Crucero Sexual

The sparkling debut novel of Maria Semple, author of the WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION-shortlisted WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, including reading group notes. Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life - but she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy, a roguish small-time bass player, Violet comes alive, and soon she's risking everything for the chance to find herself again. Also in the...

In the tradition of the modern classics The Remains of the Day and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a timeworn European restaurant is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest... The Hills dates from a time when pigs were pigs and swine were swine, the Maître D' likes to say--in other words from the mid-1800s. Every day begins with the head waiter putting on his jacket. In with one arm, then the other. Shrugged onto his shoulders. Horn buttons done up. Always the same. There is clinking. Cutlery is moved around porcelain and up to mouths. But in...

Nacido en la China de la Primera Guerra Mundial, de madre rusa y padre alemán, y protegido de un maestro japonés a quien debe su formación, Nicholai Hel sobrevive a la destrucción de Hiroshima para convertirse en un hábil amante y reputado asesino. Su gra

Desde que el rey fantasma expulsó a todos los nobles a los reinos exteriores, siempre trataron sin éxito de cobrarse su venganza en la reconquista. Tras décadas de fracaso se filtra la noticia de que la Corona de Anglotenia reclama pretendientes para su joven princesa, Asenka de Anglotenia, como solución a una monarquía agonizante. Los exiliados se harán pasar por aspirantes para lograr atravesar la frontera e introducirse en el corazón del único territorio que jamás pudieron combatir. Con todos los miembros de la Familia Real a su alcance. Asenka tendrá que lidiar con la amenaza...