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Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this page-turning installment of the classic Harlem Detectives series, a woman dies at a con man's religious street revival, and her elusive pile of cash vanishes. Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during a sermon by the charismatic con man Sweet Prophet. Her partner rushes home to avoid the cops, only to find her apartment looted by someone looking for her stash of cash. But soon it becomes apparent that there are number of players in the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"One of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil has been described by André Gide as "the patron saint of all outsiders" and by Albert Camus as "the only great spirit of our time." In this, her most famous work, she diagnoses the malaise at the heart of modern life: uprootedness, from the past and from community. Written towards the end of World War II for the Free French Army, Weil's work is an indispensable and perpetually...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Publicado originalmente en 1996 e inédito en España hasta el momento, este hermoso libro de Ida Vitale, situado a medio camino entre la prosa y la poesía, reúne cuentos, fábulas y alegorías que conforman una suerte de bestiario humano en el que la premio Cervantes uruguaya revisita algunos mitos clásicos y da cabida a la fantasía de aliento borgiano. Con perfección formal, un inteligente manejo de la ironía y un magistral empleo de todas...
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