El otro fuego

Vuelve la autora landscape más exitosa en Alemania, con una conmovedora historia ambientada en Noruega, donde un misterioso secreto ensombrece para siempre el destino de dos familias. Nos situamos en Noruega, 1895. Cuando Clara, una joven alemana, sigue a su marido hasta Roros, una pequeña ciudad minera, le aguarda una desagradable sorpresa. La madre de Olaf no disimula que hubiera preferido otra nuera. Para evitar la ruina económica de la acaudalada familia, Olaf debía casarse con la hija del director de la mina. Cuando tras una pelea Olaf sufre heridas mortales, Clara debe recorrer un...

From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her parents, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.

Maggie came to scenic little Lupine, Oregon, to live as a foster child in the Jarrett home. Thirteen years later, she’s a legitimate member of the family, living in the back yard cottage with two children. Her husband, Mo, has moved on to Texas in search of opportunity. He wants Maggie and their children to follow, but she is mired in indecision. Her baby’s a handful and her 9-year-old son, Jay-Jay, is in such trouble at school they want to put him in the “anger group.” She seeks comfort and advice from her friends, but her problems and theirs don’t seem to be occurring in the same...

En La pianola, la primera novela del irreverente escritor de culto norteamericano fallecido hace ahora diez años, describe una sociedad en la que los humanos han sido sustituidos por máquinas. Mediante la metáfora de la pianola que, dotada de un mecanismo automático, reproduce la música, Vonnegut escenifica en la novela una despiadada sátira social que pinta con colores sombríos y su característico humor negro. La sociedad absurda descrita en La pianola, al igual que la sociedad contemporánea, está dominada por la tecnología y la eficiencia de las máquinas, y en ella los hombres...