Títulos en Arte y literatura

Estambul es un retrato, en ocasiones panorámico y en otras íntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades más fascinantes de la Europa que mira a Asia. Pero es también una autobiografía, la del propio Orhan Pamuk. La historia da comienzo con el capítulo de su infancia, donde Pamuk nos habla sobre su excéntrica familia y su vida en un polvoriento apartamento - «los apartamentos Pamuk», así los denomina - en el centro de la ciudad.

A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland—now with a new introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe. “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a...

In 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began what would become one of history’s most influential works of art—The Last Supper. After a decade at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point: at forty-three, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious commissions, to complete anything that truly fulfilled his astonishing promise. His latest failure was a giant bronze horse to honor Sforza’s father, made with material expropriated by the military.

Questa è la storia di un ragazzo che sentiva di non trovarsi nel posto giusto. E così è andato a cercarsene un altro. In famiglia c'erano pochi soldi: quando si andava in pizzeria si sceglieva il piatto che costava meno, non quello che piaceva davvero. Il suo destino sembrava già segnato. Non aveva un talento particolare a cui affidarsi né un grande sogno da inseguire, e ogni volta che cercava di esprimere un desiderio trovava qualcuno che gli diceva che non era per lui. Così si era convinto che certi pensieri non se li poteva permettere.

Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Annie Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to “capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris.” She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable at once, the alienating worlds that separate them, and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love.

In this book, C.S. Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity.

El testimoni íntim d'una dona embarassada, una reflexió global sobre la maternitat i la condició femenina. Una aportació poc habitual, lluny de tòpics romàntics i ensucrats de la vivència de l'embaràs i la maternitat en totes les seves dimensions, des de la més personal a la social, amb la sensibilitat d'una gran escriptora. Temps d'una espera és el diari que l'autora va escriure ara fa més de trenta-cinc anys quan va saber que estava embarassada per segona vegada.

Una completa biografía, correctamente documentada por el hispanista Ian Gibson, que ahora puedes escuchar. En tono ágil y ameno, incluye análisis de los cuadros más importantes y representativos de la trayectoria del pintor. Una obra dirigida a quienes todavía no han descubierto al Dalí...

Un incidente derrumba el mundo conocido de la infancia, dejando una ruina persistente en una niña sin nombre. Cruzando la historia privada con la de su tiempo, Constanza Michelson recorre la zona intermedia entre el fin de un mundo y un comienzo.

For a world of devoted fans, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with...

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey's best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction, in prose that is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish.

La palabra capirotada es muy sabrosa. En mi tierra, es un platillo que se adereza con pan mojado en un jarabe dulce al que se añade una variada mezcla de especias y frutos que le dan sabor: nueces, piñones, cacahuates, ralladura de coco, queso, y un largo etcétera que puede alargarse hasta el infinito a juicio de la guisandera. Pues bien, este libro lleva de todo, como la capirotada. Escogí lo mejor y más representativo de mis columnas periodísticas y de mis libros publicados.

Autorzy przedstawiają narodziny, rozwój i światową karierę jednego z najwybitniejszych reporterów XX wieku, pokazując, jak podąża on za zmianami przeobrażającymi świat i podejmuje wciąż nowe wyzwania, przeobrażające w konsekwencji także jego samego i własną twórczość. Od czasu śmierci autora "Hebanu" powstało wiele publikacji dotyczących jego życia oraz studiów interpretujących jego twórczość, a jednak książka "Ryszard Kapuściński. Biografia pisarza" (2008) jest pierwszym, i jak dotąd jedynym, opracowaniem życia i twórczości pisarza o charakterze biografii twórczej.

This narrative charts Annie Ernaux's teenage awakening and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is 30 years old, a teacher married to an executive, a mother of two infant sons.

Deon Meyer is a South African thriller novelist, described by The Times as 'One of the sharpest thriller writers around'. Deon's novels are international best sellers, translated into 28 different languages whose novels have won literary prizes all over the world and film rights to seven of his novels have been optioned or sold. The Fever, Deon's latest book is a gripping thriller that is a searing story of a group of people determined to carve a city out of chaos, and he visits the Audible Studios to tell us more about it.

Abandoned on the steps of Guy’s Hospital and placed in a housing estate in East London, Andy McNab tells of a troubled upbringing. Now a successful author and former Special Air Service sergeant, he joins us to discuss the success of Bravo Two Zero and the release of his latest audiobook, Street Soldier. Street Soldier is aimed at young adults and introduces the unique character of Sean Harker. Much like his author, Sean seeks to escape the confines of his upbringing by enrolling in the British Army, but unlike Andy, he focuses his attention on the competing gangs of London.

Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving's candid memoir of his twin careers in writing and wrestling. The award-winning author of best-selling novels from The World According to Garp to In One Person, Irving began writing when he was 14, the same age at which he began to wrestle at Exeter. He competed as a wrestler for 20 years, was certified as a referee at 24, and coached the sport until he was 47.

Si formalmente El olor de la guayaba es una prolongada conversación del escritor y periodista Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza con su viejo amigo Gabriel García Márquez—lo que da ocasión a éste para desgranar convivacidad sus remembranzas, juicios, opiniones y convicciones—sus contenidos van mucho más allá: en El olor de la guayaba bien pueden encontrarse las claves de un proceso, creador y creativo, de singular riqueza.

In a skillfully produced and cast audio performance, Alan C. Duncan is able to narrow in on one of the more powerful and effective literary mentorships of the 20th century, that of C.S. Lewis and a critical influence in his faith and life, G.K. Chesterton.

Selvatico. Avido. Fragile. Ossessionato dall'arte, nella quale convogliava tutta la sua straripante energia, Michelangelo fu segnato dal fuoco della genialità e attraversò la magnifica stagione del Rinascimento italiano. Con raro talento letterario, Forcellino fa rivivere l'uomo e i suoi anni. Antonio Forcellino è tra i maggiori studiosi europei di arte rinascimentale. Ha realizzato restauri di opere di valore assoluto, come il Mosè di Michelangelo e l'Arco di Traiano.