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La obra maestra de Ken Follett en una lujosa edición especial 30 aniversario con más de un centenar de ilustraciones.

Hace treinta años, Ken Follett publicó en español su novela más popular, Los pilares de la Tierra, que ha vendido más de veintisiete millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo. Ahora, por primera vez en una edición ilustrada, el gran maestro de la narrativa de acción y suspense nos transporta de nuevo a la Edad Media, a un fascinante mundo de reyes, damas, caballeros, pugnas feudales, castillos y ciudades amuralladas. El amor y la muerte se entrecruzan vibrantemente en este magistral tapiz cuyo centro es la construcción de una catedral gótica.

Esta edición contiene un prólogo del autor y más de cien ilustraciones del artista Markus Weber.

Sobre Los pilares de la Tierra han dicho:
«Fantástico desde todos los puntos de vista.»
El Mundo

« Los pilares de la Tierra fue un hito en España, donde todavía sigue siendo el libro más leído de la historia según la Federación del Gremio de Editores.»
ABC

«Alta política y bajas pasiones (y viceversa) conforman un folletín de grandes dimensiones que confirman a Follett como relojero mayor del reino del bestseller.»
Qué leer

«Maravilloso... Te atrapará, fascinará y envolverá.»
Chicago Tribune

« Los pilares de la Tierra hizo de Ken Follet uno de los autores más queridos de nuestro país.»
ABC Sevilla

«Ken Follett sabe cómo tejer una historia fascinante, con personajes complejos, que todo actor sueña con interpretar.»
Donald Sutherland

«Me encanta Los pilares de la Tierra, lo recuerdo con mucho cariño [...] es uno de aquellos títulos que se quedan grabados...»
Ildefonso Falcones

«En Los pilares de la Tierra, Ken Follett nos presenta a unos personajes que consiguen que la historia cobre vida.»
Ridley Scott

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of the literature and examines its debt to, and synthesis with, oral cultures. George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues for its relevance to both African Diasporic Black and Canadian Studies, and critiques several of its key creators and texts.

Scholarly and sophisticated, the survey cites and interprets the works of several major African-Canadian writers, including André Alexis, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Claire Harris, and M. Nourbese Philip. In so doing, Clarke demonstrates that African-Canadian writers and critics explore the tensions that exist between notions of universalism and black nationalism, liberalism and conservatism. These tensions are revealed in the literature in what Clarke argues to be – paradoxically – uniquely Canadian and proudly apart from a mainstream national identity.

Clarke has unearthed vital but previously unconsidered authors, and charted the relationship between African-Canadian literature and that of Africa, African America, and the Caribbean. In addition to the essays, Clarke has assembled a seminal and expansive bibliography of texts – literature and criticism – from both English and French Canada. This important resource will inevitably challenge and change future academic consideration of African-Canadian literature and its place in the international literary map of the African Diaspora.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC

The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson).

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.

The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.