El lugar donde los equilibristas descansan. Parte III

Tras años de injusto olvido, Alfaguara se suma al fenómeno editorial del descubrimiento de Lucia Berlin, el secreto mejor guardado de la literatura estadounidense, una auténtica revolución literaria. XVII Premi Llibreter 2016 Libro del Año según Babelia Uno de los 40 libros imprescindibles escritos por mujeres según Elena Ferrante «Recién aparecido en Estados Unidos ya ha arrasado en los suplementos literarios y tiene todos los puntos para convertirse en un libro de culto.» Sergio Vila-Sanjuán, La Vanguardia «Lucia Berlin pasó su vida en la oscuridad. Ahora se la reverencia como...

Emigrato giovanissimo in Argentina, con il padre e la madre, Alfio riesce a frequentare sia la scuola che l’università. Diventa insegnante. Purtroppo si ammala della stessa malattia del padre e decide di finire i suoi giorni nel suo paese d’origine, in Sicilia. Il ritorno avviene negli anni precedenti la seconda guerra mondiale. Ad Acqualavina, Alfio osserva la vita che scorre nelle case oltre il cortile, dal balcone della casa in affitto e scrive. Trova il modo per far socializzare persone osservate di nascosto, attraverso il suo testamento. I rapporti tra i personaggi, durante la...

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent―to his dismay―to the provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by an epidemic of fox possession. Believing it's all a hoax, he considers the assignment an insulting joke, until he sees a fox moving under the skin of a young beauty... Next he travels to Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and Freud―whose...

1970s, Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, seems to live a life of intrigue and romance that Maite envies. When Leonora disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman--and journeying deeper into Leonora's secret life of student radicals and dissidents. Meanwhile, someone else is also looking for Leonora at the behest of...