferiría no hacerlo», el estoicismo, la ironía, el humor y el sordo desasosiego alegórico presente en la obra del Melville se aúnan para expresar la obstinación del ser humano en su afán de obtener respuesta a las grandes preguntas o, al menos, seguir buscándolas. Esta edición presenta una traducción de María José Chulia y una brillante introducción de Enrique Vila-Matas, que reflexiona sobre esta historia que tiene un claro paralelismo con Kafka y ha influenciado a autores como Beckett, Camus, Gombrowicz o el mismo Vila-Matas.

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a Happily Ever After, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke and bogged down with writer’s block. Then one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

They were sisters and they would last past the end of time. Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and raised, they and their mother struggle to survive. Sam works on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena bartends at the local golf club, but even together they can’t earn enough to get by, stirring their frustration about the limits that shape their existence. Then one night on the boat, Sam spots a bear swimming the dark waters of the channel. Where is it going? What does it want? When the bear turns up by their home, Sam, terrified, is more convinced than ever that it’s time to leave the island. But Elena responds differently to the massive beast. Enchanted by its presence, she throws into doubt the desire to escape and puts their long-held dream in danger. A story about the bonds of sisterhood and the mysteries of the animals that live among us—and within us—Bear is a propulsive, mythical, richly imagined novel from one of the most acclaimed young writers in America.

Winona Farmington soñaba con graduarse de la universidad, mudarse a Nueva York y dedicarse al mundo editorial, pero la vida se interpuso en su camino y tuvo que abandonar los estudios para volver a su pequeña ciudad del estado de Michigan y cuidar a su madre enferma. Años más tarde, Winnie se consuela viendo Beauchamp Hall, un drama de época ambientado en una gran casa de Norfolk, en cuya historia se sumerge intentando escapar de su rutinaria realidad. Sin embargo, todo cambia cuando, en el mismo día, en el trabajo la desestiman para un merecido ascenso y su novio y su mejor amiga la traicionan. Siguiendo un impulso por primera vez en su vida Winnie deja su trabajo, se marcha de su ciudad y viaja a Inglaterra, al lugar en el que se graba su serie favorita, y lo que sucede a continuación nos recuerda que nunca debemos conformarnos. Ya que siempre hay que perseguir los sueños... ¡porque no se sabe cuándo puede ocurrir la magia!

Dos hermanos, un secreto y una elección imposible. Llega a Montena L. J. Shen, la reina del romance spicy en TikTok, con un triángulo amoroso tan dramático como adictivo. Tras una tragedia espantosa, Everlynne pierde todo aquello que le importa: sus sueños, su familia y a Joe, su alma gemela. Acosada por la culpa, se recluye en Salem, Massachusetts. No es más que una sombra de la mujer que fue; vive sin pensar en el futuro, sin permitirse ninguna de esas alegrías que cree que les han sido negadas a sus seres queridos. Pero cuando entra en su vida el misterioso y atractivo Dominic, cada vez le resulta más difícil aislarse.

As First Lady of the United States of America the first African American to serve in that role she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare. In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations and whose story inspires us to do the same.