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He can solve any problem... In serving the wealthy power brokers of New York society, Frank Tripp has finally gained the respectability and security his own upbringing lacked. There's no issue he cannot fix... except for one: the beautiful and reckless daughter of an important client who doesn't seem to understand the word danger. She's not looking for a hero... Excitement lies just below Forty-Second Street and Mamie Greene is determined to explore all of it--while playing a modern-day Robin Hood along the way. What she doesn't need is her father's lawyer dogging her every step and...

A special hardback edition of Murakami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, now with a new introduction from the author Toru Okada's cat has disappeared His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession ...

Aqu se re nen diecisiete textos de escritores que con gran diversidad formal han conseguido dejar su huella en el g nero cuent stico. En el pr logo, Gilles Pellerin describe la trayectoria llena de dinamismo que caracteriza al cuento contempor neo de Qu bec, cuya vitalidad se mantiene desde hace dos d cadas.

Cuando Hilun pierde a sus abuelos, emprende un viaje de regreso en busca de sus raíces. Lo que el joven desconoce son los planes que el destino le depara. Una novela de ciencia ficción que esconde un mundo imaginario poblado de seres de diferentes orígenes, por el cual nuestro protagonista caminará y evolucionará no exento de aventuras tanto placenteras como peligrosas. Aunque tal vez el escenario no sea tan ficticio como pudiera aparentar en un principio, escondiendo un reflejo no tan difuminado de nuestra sociedad y mundo actuales…, un mundo olvidado de Dios y dejado de la mano del...