Las propiedades de la sed (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

WIGGINS, MARIANNE

Genre Fiction

Libros del Asteroide

La casa de verano

Matsuie, Masashi

Los extrañados

Freire Gutiérrez, Jorge

Absolución (Spanish Edition)

McDERMOTT, Alice

United States

Despejado (Spanish Edition)

Davies, Carys

British & Irish

Drawing directly and movingly from Yoram Kaniuk’s own experiences as a teenaged soldier in the Palmach unit of the Israeli army during the 1948 War for Independence, this memoir-novel portrays an entire generation of young men from good homes who found themselves immersed in a struggle they did not fully understand. Far from trying to justify his own actions, Kaniuk opts instead for self-criticism, reflecting on the pointlessness of war and the foolishness of a group of inexperienced, white-collar boys turned brothers-in-arms who senselessly imagined that there was some glory in dying so young. The novel offers a singular vision of a crucial moment in modern history and sheds some light on the complicated situation in the Middle East. It is also a brave, shocking, and tragic story about the importance of recognizing the follies of the past.

1948 (Libros Del Asteroide)

Kaniuk, Yoram

Verano en English Creek

Ivan Doig

Contemporary

Bajo una estrella cruel: Una vida en Praga (1941-1968)

Margolius Kovály, Heda

Un paraíso inalcanzable

MORTIMER, John

In this vivid, humorous autobiography, Wenguang Huang recounts his coming of age in the 1970s in Xi’an, in central China, during the country’s Cultural Revolution. When he was nine years old, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death and with the funeral rites that would grant her eternal peace. Terrified by the thought of cremation—obligatory in communist China—she made her family promise to bury her in her native village. Huang’s father gathered what little savings he had and built a coffin, appointing Huang, his oldest son, as coffin keeper—a responsibility that meant, among other things, sleeping next to the coffin at night. Over the next 20 years, even as profound social and political changes gripped the country, the Huang family diligently planned the funeral. In this memoir of the last three decades of the 20th century, Huang, a translator and journalist who ultimately immigrated to the United States, paints a portrait of a society caught between ancient traditions and a radical push for modernization of the Maoist regime. As he recounts his own family’s story, Huang offers illuminating insights into the contradictions that make up modern China.

El pequeño guardia rojo (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Huang, Wenguang

Arts & Literature

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