Luces de Bohemia es una obra maestra escrita por Ramón del Valle-Inclán en 1920, que inauguró un nuevo género teatral conocido como el esperpento. La historia sigue al poeta ciego Max Estrella y su amigo Latino, mientras recorren el sórdido Madrid en una serie de eventos exagerados y grotescos que transcurren a lo largo de dos días.
Ambientada en un "Madrid absurdo, brillante y hambriento", esta obra es un comentario mordaz sobre la España de la Restauración, vista a través de una lente sistemáticamente deformada. El protagonista, Max, simboliza una mirada más lúcida, a pesar de su ceguera, y su viaje revela las injusticias y opresiones de su tiempo.
Valle-Inclán utiliza el esperpento para diseccionar la realidad de su época, presentando a España como una "deformación grotesca de la civilización europea". A través de imágenes distorsionadas y personajes arquetípicos, como el bohemio y anarquista Max, inspirado en el poeta modernista Alejandro Sawa, la obra explora las dificultades y grandezas del estilo de vida bohemio.
Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, returns with an uproarious new novel featuring a family driven by fortune, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture-gown sabotage, and the heir to one of Asia's greatest fortunes locked out of his inheritance.
When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside—but he's not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim to their matriarch's massive fortune. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park—a trophy estate on sixty-four prime acres in the heart of Singapore—Nicholas' childhood home turns into a hotbed of backbiting and intrigue.
As Su Yi's relatives fight over heirlooms, Astrid Leong finds herself at the center of her own storm, desperately in love with her old sweetheart Charlie Wu but tormented by her ex-husband—a man hell-bent on destroying Astrid's reputation and relationship. Meanwhile, Kitty Pong, married to China's second richest man, Jack Bing, still feels upstaged by her new stepdaughter, famous fashionista Colette Bing.
In this sweeping tale, travel from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong's most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace. Caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan hilariously reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most privileged families and their rich people problems.
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Born Slippy is a globetrotting novel about the seductions of and resistance to toxic masculinity. Frank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool, Dmitry, who is in the US in the summer before university.
Dmitry is a charming sociopath who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss, perhaps thinking that, if he could figure out what made Frank tick, he could be less of a pig. Dmitry heads to Asia and makes a neo-imperialist fortune, with a trail of corpses in his wake. When Dmitry's office building in Taipei explodes in an enormous fireball, Frank heads to Asia, falls in love with Dmitry's wife, and things go from bad to worse.
Combining the best elements of literary thriller, noir, and political satire, Born Slippy is a darkly comic and honest meditation on modern life under global capitalism.