Venator - La Pesadilla del Infierno

La narración póstuma, autobiográfica, de un joven lleno de inquietudes y viajero apasionado, a quien diagnosticaron un cáncer a los 24 años. Aviso de lectura Nuevas voces, nuevas propuestas, nuevos autores. Esta editorial quiere ser una apuesta de futuro (y por eso apuesta por el presente y trata de que el pasado no caiga en el olvido). Al autor de este libro, Nacho Gallego, la enfermedad le arrebató la posibilidad de participar en la construcción de ese futuro y sin embargo su publicación responde al criterio editorial enunciado: es una apuesta, un horizonte y una expectativa....

Una de las voces más singulares de la literatura inglesa, en un primer libro de ficción tan perturbador como aclamado. “Un debut afilado, divertido y excéntrico, es uno de esos libros tan raros y vívidos que hacen que tu propia vida se sienta extrañamente remota”, The New York Times

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...

Born November 5, 1884, in London, James Elroy Flecker received his education at Uppingham and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined the Consular Service in 1908, was posted to Constantinople in 1910, and from 1911 to 1913 Flecker served as vice-consul at Beirut.These appointments reinforced his life-long love for the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Suffering from tuberculosis, he moved to Switzerland where he died January 3, 1915. Influenced both by his classical education and by his experiences in the Orient, he published five books of poetry, The Bridge of Fire (1908), Thirty-six Poems...