“The immigrant” by Manju Kapur “Nina is a thirty-year-old English lecturer in New Delhi, living with her widowed mother and struggling to make ends meet. Ananda has recently emigrated to Halifax, Canada; having spent his twenties painstakingly building his career, he searches for something to complete his new life. When Ananda's sister proposes an arranged
"How much of us there was" by Michael Kimball in a period of eight years it is already among the
“Spain is (still) different” edited by Eugenia Afinoguénova and Jaume Martí-Olivella. “The book deals with issues of difference within Spain. In Spain Is (Still) Different, historian John Walton, who has produced important studies on tourism in Spain, provides a concise but suggestive reading of changing worlds of leisure from the nineteenth century through the Civil
“Chronic City” by Jonathan Lethem “Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped
“The domains of the wolf” by Javier Marías “The domains of the wolf, 1971. The debut feature of the writer from Madrid (written at the age of 18 in Rimbaud) was a stimulating and innovative addition to the Spanish novel of the early 70s. The work , which was praised by Juan Benet and Carlos Barral (who
“Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the missions” by James A. Sandos “These two recent publications on the colonial period in Alta or Nueva California show new ways of approaching the study of the particular cultural encounter between the indigenous groups of pre-colonial California and the Europeans who arrived in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries;
The Library opens a new section within the collection dedicated to children's and youth comics and graphic novels by North American authors in English. It will be located next to the English language learning materials and the youth narrative. We recommend some of the new additions to this section: “Good-bye, Chunky Rice” Craig