En el multiverso de una exitosa estrella de reggaetón hay muchos perdedores A través de relatos trepidantes e ingeniosos, este libro nos presenta las perspectivas de la derrota y la degradación humana, propias del postexistencialismo psicótico tropical: es decir, el remix del remix de la sensación que experimenta quien se encuentra siempre a la sombra de las oportunidades.
Este livro é uma criação de Manuel García, uma verdadeira mina de prazeres proibidos e encontros apaixonados, especialmente concebida para satisfazer os apetites eróticos mais audaciosos dos leitores adultos homossexuais.
Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet is the first English-language collection of short stories by Cui Zi'en, China's most famous and controversial queer filmmaker, writer, scholar, and LGBTQ rights activist.
In this collection of previously banned short stories, Can Themba shines a light on the racism and systemic violence suffered by Black South Africans during apartheid in the late 1950s.
Excerpt: "e;His full name was Percival William Williams, but he picked up the other name in a nursery-book, and that was the end of the christened titles.
Excerpt: "e;Except for those who, under compulsion of a sick certificate, are flying Bombaywards, it is good for every man to see some little of the great Indian Empire and the strange folk who move about it.
Excerpt: "e;The history of the Victoria Cross has been told so often that it is only necessary to say that the Order was created by Queen Victoria on January 29th, 1856, in the year of the peace with Russia, when the new racing Cunard paddle-steamer Persia of three thousand tons was making thirteen knots an hour between England and America, and all the world wondered at the advance of civilization and progress Any officer of the English Army, Navy, Reserve or Volunteer forces, from a duke to a negro, can wear on his left breast the little ugly bronze Maltese cross with the crowned lion atop and the inscription "e;For Valour"e; below, if he has only "e;performed some signal act of valour"e; or devotion to his country "e;in the presence of the enemy.
Excerpt: "e;It is narrated (and God knows best the true state of the case) by Abu Ali Jafir Bin Yakub-ulisfahani that when, in His determinate Will, The Benefactor had decided to create the Greatest Substitute (Adam), He despatched, as is known, the faithful and the excellent Archangel Jibrail to gather from Earth clays, loams, and sands endowed with various colours and attributes, necessary for the substance of our pure Forefather's body.
New texts of Joseph Conrad's modern classic 'The Secret Sharer' and of two other tales appear in this edition of 'Twixt Land and Sea with numerous words, sentences, and entire paragraphs restored from Conrad's manuscripts and typescripts.
Con un estilo gótico, pero también salpicado de una amplia gama de géneros literarios, el autor muestra en sus cuentos realidades de la sociedad contemporánea, pero de manera sutil, que, aunque parezca solo ficción, hay situaciones que no lo son.
El albacea: 24 cuentos para el olvido es una colección única y descaradamente irreverente de cuentos que originalmente eran 27, pero que el autor, en un acto de desesperación literaria, tuvo que reducir a 24 para evitar ese inquietante número.
Desde el fondo del mar y hacia las estrellas,un delgado hilo nos une con ellasMentiras verdadescausa o consecuenciarelatos del almabrotando en la hierbaFiguras obtusascon gracia y torpezailustran espaciosbailan con las letrasAnécdotas, credospoesias, vivenciaspalabras mestizasde cal y de arena.
En Pinceladas, la autora nos invita a compartir recuerdos, anécdotas y fantasías que rescata de la memoria a lo largo su vida en la República Argentina.
Este livro é uma criação de Manuel García, uma verdadeira mina de prazeres proibidos e encontros apaixonados, especialmente concebida para satisfazer os apetites eróticos mais audaciosos dos leitores adultos homossexuais.
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on 1st April 1809 to a father, descended from Ukrainian Cossacks and a mother with a military background in the Ukrainian town of Sorochyntsi, then part of the Russian Empire and rich in Cossack traditions and folklore.
Cada historia es flujo constante, un movimiento que se origina en la mano que crea, se entrelaza con los ojos que absorben, sacude el pecho que se estremece y, finalmente, transforma el alma a través de sus páginas.
