Hello everybody! One more week we want to show you which are the books that will arrive in bookstores throughout this week, from Monday, June 6 to Friday, June 10. This week we can find different publications, especially reissues of books that many of you will know.
In this case, I bring you the occasional recently published story, but what abounds this week are the reissues that Penguin Clásicos publishing house has decided to make, where we find books written by great authors such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and William M. Thackeray.
"A love that destroys cities" by Eileen Chang
Asteroid Books - June 6 - 120 pages
A book set in the fourth years in China that haunts the Bai, a traditional Shanghai family looking for a suitor for one of their unmarried daughters. However, when a rich heir appears, he will notice another of the sisters, a young and divorced girl who decides to settle in Hong Kong and move away from the family vugo.
Eileen Chang is considered one of the great Chinese writers of the XNUMXth century whose works reflect the feelings and aspirations of an emerging middle class in an age where values were in great flux.
"Breath of the Gods" by Brandon Sanderson
Editions B - June 8 - 720 pages
The Nova publishing house of the Ediciones B group has decided to reissue "The breath of the gods" by Brandon Sanderos, with a new cover and hardcover.
"The Breath of the Gods" collects the story of Vivenna, daughter of King Dedelin, a girl trained to be the perfect bride of Susebron, son of the God-King of HAllandren, whom she will marry by order of her father, and meet their duties helping to forge a peace between the two kingdoms. That was the plan for all the years until the monarch who signed the treaty where they were to marry their children, decides to send his daughter Siri, a disobedient and independent girl.
After this change, a series of events will take place where Siri discovers the truth about the god-king and Vivenna decides to travel to Hallandren to rescue her sister.
Classics by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and William M. Thackeray
This week they are published, all on the same day and by the same publisher, Penguin Classics, a series of classics whose authors are Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and William M. Thackeray. In this case I will only write you the names, since most of them you will already know their history even if you have not read them.
"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens - Penguin Classics - June 9 - 672 pages
"The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" by Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics - June 9 - 1008 pages
"Our Common Friend" by Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics - June 9 - 1128 pages
"The Grim House" by Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics - June 9 - 1072 pages
"Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics - June 9 - 624
"The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins
Penguin Classics - June 9 - 784 pages
"The Lady in White" by Wilkie Collins
Penguin Classics - June 9 - 880 pages
"The Vanity Fair" by William M. Thackeray
Penguin Classics - June 9 - 1056 pages
"The Grace of Kings" by Ken Liu
Alianza Editorial - June 9 - 648 pages
"The Grace of Kings" is an epic tale formed by two friends who decide to rebel against the reigning tyranny of an empire. After a long and bloody campaign, the emperor manages to conquer the Dara archipelago and attempts to consolidate a state by centralizing what were once powerful kingdoms. However, to hold the empire together one has to resort to oppression, corruption and forced labor. The two friends mentioned above are a prison guard turned outlaw and a disinherited nobleman, who decide to join forces to overthrow the tyrant.
These are some of the editorial news that we have presented to you and that will be published throughout this week. Which ones have managed to capture your interest?