Eine Kleinstadt atmet Geheimnisse: Fußspuren im Schnee kommen aus dem Nichts und verschwinden im Nirgendwo, am Himmel erscheint ein Arsch im Heiligenschein und der Imker dressiert seine Bienen.
En este libro, se continúa mostrando las vicisitudes de Rubén, el protagonista que conociéramos en el primer tomo de esta serie, donde abundan las reflexiones, interrogantes, acciones desesperadas, soledad, celos, dolor.
Iraqi Said Jensen, living in Norway, is forever haunted by the ghost of his father, killed by the Iraqi regime before he was born, and nightmarish visions.
I tell her I've stopped taking my pillsI write that I'm still not well, that it's making day-to-day life difficultThat I often do things I regret, and that there's some sort of membrane between what I want to do and whatever I end up doingThat I really want to be an actor, but that it's a dream that seems all too distant for the time beingI tell her I use and abuse alcohol and drugs, and that I've got a death wish that sometimes becomes difficult to ignoreThat I don't know who I amThat I change my mind as frequently as I change my socksThat I'm horrible to the people around meThat my sex life is depravedGine Cornelia Pedersen's debut novel won the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas First Book Award in its native Norway upon publication and went on togarner numerous glowing reviews, with major broadsheet Aftenposten declaring 'Sometimes, as a reviewer, one forgets a work's failings andmistakes and becomes completely absorbed by an insistent narrative voice.
Carta al padre no es solo una de las misivas mas desgarradores jamas redactadas, por lo profundo del analisis alrededor de la autoridad y el amor filial, por la conmovedora amargura de quien, justamente, funda su elocuencia en la imposibilidad de hablar, sino porque es un texto clave para comprender la obra literaria de uno de los grandes escritores de todos los tiempos.
James Joyce da inicio a la modernidad de las letras irlandesas con la publicación de "Los muertos", cuento que abre esta exhaustiva compilación de veinticinco relatos editada por Sinéad Mac Aodha y Jorge Fondebrider.
Sand im Getriebe will der rebellische Viktor in einer angepassten Gesellschaft sein, in der es um Konsum, Egoismus und selbstgefällige Wahrheiten geht.
Der Gelegenheitsjobber Luan schlägt sich in einem beliebten Kurort in den Bündner Bergen gerade so durch, während reiche Touristen zunehmend die Einheimischen verdrängen – und bald steht auch sein Zuhause in dem von seltsamen Ereignissen aufgesuchten Dorf auf dem Spiel.
Vor genau zehn Jahren erschien der enzyklopadisch umfangreiche Roman Frank Witzels, der im selben Jahr mit dem Deutschen Buchpreis ausgezeichnet wurde.
Three troubled people, driven by loneliness, vanity and revenge, dash to the Scottish Highlands, where their lives become mysteriously entwined around a reading group in the Inverness public library.
The subject of Menopause is just beginning to break the barrier of taboo, and become a mainstream discussion point, but that discussion has until now been very serious, medical, and, we would argue, heterosexual and white.
In this prize-winning collection (2024 Rubery Book Award for Short Fiction), told with intelligent and textured prose, we travel far and wide to disparate places and distinctive cultures.
Cursed with love by his step-mother, Culhwch (Pig Boy) is condemned to love and marry Olwen, the daughter of the Hawthorn Giant-pitiless, violent and huge.
Galvanised by a health scare, Felix Walton's chances of remaking himself by ending his forty-two-year marriage may be slight, but they are otherwise zero, so he ups and runs from London to Norwich in search of a new start.
Following Roy's boyhood in post-war rural Bedfordshire Open Strings immerses us in the countryside with its changing seasons and characters who accompany Roy as he makes the transition from childhood to adolescence.
