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Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of depravity. Taking advantage of the situation, a zealous …
“The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award for this story) George Orr …
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother …
Comfort reading for fall. It's so cozy to grab this book and read it under a blanket. You can't escape Anne's fabulous imagination.
In the second of Connie Willis' brilliant Oxford trilogy, Ned's holiday in Victorian England becomes a mad struggle to put …
Humans stranded on an alien world. Accepted by the aliens, until suddenly it was war. Because when the aliens are …
It is the late 21st Century and the Moon has been colonized -- as a …
It's a very entertaining book. I have enjoyed it a lot. Nevertheless, the paternalism showed to the female characters was really bothering me all the time. I know that is a novel from the 50s, but they are supposed to be living in some kind of matriarchy.
A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" is a powerfully …
La novela más apetitosa que leerás jamás. Una historia deliciosa que combina misterios y cocina y que triunfa en Japón …
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work …
Delphine de Vigan: Les loyautés (French language, 2018)
"± J'ai pensé que le gamin était maltraité, j'y ai pensé très vite, peut-être pas les premiers jours mais pas …
Leila Slimani: El país de los otros (Paperback, Español language, 2021, Editorial Cabaret Voltaire)
En 1944, Mathilde, una joven alsaciana, se enamora de Amín Belhach, combatiente marroquí en el ejército francés durante la II …
Este libro me ha acompañado en mis vacaciones. Me enganchó desde un principio y me ha gustado mucho la forma de contar la historia desde tres puntos de vista diferentes. Me tenía que recordar constantemente que era una novela e imagino que el autor se habrá tomado algunas libertades. Me ha hecho leer mucho también la wikipedia, para descubrir personajes que no conocía y contrastar algunos hechos que me costaba creer que fueran históricos.
