George Falconer, un profesor inglés de media na edad, lucha por sobreponerse a la repentina muerte de su pareja, Jim, en un accidente de coche. Corre el año 1962, y pese a la vida privilegiada que
Christopher, un joven británico, alquila una habitación en la capital alemana e imparte clases de inglés para ganarse la vida. Este trabajo y su curiosidad de escritor en ciernes le llevarán a conocer a personajes de todo tipo y condicion, como la rica heredera judia Natalia Landauer, la familia obrera de los Nowak,Otto y Peter, dos jovenes homosexuales, o Sally Bowles, una jovencita inglesa de clase alta, seductora y extraviadaque inspiro el personaje de Liza Minelli en la celebre pelicula Cabaret. Adios a Berlin es una cronica reveladora y emotiva del Berlin de la Republica de Weimar, decadente y atractivo, sobre el que se cierne la creciente brutalidad del nazismo.
The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the YearA witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, The Almost Nearly Perfect People offers up the ideal mixture of intriguing and revealing facts (Laura Miller, Salon).Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success, and, most intriguing of all, what they think of one another.Why are the Danes so happy, despite having the highest taxes? Do the Finns really have the best education system? Are the Icelanders as feral as they sometimes appear? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastic oil wealth? And why do all of them hate the Swedes? In The Almost Nearly Perfect People Michael Booth explains who the Scandinavians are, how they differ and why, and what their quirks and foibles are, and he explores why these societies have become so successful and models for the world. Along the way a more nuanced, often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterized by suffocating parochialism, and populated by extremists of various shades. They may very well be almost nearly perfect, but it isnt easy being Scandinavian.
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions First published in 1933 Mr Norris Changes Trains piquantly evokes the atmosphere of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled An education in the twenties, this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in Londons Bohemia.
The scene is 1920s Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary.
The First World War is over. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice, and resentment toward his fathers roguish friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin.
At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. But most of all, the memory of his lost love, Elizabeth Rydal, haunts him. Can he forgive his wife, and most importantly, himself?
En enero de 1938, cargados como dos turistas con sus respectivas cámaras de fotos, dos amigos, W. H. Auden y Christopher Isherwood partieron de la estación Victoria de Londres con destino a China, para recabar informacion con la que escribir un libro sobre la guerra chino-japonesa. Era la primera vez que ambos escritores cruzaban el canal de Suez, no hablaban una palabra de chino y mantenian una absoluta ignorancia sobre lo que alli ocurria. El resultado de aquella aventura fue este maravilloso libro, en el cual Isherwood se ocupa de redactar el diario del viaje, mientras que su amigo el poeta Auden aporta un sorprendente poemario en el que se incluyen veintisiete sonetos y un largo poema, ademas de una dedicatoria en verso a E. M. Forster, el famoso autor de Pasaje a la India. El volumen incluye ademas numerosas fotografias tomadas en el frente por ambos amigos. Es la primera vez que esta obra se traduce al español.
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