Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.

Chicago, 1897. An obsessive collector and insurance magnate commissions the world's tallest building. Determined to compete with Marshall Field's recent donation of $1 million to found the Field Museum, the tycoon funds a private collecting voyage into the Pacific.

Moana sets sail in search of a fabled island, where she teams up with her hero, the legendary demigod Maui, to traverse the open sea.

"El fin del Očano Pac̕fico es quiz̀ la m̀s ambiciosa novela de Tom̀s Gonz̀lez por su extensi̤n, su estructura y la atenci̤n plena a la escritura. A trav̌s de un hombre enfermo y de un territorito montaraz y selv̀tico, vamos descubriendo el alma de sus personajes. Una madre poderosa, dominante, y una t̕a llena de dulzura, las dos casi centenarias que se atenazaron en la vida despǔs de que la primera quedara viuda para sacar adelante una...

"March 19, 1945: The war in the Pacific approaches its apocalyptic climax. The largest wartime armada ever assembled, Task Force 58, is closing in on Okinawa; once taken, it will finally put American B-29 bombers in range of the home islands of Japan-and victory. At the heart of the fleet are 14 Essex-class aircraft carriers, including the USS Franklin, known as "Big Ben"--a 27,000-ton behemoth, home to 3,500 crewmen and 100 aircraft. Just after dawn,...