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Franz Kafka (Praga, 1883-Viena, 1924), escriptor central del segle xx, és considerat un mestre en l'art d'iniciar un text i en aquesta frase primera condensa una imatge pura, per bé que tèrbola, que regirà la narració que teniu a les mans en cada un dels seus incidents, circumstàncies o detalls. La insòlita transformació de Gregor Samsa constitueix un relat emblemàtic de la nostra època, majestuós en la seva simplicitat, i dur i descarnat en el retrat de l'alienació i de la intempèrie a què es troba llançat l'individu en societat. Aquesta història és protagonitzada per uns insectes que s'allotjaran, lector, en el teu imaginari, i que respiraran en el teu record amb uns pessigolleigs i uns xiulets tan contorbadors que mai més no els podràs oblidar.
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The epic FINAL chapter to Stephen Fry's outstanding retellings of the Greek MythsThe Odyssey is the story of Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca, on his way home from fighting in the Trojan War. His journey takes ten years - on the high seas, he encounters the cyclops, the lotus-eaters, the alluring sirens as well as the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece that readers have come to know and love.Shipwrecks, battles, monsters, threats natural and supernatural - Odysseus must keep his wits if he is to reach home safely.
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A symphony of interconnected lives that offers a compelling reflection on life in modern-day metropolises at the intersection of isolation and intimacy in Yoshida’s English-language debut.
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Antiquity follows its unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her thirties who becomes enamoured of a chic older artist, Helena, after interviewing her for a magazine. Helena invites the narrator to join her in the Greek city of Ermoupoli where she summers with her teenage daughter Olga. At first an object of jealousy, Olga morphs into an object of desire as the pull of Helena is transposed onto her daughter and the prospect of becoming someone’s first, if perverse, lover.
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A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered, diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community, a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover, a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as “mother.” In the collection’s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with “drafts” of his own suicide.
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In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where Jewish immigrants and African Americans lived side by side through the 1920s and '30s.
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Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.
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Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three, indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making her mistakes, and not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her own red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the true meaning of love. Part Tom Sawyer, part Jane Eyre, by the end of Anne of Green Gables, Anne has become the heroine of her own story.
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Alguien debía de haber calumniado a Elfriede Jelinek porque el fisco alemán se presentó un buen día en su casa. Escarbaron en sus papeles, indagaron en su vida repartida entre Múnich y Viena, buscaron pruebas con las que llevarla a juicio y condenarla. La investigación quedó en nada. De la experiencia sufrida surgió, en cambio, este coro de voces espectrales, música huracanada que arrastra todo a su paso, revuelve los papeles y trastoca pasado y presente. Jelinek exhuma la historia de sus parientes perseguidos por el nazismo y levanta acta de acusación contra las hipocresías múltiples del poder, los esquiadores felices, los futbolistas que regatean impuestos y las muchedumbres dichosas que toman el sol en la playa y olvidan las vidas ahogadas en las aguas en las que se bañan.Frente a un mundo en el que la vida es vulnerable y el dinero es eterno, en el que se blanquea un pasado criminal como se blanquean los capitales, un mundo en el que un virus recorre la tierra, la extrema derecha campa a sus anchas y las fronteras se cierran a los refugiados, Jelinek, con rabia descarnada, invierte y multiplica la acusación a la que fue sometida y muerde en la historia de Austria, Alemania y Europa, en unas vergüenzas que parecen empeñadas en sobrevivirnos.
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A haunting portrayal of love and betrayal in a London hollowed by war.It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the price for his silence being Stella herself. Caught between two men and unsure who she can trust, the flimsy structures of Stella's life begin to crumble.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROY FOSTERThis series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.
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From the author of My Documents and Chilean Poet, a wise, humorous, and captivating literary exploration of the delights and absurdities of childhood, fatherhood, and family life.Childish Literature is a charming and wide-ranging collection of short stories, essays, and even a couple of poems produced under the influence of fatherhood, a transformative experience that reshapes and enlivens the author's relationship to aging, intimacy, and time. Written in Alejandro Zambra’s brilliantly warm, playful, and philosophical voice, these pieces explore the lives of families and their stories through a wide variety of topics—from screen time and ''soccer sadness'' to personal libraries, fishing, and psychedelics. Throughout, Zambra captures the texture of daily life and deep truths about how we feel and live, with particular insight into the ways parents and children challenge, enrich, and entertain each other.Simultaneously lighthearted and profound, and brilliantly rendered by National Book Award-winning translator Megan McDowell, Childish Literature is an intimate and unclassifiable new work by an internationally celebrated writer.
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An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age.Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—Paper Boat assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume.In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful, and hyper-imagined, Atwood gives voices to remarkably drawn characters—mythological figures, animals, and everyday people—all of whom have something to say about what it means to live in a world as strange as our own. “How can one live with such a heart?” Atwood asks, casting her singular spell upon the reader, and ferrying us through life, death, and whatever comes next. Walking the tightrope between reality and fantasy as only she can, Atwood’s journey through poetry illuminates our most innate joys and sorrows, desires and fears.Spanning six decades of work—from her earliest beginnings to brand new poems—this volume charts the evolution of one of our most iconic and necessary authors.
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Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak at a time when everything he thought he knew about women, and flat-sharing, and his friendships has transformed beyond recognition, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of their broken relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him.
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Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria. In America, Ifemelu suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Meanwhile, Obinze plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, when they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland – they face the hardest decision of their lives.Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a literary masterpiece, and one of the defining books of the decade.
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Ava-Bijou y Agnes Grace son veinteañeras, fans de Jane Austen y Showgirls, un poco petardas, brillantes, aficionadas a las drogas recreativas, rehenes del caos sexoafectivo, rica una, pobre la otra (aunque no se note). Y quieren quemar el fin de semana en un festival que se anuncia bajo todas las etiquetas: inclusivo, vegano, queer, eco-friendly… No saben que allí les esperan las horas más locas de su vida: una espiral de sorpresas que incluirá a un médico exredskin, una criatura transcelestial, una troupe de vedettes travestis o una manada de pijos fascistas. Éxtasis en una noche de verano: humor, exceso, ternura y desfase.
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A beautiful hardback edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel. A romance, a literary quest, a modern classic.A pair of young scholars investigate the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story.
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La vie d'Alice vient de s'écrouler... Ou peut-être commence-t-elle ?'' Qu'est-ce que je faisais exactement à cet instant-là ? J'aurai beau me concentrer de toutes mes forces, fermer les yeux pour mieux visualiser, jamais je ne parviendrai à me souvenir. Est-ce que j'avais un livre dans la main ? Étais-je en train de sourire en pensant à la Toscane ?On devrait être prévenu que la vie va basculer. Juste pour avoir le temps de graver dans sa mémoire la saveur de l'insouciance. ''Le jour où son mari Aymeric est victime d'un grave accident de voiture, Alice voit sa vie s'écrouler. Face à l'incertitude du destin, elle va devoir s'adapter aux épreuves qui croiseront sa route. Et se réinventer, pour que l'espoir triomphe.
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El Premio Pulitzer y Medalla de Oro de la Academia Sam Shepard firma con El cómputo de los días su mejor libro desde Crónicas de motel. Un viaje descarnado y lisérgico a través de la América profunda en el que los fragmentos de una vida van conformando a través de su lectura un mosaico daimónico y clarividente. Una gesta literaria de dimensiones prometeicas.''Hay que leer a Shepard como los creyentes leen la Biblia. Unos párrafos cada noche que nos sirvan de inspiración. Unos párrafos cada noche que nos protejan de la desesperación.''- The L Magazine ''Esta es la genialidad de Shepard: la capacidad de sorprendernos constantemente. Juega con nuestras mentes, nos lleva al límite, y al fi nal hace que el viaje haya valido la pena.''- The Denver Post
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Obra ganadora del Premio Amaltea 2018 en la categoría Otros Autores (Traducción) y obra finalista en los Premios Ignotus 2018 por el cuento ''La quedada fílmica de Octubre: Bajo la casa''.Obra nominada a los Premios Shirley Jackson, a los Premios Crawford y candidata a las nominaciones de los Premios Bram Stoker.Dicen que siempre cabe la posibilidad de que encontremos un lugar mejor.En los relatos de este libro se analiza el precio a pagar por alcanzar dicha tierra prometida.Las historias, de marcado tono new weird, transitan por la vida y por el horror, del más mundano al más cósmico, aunque la presencia, más o menos velada de ese horror, sea solo una excusa, un utensilio del que Wehunt se vale para componer unas historias maravillosas (que bien podrían venir firmadas por Borges, Kafka, o Aickman) sobre seres perdidos que alcanzan a ver la realidad que se oculta tras el velo de la nuestra, así, el lector encontrará historias que revisitan el mito del vampiro, de los pactos con el diablo, de las mutaciones, de la mitología angelical, de las creencias religiosas, de las posesiones demoníacas,...En ''Junto a mí, cantando en las tierras salvajes'', Michael Wehunt aborda el tema del vampirismo y se plantea cuestiones que giran en torno a lo que significa vivir siendo un monstruo a ojos de los demás, ''Onanon'' es un acercamiento al horror cósmico con abejas de por medio, así como un juego literario con la idea de un texto infectado que tiene algo oculto entre sus pliegues, ''Un lugar mejor'', la historia que da título a esta colección, es lo más parecido que el lector va a encontrar a un episodio de Twilight Zone, y nos acerca a ese concepto de rasgar el velo de la realidad al que hacíamos alusión unas líneas más arriba, ''Una música discreta'' le sirve a Michael Wehunt para rendir tributo a Robert Aickman por medio de la historia de un hombre que comienza a sufrir una mutación tanto física como emocional, ''El diablo bajo la Maison Blue'' gira en torno a la idea de un pacto con el diablo con sabor a jazz, ''La Quedada Fílmica de Octubre: Bajo la Casa'' es un claro homenaje a las películas de género found-footage, una de las pasiones del autor, ''Descontado de vuestro tiempo en el Paraíso'' parte de la premisa de unas mujeres que caen desde el cielo y de cómo su llegada a un parque de caravanas de Texas altera la monótona vida de las gentes que en él habitan, ''El inconsolable'' persiste en esa idea de la soledad, el abandono y las creencias a las que uno se aferra para seguir adelante, ''Bailarines'' nos acerca también la peculiar visión del horror cósmico de Michael Wehunt, algo que utiliza como excusa para ahondar en las entrañas del matrimonio y el compromiso, ''Cientos de miles de años'' gira en torno a la desaparición de una niña y a la vida que ya no tendrá, por último, ''Acotación'', el único relato que no es de horror de toda la colección, nos habla de esa sensación de pérdida pero, a la vez, es el más esperanzador y parece que trate de hacernos ver que siempre hay una luz al final del túnel.
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El hombre que pudo reinar es una de las aventuras más audaces jamás escritas, capaz de hacer soñar al lector con una ficción en apariencia inverosímil, pero que tiene de realidad mucho más de lo que aparenta. Los Venerables Hermanos Peachey Taliaferro Carnehan y Daniel Dravot han decidido explotar sus habilidades como soldados y hombres blancos para convertirse en reyes de las salvajes tribus de Kafiristán.
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Cien años después de su muerte, Franz Kafka continúa siendo el autor del mundo moderno por antonomasia. Su obra refleja los temores, las inseguridades y la alienación psicológica del ser humano en la sociedad industrializada y secularizada de principios del siglo XX, obsesiones que hoy en día siguen vigentes en el pensamiento del hombre contemporáneo. Aunque Kafka no logró el merecido reconocimiento en vida, su dedicación a la literatura tenía algo de compulsivo, patológico, como si al escribir fundiera el camino de la salvación y el de la condenación. No obstante, el éxito alcanzado por su obra tras su muerte, demuestra que supo captar elementos esenciales de nuestra existencia. La presente selección se propone facilitar al lector un acercamiento al universo de Kafka y para ello hemos reunido los más representativos aforismos, visiones y sueños (extraídos de sus narraciones, diarios, cartas...) que muestran los elementos esenciales del mundo kafkiano y pueden servir tanto de introducción para los neófitos, como de profundización para los ya iniciados
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Un pequeño terrateniente, Pável Ivánovich Chíchikov, se dedica a comprar campesinos muertos para registrarlos como vivos y conseguir así las tierras que se concedían a aquellos que poseyeran un cierto número de siervos. Gógol utiliza este argumento como pretexto para ofrecer la versión más cruda y detestable del ser humano, logrando que esta obra, publicada por primera vez en 1842, sea un clásico con una vigencia formidable en nuestro mundo actual. Alberto Gamón ha realizado un impresionante trabajo gráfico que ahonda en el texto de esta edición, con nueva traducción de Marta Rebón. «Las almas muertas es el texto de ficción que inaugura la formidable tradición de novelistas eslavos. Luego vendrán, con nuevos bríos, Turguénev, Dostoievski, Tolstói, Gorki, etcétera. Todos reconocieron la maestría de Gógol, demostrada también en el versátil género del relato corto, como asegura la frase de Dostoievski: “Todos hemos salido de El capote de Gógol”». Carlos García Gual, El País
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A piercing story of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writersMarianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, Lal, falls helplessly and absolutely for Simon Hurst, 18, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. But fate intervenes. Simon's plans are blown off course, and Marianne is forced to bury her dreams of a future together.Narrating her own story, characterising herself as ignorant and unworthy, Marianne's telling use of irony and smart thinking gradually suggest to us that she has underestimated her own worth. We begin to believe that - in the end, supported by her courageous Scottish friend, Petronella - she will find the life she never stops craving. But what we can't envisage is that beneath his blithe exterior, Simon Hurst has been nursing a secret which will alter everything.
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.
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A Terra Alta Investigation. The second Terra Alta Investigation - a new crime series by one of Europe's leading writers. The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed. A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation. A political chameleon who swept to power on a populist wave, she has her enemies. Nor can she trust those closest to her. Both her ex-husband and her deputy would profit from her fall. Melchor Marín, living a quiet life in Terra Alta, is tempted back to Barcelona to work the case. But what seemed a simple matter has its roots in far more serious and disturbing crimes.
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There are two sides to every story - and every marriage in crisis . . .Malcolm, bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar, and when his boss finally retires, he seizes his chance.His wife, Jess, has devoted herself to her law career, but after years of trying for a baby, she's struggling to accept the idea that motherhood might not be in her future. She finds herself slipping away from both her career and her marriage. The bar is Malcolm's dream, and as she feels her youth start to fade, she wonders how to reshape her own life.When a blizzard hits their upstate New York town on the same day that Malcolm learns some shocking news about Jess, and a regular at the bar goes missing, everyone is frozen in place for a single, pivotal week, forcing Malcolm and Jess to confront their uncertain future.The Half Moon carefully explores a marriage in crisis, what it takes to make a life with another person, and the true meaning of family.
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Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future. A novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's MandolinQ wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he's looking for somewhere to ride out what's ahead.He buys a ruined farmhouse in Cornwall and begins to build his own self-sufficient haven. Over the course of this quest he meets the eccentric characters who already live on the moors nearby - including the park ranger in charge of the reintroduced lynxes and aurochs that roam the area, a holy man waiting for the second coming on top of a nearby hill, an Arthurian knight on horseback and the amorous ghost of an Edwardian woman who haunts the farmhouse.As life in the cities gets more complicated, and our systems of electronic control begin to fall apart, Q flourishes in the wild Cornish countryside. His new way of life brings him back in tune with his teenage children, his ex-wife, and his own sense of who he is. He also grows close to Eva, energetic and enchanting, who is committed to her own quest for love and meaning.In this entertaining and heart-warming novel Louis de Bernières pokes fun at modern mores, and makes us reconsider what is really precious in our short and precarious lives.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE*
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The future is no more, and eternity has begun.It's 1986 and a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Løyning returns home from military service to live with his mother and brother on the outskirts of a town in Southern Norway. One night, he dreams of his late father, and can't shake him from his mind. Searching through his father's belongings for clues and connections, he finds a cache of letters that lead to the Soviet Union.In present-day Russia, Alevtina is trying to balance work and family. She has always sought the answers to life's big questions, but is preoccupied with care of her young son. Her friend Vasilisa offers some nourishment: she is writing a book about an ancient feature of Russian culture, the belief in eternal life. Meantime, Alevtina is heading towards a meeting that will redraw the contours of her world.A searching and humane novel, The Wolves of Eternity is an intimate journey into the experiences of a half-brother and half-sister in their two different - yet deeply connected - lives. The second novel in Karl Ove Knausgaard's extraordinary new series, it expands the universe of The Morning Star in the decades before the blazing and mysterious star descends.
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An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our ageTracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood – a writer who has fundamentally shaped our contemporary literary landscapes – Paper Boat assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume.In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful and hyper-imagined, Atwood gives voices to remarkably drawn characters – mythological figures, animals and everyday people – all of whom have something to say about what it means to live in a world as strange as our own. ‘How can one live with such a heart?’ Atwood asks, casting her singular spell upon the reader, and ferrying us through life, death and whatever comes next. Walking the tightrope between reality and fantasy as only she can, Atwood’s journey through poetry illuminates our most innate joys and sorrows, desires and fears.Spanning six decades of work – from her earliest beginnings to brand new poems – this volume charts the evolution of one of our most iconic and necessary authors.
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With her “extraordinary capacity for radical empathy” (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”
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Concealed beneath the dust sheets in the Athens apartment she has inherited from her grandparents, Helena McCloud discovers a hidden hoard of rare antiquities, amassed during a dark period in Greek history when the city and its people were gripped by a brutal military dictatorship.
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Is the truest family the one we’re born into, or the one we make for ourselves?Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for everything she has – her marriage, a stable job as a career counsellor, and home of her own. She’s overcome the difficult circumstances of her childhood to build this life, and yet, she can’t help but wonder … is this all there is?Just nineteen years old, Daisy Dunlap has already faced her share of hardships, but she has big dreams for her future. A future which is threatened when she gets unexpectedly pregnant and, desperate and alone, she makes a drastic decision with devastating consequences.When Cinnamon finds an abandoned baby in the park, she takes the newborn into her home, not realising the chain reaction this will set off. Cinnamon must deal with the shocking judgements from friends, strangers, even her own husband, about why a Black woman like her would take in this blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby, but all Cinnamon wants is to do right by this innocent child. Then, Cinnamon’s fragile hold over the baby is threatened and she must fight for the family she wants – even if that costs her everything she once held dear …
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New York, 1924. Patricia and Peter are a thoroughly modern married couple. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work. Both believe in 'Love-Outside-Marriage'. Until they don't. Or, really, until he doesn't. So when Peter pushes for divorce with increasing violence, Patricia has to forge a new life as a single woman: as an ex-wife.
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The powerful and poignant novel from the author of the much-loved A Woman is No Man.Raised in a conservative Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur. Now, she has a good job at the local college, and balances that with raising her two daughters and taking care of their home. Yara knows that her life is more rewarding than her mother’s – so why doesn’t it feel like enough?After Yara responds to a colleague’s racist provocation, she is put on probation at work and must attend mandatory counselling. Her mother blames a family curse for Yara’s troubles, and while Yara doesn’t believe in superstitions, she still finds herself growing increasingly uneasy about falling victim to the same mistakes as her mother.Yara’s carefully constructed world begins to implode and suddenly she must face up to the difficulties of her childhood, not fully realising how that will impact not just her own future, but that of her daughters too.
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Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.
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'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil'Published as a shilling shocker, Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with damnable young man Edward Hyde, the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer, and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil.
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