El Amante Sumerio

Simone, estudiante de ética, conoce a uno de los maestros de la Sorbona en una ciudad del Piamonte italiano. A partir de ese encuentro es invitada por su mujer a su casa de verano, con otro discípulo, Edgar. Allí compartirán el buen vino de Barolo entre diálogos de ética, acerca del jardín de Epicuro y el estoicismo de Marco Aurelio y Epicteto, y volverán a la seña del utilitarismo moderno y el racionalismo. Y como en un momento de catarsis órfica, Simone buscará la reconciliación ética con la esperanza de librarse de sus dolores, pero también de sus dudas. El profesor Gilles se ...

A solo tres días para terminarse el año, el Lago Deep Creek está agitado con los vacacionistas por las festividades y los invitados a la boda que inundan el Spencer Inn para la enorme ceremonia de boda de Mac Faraday y Archie Monday que ha sido señalada como el evento social del año. Pero flores mustias o invitados que no confirmaron su asistencia es el menor de los problemas de Mac y Archie cuando un escuadrón de asalto profesional ataca la Mansión Spencer para hacer que el novio, la madre de la novia, el padrino, y Gnarly salgan corriendo por sus vidas. A medida que se acerca el gran ...

Martin and Maggie, a judge and an artist, have forged a life together for thirty-seven years. They have a son who is a successful lawyer and a grandson to dote on. Life is good, comfortable, familiar. But one day Martin leaves a family lunch and drives to a suburb miles away, to a particular house in a particular street, where an accident triggers a chain of events. No one knows why he was there - not even Martin himself - and as his mind starts unravelling, it is left to Maggie to discover what in Martin's past is troubling him, and where it is going to take them. While Maggie pieces...

Orphaned Okomo lives under the watchful eye of her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. Forbidden from seeking him out, she enlists the help of other village outcasts: her gay uncle, and a gang of “mysterious” girls reveling in their so-called indecency. Drawn into their illicit trysts, Okomo finds herself falling for their leader and rebelling against the rigid norms of Fang culture.

Another dazzling novel by the author of the best-selling novel, Girl With A Pearl Earring. Chevalier draws a picture of family life that exposes the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, set against a backdrop of social and political turbulence in early twentieth-century London. "In her New York Times best-selling follow-up, Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" /The New York Times ...