THE HAMMER The hammer is at once the easiest of our tools and the most profound. No other tool fills the hand as much as the hammer does; none inspires the same degree of dedication to the job and such total acceptance of the task. Grasped by the hand, it gives us once again that sensation of freshness in a tool, of a satisfying extension to our bodies, of an effort directed without waste or frustation. O first-rate hammer! Willing brother! Few things are straighforward as you! THE SCREW The screw is the great opportunist; it launches into a longwinded, winding discourse that doesn't allow us the slightest chance to interrupt it or say no. There's no way into it. Rather than penetrate, it insinuates; it sneaks inside, totally impersonally, without showing its face. If it could, it would become invisible. But there lies its strength. THE SPONGE The sponge is amoral. Hence the ease with which it is penetrated both above and below. Uncritically it lets you poke into its most intimate recesses and relieve it of all its secrets. All you need to do is to turn into water. And which of us doesn't do that, when we're confronted by a sponge?

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Literature & Fiction

Morábito, Fabio

Contemporary

Bloomsbury USA

In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment-reading to others. After an accident-or "the misfortune," as his cancer-ridden father's caretaker, Celeste, calls it-Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver's license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the "City of Eternal Spring" is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad forms of violence bred by drug trafficking. At first, Eduardo seems unable to connect. He movingly reads the words of Dostoyevsky, Henry James, Daphne du Maurier, and more, but doesn't truly understand them. His eccentric listeners-including two brothers, one mute, who moves his lips while the other acts as ventriloquist; deaf parents raising children they don't know are hearing; and a beautiful, wheelchair-bound mezzo soprano-sense his detachment. Then Eduardo comes across a poem his father had copied by the Mexican poet Isabel Fraire, and it affects him as no literature has before. Through these fascinating characters, like the practical, quick-witted Celeste, who intuitively grasps poetry even though she never learned to read, Fabio Morabito shows how art can help us rediscover meaning in a corrupt, unequal society.

Home Reading Service: A Novel

Dramas & Plays

Other Press

Drawing from everyday life in Mexico and abroad, these subtle, unsettling stories probe the boundaries between sanity and madness, life and death, safety and danger. The first story collection from prize-winning author Fabio Morábito available in English, Mothers and Dogs features fifteen tales that show the emotional extremes in seemingly trivial details and quotidian situations: two brothers worry more about a dog locked in an apartment who hasn't been fed than they do about their dying mother; when the lights go out on a racetrack, a man's evening jog turns into a savage battle between runners; a daughter learns to draft business letters as an homage to her mother. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As he deftly explores feelings of loneliness and despair endemic in modern society, Morábito weaves threads of unexpected humor and lightness.

Mothers and Dogs: Stories

A bilingual edition (Spanish/English) of Caja de herramientas, a  series of imaginative stories  or fantastic reflections  on the nature  of things that help us to organize our lives, such as the hammer, the  screwdriver, the piece of string, by a promising Mexican writer.

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Hargreaves, Geoff

United States

Xenos Books

En un tiempo en que cazar era lo que daba sentido a la vida y la identidad de las panteras era una interrogante que estaba sin respuesta, una joven pantera queda huérfana cuando su madre ataca a un búfalo. Inicia entonces un viaje en busca de su identidad durante el cual enfrentará los retos y peligros de la vida en la selva y aprenderá a sobrevivir y a luchar por ser parte de su entorno.

Cuando las panteras no eran negras (A La Orilla Del Viento) (Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

Animals

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

El idioma materno

Literary

Editorial Sexto Piso

Caja de herramientas

Poetry

Editorial Pre-Textos

La presente antologia supone un recorrido por el mundo del libro, y reune los cuentos sobre el libro de escritores espanoles e hispanoamericanos del siglo XX. Incluye Luis Garcia Jambrina, Lola Larumbre Doral, Mario Muchnick, Jorge Volpi, Neus Aguado, Pedro Zarraluki, Enrique Vila-Matas, Antonio Di Benedetto, Mario Benedetti, Rodolfo Walsh, Alberto Escudero, Cristina Fernandez Cubas, Fabio Morabito, Isidoro Blaisten, Javier Garcia Sanchez, Luis Sepulveda, Angelina Lamelas, Pere Calders, Leonardo Valencia, Ivan Onate, Carme Riera, Augusto Monterroso, Paloma Diaz Mas.

Pasión de papel: Cuentos del mundo del libro (Spanish Edition)

DI BENEDETTO, ANTONIO

Fernández, Cristina

Sepúlveda, Luis

Walsh, Rodolfo

García, Luis

Vila-Matas, Enrique

Calders, Pere

RIERA,CARME

Volpi, Jorge

BENEDETTI,MARIO

Valencia, Leonardo

Oñate, Iván

Zarraluki, Pedro

Escudero, Alberto

MONTERROSO, AUGUSTO

García, Javier

Larumbe, Lola

Muchnick, Mario

Aguado, Neus

Blaisten, Isidoro

Lamelas, Angelina

Díaz, Paloma

Short Stories & Anthologies

Páginas de Espuma

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