Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now . . . Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.

He aquí la hilarante epopeya de Rose, una cocinera que nunca le ha temido a nada y que ha sobrevivido a las barbaries del siglo XX (el genocidio armenio, los horrores del nazismo y los delirios del maoísmo) sin perder el humor, el deseo de sexo y el afán de venganza: los tres pilares de la felicidad en su particular credo.A los ciento cinco años aún regenta su famoso restaurante en Marsella, guarda una pistola en el bolso y no puede evitar los pensamientos eróticos cuando se cruza con algún tipo interesante. Esta singular cocinera, marcada por dos hombres y un siglo, se toma la justicia por su mano matando a sus enemigos suavemente. Rose pertenece ya a esa galería de grandes personajes literarios de los que no podemos separarnos. "El autor hace vibrar el siglo XX de modo que en cada página subyace una lección: la risa es el mejor profesor." Le Figaro littéraire.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThis is the hilarious saga of Rose, a cook who has never been afraid of anything and who has survived the brutalities of the 20th century (the Armenian Genocide, the horrors of the Nazis, and the delusions of the Maoists) without losing her sense of humor, her sex drive, and her thirst for revenge: the three pillars of happiness in her personal credo.At the age of 105, she is still running her famous restaurant in Marseilles, she keeps a pistol in her purse, and she can't help but think naughty thoughts when she comes across a cute guy. Rose is one of those literary figures that one can never quite forget.

'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

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