Talur

The Will to Battle—the third book of 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series—a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity “A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent.” —Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location....

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 ...

"'Las Cicatrices del Viento' el la historia novelada del subdesarrollo latinomaericano. ¿Por qué somos un continente rico de gente pobre? He ahí la pregunta que se trata de contestar en 'Las Cicatrices del Viento, ' cuya trama central se desarrolla alrededor del nacimiento, la evolución y el comportamiento diplomático, militar, político y social de la United Fruit en Centroamérica, el Caribe y Las Antillas." from book's prologue

«En ese imprevisible instante en el que todo o nada ocurre». Con esta frase María Luisa Huertas pone fin a la novela, y en ella se resume todo su contenido. Los personajes protagonizan la historia móvil y escurridiza de los que se someten al frágil destino impuesto por el azar. Todos ellos parecen ir montados en una nave a la deriva sobre unas aguas sin fin. Sus vidas son un constante trasegar de desilusiones y de desesperanzas que son el motor de la incesante huida de una realidad aparentemente insuperable.