Un enigma que suena a través del tiempo. Si cada novela pudiera representar un mundo, esta nueva novela de Alejandro Guillermo Roemmers representa, y de manera muy efectiva, dos. El último violín construido por el célebre lutier Antonio Stradivari es el protagonista y, al mismo tiempo, es el común denominador de las dos tramas, que terminan por formar un texto ú una novela policial cercana a la serie negra, que parte de un hecho actual (el asesinato de un padre y su hija en una pequeña ciudad de Paraguay), con una novela histórica ricamente compuesta en la que, a través de los siglos, la historia del violín aparece representada en la vida de sus dueños ocasionales a lo largo de casi tres siglos. Hablamos aquí de una narrativa compleja que ofrece varias capas de sentidos. Esta novela invita a los lectores a hacer un recorrido apasionante entre las leyes propias del policial (nada se sabe del móvil del doble crimen), y asistimos a su investigación, el seguimiento un hilo histórico desde las profundidades de las almas de quienes han sido dueños del violín. Esta novela policial y el germen de novela histórica que van alternando en los capítulos pares e impares se contraponen, se articulan y complementan para formar un universo muy atractivo en su coherencia interna. La novela no está exenta de una veta el último violín construido por Stradivari se presenta como un amuleto, un objeto poderoso que preserva de todos los males a quien lo posea. Aunque, de tomarlo de una manera estrictamente realista, la música sublime que produce también podría ser un buen ejemplo de alguna especie de protección pagana o divina. 

From an incendiary new talent, a contemporary queer folktale about a mother and daughter living in the woods, for fans of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, and Julia Armfield. “Deliciously dark and shockingly bold—someone needs to make this into a film right now! Lucy Rose is one to watch. This is one of my favorite debuts in a long time.”—Kirsty Logan, author of Now She is Witch and Things We Say in the Dark A FOLK TALE. A HORROR STORY. A LOVE STORY. AN ENCHANTMENT. Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember. When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. People who have strayed too far from the road. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she picks apart their bodies and toasts them off with some vegetable oil. But Mama’s want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a beautiful, white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires, and make her own bid for freedom. With this gothic coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire, and animal instincts—and wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.

From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger. This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets. This is a story about love. 1827. London. A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined. This is a story about rage. 2019. Boston. College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge. This is a story about life— how it ends, and how it starts.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire Keegan's debut collection, Antarctica, have been acclaimed by The Observer to be "among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English." In "Antarctica," a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with a man other than her husband. "Love in the Tall Grass" takes Cordelia down a coastal road on the last day of the twentieth century to keep a date with her lover that has been nine years in the waiting. "Stay Close to the Water's Edge" tells of a young Harvard student who is pitilessly humiliated by his homophobic stepfather on his birthday. Keegan's writing has a clear vision of unaffected truths and boldly explores a world where dreams, memory, and chance have crippling consequences for those involved. The stories are often dark and enveloped in a palpable atmosphere, and the reader feels that something "big" is going on in each of these carefully sculpted tales. The award-winning Antarctica, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, and recipient of the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the William Trevor Prize, and the Martin Healy Award, is a haunting debut.

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire Keegan's debut collection, Antarctica, have been acclaimed by The Observer to be "among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English." In "Antarctica," a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with a man other than her husband. "Love in the Tall Grass" takes Cordelia down a coastal road on the last day of the twentieth century to keep a date with her lover that has been nine years in the waiting. "Stay Close to the Water's Edge" tells of a young Harvard student who is pitilessly humiliated by his homophobic stepfather on his birthday. Keegan's writing has a clear vision of unaffected truths and boldly explores a world where dreams, memory, and chance have crippling consequences for those involved. The stories are often dark and enveloped in a palpable atmosphere, and the reader feels that something "big" is going on in each of these carefully sculpted tales. The award-winning Antarctica, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, and recipient of the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the William Trevor Prize, and the Martin Healy Award, is a haunting debut.

Elegido Libro del Año por Los Angeles Times, "Antártida" sorprendió a ambos lados del Atlántico. Sus relatos, situados en Irlanda y el sur de Estados Unidos, se sumergen en relaciones, obsesiones y traiciones. Desde una mujer que suspende su vida y se recluye durante diez años a la espera del prometido reencuentro con su amante la última noche del siglo, hasta una madre que le prepara a su esposo una sopa con fotos de su hija desaparecida para recordarle una infinita culpa; los personajes de Keegan habitan un mundo donde los sueños, la memoria y las oportunidades pueden tener consecuencias atroces. Un libro agudo y perturbador de uno de los talentos más destacados de la narrativa irlandesa.