Showing results for "Sin" in World Literature

It’s the year 2000 in Dublin and, following some traumatic events, Detective Bunny McGarry is taking a well-earned break from the force. Bunny’s former partner died in the line of duty under dubious circumstances, but his murky background has suddenly resurfaced, threatening Bunny’s reputation as well. As if that isn’t enough, a young boy is in danger and a woman from the big fella’s past is trapped in a loveless marriage to a monster. They both need Bunny’s help, but he must get to work fast - it seems someone is trying to frame him for murder.

La publicación de Los pilares de la Tierra supuso un acontecimiento editorial sin precedentes que cautivó a millones de lectores. En Un mundo sin fin Ken Follett vuelve al fascinante mundo de Kingsbridge dos siglos después de la construcción de su majestuoso templo gótico. La catedral y el priorato ocupan de nuevo el centro de una encrucijada de amor y de odio, orgullo y codicia.

Set in a Jewish folklore-inspired reimagining of 19th century Eastern Europe, this LGBTQ+ dark fantasy debut pits two estranged husbands and a daring spymaster on opposite sides of a civil war. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, C.S. Pacat, and readers who love deliciously queer, spicy fantasy...

The Sound and The Fury is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. Set in Jefferson, Mississippi, in the first third of the 20th century, the novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the course of the 30 years or so relayed in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically.

Joseph Lazare grows up believing his black hair and olive skin come from a Spanish grandmother, and he’s shocked to learn she was an enslaved African. At 13, Joseph allows racial prejudice to limit his future and chooses the seminary. At 23, he is ordained “a priest forever”. When he meets Tessa Conley, a devout Irish immigrant who shares his passions for music and botany, Joseph’s ordered world cracks at its foundation. He must conceal his true feelings as Tessa marries another man—a plantation owner who treats her like property.

As she nears the end of her life, Addie Bundren wants nothing more than to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. A captivating and stylistically innovative work, the narrative revolves around the grim, yet darkly humorous, pilgrimage as the Bundren family sets out to fulfill her last wish.

A classic of American literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author, The Sound and the Fury is widely considered to be one of the best novels of the twentieth century. William Faulkner expertly illustrates the epic and tragic story of the Compson family, three generations of Southern aristocrats on the brink of ruin. Unprecedented for its time, Faulkner weaves a tale spanning nearly two decades and told from multiple points of view in a style all its own.

La inigualable Julia Alvarez, autora de En el tiempo de las mariposas y De cómo las muchachas García perdieron el acento, regresa con una extraordinaria e íntima novela que nos recuerda que las historias de vida jamás están realmente acabadas. Ni siquiera cuando llega el final. **Uno de los...

The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend themselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police have their own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good and evil (and sometimes both) steps an unlikely broker for peace: Timothy Riordan, an American missionary priest who must decide whether to betray his vows to stop the unspeakable violence.

For fans of Dirt Creek and William Kent Kreuger comes a profound southern mystery from acclaimed author Lo Patrick. When her granddaughter is accused of murder, a woman must confront the buried secrets of a summer long past—because she can try to forget, but the Georgia land remembers. Meg...

Siete intensas historias sobre el desamor y la compleja relación entre hombres y mujeres. En su obra más reciente, Haruki Murakami ofrece a los lectores siete relatos en torno al aislamiento y la soledad que preceden o siguen a la relación amorosa: hombres que han perdido a una mujer, o cuya relación ha estado marcada por el desencuentro, asisten inermes al regreso de los fantasmas del pasado, viven el enamoramiento como una enfermedad letal, son incapaces de establecer una comunicación plena con la pareja, o ven extrañamente interrumpida su historia de amor.

Featuring Steve Carell and Amy Morton, Sin is a contemporary morality play about a helicopter traffic reporter who is trying to keep herself above life's messiness. Her soon-to-be-ex-husband is a charming alcoholic, her roommate is a glutton, she's trapped daily in a helicopter with an envious coworker, and her blind dates are disasters. It takes her dying brother to make her see that pride is the deadliest of sins, and it takes an Act of God to bring her back down to Earth.

Teatro sin fin reúne, por primera vez, las obras teatrales de Alejandro Jodorowsky, la mayoría recientes e inéditas en España. Su labor como dramaturgo es un claro e importante referente para el estudio del teatro actual y el de vanguardia (las experiencias realizadas en sus "efímeros" supusieron el origen de la "psicomagia" y del happening). En la primera parte se agrupa su obra "esencial": Ópera pánica, Escuela de ventrílocuos, Las tres viejas, Hipermercado, El sueño sin fin, Pedrolino, Sangre real y Zaratustra.

For months, I've tried to stop loving her. Begged myself in the darkness of the night as I lay awake, to let her go. So badly, I've wanted to move on from the hurt inside and the love I still cling to, but I can't. Telling myself not to love her is like telling myself to stop breathing. Impossible. Unfathomable. But watching her prepare to marry another man is like a searing knife to the heart that keeps twisting. Beginning a new life in California seemed like the only option, but seeing her while I lie in my hospital bed, I can sense something is amiss.

"En sus últimos años de vida, Leonard Garner recordó la canción de un trompetista con ínfulas de adivino, un padre que robaba farmacias y una buhardilla en el jardín botánico de Birmingham, Alabama. Hasta su muerte, en las Islas del Rosario, mantuvo en secreto los motivos por los cuales decidió exiliarse en Cartagena de Indias durante más de una década. Un periodista, la cocinera de un bistró y un fotógrafo se ven envueltos en la búsqueda de su pasado mientras sus propias vidas adoptan rumbos imprevistos, donde la tragedia converge con la comedia."

La máscara, el maquillaje que reformula las identidades: José Donoso ha buscado siempre en sus relatos, obsesivamente, ese otro rostro posible de los seres y las cosas. El lugar sin límites (novela que llevó al cine el mexicano Arturo Ripstein) juega eficazmente con el engañoso espejo de los sexos en un prostíbulo de pueblo, especie de infierno anodino donde confluyen no sólo las pasiones eróticas, sino además los sórdidos juegos de poder y dominación que suelen marcar los territorios degradados.

In Beacon Hill, one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Boston, a wealthy widow dies in her sleep, while in Cambridge, where academia meets high tech, a dog is slaughtered. One death has seemingly no bearing on the other until the death in a remote Chinese village is announced.

"Teatro sin fin" reúne, por primera vez, las obras teatrales de Alejandro Jodorowsky, la mayoría recientes e inéditas en España. Su labor como dramaturgo es un claro e importante referente para el estudio del teatro actual y el de vanguardia (las experiencias realizadas en sus "efímeros" supusieron el origen de la "psicomagia" y del happening). En la primera parte se agrupa su obra "esencial": Ópera pánica, Escuela de ventrílocuos, Las tres viejas, Hipermercado, El sueño sin fin, Pedrolino, Sangre real y Zaratustra.

Nueva edición de la obra de Carson McCullers en el 100º. aniversario de su nacimiento y el 50º. aniversario de su muerte. Reloj sin manecillas, considerada por muchos "su obra más impresionante" (Atlantic Monthly), es la última novela de Carson McCullers, relata los destinos cruzados de cuatro memorables personajes cuyas vidas son fiel reflejo de las injusticias sociales, la soledad espiritual y la naturaleza confusa del amor en el turbador sur estadounidense de los años cincuenta. - Nueva edición de la obra con prólogo de Jesús Carrasco.

An estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence, woven across generations and geographies, from Turkey to Lebanon to Western Sydney. This is the legacy left to Jamal Smith, a young queer Muslim trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark. When every thread in life constricts instead of connects, how do you find a way to breathe? Torn between faith and fear, gossip and gospel, family and friendship, Jamal must find and test the limits of love.