Salvaje

The International No. 1 Bestseller 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women? 'I will probably re-read it every year of...

Un libro intensamente personal que es al mismo tiempo el retrato de una generación. Un reflejo de la lucha por la libertad y la ruptura política entre padres e hijos a lo largo de las últimas décadas en España. «Tengo sesenta años y aún fantaseo con ser otro, tener otro padre, otra familia. Siempre con la carga de la infancia, en guerra subterránea permanente conmigo mismo. Soy como España: un derrotado por el franquismo, víctima de una transición mal resuelta, incapaz de sacar a los muertos de las fosas comunes. Necesito desenterrar al niño desaparecido que podría haber sido y...

In this memoir, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was transformed when at age 18 she was raped and beaten in a park near her college campus.

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich...