A Friend of Kafka abd Other Stories
The literary quality of these twenty-one stories by the 1978 Nobel Prize winner is high, with varied plots and settings that unfold in Central Europe —mostly in Poland—, in the United States, and one in...
Literature - Realistic
Scenes from a Childhood
Scenes from a Childhood gathers, for the first time in Spanish, a selection of the best short prose by the Nobel Prize in Literature winner. Among the stories included, some freely venture into the...
Deerbrook
It is a complex story, since if we limited ourselves to saying that the novel portrays Victorian society, it might be a superficial view, as this story marks a milestone in feminist literature.
The...
The Citadel
A young doctor begins his first practice in a small South Wales mining village, all idealistic and keen to improve the lives of his patients. Yet he soon comes to realise that many expect medicines when...
A Pale view of hills
Etsuko's eldest daughter commits suicide, which leads her to remember a woman she met shortly after the war—this woman also has a young daughter, traumatized by a death she witnessed: that of a baby drowned...
Daniel Deronda
It is a long, profound novel of great erudition, mainly set in London. The author reflects on the psychology and thoughts of each character, contrasts interlocutors while criticizing hypocrisy in general,...
The railway children
A delightful novel in which some autobiographical traits can be sensed. Roberta (Bobbie), 12 years old, and her younger siblings Peter and Phyllis are forced to move with their mother near London. Their...
The Nurse's Secret
Set in New York in the 1880s, during the so-called Gilded Age. It takes place in Bellevue, a large public hospital where efforts are being made to reform the healthcare system based on the principles of the...
Diana Tempest
Colonel Tempest, a handsome young man, steals his older brother's fiancée and secretly marries her (Diana). When their families reject the marriage, the colonel loses his inheritance rights, which are...
Heir to Edenbrooke
It is the prequel to Edenbrooke. It introduces Philip, who has never envied his older brother for being the heir to the family estate. He prefers to live his life according to his own tastes. However, when...