Mo Ran felt that taking Chu Wanning as his master was a mistake. His Shizun was just so similar to a cat, while he was like a silly dog. Dogs and cats were biologically different. The silly dog hadn’t originally intended to put his furry paws out towards that cat. He originally thought that dogs should be with dogs, like his senior brother, who was beautiful and docile, like a cute Japanese Spitz. They would look so good together. But after dying and coming back to life, after living two lifetimes, the one he’d brought back to his den both times was that snow-white kitty Shizun that he didn’t even have his eye on at first.

Esta es una historia sobre una madre y una hija. Sobre Sari (nunca Sara, ¡por favor!), sobre la demencia y lo brillante de la pérdida. Sin lugar para la autocompasión, la hija de Sari registra el momento en que la cabeza de su mamá se desordena y pierde las palabras, mientras arma el relato que ella no dejó de contar y que, a su vez, no pudo contar. La narradora anota un recuerdo que no le pertenece, una frase divertida, extractos de un diario, una escena del barrio, disparates; los amontona y los pega como un collage, como el collage en el que se transformó su mamá. ¿Por qué son tan lindos los caballos? puede ser: una novela romántica sobre las palabras, un manual de instrucciones para creer en los días, y también la biografía de Sari. En una época donde el duelo es el protagonista de tantos relatos, Julieta Correa nos trae un libro sobre la vida. Sofía de la Vega

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship to grow as deep as the bond between sisters, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.

To live on in this turbulent world, to take revenge for her family, to seek justice for her entire village of a hundred and eighteen people who had their lives cut short, Lin Wanyue took the name of her younger twin brother Lin Feixing to enlist in the military, vowing to kill every single Hun under the sky. The Empress has passed into heaven, leaving the sixteen year old Eldest Princess and eight year old Crown Prince to depend on each other for survival. The other Seigniors who were older than the Crown Prince look upon the royal seat with ravenous eyes, the position of these two siblings are in a precarious situation.

«Quiero escribirte esta noche una carta de amor», escribe Katherine Mansfield al amante que más tarde se convertiría en su marido. A través de sus cartas, inéditas hasta ahora en español -al igual que muchas otras que recoge este libro-, su voz más íntima se une a la de otras grandes escritoras que sintieron la urgencia de revelar lo inconfesable, el poder del deseo, la insoportable incertidumbre, la desesperación, el dolor de una pasión no correspondida o la inmensa felicidad de amar y ser amado. La abadesa Eloísa de Argenteuil, ya en el siglo XII, se enfrenta al Infierno por escuchar a su carne; Simone de Beauvoir se empeña en destruir cualquier rastro burgués en el amor y en la vida; Ninon de Lenclos rechaza todos los tópicos sobre el arrebato amoroso; la romántica George Sand busca morder el amor hasta sangrar; la madre del feminismo, Mary Wollstonecraft, está dispuesta a ceder todas sus libertades -e incluso a acabar con su vida- si no consigue la entrega de su ser adorado; también la brillante y talentosa Charlotte Brontë implora el afecto de un hombre casado y espera la respuesta a sus cartas más que un mendigo un trozo de pan. Mientras María Zambrano vuelca en las cartas a un amor de juventud su anhelo de matrimonio, Marina Tsvietáieva busca en el amor sin límites la fuente de su inspiración poética o Julie de Lespinasse es capaz de amar al mismo tiempo y con igual intensidad a dos hombres, Emilia Pardo Bazán se revela con gran sensualidad y sexualidad escribiendo a Galdós, y lucha por mantener en secreto su relación... Ángeles Caso nos presenta estas cartas reveladoras y fascinantes, y nos cuenta en las biografías de cada autora -una suerte de «micronovelas»- las historias que les dieron origen: un mapa de la sensibilidad femenina a lo largo de la Historia, una inspiración para escribir cartas de amor, y para amar -e incluso para dejar un amor que nos destruye. Un libro para leer, releer y atesorar.

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion. But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day… Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.

I gaze into the mirror of my heart, /And though it’s me who looks, it’s you I see. So speaks one of the many distinctive voices in this new anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before; this is especially true of the pre-modern poets, such as the unnamed author of the lines above, known simply as the “daughter of Salar” or “the woman from Esfahan.” One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe’eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society’s social extremes. Many were princesses, a good number were hired entertainers of one kind or another, and they were active in many different countries—Iran of course, but also India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Not surprisingly, a lot of their poetry sounds like that of their male counterparts, but a lot doesn’t; there are distinctively bawdy and flirtatious poems by medieval women poets, poems from virtually every era in which the poet complains about her husband (sometimes light-heartedly, sometimes with poignant seriousness), touching poems on the death of a child, and many epigrams centered on little details that bring a life from hundreds of years ago vividly before our eyes. In the nineteenth century we begin to see political poems, often very angry ones, by women demanding both the independence of Middle-Eastern countries from Western governments and women’s emancipation. Perhaps the most personal and intensely emotional poems are those of the last hundred years, in which we see local sensibilities rooted in a millennium of literary and social tradition responding to, and embracing or rejecting, the myriad multi-cultural strands that make up the modern world. The Mirror of My Heart is a unique and captivating collection introduced and translated by Dick Davis, an acclaimed scholar and translator of Persian literature as well as a gifted poet in his own right. In his introduction he provides fascinating background detail on Persian poetry written by women through the ages, including common themes and motifs and a brief overview of Iranian history showing how women poets have been affected by the changing dynasties. From Rabe’eh in the tenth century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first, each of the eighty-three poets in this volume is introduced in a short biographical note, while explanatory notes give further insight into the poems themselves.

Virginia Woolf’s humorous biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s spaniel is charming yet also radical. A work of sensuous imagination, it opens up a range of questions about class, society, and cultural attitudes which are woven throughout the whole of Woolf’s writing.