Spent : a Comic Novel

Duhnam, Lena

Granta Books

In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been worth the pain.For the last decade, as she's spent countless hours in doctor's waiting rooms searching for diagnoses, treatments, and relief, ...

Aber, Aria

Bloomsbury

**Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025****Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award****A Time Book of the Year 2025**Born in Germany to Afghan parents, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice. Now in Berlin's techno-filled warehouses, their walls still scarred by the ravages of the last century, she has found her tribe....

Kawakami, Mieko

Pan Books

A gripping, hypnotic account of young women trying to survive in Tokyo and the wounds of the past that wont heal, Sisters in Yellow is the bold and brilliant new novel from International Booker shortlisted author, Mieko Kawakami. Kimiko Yoshikawa, a sixty-year-old woman, is on trial for holding a girl in captivity for many years. When Hana stumbles across a newspaper account of...

Slimani, Leïla

Faber

Leïla Slimani has a knack for breaking taboos.' TIMES'Slimani is a fearless writer.' EVENING STANDARDQ: If your house was burning down, what would you take with you?A: I'd take the fire.This is the story of two sisters, Mia and Inés. Two girls enveloped in love, trapped by the social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of the twenty-first century and silenced by the political...

Ernaux, Annie

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is subjective and impersonal, private and communal, and a new ...

Strout, Elizabeth

Dk

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR''Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent'' GuardianIt's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep...

Bechdel, Alison

Vintage

All her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret. The secret to superhuman strength. She has looked for it in her favourite books, the lives of her heroes, celibacy, polyamory, activism, therapy, and most obsessively, in her lifelong passion for exercise. Skiing, running, karate, cycling, yoga, weight lifting - you name it, she´s tried it. "Oh, to be self-suffici...

Bechdel, Alison

Penguin

La verdadera Biblia del cómic lésbico undergound. Una selección de las reivindicativas y divertidas viñetas que Alison Bechdel publicó en distinta prensa gay y lésbica de Estados Unidos desde los años 80 hasta 2008. CONSIDERADA UNA DE LAS 25 OBRAS MÁS INFLUYENTES DE LA LITERATURA QUEER DE POSGUERRA SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES A lo largo de más de tres décadas, el pionero Unas les...

Bechdel, Alison

Penguin

Un relato tragicómico en formato de memorias de la vida de una familia americana. En 2006 Houghton Mifflin publicó sus memorias gráficas, Fun Home: Una tragicomedia familiar, el exitoso relato de maduración que se ha calificado como «proeza de retrato familiar» y un «raro y original ejemplo del porqué las novelas gráficas han ocupado la conversación sobre la Literatura American...

Bechdel, Alison

Penguin

Vuelve Alison Bechdel con una novela gráfica coral en la que el capitalismo tardío, el poliamor, el cambio climático y la mismísima cotidianidad son también protagonistas «Drástica, sarcástica y fantástica».LA Times Un libro ocurrente y político que cuestiona la realidad mundial y la incertidumbre del mañana Los días de cierta historietista llamada Alison Bechdel transcurren,...

Bechdel, Alison

Penguin

Alison Bedchel, autora del bestseller Fun Home, regresa a su exitosa saga familiar con las memorias de su madre, una historia familiar y sobrecogedora. Si has leído la primera novela gráfica de Alison Bechdel, Fun Home. Una familia tragicómica, puedes obviar este texto de contraportada para sumergirte inmediatamente en la lectura de uno de los libros del año. Si, por el contrar...

Bechdel, Alison

Reservoir Books

Tras nueve años de silencio, llega la obra de madurez de Alison Bechdel.Un libro emocionante y necesario. UNO DE LOS 100 LIBROS MÁS DESTACADOS DE 2021 SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES Y DE LOS MEJORES DE 2021 SEGÚN BABELIA, THE OBJECTIVE Y ESQUIRE «De lo mejor que se ha publicado: una obra maestra del género.»Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, Babelia Durante toda su vida, Alison Bechdel ha bu...