In this previously banned collection of seven short stories, Alex La Guma vividly reveals the plight of the poor and oppressed in apartheid South Africa.
El relato "Fantasmas, (Una Exhortación Contra Dios)", es uno de los textos contenidos en los "Cuadernos Personales" del Marqués de Sade escritos en 1802, mientras estaba encarcelado en Bicétre, institución mitad manicomio mitad cárcel, conocida como "La Bastilla de los Canallas".
This collection of short stories sees Ama Ata Aidoo, one of Africa's leading feminist and postcolonial writers, exercise the powerful effect of oral storytelling in her moving tales of shifting identities and the paradoxes of womanhood.
»Ich bestehe aus Literatur« Franz KafkaMit seinen oft unvollendet gebliebenen, bis heute ihr Rätsel nicht offenbarenden Romanen, Geschichten und Parabeln ist Franz Kafka eine der maßgeblichen Säulenfiguren der modernen Literatur.
The book "Human Models" revolves around the cuts of its characters that are the depth of the reality of life, where the pulse of the true reality spread around us lies, the writer was inspired by the topics of his stories from the reality of human life that really exist, and he did not address these stories alongside imagination, but he took From each layer there are selected examples of the society in which he lives, and these characters were brought down on the characters of his stories, so that there is a close bridge between the written story and reality, and the writer has created in deepening the concept of realism with many methods and tools that are in reality with strong threads, and his characters came And his words as the best way to express realistic doctrine in human life, as the writer's personalities and stories are considered a dramatic documentation that displays many aspects of life and its scenes, from people connected and related to reality and are not separated from it.
The journalist and translator Tawfiq Habib gathered a number of narrative texts in his book "Abu Jalda and others", where he takes the impact of Abu Jalda, the Palestinian resistance, who is fleeing the power of the soldiers, then he is exposed to the life of the singer Tawhida Bulbul on a thousand nights, and he looks at another text for life Lord Gray Privacy, and states how this great political man was fond of birds and animals, then he soon moves to Greek history in the life of Dognis and his jellyfish.
Step into the surreal world of "e;The Metamorphosis,"e; where Franz Kafka paints a horrifying yet captivating tale of Gregor Samsa's unexpected transformation.
El libro que ahora se reedita, La felicidad, recupera para la memoria de los lectores los ocho cuentos que lo integraban cuando se publicó por primera vez, en 1969, en la editorial Galerna.
The Swiss author Dill McLain surprises us once again:With a fresh, entertaining, direct narrative, she catches us and makes us part of her incredible love stories.
Zwei Freundinnen, beide Griechennärrinnen, besteigen noch in der Nacht den griechischen Götterberg Parnass und begegnen auf dem Gipfel den Göttern Apollon und Dionysos.
Los protagonistas de estos relatos se mueven como sombras solitarias por los márgenes del sur de Estados Unidos: son negros en una tierra profundamente racista, son mujeres en una sociedad de hombres que les impone silencio y resignación, son homosexuales condenados a sentirse intrusos, son músicos de jazz, son muchachos callejeros y violentos, son drogadictos, estafadores, vagabundos y meleantes.
What do you get when you cross a Halloween sound effects CD that induces murderous hallucinations and riots, a hellish mechanic out for revenge against Heaven, and a missing girlfriend?
An acclaimed author's collection of short stories for fans of genre-bending fiction, Shot blends social impact fiction and activist fiction, tackling the gun violence crisis head on.
Die Geschichte einer abenteuerlichen Schiffsreise ins Innere der WeltIn einem Sturm auf dem Seeweg von Java zum Sunda-Archipel uberleben nur zwei Manner.
A través de la mirada de un joven que quiere ser escritor -a caballo entre la crónica, el cuento, la epístola, el diario, la autobiografía y las memorias-, en este libro se narran las vicisitudes cotidianas; las tradiciones y costumbres; los movimientos estudiantiles; las catástrofes naturales y sociales; las tragedias familiares; la apropiación y la decadencia, ecológica y social, de los espacios citadinos; la violencia contra las mujeres y las desigualdades de género; la delincuencia y la inseguridad; las formas de sociabilidad; y las aspiraciones y frustraciones en las vidas invisibilizadas -por los medios y el discurso oficial- de habitantes de los sectores bajo y medio de la hoy ciudad de México en los años ochenta del siglo pasado y en las dos décadas anteriores.
Ce livre est une création de Manuel Garcia, une véritable mine de plaisirs interdits et de rencontres passionnées, spécialement conçue pour satisfaire les appétits érotiques les plus audacieux des lecteurs gays adultes.
'Like an artist working an empty sky into a busy cityscape, or an empty chair into a crowded family portrait, Joyce creates spaces where the reader is left to themselves' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface to Dubliners.
Aus dem dünnen Spalt zwischen der Einsamkeit des Übungsraums und der Anonymität der Orchesterreihen erscheinen Fantasien, Beobachtungen, gesellschaftliche Aphorismen.
Aus dem dünnen Spalt zwischen der Einsamkeit des Übungsraums und der Anonymität der Orchesterreihen erscheinen Fantasien, Beobachtungen, gesellschaftliche Aphorismen.
