Los viajes de Blanco White

In 1894, Paul Gauguin left what he considered to be a culturally bereft Europe to live an unfettered life in a tropical paradise Tahiti. It was there that he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings, as well as another masterpiece: this enchanting journal. Complete with sensuous woodblock prints and sketches, this exquisitely designed edition first published by Chronicle in 1994 and now reissued with a beautiful new jacket is still the only translation to contain all of Gauguin's richly colored illustrations of the Tahiti diary. Including Tahitian myths and legends,...

En 1881, sans parler un mot d’anglais mais avec quarante mille dollars en poche, l’architecte valencien Rafael Guastavino embarque pour New York. Son rêve : apporter sa pierre à l’édifice de la modernité américaine en faisant triompher « une architecture sans feu dans un monde sans fantômes ». Épaulé dans l’ombre par son fils et homonyme, il va découvrir la réalité misérable de l’immigration et batailler d’un chantier à l’autre (la gare de Grand Central, la cathédrale Saint-Jean-le-Théologien ou le pont de Queensboro) pour se faire une place au milieu des...

"With all the feels of a This Is Us episode, Hyde's latest novel will delight readers" (Booklist). Three adult siblings. Three days with their father. What could go wrong? When Murray Blaire invites his three children to his New Hampshire farm for a few days, he makes it clear he expects things to be pleasant. But when Ruth and George arrive already bickering and Lizzie turns up late, cradling a damaged family cookbook and talking about possible criminal charges against her, all hope for a relaxing family weekend is gone. This is not the first time the Blaire family has been thrown into...

El periodista y famoso investigador Joseph Rouletabille, es el protagonista de Un misterio en París, un fantástico thriller que mantiene al lector entretenido en una ingeniosa trama en la que destacan, además de un enfoque psicológico sobre el demonio de los celos, implicaciones políticas, y apasionantes escenas de aventuras entre las que se destaca la acontecida en el tren nocturno entre París y Aviñón, además de un final digno de un clásico de la novela negra en la deslumbrante escena del juicio donde sale a relucir toda la verdad. Publicada en 1921, es la penúltima novela de la...