Si tú pasas, yo nueces

Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize One of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2015 A Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island of Kabakon. His goal: to establish a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old. In his first novel to be translated into English, internationally bestselling author Christian Kracht uses...

Los personajes de Diez planetas habitan un futuro inimaginable que, no obstante, nos invita a dudar de las herramientas con que calibramos nuestro mundo más próximo: un terrícola exiliado en un improbable rincón de la galaxia hace un descubrimiento que le obliga a replantearse sus categorías de especie; una casa se rebela contra la manía de infelicidad de la familia que la habita; una exigua bacteria cobra conciencia en un colon humano por el azaroso efecto de una droga lisérgica; un cosmonauta desentraña un mapa nítido del mundo a través de las casi imperceptibles señales de una...

No matter where, no matter when, no matter what. Almost twenty years ago, on a beautiful coastal cliff, Juliette Cole, Anna Kendall and Sera Di Maggio linked pinkies and made a vow to be there for each other no matter what might happen in their lives. Now Juliette is calling in the promise – terminally ill, she wants her two friends to come back to Ellesmere to help her through her last summer. The trouble is Anna and Sera haven't spoken in years, and Anna hasn't returned home since she and her mother were run out of town in disgrace. But Anna and Sera do have one thing in common: they want ...

Después de cuarenta y ocho libros escritos, J. J. Benítez decide experimentar algo insólito: escribir para no publicar. En julio de 2002, el periodista e investigador navarro está a punto de morir. A partir de ese momento, su vida cambia, todo cambia. Y decide escribir «para el idiota que lleva dentro»