Han pasado seis años y yo aún vivo donde vivíamos. En la misma casa. Conocí a Pablo y tuvimos a Matilda. Ahora los tres dormimos en el que fue tu dormitorio, el de las pelusas. Dos amigas dejan de ser amigas. Esta es la historia de la cicatriz que queda en una de ellas.

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as… doing nothing. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, and to become more meaningfully connected in the process.

Un cuerpo habita un un cuerpo con sus circunstancias y su historia, en un lugar también con sus circunstancias, también con su historia. Ese lugar no es un decorado, porque tiene la vida de los fantasmas y las estrellas fugaces, la sequía, la hierba, un rebaño de cabras, las huellas que deja en la tierra todo lo que también fue. En los poemas de Fuego la sed toman la palabra los cuerpos y los lugares, sí, para contarnos la historia de un el que acecha a un mundo —el nuestro— que se extingue. María Sánchez ha escrito un libro militantemente político, militantemente lírico, sobre nuestra relación con nuestro sobre la forma en la que las decisiones humanas repercuten en el curso de un arroyo o en el vuelo de un pájaro, sobre la desmemoria por la que nos imponemos al territorio, y borramos la posibilidad de otras experiencias.La publicación de Cuaderno de campo, el primer libro de poemas de María Sánchez, supuso una revolución en nuestra una visión del medio rural lejos de los estereotipos, que abrió caminos y planteó un debate. En tiempos de emergencia climática, Fuego la sed ensancha la conversación, reflexiona y nos incluye, apela a la escucha para el conocimiento propio. Bello y sutil, a la vez rotundo y poderoso, en Fuego la sed hablan quienes nos hemos empeñado en nunca oír. Sobre Cuaderno de «Un poemario deslumbrante» (Manuel Jabois, Cadena SER)«Dota de voz propia al animal y a las ciencias naturales injertadas en la memoria familiar» (Agustín Fernández Mallo, ElCultural)«Es una poética de lo primario que hay en nosotros. Y es feroz y honesto» (Aloma Rodríguez, Letras libres)

En su adolescencia, Vanesa Freixa solía esconderse cuando su padre le pedía ayuda con el cuidado de las ovejas. La vida que despertaba en ella, como en cualquier otra joven, no le hablaba de establos ni de esquilados. Sin embargo, muchos años después comenzó a ser consciente del rico legado que había dejado atrás y de la importancia vital de recuperarlo. Cada día tenía más claro que, en un mundo donde el consumo desmedido y la ciega destrucción de los ecosistemas pone en riesgo la mera supervivencia, era hora de tomar decisiones: ruralismo o barbarie. Así, se asentó con su familia en una vieja cabaña pirenaica situada en una región de difícil acceso en el norte de Lleida. Compró siete ovejas y, mientras iba adquiriendo los conocimientos necesarios para sacar adelante una finca de modo sostenible y respetuoso, empezó a cuestionarse muchas cosas. ¿Cuándo y cómo desechamos los conocimientos y la transmisión del modo de vida rural? ¿Cómo podríamos reinventar una ruralidad para el siglo XXI que garantice un futuro viable y justo para todos? ¿Cómo desbaratar la vieja oposición que asocia siempre el campo a la precariedad y la ciudad al progreso y el bienestar? ¿Cómo configurar nuevas dinámicas sociales y económicas que nos permitan escapar de las imposiciones más violentas del sistema capitalista para atisbar un porvenir más autónomo, igualitario y resiliente? A medio camino entre un ensayo de intervención y unas memorias salvajes, Vanesa Freixa defiende con convicción el ruralismo como la opción más inteligente ante un modelo socioeconómico insostenible, que obvia la depauperación creciente de la naturaleza y da cada día un nuevo paso hacia el colapso. Un libro emotivo y vital, lúcido y alentador, que nos sumerge de lleno en el día a día y en las anécdotas cotidianas de una vida pausada, consciente y plena, al tiempo que llama a una reflexión urgente sobre el necesario despertar de una nueva conciencia global sobre el planeta y sobre nuestro papel en su cuidado y conservación.

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, May’s story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath, swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas. Ultimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season.

Efervescencia y una novela sobre la amistad en un mundo abocado al colapso. Rita vive en la Colonia, en lo alto de una montaña donde hombres cansados vacían una mina que se agota. Desde allí, contempla el pueblo hundido en el valle, y los bosques que, de repente, empiezan a arder. Líton, que creció en la ciudad, apaga los fuegos con los demás chicos del Servicio. Esta novela sigue la historia de los dos la infancia en contextos opuestos, el descubrimiento del deseo, sus amores con Fèlix y René  –y la nostalgia de un futuro que ya no será–. Juntos viven la emancipación y la efervescencia festiva de la veintena, pero también las servidumbres de la familia y de una época marcada por la extinció ¿cómo será el zumbido de una abeja? En un mundo que se dirige al colapso, donde la vida no se puede vivir, Rita y Líton convierten la amistad en una conjura para pensar un universo habitable. Pol Guasch ha escrito un libro en el que cada dosis de dolor tiene su reverso fulgurante, y cada desenlace augura un nuevo comienzo. Desordenada como la memoria, oscura y luminosa al mismo tiempo, En las manos, el paraíso quema es melancólica como solo puede serlo asistir al fundido a negro de la juventud del mundo.

An eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility, The Disaster Tourist engages with the global dialog around climate activism, dark tourism, and the #MeToo movement. For ten years, Yona has been stuck behind a desk as a coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specializing in vacation packages to destinations devastated by disaster and climate change. Her work life is uneventful until trouble arises in the form of a predatory colleague. To forestall any disruption of business-as-usual, Jungle makes Yona a proposition: a paid "vacation" to the desert island of Mui. But Yona must pose as a tourist and assess whether Jungle should continue their partnership with the unprofitable destination. Yona travels to the remote island, whose major attraction is an underwhelming sinkhole, a huge disappointment to the customers who've paid a premium. Soon Yona discovers the resort's plan to fabricate a catastrophe in the interest of regaining their good standing with Jungle--and the manager enlists Yona's help. Yona must choose between the callous company to whom she's dedicated her life, or the possibility of a fresh start in a powerful new position. As she begins to understand the cost of the manufactured disaster, Yona realizes that the lives of Mui's citizens are in danger--and so is she. In The Disaster Tourist, Korean author Yun Ko-eun grapples with the consequences of our fascination with disaster, and questions an individual's culpability in the harm done by their industry.

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story, and translated by Polly Barton. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertaining no visitors. That is, until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew and Kajii can’t resist writing back. Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a masterclass in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii but it seems that she might be the one changing. With each meal she eats, something is awakening in her body, might she and Kaji have more in common than she once thought? Inspired by the real case of the convicted con woman and serial killer, "The Konkatsu Killer", Asako Yuzuki’s Butter is a vivid, unsettling exploration of misogyny, obsession, romance and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming “lion women.” But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives. Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences. Written with Marjan Kamali’s signature “evocative, devastating, and hauntingly beautiful” (Whitney Scharer, author of The Age of Light) prose, The Lion Women of Tehran is a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young, and the way love and courage transforms our lives.

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story, and translated by Polly Barton. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertaining no visitors. That is, until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew and Kajii can’t resist writing back. Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a masterclass in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii but it seems that she might be the one changing. With each meal she eats, something is awakening in her body, might she and Kaji have more in common than she once thought? Inspired by the real case of the convicted con woman and serial killer, "The Konkatsu Killer", Asako Yuzuki’s Butter is a vivid, unsettling exploration of misogyny, obsession, romance and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan