En plena crisis de pareja, un retratista de cierto prestigio abandona Tokio en dirección al norte de Japón. Confuso, sumido en sus recuerdos, deambula por el país hasta que, finalmente, un amigo le ofrece instalarse en una pequeña casa aislada, rodeada de bosques, que pertenece a su padre, un pintor famoso. En suma, un lugar donde retirarse durante un tiempo. En esa casa de paredes vacías, tras oír extraños ruidos, el protagonista descubre en un desván lo que parece un cuadro, envuelto y con una etiqueta en la que se lee: «La muerte del comendador». Cuando se decida a desenvolverlo se abrirá ante él un extraño mundo donde la ópera Don Giovanni de Mozart, el encargo de un retrato, una tímida adolescente y, por supuesto, un comendador, sembrarán de incógnitas su vida, hasta hace poco anodina y rutinaria.

Autor: HARUKI MURAKAMI

Precio: $119,000

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art….A book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the bestselling author of Circe A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer’s enduring masterwork, The Iliad. An action-packed adventure, an epic love story, a marvelously conceived and executed page-turner, Miller’s monumental debut novel has already earned resounding acclaim from some of contemporary fiction’s brightest lights—and fans of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield, and Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series will delight in this unforgettable journey back to ancient Greece in the Age of Heroes.

Autor: MADELINE MILLER

Precio: $79,900

Paul Auster's noirish trilogy emphasizes the fragility and mysteriousness of identity. In each short novel, a detective figure haunts a man caught up in a web of strange events which he may or may not have orchestrated himself.

Autor: PAUL AUSTER

Precio: $119,900

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

Autor: SALLY ROONEY

Precio: $94,900

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

Autor: MATT HAIG

Precio: $139,900

Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne—and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family’s dynasty...

Autor: FRANK HERBERT

Precio: $79,900

We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world – a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become untethered from their selves. Listening to his own dreams and premonitions, the man leaves his life in Tokyo behind and ventures to a small mountain town, where he becomes the head librarian, only to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding the gentleman who had the job before him. As the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he meets a strange young boy who helps him to see what he’s been missing all along. The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.

Autor: HARUKI MURAKAMI

Precio: $199,900

The names Romulus and Remus may be immortalized in map and stone and chronicle, but their mother exists only as a preface to her sons? journey, the princess turned oath-breaking priestess, condemned to death alongside her children. But she did not die; she survived. And so does her story. Beautiful, royal, rich: Rhea has it all?until her father loses his kingdom in a treacherous coup, and she is sent to the order of the Vestal Virgins to ensure she will never produce an heir. Except when mortals scheme, gods laugh. Rhea becomes pregnant, and human society turns against her. Abandoned, ostracized, and facing the gravest punishment, Rhea forges a dangerous deal with the divine, one that will forever change the trajectory of her life?and her beloved land. To save her sons and reclaim their birthright, Rhea must summon nature?s mightiest force ? a mother?s love ? and fight.

Autor: LAUREN J. A. BEAR

Precio: $89,900

Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship, and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t.

Autor: SALLY ROONEY

Precio: $109,900

El mágico relato de nuestros orígenes es probablemente el que más fascinación ha inspirado en la humanidad a lo largo de los tiempos. Pero, más allá de los cuarenta versículos que la Biblia dedica a Adán y Eva, más allá incluso de la leyenda, ¿cómo sería la vida de aquella inocente, valiente y conmovedora primera pareja?, ¿cómo sería aquel universo primigenio?

Autor: GIOCONDA BELLI

Precio: $39,000

Autor: KENZABURO OE

Precio: $33,000

En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX Alaska fue el objetivo de muchas expediciones que buscaron fortuna con la explotación del oro. El Ártico es también el destino que le ha sido reservado a Buck, un formidable perro mestizo, hijo de un San Bernardo y de una pastora escocesa, que disfruta de una existencia apacible y civilizada hasta que es vendido para tirar de un trineo en los páramos helados de Alaska y Canadá. De poco servirá lo que ha aprendido hasta el momento. En este nuevo entorno hostil, rápidamente advierte que la única ley válida es la del "garrote y el colmillo", tan cruel como implacable. Buck se verá obligado a luchar por la propia supervivencia y conocerá la ferocidad de la naturaleza, que despertará en él atávicos instintos que habían permanecido dormidos mucho tiempo

Autor: JACK LONDON

Precio: $39,000

Araceli es una biografía de la revolucionaria sandinista Araceli Pérez Darias. Nacida en España y naturalizada mexicana a los 7 años, concluyó sus estudios de Psicología en la Universidad Iberoamericana en 1968. Su trabajo como psicóloga clínica durante los siguientes años la llevó a la conclusión de que la salud mental de sus pacientes estaba fuertemente vinculada con el funcionamiento de la sociedad en general, lo que la hizo a cuestionar su propio rol social. Yanes Rizo explora los eventos y decisiones en la vida de Araceli que desembocan en su incorporación al Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional y su eventual muerte al frente de la insurrección en León, Nicaragua. Construida con testimonios de per-sonas cercanas a ella y estructurada en forma narrativa, la autora logra un tono íntimo que atrapa en una lectura de un momento convulso de la historia política de Latinoamérica.

Autor: EMMA YANES RIZO

Precio: $21,000

El tulipán negro es una novela ambientada en la Holanda del siglo XVII que retrata la vida de un cultivador de tulipanes consagrado a la búsqueda del tulipán negro, una especie jamás vista. No obstante, la envidia y el rencor de un enemigo perturban radicalmente su tranquilo quehacer arrastrándole aparentemente lejos de su objetivo sin saber que las adversidades que enfrenta lo pondrán en el camino de un venturoso amor.

Autor: ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Precio: $31,000

En este volumen de las Novelas de Clarice Lispector se presentan sus primeras publicaciones: Cerca del corazón salvaje (1943), El candil (1946) y La ciudad sitiada (1949). Sus páginas descubren el intento por construir la biografía de Joana, la búsqueda de una verdad interior y el olvido por la muerte paterna; la historia de una conflictiva relación de hermanos, la dificultad para relacionarse con los demás y la mirada que penetra en lo más recóndito del yo; y, finalmente, la crónica de la transformación de S. Geraldo y el proceso de liberación de Lucrécia Neves, ambas relacionadas mediante cierto "sitio" que asfixia tanto a la ciudad como a la mujer que subterráneas e inexorables se transforman.

Autor: CLARICE LISPECTOR

Precio: $60,000

En este volumen se reúnen las novelas: La manzana en lo oscuro (1961), La pasión según G. H. (1964) y Un aprendizaje o El libro de los placeres (1969). Sus páginas nos acercan, primero, a la historia de un hombre que huye de un crimen, tiene un éxodo y llega, finalmente, a una hacienda donde dos hermanas Vitória, quien teme a la vida, y Ermelinda, quien teme a la muerte, sin saberlo lo orillan a un nuevo descubrimiento y creación; después, el momento en que G. H., mientras limpia el cuarto de servicio, tiene un encuentro inesperado que la lleva a un caudal de reflexiones íntimas y al trascender del ser; por último, el viaje emprendido por Lóri en la búsqueda de sí misma, de su voz y del goce del placer sin culpa.

Autor: CLARICE LISPECTOR

Precio: $62,000

Camera Cove nunca volvió a ser el mismo pueblo después del verano pasado. Luego de los homicidios cometidos por el llamado Asesino del Catálogo, toda la gente quedó asustada y paranoica, incluso Mac y sus amigos: Carrie, Ben y Doris, quienes, desesperados por recuperarse del terror que vivieron, buscan normalizar sus vidas y esperan con ansia irse del pueblo a la universidad. Todos menos Mac, que no descansará hasta saber quién mató a su mejor amigo Connor. A falta de una respuesta concreta de la policía, Mac comenzará su propia búsqueda y no se detendrá hasta dar con el culpable.

Autor: TOM RYAN

Precio: $43,000