Novedad Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Título: Rhyming Life & Death [Haruzei Hahayim Vehamavet]
Autor: Amos Oz
Número de páginas: 120
Editorial: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Fecha original de publicación: 2007
País: Israel
ISBN: 978-0151013678

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Booklist) "In this work of precision satire, Oz, one of Israel’s most prominent writers, portrays a prominent Israeli writer, The Author, and cannily mocks the celebrity status writers acquire. What does a writer know? Why trust him? Stories, after all, possess strange, even dangerous powers. This particular Author is enthralled by his rogue imagination. He’s late to his reading at the 'refurbished Shunia Shor and the Seven Victims of the Quarry Attack Cultural Center' because a waitress’ derriere sparks his storytelling impulse, and soon the reader becomes wholly engrossed in her disastrous love affair. Finally onstage, The Author begins to make up stories about people in the audience, all the while wondering about the fate of the revered poet everyone insists on quoting. Hilarious and profound, Oz’s tale of a mischievous tale-teller ponders the eroticism of stories and the mysterious ways language and literature bridge the divide between inner and outer worlds; and it helps us make some sense, however gossamer, of life and death. A slyly philosophical novel."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. Where the Jackals Howl (1965)
. Elsewhere, Perhaps (1966)
. My Michael (1968)
. Unto Death (1971)
. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind (1973)
. The Hill of Evil Counsel (1976)
. Soumchi (1978)
. A Perfect Peace (1982)
. Black Box (1987)
. To Know a Woman (1989)
. Fima (1991)
. Don't Call It Night (1994)
. A Panther in the Basement (1995)
. The Same Sea (1999)
. The Silence of Heaven: Agnon’s Fear of God (2000)
. Suddenly in the Depth of the Forest (2005)

Novedad Yale University Press

Título: Gerhard Richter: Portraits
Autor: Paul Moorhouse
Número de páginas: 176
Editorial: Yale University Press
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Alemania
ISBN: 978-0300151596

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "'Appearance, semblance is the theme of my life.' This statement by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) suggests the importance of portraiture to his career. One of the greatest artists working today, Richter has been intensively engaged with portraiture since 1962. His portraits invite critical consideration of both portraiture and painting; they include images of specific people—whether sensational subjects of people in the media, icons of the popular imagination, or close friends and relatives. However, all are transformed when Richter puts them onto canvas, for they often become anonymous in the process or become significant simply for being included. Richter’s investigation into how we understand what surrounds us is at the heart of all his work.
In this large-scale book—ideal for Richter’s portraits—Paul Moorhouse offers a major advance in the understanding and appreciation of the renowned artist’s work. With keen insight, Moorhouse studies the portraits in close detail, examining the sophisticated ways in which Richter has challenged and extended the genre of portraiture and revealing the startling range of the artist’s source material.
Featuring never-before-published images, this book clearly eclipses any previous publication on Richter’s portraiture."

Novedad Harper Perennial

Título: Ugly Man
Autor: Dennis Cooper
Número de páginas: 272
Editorial: Harper Perennial
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0061715440

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Publishers Weekly) "The cult novelist's collection of short stories plumbs veins of dark humor amid the sex and gore his fans have come to expect. The contents range from short shorts—a rumination on The Fifteen Worst Russian Gay Porn Web Sites and an abortive episode entitled One Night in 1979 I Did Too Much Coke and Couldn't Sleep and Had What I Thought Was a Million-Dollar Idea to Write the Definitive Tell-all Book About Glam Rock Based on My Own Personal Experience but This Is as Far as I Got—to longer pieces in which sadistic male characters explore their preoccupations with the murder, mutilation and rape of nihilistic teenaged boys. Stories of the latter group often feature text pared down to dialogue alone or resembling scripts complete with stage directions. The lighter fare, such as it is, provides much needed comic relief, as in the case of The Anal-Retentive Line Editor, which proceeds through interstitial edits upon a series of drafts of a piece of gay erotica, forming a running conversation and problematic seduction between author and editor. This is classic Cooper: explicit, unconventional and, to the uninitiated, alarming."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. The Terror of Earrings (1973)
. Tiger Beat (1978)
. Antoine Monnier (1978)
. Idols (1979)
. Tenderness of the Wolves (1981)
. The Missing Men (1981)
. My Mark (1982)
. Safe (1985)
. He Cried (1985)
. Closer (1989)
. Frisk (1991)
. Wrong (1992)
. Try (1994)
. The Dream Police: Selected Poems '69-93 (1994)
. Guide (1997)
. Period (2000)
. My Loose Thread (2002)
. The Sluts (2004)
. God Jr. (2005)
. The Weaklings (2008)

Novedad Taschen

Título: Architecture Now! 6
Autor: Philip Jodidio
Número de páginas: 576
Editorial: Taschen
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-3836501934

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "This sixth installment of Architecture Now!, featuring buildings ranging in size from Terunobu Fujimori s tiny (6.07 square meters) Teahouse Tetsu to Norman Foster s gigantic Crystal Island project in Moscow (1.1 million square meters), provides an overview of what is happening right now in architecture, be it of traditional inspiration, or at the very edge of current thinking. What is the spirit of this moment, and how does architecture reflect the creativity as the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close? Architecture Now! 6 is THE reference for what is happening and what is to come. Easy-to-navigate illustrated A Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and web sites.
Featured architects/firms/artists:
3deluxe, 3LHD, Adjaye Associates, Ai Wei Wei, Tadao Ando, Alejandro Aravena, ARGE Grazioli Krischanitz, Shigeru Ban, Barkow Leibinger, Bernardes + Jacobsen, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Olafur Eliasson, EMERGENT, Engel und Zimmermann, FAM Arquitectura, Foster and Partners, Terunobu Fujimori, Massimiliano Fuksas, Antón García-Abril Ruiz, Dionisio González, Zaha Hadid, Heatherwick Studio, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, Holzer Kobler, Junya Ishigami, Toyo Ito, Jakob+MacFarlane, Jensen & Skodvin, Carlos Jimenez, Kengo Kuma, Lassila Hirvilammi, Legorreta + Legoretta, Daniel Libeskind, LIN Finn Geipel Giulia Andi, MIII architects, MADA s.p.a.m., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Corinna Menn, Merkx+Girod, José Rafael Moneo, Morphosis, MvRdV, Manfredi Nicoletti, Valerio Olgiati, Studio Pei-Zhu, Renzo Piano, PTW Architects, Quinze & Milan Designers, RCR Arquitectes, Rojkind Arquitectos, Marc Rolinet, Hans-Jörg Ruch, Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA, Thomas Schütte, Scope Cleaver, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Snøhetta, Tonkin Liu, Bernard Tschumi, UNStudio, URBANUS, Pekka Vapaavuori, Various Architects, Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Riken Yamamoto, Peter Zumthor."

Leyendo

Título: Diferencias
Autor: Goran Petrović
Número de páginas: 172
Editorial: Sexto Piso
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: Serbia
ISBN: 978-9685679657

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.sextopiso.com) "«En general, me parece que los manuscritos dependen de experiencias increíbles…», escribe Goran Petrović en uno de los cinco relatos que componen Diferencias. Sólo que en su caso, lo increíble reside en lo cotidiano, en aquello que tenemos frente a nosotros día con día, que ya no advertimos, quizá justo por ser tan evidente.
Petrović escruta con su minucioso ojo que se asemeja a una lupa capaz de magnificar las casi imperceptibles disonancias que componen la vida humana. Ahí donde todo parece transcurrir con «normalidad», el autor revela que esa palabra no es más que una convención para denominar a lo que por principio es difuso y siempre cambiante. Es una mirada a la realidad similar a aquellos dibujos que instan al espectador a encontrar las diferencias, que por lo general son difíciles de hallar para el ojo común, pero que Petrović advierte y plasma de manera magistral con su cálida escritura. La estructura de estos relatos es fragmentaria, casi como una sucesión de imágenes descritas con tal detalle que parecen estar congeladas para que el propio lector encuentre un nuevo juego de contrastes.
Entre los personajes de sus cuentos se encuentra la señora Panić, que va marcando diferencias con su lápiz labial, hasta que le llena la cara de círculos a su esposo y a los transeúntes, puesto que «Dicen una cosa y hacen otra», el operador de cine Švabić, que se pasa la vida haciendo una película con fragmentos de otras, hasta que termina su obra maestra de más de catorce kilómetros de cinta y ocho horas de duración, y un anciano que se obsesiona con un ritual cotidiano en el que todo tiene que estar en su lugar ya que, como le explica a su joven mozo, «Cuando uno se mueve, cuando ve esto y aquello, una cosa anula la otra, una cosa se diluye, se atenúa en la otra. Pero si uno siempre tiene ante sí la misma imagen, en seguida nota las diferencias»."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. Advices for Easier Life (Consejos para una vida más fácil) [Савети за лакши живот] (1989)
. Sky-Locked Atlas (Atlas descrito por el cielo) [Атлас описан небом] (1993)
. Island and Ambiental Stories (La isla y los cuentos circundantes) [Острво и околне приче] (1996)
. Siege of The Saint Salvation Church (El cerco de la iglesia de San Salvador) [Опсада цркве Светог Спаса] (1997)
. Smalltalk Place at "Lucky Shot" (La mano de la Buena Fortuna) [Ситничарница „Код срећне руке"] (2000)
. Close One (Los prójimos) [Ближњи] (2002)
. Everything I Know About Time [Све што знам о времену] (2003)
. Ferry [Скела] (2004)

Novedad Picador

Título: A Better Angel
Autor: Chris Adrian
Número de páginas: 240
Editorial: Picador
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0312428532

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Publishers Weekly) "The author of Gob's Grief and The Children's Hospital returns with a sublime collection of nine stories whose wide assortment of characters, many of them children, fugue around death, are plagued by remembrance of things past and are possessed by violence. In Stab, a young protagonist whose twin died, joins a little girl in a killing spree of neighborhood animals, eventually setting their sights on larger prey. A woman who tries to commit suicide in The Sum of Our Parts wanders hospital halls as an astral projection, witnessing the unexpressed desires of her friends in pathology. And a Juno-esque teen, a hospital regular with short-gut syndrome, writes an animal book of sublimated child-ward life: bunnies with high colonic ruin, cats with leukemic indecisiveness and monkeys with chronic kidney doom. The story Why Antichrist? gives us two teenagers who have each lost parents, one to 9/11 (which looms large in the collection); the devil is soon literally between the teens. With heartbreaking imagination, Adrian illuminates how people act out their grief on their own bodies and the bodies of others, and enter the world of the spirit in the process."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. Gob's Grief (2001)
. The Children's Hospital (2006)

Man Booker International Prize 2009

Para Alice Munro (Canadá, 1931).

Algunos títulos notables de la autora:
. Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
. Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
. Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974)
. Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
. The Moons of Jupiter (1982)
. The Progress of Love (1986)
. Friend of My Youth (1990)
. Open Secrets (1994)
. The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
. No Love Lost (2003)
. Runaway (2004)
. The View from Castle Rock (2006)

Novedad Anagrama

Título: El material humano
Autor: Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Número de páginas: 192
Editorial: Anagrama
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Guatemala
ISBN: 978-8433971913

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.anagrama-ed.es) "El nuevo libro de Rodrigo Rey Rosa se presenta como una novela, pero se desarrolla en las arenas movedizas entre lo ficticio y lo histórico. Con la forma suelta y aparentemente ligera del diario de apuntes y notas, Rey Rosa elude la novela de personajes, y la narración funciona como un gran fresco histórico o alegoría sobre la represión sanguinaria que ha sufrido Guatemala a lo largo de los últimos siglos. La certera elección del género le permite acomodar los hechos de su vida personal, contaminada por la violencia de Estado, y combinarlos con una dudosa investigación en un vasto y caótico archivo policial. Esta posibilidad de atacar el mismo problema desde varias perspectivas y en un texto aparentemente libre de toda obligación para con una sola línea argumental también abre camino para dosificar la ambigüedad, que constituye lo más logrado de su novela y que es característica de las ficciones de este extraordinario autor."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. El cuchillo del mendigo; El agua quieta (1992)
. Cárcel de árboles; El salvador de buques (1992)
. Con cinco barajas: antología personal (1996)
. Lo que soñó Sebastián (1994)
. El cojo bueno (1996)
. Que me maten si… (1997)
. Ningún lugar sagrado (1998)
. La orilla africana (1999)
. Piedras encantadas (2001)
. El tren a Travancore (2002)
. Caballeriza (2006)
. Otro zoo (2007)
. Siempre juntos y otros cuentos (2008)

Novedad Bitter Lemon Press

Título: The Vampire of Ropraz [Le Vampire de Ropraz]
Autor: Jacques Chessex
Traducción de: Donald Wilson
Número de páginas: 106
Editorial: Bitter Lemon Press
Fecha original de publicación: 2007
País: Suiza
ISBN: 978-1904738336

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Publishers Weekly) "Inspired by a true story, Chessex's crime novella offers a sobering appraisal of human superstition and prejudice. In 1903, the ghoulish desecration of several women's graves in the rural Swiss village of Ropraz leads locals to intuit a vampire's handiwork. Suspicion falls on Charles-Augustin Favez, a brutish farmhand with a history of alcoholism and lewd behavior. Though no accusations hold up against him in court, Favez is imprisoned: he makes the perfect defenseless scapegoat onto whom citizens in the backward community project their own shameful secrets. In measured prose that studiously sidesteps sensationalism, Chessex (L'Ogre) recounts the alternating repulsion and fascination that Favez stimulates in the many persons involved with his case, all of whom vampirically exploit him to satisfy their own needs. The book concludes with a wonderfully mordant speculation on Favez's fate after he escapes prison and joins the French army during WWI."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. Le Jour proche (1954)
. Chant de printemps (1955)
. Une Voix la nuit (1957)
. Batailles dans l'air, poèmes (1959)
. La Tête ouverte (1962)
. Le Jeûne de huit nuits (1966)
. L'Ouvert obscure (1967)
. La Confession du pasteur Burg (1967)
. Carabas, autoportrait baroque (1971)
. L'Ogre (1973)
. L'Ardent royaume (1975)
. Elégie soleil du regret (1976)
. Les Yeux jaunes (1979)
. Judas le transparent (1982)
. Le Calviniste (1983)
. Pierre Estoppey (1986)
. Myriam (1987)
. Jonas (1987)
. Comme l'os (1988)
. Dans la Page brumeuse du sonnet (1989)
. Elégie de Pâques (1989)
. Neige (1989)
. Si l'Arc des coqs (1989)
. Plaie ravie (1989)
. Morgane madrigal (1990)
. Les Aveugles du seul regard (1991)
. Le Buisson (1991)
. Songe du Corps élémentaire (1992)
. La Trinité (1992)
. La Fente (1993)
. Le Rire dans la faille (1993)
. Les Elégies de Yorick (1994)
. Le rêve de Voltaire (1995)
. Le temps sans temps (1995)
. La mort d'un juste (1996)
. Cantique (1996)
. L'imitation (1998)
. Portrait d'une ombre (1999)
. Incarnata (1999)
. Sosie d'un saint (2000)
. Monsieur (2001)
. L'Eternel sentit une odeur agréable (2004)
. Allegria (2005)
. Avant le Matin (2006)
. Pardon mère (2008)
. Revanche des purs (2008)
. Un Juif pour l'exemple (2009)

Novedad Alfaguara

Título: El viajero del siglo
Autor: Andrés Neuman
Número de páginas: 544
Editorial: Alfaguara
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Argentina / España
ISBN: 978-8420422350

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.alfaguara.santillana.es) "Un viajero enigmático. Una ciudad en forma de laberinto de la que parece imposible salir. Cuando el viajero está a punto de marcharse, un insólito personaje lo detiene, cambiando para siempre su destino. Lo demás será amor y literatura: un amor memorable, que agitará por igual camas y libros; y un mundo imaginario que condensará, a pequeña escala, los conflictos de la Europa moderna.
El viajero del siglo nos propone un ambicioso experimento literario: leer el siglo XIX con la mirada del XXI. Un diálogo entre la gran novela clásica y las narrativas de vanguardia. Un puente entre la historia y los debates de nuestro presente global: la extranjería, el multiculturalismo y los nacionalismos, la emancipación de la mujer.
Andrés Neuman despliega un mosaico cultural al servicio de un intenso argumento, pleno de intrigas, humor y personajes emocionantes, con un estilo rompedor que ofrece a estas cuestiones un sorprendente cauce."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. Pertenecí (1997)
. Simulacros (1998)
. Métodos de la noche (1998)
. Alfileres de luz (1999)
. Bariloche (1999)
. El jugador de billar (2000)
. El que espera (2000)
. El último minuto (2001)
. El tobogán (2002)
. La vida en las ventanas (2002)
. Una vez Argentina (2003)
. La canción del antílope (2003)
. Gotas negras (2003)
. El equilibrista (2005)
. Alumbramiento (2006)
. Sonetos del extraño (2007)
. Mística abajo (2008)
. Década (poesía 1997-2007) (2008)

Leyendo

Título: MVRDV: Costa Iberica. Upbeat to the Leisure City
Autor: MVRDV
Número de páginas: 260
Editorial: Actar
Fecha original de publicación: 2000
País: Holanda
ISBN: 978-8495273192

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "The Spanish coastal area has become a tremendous economic success. In 50 years it has turned into the densest 'city' in Europe due to a series of attractions that are lacking elsewhere: sun, sea, food, freedom, cheapness. But despite these huge advantages, it is condemned for its monocular behaviour, for its lack of history, taste and culture, its total ignorance of ecological responsibility. This controversy freezes its potential rather than activates it. What should be done with this paradoxical phenomenon that balances between disgust and charm, between attraction and repulsion?"

Otros títulos notables del despacho:
. Metacity/Datatown (1999)
. MVDRV at VPRO (1999)
. MVRDV: The Regionmaker (2003)
. Reading MVRDV (2003)
. MVRDV: Km3: Excursions on Capacity (2006)
. FARMAX: Excursions on Density (2006)
. Five Minutes City: Architecture and (Im)mobility (2006)
. Sky Car City (MVRDV) (2007)

Novedad NYRB Classics

Título: Don't Look Now
Autora: Daphne du Maurier
Número de páginas: 368
Editorial: NYRB Classics
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: Reino Unido
ISBN: 978-1590172889

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life—love, grief, jealousy—into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though no less powerful, are her short stories, in which she gave free rein to her imagination in narratives of unflagging suspense.
Patrick McGrath’s revelatory new selection of du Maurier’s stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against man’s abuse by turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. McGrath draws on the whole of du Maurier’s long career and includes surprising discoveries together with famous stories like “The Birds.” Don’t Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller."

Otros títulos notables de la autora:
. The Loving Spirit (1931)
. I'll Never Be Young Again (1932)
. Julius (1933)
. Jamaica Inn (1936)
. Rebecca (1938)
. Come Wind, Come Weather (1940)
. Frenchman's Creek (1941)
. Hungry Hill (1943)
. The Years Between (1945)
. The King's General (1946)
. September Tide (1948)
. The Parasites (1949)
. My Cousin Rachel (1951)
. The Apple Tree (1952)
. Mary Anne (1954)
. The Scapegoat (1957)
. The Breaking Point (1959)
. The Flight of the Falcon (1965)
. The House on the Strand (1969)
. Not After Midnight (1971)
. Rule Britannia (1972)
. The Rendezvous and Other Stories (1980)

Novedad Phaidon

Título: Beyond the Bubble: The New Japanese Architecture
Autor: Botond Bognar
Número de páginas: 240
Editorial: Phaidon
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0714845753 / Japón

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "BEYOND THE BUBBLE presents an overview of contemporary Japanese architecture following the collapse of the economic bubble of the 1980s and 90s. It includes the work of a selection of the most exciting architects working in Japan today, such as Toyo Ito, Atelier Bow Wow, and Kengo Kuma. BEYOND THE BUBBLE includes essays providing a survey of Japanese architecture from the 1980s to the present day, with detailed treatments of individual products. Written by an influential international expert on Japanese architecture and urbanism, it features a range of buildings, including residential, retail, and public works projects."

Novedad Candlewick

Título: The Uninvited
Autor: Tim Wynne-Jones
Número de páginas: 368
Editorial: Candlewick
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: Canadá/ Reino Unido
ISBN: 978-0763639846

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Booklist) "After a stormy affair with a professor, NYU student Mimi Shapiro heads to a remote Canadian farmhouse owned by her father, Marc, a famous painter. On arrival in the idyllic riverside setting, though, she finds Jay, a 22-year-old musician, already ensconced in the house. Jay, she discovers, is her half-brother, and he welcomes her into his comfortable life with his mother and her lesbian partner. Readers learn long before the newfound siblings, however, that Marc fathered another child: Cramer, a twentysomething loner who supports his mentally unstable mother. Is he the sole intruder who stalks and then breaks into the river house? The distance between what readers and characters know creates the story’s central coil of tension, and Wynne-Jones adds extra measures of creepiness in teen-movie scenes of vulnerable Mimi, alone and threatened in the house, and in the flashes of sexual attraction that the half-siblings share. The mystery’s violent conclusion will shock many, but it’s Wynne-Jones’ atmospheric prose and sophisticated exploration of elemental coming-of-age themes that will involve readers most."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. Some of the Kinder Planets (1997)
. The Book of Changes (1994)
. The Maestro (1995)
. Stephen Fair (1998)
. Lord of the Fries and Other Stories (1999)
. The Boy in the Burning House (2000)
. A Midwinter Night's Dream (2003)
. A Thief in the House of Memory (2004)
. Rex Zero and the End of the World (2006)

Novedad Vintage

Título: Trauma
Autor: Patrick McGrath
Número de páginas: 240
Editorial: Vintage
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: Reino Unido
ISBN: 978-1400075492

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Publishers Weekly) "McGrath (Port Mungo) manipulates reader expectations expertly in this sharp-edged psychological study of a man deluded by his personal demons. Charlie Weir, a Manhattan psychiatrist, applies the life skills the members of his badly dysfunctional family have helped him hone to counseling patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. While everyone else he knows appears in danger of spinning out of orbit, Charlie exudes the calmness and confidence of a man in control of his circumstances. But he's unable to connect emotionally with the women in his life, and he repeatedly revisits his memory of the suicide of his ex-wife's brother, who was also one of his patients. With painstaking precision, McGrath drives this story to a climactic, if hastily resolved, moment of self-revelation in which Charlie uncovers a forgotten personal trauma that has perverted his perceptions and made him the most unreliable of narrators. Notwithstanding these efforts to give Charlie's tale the jolt of a psychological thriller, this is a haunting story of a man in the grip of a painful and beautifully articulated spiritual malaise."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. The Grotesque (1989)
. Blood and Water and Other Tales (1989)
. Spider (1990)
. Dr Haggard's Disease (1993)
. Asylum (1996)
. Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution (2000)
. Port Mungo (2004)
. Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now (2005)

Novedad Taschen

Título: Green Architecture Now!
Editores: Philip Jodidio
Número de páginas: 416
Editorial: Taschen
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-3836503723

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "These days, green is the name of the game. There has never been so much interest in the ecological impact of buildings as there is today. This is not a negligible fact in the struggle to control pollution and in the search for responsible 'sustainable' methods of construction. Buildings are among the heaviest consumers of natural resources and account for a significant portion of the greenhouse gas emissions that affect climate change. With global warming now a significant international political issue, architecture itself is on the brink of significant changes, where style and matters of aesthetics are placed in a secondary position behind issues of sustainability. At a certain time, 'green' buildings were ugly and complicated affairs, usually multicolored as though an entire rainbow in one building might be sufficient to prove a concern for ecology. This is surely no longer the case as buildings published in this current volume demonstrate. However, it may be that green architecture is not so much about architecture as it is about survival; the aesthetics of the architecture are secondary considerations when it comes to finally stopping the war with nature that has resulted in the creation of the asphalt jungle. Well-known architects from Tadao Ando to Thom Mayne figure in this book, but so too do many others that are far less famous today, but perhaps the stars of tomorrow. Find out who is making today s architecture go green in a big way.
Featured architects/firms/artists:
Adjaye Associates, Agence Babylone, Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Barlindhaug Consult AS, Barton Willmore, Patrick Blanc, Randy Brown Architects, Vincent Callebaut Architecte, Cepezed, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Vladimir Djurovic, Dennis Dollens, Ecosistema Urbano, EDAW, Fearon Hay, Foster + Partners, Peter Gluck, Monika Gogl, Zaha Hadid, Herbst Architects, Anna Heringer and Eike Roswag, David Hertz, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden, Chris Jacobs, Kempe Thill, KieranTimberlake Associates LLP, Rafael de La-Hoz, Michael Lehrer, MIII architects, Marchi Architectes, Morphosis, Alberto Mozó, Manfredi Nicoletti, Office dA, Sergio Palleroni, Renzo Piano, Polk Stanley Rowland Curzon Porter, Philippe Rahm, Rau, Michael Reynolds, Roswag & Jankowski, Rural Studio, SITE, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, Ken Smith Landscape Architecture, Germán del Sol, Werner Sobek, studio tamassociati, Chris Tate, TNA, UNStudio, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Weiss/Manfredi, wHY Architecture, Ken Yeang, Zoka Zola"

Leyendo

Título: Black Hole
Autor: Charles Burns
Número de páginas: 368
Editorial: Pantheon
Fecha original de publicación: 1993-2004
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0375714726

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Publishers Weekly) "The prodigiously talented Burns hit the comics scene in the '80s via Raw magazine, wielding razor-sharp, ironic-retro graphics. Over the years his work has developed a horrific subtext perpetually lurking beneath the mundane suburban surface. In the dense, unnerving Black Hole, Burns combines realism—never a concern for him before—and an almost convulsive surrealism. The setting is Seattle during the early '70s. A sexually transmitted disease, the "bug," is spreading among teenagers. Those who get it develop bizarre mutations—sometimes subtle, like a tiny mouth at the base of one boy's neck, and sometimes obvious and grotesque. The most visibly deformed victims end up living as homeless campers in the woods, venturing into the streets only when they have to, shunned by normal society. The story follows two teens, Keith and Chris, as they get the bug. Their dreams and hallucinations—made of deeply disturbing symbolism merging sexuality and sickness—are a key part of the tale. The AIDS metaphor is obvious, but the bug also amplifies already existing teen emotions and the wrenching changes of puberty. Burns's art is inhumanly precise, and he makes ordinary scenes as creepy as his nightmare visions of a world where intimacy means a life worse than death."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. El Borbah (1999)
. Big Baby (2000)
. Skin Deep (2001)

Novedad The MIT Press

Título: Inventing Marcel Duchamp
Editores: Anne Collins Goodyear, James W. McManus
Número de páginas: 308
Editorial: The MIT Press
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0262013000

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was a master of self-invention who carefully regulated the image he projected through self-portraiture and through his collaboration with those who portrayed him. During his long career, Duchamp recast accepted modes for assembling and describing identity, indelibly altering the terrain of portraiture. This groundbreaking book (which accompanies a major exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery) demonstrates the ways in which Duchamp willfully manipulated the techniques of portraiture both to secure his reputation as an iconoclast and to establish himself as a major figure in the art world.
Although scholars have explored Duchamp's use of aliases, little attention has been paid to how this work played into, and against, existing portrait conventions. Nor has any study yet compared these explicitly self-constructed projects with the large body of portraits of Duchamp by others. Inventing Marcel Duchamp showcases approximately one hundred never-before-assembled portraits and self-portraits of Duchamp. The (broadly defined) self-portraits and self-representations include the famous autobiographical suitcase Boîte-en-Valise and Self-Portrait in Profile, a torn silhouette that became very influential for future generations of artists. The portraits by other artists include works by Duchamp's contemporaries Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Francis Picabia, Beatrice Wood, and Florine Stettheimer as well as portraits by more recent generations of artists, including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Sturtevant, Yasumasa Morimura, David Hammons, and Douglas Gordon.
Since the mid-twentieth century, as abstraction assumed a position of dominance in fine art, portraiture has been often derided as an art form; the images and essays in Inventing Marcel Duchamp counter this, and invite us to rethink the role of portraiture in modern and contemporary art."

Mario Benedetti (1920-2009)

Algunos títulos notables del autor:

. La víspera indeleble (1945)
. Peripecia y novela (1946)
. Esta mañana y otros cuentos (1949)
. Sólo mientras tanto (1950)
. Marcel Proust y otros ensayos (1951)
. Quién de nosotros (1953)
. Te quiero (1956)
. Poemas de la oficina (1956)
. El reportaje (1958)
. Montevideanos (1959)
. La tregua (1960)
. El país de la cola de paja (1960)
. Poemas del hoyporhoy (1961)
. Inventario uno (1963)
. Noción de patria (1963)
. Ida y vuelta (1963)
. Literatura uruguaya del siglo XX (1963)
. Cuando eramos niños (1964)
. Próximo prójimo (1965)
. Gracias por el fuego (1965)
. Contra los puentes levadizos (1966)
. A ras de sueño (1967)
. Datos para el viudo (1967)
. Letras del continente mestizo (1967)
. La muerte y otras sorpresas (1968)
. Quemar las naves (1969)
. El cumpleaños de Juan Ángel (1971)
. Letras de emergencia (1973)
. Poemas de otros (1974)
. El escritor latinoamericano y la revolución posible (1974)
. La casa y el ladrillo (1977)
. Con y sin nostalgia (1977)
. Pedro y el Capitán (1979)
. Cotidianas (1979)
. Notas sobre algunas formas subsidiarias de la penetración cultural (1979)
. Ex presos (1980)
. Viento del exilio (1981)
. Primavera con una esquina rota (1982)
. Geografías (1984)
. El desexilio y otras conjeturas (1984)
. Cultura entre dos fuegos (1986)
. Preguntas al azar (1986)
. Yesterday y mañana (1987)
. Subdesarrollo y letras de osadía (1987)
. Canciones del más acá (1988)
. Recuerdos olvidados (1988)
. Despistes y franquezas (1989)
. La cultura, ese blanco móvil (1989)
. Las soledades de Babel (1991)
. La realidad y la palabra (1991)
. La borra del café (1992)
. Perplejidades de fin de siglo (1993)
. Inventario dos (1994)
. El amor, las mujeres y la vida (1995)
. El olvido está lleno de memoria (1995)
. El ejercicio del criterio (1995)
. Andamios (1996)
. La vida ese paréntesis (1998)
. Rincón de Haikus (1999)
. Buzón de tiempo (1999)
. El mundo que respiro (2001)
. Insomnios y duermevelas (2002)
. Inventario tres (2003)
. Existir todavía (2003)
. El porvenir de mi pasado (2003)
. Defensa propia (2004)
. Memoria y esperanza (2004)
. Adioses y bienvenidas (2005)
. Canciones del que no canta (2006)
. Vivir adrede (2007)
. Daniel Viglietti, desalambrando (2007)
. Testigo de uno mismo (2008)
. El viaje de salida (2008)

Novedad Hatje Cantz

Título: J. Mayer H.
Autores: Henry Urbach, Andreas Ruby, Ilka Ruby, Andres Lepik, John Ricco, Rolf Fehlbaum, Jurgen Mayer H.
Número de páginas: 240
Editorial: Hatje Cantz
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Alemania
ISBN: 978-3775722230

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "The members of J. Mayer H. Architects, founded in Berlin in 1996 by Jurgen Mayer, have already won a number of awards for their extraordinary work--for example, their very first building won the Mies van der Rohe Emerging Architect Prize in 2003. Their structures bulge and pop inorganically in a style that aims to go, as Mayer puts it, beyond the blob." In recent years the firm has created a furor with attention-getting buildings such as the new commons for the Universitat Karlsruhe, the ADA 1 offices in Hamburg and the Metropol Parasol, a gigantic structure for the marketplace in the heart of old Seville. Edited by Henry Urbach, this is the first book to present J. Mayer H. Architects' entire oeuvre, tracking the firm's constructions from the research stage through design to project development and culminating in the actual building itself."

Novedad Tor Books

Título: Enclave
Autora: Kit Reed
Número de páginas: 368
Editorial: Tor Books
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0765321619

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Publishers Weekly) "In this gripping dystopian satire, ex-marine Sargent Whitmore has a plan to make millions while protecting children from the self-destructing modern world. He turns an old Mediterranean monastery into a combined impenetrable fortress and school, and enrolls 100 filthy-rich children, most of them already well-known for legal troubles, drug problems and paparazzi run-ins. Once there, everyone is cut off from the outside world, fed only canned news stories about wars and natural disasters. When things inevitably go horribly wrong, young hacker "Killer" Stade, physician assistant Cassie, drug and sex-crazed Sylvie and monastery-raised orphan Benny all attempt heroics, but remain deeply flawed. Reed (The Baby Merchant) displays unflinching willingness to explore all the facets of all of the characters, and her refusal to paint anyone as a simple villain makes this far more than a typical disaster novel."

Otros títulos notables de la autora:
. Mother Isn't Dead She's Only Sleeping (1961)
. Mister Da V. and Other Stories (1967)
. Armed Camps (1969)
. The Killer Mice (1976)
. Magic Time (1980)
. Other Stories and...The Attack of the Giant Baby (1981)
. Fort Privilege (1985)
. The Revenge of the Senior Citizens (1986)
. Blood Fever (1986)
. Catholic Girls (1987)
. Thief of Lives (1992)
. Little Sisters of the Apocalypse (1994)
. Weird Women, Wired Women (1997)
. Seven for the Apocalypse (1999)
. @expectations (2000)
. Thinner Than Thou (2004)
. Weird Women, Wired Women (2004)
. Bronze (2005)
. Dogs of Truth : New and Uncollected Stories (2005)
. The Baby Merchant (2006)

Novedad W.W. Norton & Co.

Título: The Great Perhaps
Autor: Joe Meno
Número de páginas: 416
Editorial: W.W. Norton & Co.
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0393067965

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Publishers Weekly) "Meno (Hairstyles of the Damned) continues to employ his keen observations of human nature, this time exploring the tumultuous landscapes of a contemporary Chicago family. The narrative rotates between members of the Casper family, giving each time and space to dig into their respective quirks. Jonathan, the father, is a scientist caught in a quest for a prehistoric squid and is prone to seizures at the sight of clouds. Madeline, Jonathan's wife, also a scientist, studies the behavior of her murderous lab pigeons and is distressed by the growing distance between family members: elder daughter Amelia is a teenage anticapitalist crusader already becoming weary of the fight; youngest daughter Thisbe's desire to find God is met with much concern from her atheist parents; grandfather Henry's sole desire is to make himself disappear. As the family's preoccupations rattle on and bang up against one another, the recently begun war in Iraq provides background noise and another dimension to the intricate and intimate tale. Meno's handle on the written word is fresh and inviting, conjuring a story that delves deeply into the human heart."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. Tender as Hellfire (1999)
. How the Hula Girl Sings (2001)
. Hairstyles of the Damned (2004)
. Bluebirds Used to Croon the Choir (2005)
. The Boy Detective Fails (2006)
. Demons in the Spring (2008)

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2009

Título: The Armies
Autor: Evelio Rosero
Traducción de: Annie McLean
Número de páginas: 330
Editorial: Quercus
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: Colombia
ISBN: 978-1847244857

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.co.uk) "Unquestionably one of the most important Latin American novels of the last few years - El Universal. ...a timeless epic...which intends to bear witness to the madness of a country adrift in the crossfire - El Pais. ... discomfiting evocation of the turmoil wrought on ordinary lives by conflict ... heart-wrenching - Metro. It is a story of horror and despair, beautifully told - Standpoint Magazine. The Armies is a swift and engaging piece of prose. In Anne McLean's fine translation, often beautifully rhythmic and economical, Ismael's voice brings the reader into the heart of the human experience - Evelio Rosero's book is all the more powerful for it - The Independent. Rosero's ability to depict vulnerability and insanity is unrivalled, and his style favours precision over description. He has that ability that distinguishes great writers: an ability to peer into the human heart. The result is a well-grounded narrative form with a strong sense of direction that carries the reader on its shoulders almost effortlessly - Latin American Review of Books. Rosero succeeds in bringing his characters to a human level that recalls Philip Roth's protagonists' physical degradation and the moral abyss depicted by J.M. Coetzee...A great achievement - El Periodico. An extremely polished novel that pulls readers into a sweet story that turns sour - Criticas."

Título: Los ejércitos
Autor: Evelio Rosero
Número de páginas: 208
Editorial: Tusquets
Fecha original de publicación: 2007
País: Colombia
ISBN: 978-8483103913

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.tusquets-editores.es) "Ismael, un anciano profesor jubilado, y su mujer, Otilia, viven morosa y modestamente en el pueblo de San José desde hace cuatro decenios. A Ismael le gusta espiar a la mujer de su vecino, y Otilia suele reconvenirlo, avergonzada. Hasta que el ambiente idílico del pueblo se enrarece. Las desapariciones de algunos familiares extienden el miedo entre los habitantes de San José y parecen preludiar sucesos aún más graves. Una mañana, tras volver de un paseo, Ismael se entera de que unos soldados de no sabe qué ejército se han llevado a sus vecinos. Le cuentan también que su mujer lo ha estado buscando e intenta dar con ella en vano... Los ataques continúan y, cuando los acontecimientos se precipitan y se desata la violencia, los supervivientes deciden huir antes de que sea tarde. Pero Ismael opta por quedarse en el pueblo devastado. Una decisión que le revelará un destino oscuro e imprevisible."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. Mateo solo (1984)
. Juliana los mira (1986)
. El incendiado (1988)
. Papá es santo y sabio (1989)
. Señor que no conoce luna (1992)
. Cuchilla (2000)
. Plutón (2000)
. Los almuerzos (2001)
. Juega el amor (2002)
. El hombre que quería escribir una carta (2002)
. En el lejero (2003)
. Los escapados (2006)

Leyendo

Título: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Autora: Susan Sontag
Número de páginas: 192
Editorial: Picador
Fecha original de publicación: 1978, 1988
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0312420130

Sinopsis: (Tomada de The New Republic) "Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor was the first to point out the accusatory side of the metaphors of empowerment that seek to enlist the patient's will to resist disease. It is largely as a result of her work that the how-to health books avoid the blame-ridden term 'cancer personality' and speak more soothingly of 'disease-producing lifestyles' . . . AIDS and Its Metaphors extends her critique of cancer metaphors to the metaphors of dread surrounding the AIDS virus. Taken together, the two essays are an exemplary demonstration of the power of the intellect in the face of the lethal metaphors of fear."

Otros títulos notables de la autora:
. The Benefactor (1963)
. Against Interpretation (1966)
. Death Kit (1967)
. Styles of Radical Will (1969)
. I, etcetera (1977)
. On Photography (1977)
. Under the Sign of Saturn (1980)
. The Way We Live Now (1991)
. The Volcano Lover (1992)
. In America (1999)
. Where the Stress Falls (2001)
. Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)
. At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches (2007)
. Reborn. Journals and Notebooks 1947-1963 (2008)

Novedad Delacorte Books

Título: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Autora: Carrie Ryan
Número de páginas: 320
Editorial: Delacorte Books
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
ISBN: 978-0385736817
País: Estados Unidos

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Booklist) "Mary lives in a small village in the middle of the forest governed by the religious Sisterhood and bordered with a fence to keep out the Unconsecrated—a horde of the undead unleashed many generations ago by a mysterious and cataclysmic event. Life is simple but preordained; Mary fears her betrothal to a man she doesn’t love almost as much as the hungry jaws slavering at the fence links. Under the colonial trappings, this is a full-blooded zombie thriller, reminiscent of the paragon of the genre, George Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. Soon Mary and a small band of desperate survivors are thrown together to outwit the undead and work through their own weaknesses, suspicions, and jealousies. Ryan’s vision is bleak but not overly gory; her entry in the zombie canon stands out for how well she integrates romance with flesh-eating. The plot loses a little wind near the conclusion, but Ryan’s ability to write a nail-biting escape scene will keep most readers riveted."

Novedad Grove Press

Título: Book of Clouds
Autora: Chloe Aridjis
Número de páginas: 209
Editorial: Grove Press
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
ISBN: 978-0802170569
País: Estados Unidos

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "Book of Clouds is a haunting, masterfully wrought debut novel about a young woman adrift in Berlin, where a string of fateful encounters leads to romance, violence, and revelation. Having escaped her overbearing family a continent away, Tatiana settles in Berlin and cultivates solitude while distancing herself from the city’s past. Yet the phantoms of Berlin—seeping in through the floorboards of her apartment, lingering in the abandoned subterranea—are more alive to her than the people she passes on her daily walks. When she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive historian Doktor Weiss, her life in Berlin becomes more complex—and more perilous. Through Weiss, she meets Jonas, a meteorologist who, as a child in the GDR, took solace in the sky’s constant shape-shifting, an antidote to his grim and unyielding reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds change, culminating in an act of violence that will leave none of them untouched. Unfolding with the strange, charged logic of a dream, Book of Clouds is a profound portrait of a city forever in flux, and of the myths we cling to in order to give shape to our lives."

Novedad Eterna Cadencia

Título: Los fantasmas del masajista
Autor: Mario Bellatin
Número de páginas: 96
Editorial: Eterna Cadencia
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: México
ISBN: 978-9872483067

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.eternacadencia.wordpress.com) "En una de sus visitas a una clínica de São Paulo especializada en el tratamiento de personas a las que les falta algún miembro, el narrador conoce la historia de su terapeuta y de su madre, una famosa declamadora que ve precipitarse el final de su carrera debido a una elección desacertada en su repertorio: una canción de Chico Buarque llena de matices que la desconciertan y que termina por lanzarla al vacío. Bellatin construye un relato estremecedor y de belleza perturbadora acerca de los fantasmas del cuerpo y de la mente."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. Mujeres de sal (1986)
· Efecto invernadero (1992)
. Canon perpetuo (1993)
. Salón de belleza (1994)
. Damas chinas (1995)
. Poeta ciego (1998)
. El jardín de la señora Murakami (2000)
. Flores (2000)
. Shiki Nagaoka: Una nariz de ficción (2001)
. La escuela del dolor humano de Sechuán (2001)
. Jacobo el mutante (2002)
. Perros héroes (2003)
. Lecciones para una liebre muerta (2005)
. El Gran Vidrio (2007)

Novedad Doubleday

Título: Sag Harbor
Autor: Colson Whitehead
Número de páginas: 288
Editorial: Doubleday
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
ISBN: 978-0385527651
País: Estados Unidos

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Publishers Weekly) "In what Whitehead describes as his Autobiographical Fourth Novel (as opposed to the more usual autobiographical first novel), the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist John Henry Days explores the in-between space of adolescence through one boy's summer in a predominantly black Long Island neighborhood. Benji and Reggie, brothers so closely knit that many mistake them for twins, have been coming out to Sag Harbor for as long as they can remember. For Benji, each three-month stay at Sag is a chance to catch up with friends he doesn't see the rest of the year, and to escape the social awkwardness that comes with a bad afro, reading Fangoria, and being the rare African-American student at an exclusive Manhattan prep school. As he and Reggie develop separate identities and confront new factors like girls, part-time jobs and car-ownership, Benji struggles to adapt to circumstances that could see him joining the ranks of Those Who Don't Come Out Anymore. Benji's funny and touching story progresses leisurely toward Labor Day, but his reflections on what's gone before provide a roadmap to what comes later, resolving social conflicts that, at least this year, have yet to explode."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. The Intuitionist (1999)
. John Henry Days (2001)
. The Colossus of New York (2003)
. Apex Hides the Hurt (2006)

Leyendo

Título: El jardín devastado

Autor: Jorge Volpi
Número de páginas: 192
Editorial: Alfaguara
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: México
ISBN: 978-8420474649

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.alfaguara.santillana.es) "No hay crimen: los inocentes irán de cualquier modo al paraíso.
Tras la invasión de los infieles el infierno se desata en Irak y un demonio, cada vez más asqueado ante la vileza que atestigua, acompaña a una mujer que busca entre los muertos a quienes ama. Nos asediamos, nos traicionamos, nos torturamos, nos destruimos. Y luego esperamos al siguiente de la fila."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. A pesar del oscuro silencio (1993)
. La paz de los sepulcros (1995)
. El temperamento melancólico (1996)
. Sanar tu piel amarga (1997)
. En busca de Klingsor (1999)
. El juego del Apocalipsis (2000)
. El fin de la locura (2003)
. No será la tierra (2006)

Novedad University of California Press

Título: Krazy! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art
Autor: Bruce Grenville
Número de páginas: 276
Editorial: University of California Press
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0520257849

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "Comics! Cartoons! Anime! Manga! Graphic novels! Video games! This vibrant and engaging book, catalog to a landmark exhibition, celebrates the variety and growing significance of visual pop culture. Stunningly illustrated with eye-popping art, KRAZY! investigates the uniqueness of these forms while considering the ways they interconnect. Curated by many of the artists who first brought these forms to the public's attention, this volume features commentary and interviews with Maus author Art Spiegelman, SimCity creator Will Wright, and Canadian comic book author and illustrator Seth, along with Tim Johnson (codirector of Antz and Over the Hedge), Kiyoshi Kusumi (a global authority on manga), and media theory critic Toshiya Ueno. This pathbreaking volume crosses boundaries between the printed arts, films, and video games and analyzes the reciprocal influences between fields, highlighting the best of each. The energy and intensity of the images leap off every page, and the full experience of the exhibit itself comes alive in behind-the-scenes commentary by the contributors. KRAZY! is a dizzying introduction to the art forms that will dominate the new century."

Novedad Taschen

Título: Architecture Now! Houses
Autor: Philip Jodidio
Número de páginas: 416
Editorial: Taschen
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-3836503747

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "Though there may be distinctions between a house and a home, the fact remains that the fundamental ideas of shelter, life and death are intertwined with the architecture of the commonplace in every dwelling, from cave to castle. The house can be a measure of civilization, wealth or, indeed, intelligence; it is a barometer of existence. Depending on the architect and the client, a house can be at the very cutting edge of architecture, casting aside notions of the past in search of a new paradigm; it can accept the rules of urbanism while standing them on their head. It can float in the air or emerge from the depths of the earth. Where factors of cost may limit civic architecture to tried and trusted methods, some houses break all the rules, and help architecture to move forward. This book is not about decoration, nor is it a practical guide to building one's own house. It is, rather, a search that may lead the willing reader from Patagonia in Argentina to the cliffs of Dover Heights, Australia to see some of the most remarkable houses built in the past five years."

Novedad Alfaguara

Título: Papeles inesperados
Autor: Julio Cortázar
Editores: Aurora Bernárdez, Carles Álvarez Garriga
Número de páginas: 488
Editorial: Alfaguara
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
ISBN: 978-8420423319
País: Argentina

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.alfaguara.santillana.es) "Este libro, que se publica a los veinticinco años de la muerte de su autor, es una extensa y deslumbrante colección de textos inéditos y dispersos escritos por Cortázar a lo largo de su vida.
Hallados en su mayoría en una vieja cómoda sin revisar, son de géneros varios, tienen distintos orígenes y obedecen a diferentes propósitos: hay cuentos desconocidos y otras versiones de relatos publicados, historias inéditas de cronopios y de famas, nuevos episodios de Lucas, un capítulo desgajado del Libro de Manuel, discursos, prólogos, artículos sobre arte y literatura, crónicas de viaje, estampas de personalidades, notas políticas, autoentrevistas, poemas y textos inclasificables, entre otras muchas páginas de innegable valor y atractivo.
El conjunto permite apreciar y disfrutar las múltiples facetas del gran escritor: el Cortázar formal y en ciernes, el cuentista genial, el de espíritu lúdico, el comprometido con su tiempo, el profundo conocedor del arte y la literatura, el cronista sutil, el poeta.
Estos Papeles inesperados, cuidadosamente editados por Aurora Bernárdez y Carles Álvarez Garriga, ofrecen al especialista nuevos elementos para el conocimiento cabal de la obra cortazariana; al coleccionista, textos entrañables y curiosidades maravillosas; y a los innumerables lectores de Cortázar, la posibilidad del reencuentro más feliz."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. La otra orilla (1945)
. Los Reyes (1949)
. Diario de Andrés Fava (1950)
. Bestiario (1951)
. Final del Juego (1956)
. Las armas secretas (1959)
. Los premios (1960)
. Historias de cronopios y de famas (1962)
. Rayuela (1963)
. Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales (1965)
. Todos los fuegos el fuego (1966)
La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos (1967)
. 62/modelo para armar (1968)
. Último round (1969)
. Prosa del observatorio (1972)
. Libro de Manuel (1973)
. Alguien que anda por ahí (1977)
. Un tal Lucas (1979)
. Queremos tanto a Glenda (1980)
. Deshoras (1982)
. Los autonautas de la cosmopista (1982)
. Divertimento (1986)
. El Examen (1986)

Leyendo

Título: Adicción

Autor: Isaí Moreno
Número de páginas: 224
Editorial: Joaquín Mortiz
Fecha original de publicación: 2004
País: México
ISBN: 968270958X

Sinopsis: (Tomada de la contraportada) "En cierta casa confluye un conjunto de seres solitarios y extraños que forman una familia estrafalaria: un hombre mafioso e investido de poder y su hija que padece una enfermedad devastadora, un camarero, un cocinero del que se piensa que es mudo, una coqueta enfermera que ama la cocaína como a sus pacientes, y un viejo profesor de música llegado desde el otro extremo del mundo.
El narrador de la historia, el camarero, quien organiza grandes fiestas en honor de la esposa fallecida del dueño, va develando poco a poco los secretos que le toca presenciar. Él mismo no puede evitar verse sumergido en una trama inesperada que lo ha llevado a convertirse en esporádico guardaespaldas de su protector, es decir, en un asesino ocasional.
Adicción, segunda novela que nos ofrece Isaí Moreno, es una revitalizante obra empapada de un estilo meditado y rico que sostiene una historia que nunca deja de sorprender al lector."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. Pisot (1999)

Novedad Wet Media Group

Título: Perry Hall: Paintings
Autor: Perry Hall
Número de páginas: 210
Editorial: Wet Media Group
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0615261591

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "Painter Perry Hall uses a set of experimental techniques that draw upon the organizing principles found in nature. In his Decalcomania paintings, he uses pressure to shape complex networks of interlocking lines and ridges of paint into organic compositions that evoke the notion of 'growing' a painting. In his Livepaintings (time-based paintings), he stimulates paint with temperature changes, vibration, turbulence, and various substances, transforming paint flows into compositions he captures onto video. In the Sound Drawings, sound waves are channeled into a vessel containing oil or acrylics: Hall paints by changing the qualities of the sound, in effect, 'playing' the paint like a musical instrument. His innovative paintings are a fascinating and beautiful collaboration with "material intelligence" and a meditation on the dynamics found in nature. Over 190 full-color reproductions."

Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía 2009

Para José Emilio Pacheco

Algunos títulos notables del autor:
. La sangre de Medusa (1959)
. Los elementos de la noche (1963)
. El viento distante (1963-1969)
. El reposo del fuego (1966)
. Morirás lejos (1967)
. No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo (1969)
. Antología del modernismo (1884-1921) (1970)
. El principio del placer (1972)
. Irás y no volverás (1973)
. Islas a la deriva (1976)
. Desde entonces (1980)
. Tarde o temprano (1980)
. Las batallas en el desierto (1981)
. Trabajos en el mar (1983)
. Fin del siglo y otros poemas (1984)
. Alta traición (1985)
. Álbum de zoología (1985)
. Miro la tierra (1986)
. Ciudad de la memoria (1989)
. Tarde de agosto (1992)
. El silencio de la luna (1994)
. La arena errante (1999)
. Siglo pasado (2000)
. En resumidas cuentas (2004)
. La fábula del tiempo (2005)

Novedad Bantam

Título: The Love We Share Without Knowing

Autor: Christopher Barzak
Número de páginas: 304
Editorial: Bantam
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0553385649

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Publishers Weekly) "Barzak's accomplished novel-in-stories dwells on people dealing with life's sorrows through somewhat tenuous connections. Set in Japan, the narratives focus on protagonists from the country and travelers in search of a new life, as in Realer Than You, in which 16-year-old Elijah Fulton longs for his native America while struggling to fit into his new surroundings outside of Tokyo. The Suicide Club is made up of four young adults on the fringe of Japanese society attempting to make sense of their lives, while Sleeping Beauties concerns, albeit sappily, an American teacher and his Japanese lover; the narrator loses his identity through total immersion in his lover's life, yet it's the slow return to self that is even more devastating. If You Can Read This You're Too Close centers on a disillusioned, selfish young man whose life is changed after a blind man sees him. Barzak's perceptive writing evinces the fragile and overwhelming desire for meaning and love."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. One for Sorrow (2007)

Novedad Twin Palms

Título: Phonesex
Autor: Phillip Toledano
Número de páginas: 60
Editorial: Twin Palms
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: Alemania
ISBN: 978-1931885744

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "Twin Palms is pleased to offer Phillip Toledano's second book, Phonesex. Toledano has photographed nearly thirty phonesex operators in the intimate setting of their own homes, offering a seldom-seen glimpse into the reality of what otherwise is a fantasy created by the operator's voice, and caller's imagination. Accompanying every portrait is a text written by each subject touching on some aspect of his or her experience as an operator. Whether touching, humorous, or disturbing, every operator's point of view is compelling."

Novedad Faber and Faber

Título: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Autor: Kazuo Ishiguro
Número de páginas: 240
Editorial: Faber and Faber
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Reino Unido
ISBN: 978-0571244980

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.co.uk) "In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance, even as one gets older, relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. A Pale View of Hills (1982)
. An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
. The Remains of the Day (1989)
. The Unconsoled (1995)
. When We Were Orphans (2000)
. Never Let Me Go (2005)

Novedad Solaris

Título: Poe: 18 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
Autores: Gregory Frost, Pat Cadigan, Sharyn McRumb, Kim Newman, Lucius Shepard, M. Rickert, John Langan, Delia Sherman, etc.
Editado por: Ellen Datlow
Número de páginas: 352
Editorial: Solaris
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Reino Unido, Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-1844165957

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Publishers Weekly) "This anthology's title notwithstanding, the 19 original stories commissioned for it seem largely devoid of the Poe principle. Kim Newman (Illimitable Domain) contributes a gleefully subversive alternate history in which Poe movie adaptations take over American culture; John Langan (Technicolor) offers an incisive deconstruction of Poe's Masque of the Red Death that also functions as a magnificently creepy horror tale; and Delia Sherman (The Red Piano) proffers a horror romance whose villain is clearly modeled on Poe's sound-sensitive Roderick Usher. For the most part, however, readers will have to work toward the explanatory note each author provides at the story's end to see which Poesque resonance he or she intended. Still, Datlow (Inferno) has assembled an all-star lineup and chosen inventive stories whose quality are certainly an extension of Poe's tradition of excellent weird fiction."

Leyendo

Título: Wrong
Autor: Dennis Cooper
Número de páginas: 176
Editorial: Grove Press
Fecha original de publicación: 1992
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0802133670

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.barnesandnoble.com) "A first short-story collection by novelist-poet Cooper (Frisk ; The Tenderness of Wolves), this book is relentlessly unpleasant if skillfully written. Cooper's obsessions--serial killers, drugged-out male hustlers, abusive gay relationships--run through the collection like the chorus of a particularly nihilistic rock song. Characters--a Jeffrey Dahmer-type murderer of teenage boys, the members of a semi-pro rock band called Horror Hospital--recur intermittently, but situations are repeated incessantly. With its reduction of gay life to an endless round of rough sex and drugs bracketed by violent death, Cooper's work is a tawdry throwback to a time before AIDS. He has an uncanny eye for the nasty metaphor: 'A boy's shaved head was just visible inside one end of a rolled-up carpet like the fruit of a Chapstick.'' Cooper's craftsmanship is undeniable, although he could be talking about himself when he has the narrator of 'Square One'' observe that 'the sharpest new writers tend to appropriate either the language or sheen of pornography.'' His is a profoundly disturbing book, as much for its detached tones and sense of ennui as for the acts it so graphically depicts."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. The Terror of Earrings (1973)
. Tiger Beat (1978)
. Antoine Monnier (1978)
. Idols (1979)
. Tenderness of the Wolves (1981)
. The Missing Men (1981)
. My Mark (1982)
. Safe (1985)
. He Cried (1985)
. Closer (1989)
. Frisk (1991)
. Try (1994)
. The Dream Police: Selected Poems '69-93 (1994)
. Guide (1997)
. Period (2000)
. My Loose Thread (2002)
. The Sluts (2004)
. God Jr. (2005)
. The Weaklings (2008)
. Ugly Man (2009)

Novedad Prime Books

Título: Mr. Gaunt and other Uneasy Encounters
Autor: John Langan
Número de páginas: 256
Editorial: Prime Books
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0809572496

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Publishers Weekly) "As Elizabeth Hand aptly observes in her introduction to this exceptional debut horror collection, Langan's tales celebrate supernatural fiction's antiquarian and visionary past with as much eloquence and acuity—and terror—as they explore the dark heart of the 21st century. The richly atmospheric title story evokes the weird fiction of both Henry James and M.R. James in its account of a family cursed with a demonic familiar with a ravenous appetite for disobedient children. On 'Skua Island,' a relentlessly creepy monster story, pits a team of modern espionage operatives against an implacable creature of the living dead out of Norse legend. The five tales run the gamut from supernatural satire ('Tutorial') to apocalyptic nightmare ('Episode Seven'), but whatever their theme or tone, Langan shows uncommon skill at balancing character, plot and mood to achieve the perfect pitch for each. Horror readers will welcome a new voice speaking in a classic tongue."

Novedad Tor Books

Título: The SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Masterpieces of Science Fiction from the Continent
Autores: Jean-Claude Dunyach, Elena Ersenieva, Valerio Evangelisti, Ondřej Neff, Johanna Sinisalo, Mark S. Huberath, Ricard de la Casa, Pedro Jorge Romero, Panagiotis Koustas, Lucian Amerişca, Sergei Lukyanenko, Andreas, Eschbach, João Barreiros, Joëlle Wintrebert, W. J. Maryson, José Antonio Cotrina, Bernhard Ribbeck
Editores: James Morrow, Kathryn Morrow
Número de páginas: 336
Editorial: Tor Books
Fecha original de publicación: 2008
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0765315373

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Publishers Weekly) "Wondrous worlds await U.S. SF fans in this sensitively chosen, impeccably translated anthology of Continental European science fiction stories, ranging from 1987 to 2005. Offering 'emotional satisfaction and cerebral excitement,' as James Morrow puts it in his introduction, highlights include Johanna Sinisalo's 'Baby Doll,' a Finnish denunciation of materialistic exploitation of children; Romanian Lucian Merisca's 'Some Earthlings' Adventures on Outrerria,' an excruciating political satire; Valerio Angelisti's 'Sepultura,' which offers a neo-Dantean Infernoscape; and W.J. Maryson's 'Verstummte Musik,' a Dutch near-future Orwellian nightmare. A French twist on human-machine interface lifts Jean-Claude Dunyach's 'Separations' into a meditation on the nature of artistic creativity, while Elena Arsenieva's 'A Birch Tree, a White Fox' exquisitely illustrates the quintessential Russian soul. These 'disciplined speculations' by European writers and their painstaking translators not only excite the mind, they move the heart."

Leyendo

Título: Emötoma
Autora: Minerva Reynosa
Número de páginas: 54
Editorial: Conarte/ITCA/ICED/ICHC/ICOCULT/CONACULTA
Fecha original de publicación: 2007
País: México
ISBN: 9685724849

Sinopsis: (Tomada de la contraportada) "EMÖTOMA
salir y negarse. que la otredad se aleje en pequeñas escalas de interés ajeno. salir. despoblar el espacio conocido para sumergirse en una senda de incoherencias. salir. ser masa. ser algo. ser menos del valúo original porque no hay multiplicación ante el otro. la interferencia que mutila la estratosfera como recipiente en la alacena: acceso a días."

Otros títulos notables de la autora:
· Una infanta necia (2003)
. La íntima de las cosas (2007)

Novedad Walther Konig

Título: Gerhard Richter: Wald
Autor: Gerhard Richter
Número de páginas: 396
Editorial: Walther Konig
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Alemania
ISBN: 978-3865605030

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "Gerhard Richter has been taking photographs in the dense forest near his Cologne home since 2005. This complex artist's book features 285 of these stunning, almost abstract images, sorted loosely into groups--delicate branches, horizontal logs, diagonally growing trees--and interspersed with German text from a forestry magazine, all the words of which have been shuffled by means of a random generator and then edited to remove any overly explicit names or passages--although the resulting absurd text can still be recognized as a commentary on forest issues. Further, Richter divides the text into seven horizontal strips that run through the book, arranged according to strict parameters, which he then undermines so that the 106 variously assigned pages fill continuously with text, and then empty gradually after the only completely filled page in the middle is reached--producing a unique fading in and out of images. In German only."