Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence.

"A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England, which is 'her last love'. She wants to 'see it all before she dies'. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son,...

"Ray is a self-obsessed realtor who must confront his own mortality, yet doesn't seem especially interested in winning the battle. A surprising revelation about his father, and his realization of an unlikely friendship, however, lead him to believe he just might like to stick around.".

"A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire Ben Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels. of his generation" (Lorin Stein, The New York Review of Books), "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future" (Geoff Dyer, The Observer). Now, his second novel departs from...

"From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor and Wallace Stegner Fellow Zach Williams comes a staggering debut story collection that confronts parenthood, mortality, and life's broken promises. Parents awaken in a home in the woods, again and again, to find themselves aging as their toddler remains unchanged. An employee is menaced by a conspiracy-minded security guard and accused of sending a sinister viral email. An aging tour guide leads a troublesome...

"Death-defying scooter stunts, Ukrainian tanks, sharks, monster trucks& these are just some of the indignities facing Oliver Tree as he is thrown into the meat grinder of the music industry to promote his debut retirement album "Ugly is Beautiful". Denied his chosen herbal medicine to overcome the aches and pains, Oliver threatens to retire, prompting his label to find an out-of-this world replacement in Little Ricky, an alien with a sick mix tape&.and...

«¿Te gusta la oscuridad? Perfecto. A mí también» es cómo inicia Stephen King el epílogo de este nuevo y magnífico volumen de doce relatos que se adentran en la parte más sombría de la vida. King lleva más de medio siglo siendo un maestro literario, y estas historias sobre el destino, la mortalidad, la suerte y los múltiples pliegos de la realidad son tan ricas y absorbentes como sus novelas. El autor escribe «para sentir la emoción de...