La civilización llega a su fin por medio de un virus que pone en jaque a toda la raza humana y ahora un joven deberá emprender un viaje para intentar obtener respuestas, para saber la verdad detrás de los hechos de esta catástrofe y encontrar una forma de contrarrestar el sombrío presente al que tiene que afrontar.
The tiny lifeboat seemed to hang suspended from its one working rear jet, then it sideslipped and began to spin violently downwards to the sickly orange ground of the planet.
In April 2020, at the height of the pandemic in New York City, Andrew, the assistant director of a funeral home one mile from Elmhurst Hospital, the epicenter of the epicenter, meets a legendary Coney Island witch doctor (Lelya Dorche), who makes him an offer that could better his chances of keeping his COVID-positive elderly parents and his severely asthmatic 13-year-old son, Miro, off the ever-expanding list of virus mortalities.
'Magical and disturbing' Adam ThirlwellAn astonishing, mind-bending novel about a woman discovering a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers.
Imagine an alternate reality--where Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Colette, Virginia Woolf, and Franz Kafka--all lived longer lives--wrote the poems, stories, and books we read in school--one of which changed history--and lived happily ever after with someone of the same gender.
Ambientada en las ondulantes colinas e inhóspitas playas de arena y guijarros de la costa sur de Inglaterra, esta inquietante novela describe una sociedad en la que la insulsa conformidad domina con terror el día a día.
Drei Jahre nach dem mysteriösen Tod seiner Frau Allison setzt Sheriff Holston seiner Aufgabe ein Ende und entschließt sich, die strengste Regel zu brechen: Er will das Silo verlassen.
Denunciation became so commonplace under Stalin that people regarded it as their patriotic duty to spy on others and even expose members of their own family.
This "e;unique and memorable"e; blend of futuristic dystopia and dark detective story features "e;one of the more offbeat characters in fiction"e; (Booklist).
If music is a universal language, and mathematics a universal truth, could the two be combined to form a new world language that would create common understanding across all cultures?
El fantástico mundo del gato canosoSi una historia se va transmitiendo a través de muchas generaciones, bien podríamos imaginar que el tiempo no separa a los lectores de distintas épocas.
