"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author ..., a novel about a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman who has long been there, a love story shot through with sheer beauty, profound sadness, and deep truth. Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. But there's only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This...

In the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a private journal of love notes written by a husband to his wife passes into the keeping of a hospital patient, and from there through the hands of five other suffering people, touching each of them uniquely.

"In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad wrote two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the twentieth century....Joseph Conrad boldly experimented with the novella and novel forms, filled his writing with the exotic places he had traveled, and concerned himself with honor, guilt, moral alienation, and expiation of sin. Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer encapsulate his literary achievements--and...

A lyrical exploration of personal grief, conveyed through the prism of the color white, finds a nameless writer grappling with a haunting family tragedy involving the infancy death of her older sister.

A journey up the river in the Belgian Congo is also a journey into the darkest part of a man's soul.

"Cinco relatos donde Martín II, hijo de Cortés con Malinche, intercambia juicios sobre su padre y su madre con su hermano Martín I; Polibio de Megalópolis reflexiona sobre Escipión Emiliano; un galán de Hollywood visita un prostíbulo de enanas en Acapulco; y un marinero genovés cuenta mentiras sobre el Nuevo Mundo. Caen los templos, las insignias, los trofeos. Caen los mismísimos dioses. Y con sus restos humeantes se reinventa el orden mientras...