Daisy Johnson
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Gretel, la protagonista treintañera de esta fascinante y a ratos perturbadora novela, se reúne con su madre, Sarah, que ahora sufre de alzhéimer, dieciséis años después de que ésta la abandonara. Gretel es lexicógrafa y se gana la vida actualizando entradas de diccionarios, así que sabe bien que las palabras no son inmutables: tampoco lo son los recuerdos ni la vida que se ha construido sobre ellos. Hasta el momento, Sarah ha sido para su...
2) Hermanas
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Julio y Septiembre son dos hermanas adolescentes que viven en su propio mundo. Septiembre es dominante y temeraria, en ocasiones, cruel, mientras que Julio es mansa y temerosa, introvertida, ingenua y complaciente. Son uña y carne: el estrecho vínculo que las une, su devoción, las extrañas pruebas a las que se someten para demostrar su lealtad y la forma en que se completan mutuamente impiden saber dónde empieza una y termina la otra.
La fragilidad...
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In this delightfully zany yet heartwarming novel, a young girl and her friends take Paris by storm.
Edie Berger is a prankster, the daughter of activists, and a revolutionary in her own right. Paris is Edie's home and her favorite place in the world. But when her parents decide to travel the globe fighting for good causes, Edie is left in the care of Odette, her strict grandmother-and, ultimately, shipped off to boarding school in England.
A school...
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Calla North and her mother Elizabeth live a quiet but happy life together. Elizabeth happens to be the world's leading expert on ducks-but unfortunately, being an expert on ducks doesn't always pay the bills (no pun intended).
When Elizabeth is offered a well-paid research trip to the Amazon, it's an opportunity too good to miss. But, while her mother's off exploring, Calla winds up at boarding school. No adventures are likely to find her there-or...
5) Sisters
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2020.
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"'One of her generation's most intriguing authors' (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a...