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"In this "murder mystery memoir," a Dutch billionaire and Holocaust survivor named Joseph Hortha hires writer "Ariel" to investigate Salvador Allende's mysterious death in the 1973 coup in Chile, in the hopes of discovering whether Allende committed suicide or was murdered. Dorfman takes us along a spectacular journey, from Washington, DC and New York City, to Santiago and Valparaâiso, and finally to London. Along the way, we witness a midnight gravedigging scene, are tracked by stealthy stalkers, and interview sources of varying credibility to discover what transpired at La Moneda. Through this gripping investigation, Joseph and Ariel attempt to redeem themselves, as they are both plagued by guilt. While Joseph grapples with how he has made his fortune unwittingly destroying his beloved planet, Ariel is haunted by the fact that his absence at the coup led to the disappearance of his friend. What begins as a puzzling quest unwinds into a fabulous saga about our duties to the world, one another, and ourselves." --

"Garcâia Mâarquez y Vargas Llosa se conocieron en el aeropuerto de Caracas, en agosto de 1967. Con apenas treinta y un aänos, Vargas Llosa era ya un escritor aclamado por la crâitica. Garcâia Mâarquez, cuarenta aänos cumplidos, encontraba por fin el âexito editorial con Cien aänos de soledad, publicada ese aäno en Buenos Aires. Antes de confundirse en un abrazo en el aeropuerto de Caracas que dio inicio formal a la amistad, los dos genios de la literatura se habâian escrito cartas y leâido mutuamente con admiraciâon. Se hicieron amigos entraänables, vecinos en el barrio de Sarriáa en Barcelona y hasta compadres. Vargas Llosa publicâo en 1971 un libro en homenaje a Garcâia Mâarquez, titulado Historia de un deicidio. Contra todo pronâostico, la amistad se envenenâo y estropeâo para siempre. En febrero de 1976, Vargas Llosa le dio una trompada a Garcâia Mâarquez en un teatro en Ciudad de Mâexico, derribâandolo y dejâandolo aturdido, con un ojo morado y la nariz rota, al tiempo que le decâia: 'Esto es por lo que le hiciste a Patricia'. ÅQuâe le hizo Garcâia Mâarquez a Patricia Llosa, la esposa de Mario? ÅPor quâe Vargas Llosa le asestâo un puänetazo a Garcâia Mâarquez? ÅQuâe circunstancias âintimas corrompieron aquella amistad que parecâia inquebrantable? ÅPor quâe no volvieron a reunirse ni hablarse durante dâecadas? ÅPor quâe se volvieron enemigos irreconciliables, incapaces de perdonarse, a pesar de los esfuerzos de su agente literaria Carmen Balcells? Los genios, la novela mâas ambiciosa y fascinante de Jaime Bayly, recrea con formidables brâios narrativos los aänos gloriosos en que Garcâia Mâarquez y Vargas Llosa fueron grandes amigos y explora, desde las licencias de la ficciâon, los secretos, las felonâias, las delaciones y las iras volcâanicas que dinamitaron estruendosamente esa amistad que parecâia irrompible."--Back cover.

Knut Hamsun's Hunger (1890) is possibly the most influential Norwegian novel in history. A true classic of modern literature and a precursor to the psychologically focused fiction of Franz Kafka, Albert Camus and José Saramago. Now comic book artist Martin Ernstsen has turned it into a graphic novel with the potential to become a great classic like the original novel, according to the Dagbladet newspaper. Building on Hamsun's belief that literature should be about the mysterious workings of the human mind, Hunger led the way to a new kind of novel.

In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug's possibilities such that their "research" becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a free-wheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living. With his trademark humor and pathos, Boyle moves us through the Loneys' initiation at one of Leary's parties to his notorious summer seminars in Zihuatanejo until the Loneys' eventual expulsion from Harvard and their introduction to a communal arrangement of thirty devotees--students, wives, and children--living together in a sixty-four room mansion and devoting themselves to all kinds of experimentation and questioning.