E-Pack autoras españolas 3 enero 2023

¿Pueden la brisa del mar, la malvasía y el marisco unir a dos personas aparentemente opuestas? Inés es una arqueóloga solitaria a la que le interesan más los muertos que los vivos. No le gustan ni el sol, ni las aglomeraciones, ni el marisco; pero a pesar de eso, cuando su antiguo profesor de Historia le propone pasar el verano trabajando en una excavación en Menorca, la respuesta es sí. Rodrigo es un ingeniero agrónomo que trabaja en la finca que ha pertenecido a su familia desde hace generaciones. Jinete experimentado, juerguista y defensor a ultranza de las tradiciones de su...

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...

Sebagai keturunan dari Keluarag McKettrick, Keluarga Creeds begitu terkenal di Stillwater Springs, Montana---sebagai pengacau.... Entah itu memenangkan kejuaraan atau apa pun, Tyler Creed dapat mengatasi semuanya. Semuanya kecuali harus bersama-sama lagi dengan saudara-saudaranya yang saling bermusuhan. Walaupun jarang berbicara tapi mereka tetap berusaha untuk membangun kembali peternakan Creed yang terbengkalai---“dan” arti sebuah keluarga. Lily Kenyon mengetahui semua tentang permusuhan serta rahasia keluarga itu. Ibu tunggal itu harus kembali ke rumahnya untuk mengurus ayahnya dan...

Two writers, a deceased mother and her seventy-year-old son, Pancho, isolated in a palace near the sea in Galicia, are attended by an enigmatic old servant woman. The past haunts them with the unexpected visit of a man who had been Pancho’s secretary twenty years before. Soon, a child, this man’s son, moves into the palace, taking events to a tragic, ironic and surprising ending. This novel was made into a Spanish language movie: "El juego de los mensajes invisibles" (The Game of the Invisible Messages... 1991).

In this poignant work of biographical fiction, the narrator Abdellah, a grown man living in Paris, recalls his childhood home of Morocco, sharing his cherished earliest memories with the reader. The product of the twin riverside cities of Rabat and Salé—places touched by modernity but still rife with poverty—the protagonist shares his knowledge of the different currents that imbue these cities with life, as well as their numerous Moroccan mysteries: witches, the hamman, the baraka, and the ziara. As he recounts his upbringing in Morocco, with all of its people, its secret influences, its ...