Cuando Vera era niña, un demonio rondaba su casa y acosaba a su madre, martilleándole los nervios hasta postrarla en la cama durante días. Entre las sesiones de exorcismo con la 'meiga' y las citas con el psiquiatra, año tras año, la superstición se desvanece para dejar paso al diagnóstico. Pero, a pesar de los malos tratos, la enfermedad y las excentricidades, el amor de una madre y su hija es más fuerte que cualquier otra cosa, sobreviviendo al paso del tiempo y a las tormentas. 'El Cuerpo de Cristo' es la declaración de amor de una hija a su madre, a la que tiene que cuidar siendo demasiado joven, pero también es el retrato trágico y universal de una mujer encerrada en su papel de hija, madre y esposa en una España patriarcal, pobre y católica. Realizada durante una residencia en la Maisons des auteurs de Angoulême (Francia), esta primera novela gráfica de Bea Lema destaca por su impresionante junto a los dibujos, increíbles bordados hechos a mano por la autora y un diseño engañosamente ingenuo inspirado en los arpilleristas chilenos, y decoraciones que recuerdan a la cerámica española. 'El Cuerpo de Cristo' tendrá además una adaptación cinematográfica como cortometraje de animación, actualmente en fase de preproducción.

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805. Besides the theme of persuasion, the novel evokes other topics, such as the Royal Navy, in which two of Jane Austen's brothers ultimately rose to the rank of admiral. As in Northanger Abbey, the superficial social life of Bath-well known to Austen, who spent several relatively unhappy and unproductive years there-is portrayed extensively and serves as a setting for the second half of the book. In many respects Persuasion marks a break with Austen's previous works, both in the more biting, even irritable satire directed at some of the novel's characters and in the regretful, resigned outlook of its otherwise admirable heroine, Anne Elliot, in the first part of the story. Against this is set the energy and appeal of the Royal Navy, which symbolises for Anne and the reader the possibility of a more outgoing, engaged, and fulfilling life, and it is this worldview which triumphs for the most part at the end of the novel.

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah is not the same. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has brought part of it back with her, onto dry land and into their home. Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp. Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep deep sea.

Vuelve la mitología griega narrada como un buen salseo: ahora le toca a Hércules contar su historia. La nueva novela mitológica de Pol Gise, creador de contenido con más de 3 millones de seguidores en redes, después del éxito conseguido con su primera novela Hades, el dios menos malo. En una época en la que todos los hombres sueñan con ser héroes, algunos nacen predestinados a serlo… aunque no quieran. Esta es la historia de un semidios con un don y una maldición que lo persiguieron toda la vida, pero también es la historia de una madre que hizo todo lo posible para proteger a su hijo de su destino, una diosa capaz de lo que sea por vengar las infidelidades de su marido y un rey tan temible como envidioso. Hércules, el hijo más famoso de Zeus, fue un niño engañado y un hombre maldito que se desvivió por lo que creía justo. Su historia se ha intentado simplificar ignorando sus sentimientos y su punto de vista, pero ahora ha llegado el momento de que sea él quien nos la cuente.