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Un elogio en voz alta de dos de los principales placeres que nos ayudan a sobrellevar nuestro tiempo en la tierra: la música y la comida. Mercedes Cebrián decide aprender a tocar el violonchelo a una edad a la que, al parecer, ya es tarde para ser principiante. Emprende así una curiosa aventura acarreando en la espalda un instrumento poco popular en España que la lleva desde academias de música y orquestas de aficionados hasta talleres de luthiers que huelen a cocido recién hecho. La autora indaga en la naturaleza de la música, a la par que observa con lupa y cáustico sentido del...

One day, in a small town in Florida, a teenager goes to the supermarket with his three-year-old brother. Everything seems normal until the child disappears. Five years later, without any discovery and the family undone, Ben decides to work at the same store where his brother disappeared. Little by little he begins to find tracks left behind by dark characters with unrecognizable features and foul odors. He can feel that something is wrong there. The store has much to tell him, so he keeps searching while missing the most important message of all. That he should have stopped looking.

This is one of the most important novels in recent years. A ghostwriter is in charge of simultaneously writing a biography of a millionaire and preparing a report on the discovery of what hides behind Nabokov's The Original of Laura. In this investigation, much more is discovered about the Russian writer while his posthumous work is revealed. An exciting story that encounters many characters, travels to New York, California, and islands in the South Pacific, this book teaches the reader that people are never who they seem to be. A novel filled with humor, adventure, intrigue, and wisdom that...

Laievski, que acaba de escaparse con una mujer casada, es uno de esos hombres superfluos que tanto abundan en la literatura rusa; por su parte, el zoólogo Von Koren, tipo envarado, rígido y trabajador, cree acérrimamente en la idea darwinista de que en la vida solo triunfan los más fuertes. Un caluroso verano en el sur de Rusia y una tensión que desemboca en un duelo.