Monasterio

Author	Penelope Fitzgerald
ISBN	0006542565

On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river’s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society. There is...

Author	Ágota Kristóf
ISBN	0802135064

These three internationally acclaimed novels have confirmed Agota Kristof's reputation as one of the most provocative exponents of new-wave European fiction. With all the stark simplicity of a fractured fairy tale, the trilogy tells the story of twin brothers, Claus and Lucas, locked in an agonizing...

Author	Vivian Gornick
ISBN	0374529965

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking...

Author	Agustín Gómez Arcos
ISBN	1551522306

The latest in the Little Sister’s Classics series resurrecting gay and lesbian literary gems: a viciously funny, shocking yet ultimately moving 1975 novel, an allegory of Franco’s Spain, about a young gay man (the self-described “carnivorous lamb”) coming of age with a mother who despises...

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Sara Mesa

«La primera vez la coge tan desprevenida que se sobresalta al verlo.» El encuentro se produce en un parque. Ella es Casi, una adolescente de «casi» catorce años; él, el Viejo, tiene muchos más.

El primer contacto es casual, pero volverán a verse en más ocasiones. Ella huye de las imposiciones...

Author	Marco Balzano
ISBN	8806237411

Quando arriva la guerra o l'inondazione, la gente scappa. La gente, non Trina. Caparbia come il paese di confine in cui è cresciuta, sa opporsi ai fascisti che le impediscono di fare la maestra. Non ha paura di fuggire sulle montagne col marito disertore. E quando le acque della diga stanno per sommergere...