Es víspera de Navidad y la visita de la clase de Joséphine al zoo ha sido una catástrofe. Nadie sabe qué ha pasado exactamente y los padres de la niña están dispuestos a descubrirlo. Mientras la investigación avanza, comprendemos poco a poco que una catástrofe nunca llega sola, que las apariencias engañan y que los acontecimientos pueden tomar un giro que nadie imagina. La muy catastrófica visita al zoo nos mantiene en vilo hasta el final; es una novela divertida y emocionante, repleta de guiños sobre nuestra sociedad, sobre la democracia, la educación inclusiva, el rol de los padres y de los maestros. «De las cosas que me cuentan los lectores, lo que más me emociona son las lecturas compartidas en familia, entre amigos o en los clubes de lectura. Por eso he intentado escribir un libro que pudieran leer y compartir todos los lectores, sean como sean y estén donde estén, de 7 a 120 años. Con vuestros hijos, vuestra pareja, vuestros padres, vuestros vecinos o vuestros compañeros de trabajo. Un libro con el que os entren ganas de leer y de que lean otros, sin distinciones. Y que nos permita reencontrarnos». Joël Dicker

Could you survive on your own in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don't live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.