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A compendium of the final novels written by Bioy Casares: The Adventure of a Photographer in La Plata (1985), An Odd Champion (1993) and From One World to Another (1998).

As soon as he arrives in La Plata, sent there to take photos for a new collection of books about cities, Nicolás Almanza meets the Lombardos, a family who treats him with excessive trust, but that attracts him in a way that completely disarms him. The adventure of the photographer in La Plata (1985), draws on Bioy’s renowned narrative virtuosity, shot through with strong doses of humour and terror.

A collection of the last three books of short stories by Adolfo Bioy Casares: Outrageous Tales (1986), A Russian Doll (1991) and Modest Magic (1997).

The idea of travel and displacement loom large in the various stories that comprise the three books of short stories by Bioy Casares, as well as a clear feeling of being alert, in a kind of countdown.

For the first time, a single volume brings together all the work of the literary partnership formed by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Apart from having gone down in history as two of the foremost figures of Argentine literature, Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares were close friends for fifty years. Among other interests they were united by their admiration for the detective stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe and G. K. Chesterton. 

Una antología de la célebre sección de Josep Pla en la revista Destino

Por primera vez se publica en su versión originaria una selección de los más de 1.700 artículos que Josep Pla escribió semanalmente en su sección titulada «Calendario sin fechas» en la revista semanal Destino, en la que colaboró de 1939 a 1975. 

What does Mario Vargas Llosa read? Why did he become a writer? What is his conception of the art of fiction? What books have marked his life?

Culture is the protagonist of El fuego de la imaginación, the first volume of Mario Vargas Llosa's journalistic work, organised into themes. I

Una sorprendente historia escrita desde el punto de vista narrativo de un espejo.

Por si a alguien le podía quedar alguna duda de que Javier García Sánchez es uno de los grandes narradores en nuestra lengua, esta novela, Vida de un espejo, viene a despejarlas todas dando un puñetazo en la mesa con autoridad y oficio. . 

Este libro es un divertimento con pretensiones, porque su objetivo es no solo divertir al lector sino azuzar su interés por la ciencia y la poesía. Así, encontrará mucha información científica y una selección que pretende ser fascinante de poemas y poetas que cantaron a la ciencia.

Among the crackling furniture of his Lisbon home, an old man looks across the Tagus as he loses himself in memories over a cellar and a small garden with a swing. Although he eventually became president of a large company, success has never erased the loss of that time, returning again and again to the place and imagining that little things and characters...

Cuando despiden a su madre por una negligencia medica, la joven Faith y su familia se mudan al oscuro pueblo de Ravenheart. Desde el principio, la joven tiene pesadillas y no se fía de nadie, aún menos del inquietante señor Tamerland, que parece estar en todas partes.

Rosa, Rosita, is a beautiful, gentle, melancholic woman, who in her old age suffers a slow and prolonged deterioration. The narrator, her daughter, helplessly observes this painful process. She visits her, listens to her, reads to her, tries to make her laugh, sings to her. When her mother dies, she feels the need to write about her.