Literatura

Matando el tiempo
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Caldwell, Lucy

Catedral
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Drames rurals
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Català, Víctor

Drames rurals aplega dotze contes que articulen un mostrari representatiu de la sensibilitat de Víctor Català, propensa a mostrar, amb intensitat dramàtica, la cara fosca de la vida rural. És també una mostra de la seva creativitat, de la seva habilitat descriptiva i del seu domini de la llengua.Núria Nardi, és catedràtica de Llengua i Literatura catalanes a l'enseyament secundari. Entre els estudis que ha dedicat a l'obra de Víctor Català cal destacar l'edició crítica de Solitud.
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Ahí fuera
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Folk, Kate

«Una nueva y emocionante voz de la ficción inyecta el absurdo en lo cotidiano para presentar una sorprendente visión de la vida moderna, como si Kafka, Camus y Bradbury estuvieran escribiendo episodios de Black Mirror». Chang Rae Lee
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Quan Picasso es deia Pau
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Martínez Rosell, Jordi

Un misteriós manuscrit ocult en una ve lla calaixera d’un pis del barri Gòtic de Barcelona ens descobrirà un secret des concertant: l’amistat entre un jove Pablo Picasso, acabat d’arribar a Barcelona, i l’Evarist, un apassionat dels llibres i més tard bibliotecari de l’Ateneu. Les seves pàgines ens conviden a un viatge de retrobament del veritable valor de l’amistat de la mà dels dos protagonistes en el marc d’una ciutat en ebullició. Els carrers del Gòtic, amb les seves botigues, els seus tallers, les tavernes, els bordells, esdevenen l’escenari de l’aprenentatge vital dels dos amics que, dia rere dia, van teixint tot un univers d’experiències quotidianes en el cor d’una Barcelona en constant transformació.La investigació d’un periodista sobre la veracitat d’aquest manuscrit el portarà a recórrer tots aquests escenaris. Les seves visites al Museu Picasso el posaran sobre la pista d’un misteri amagat entre les seves pàgines. Un secret que no solament revelarà una faceta desconeguda de la personalitat del pintor malagueny sinó que podria dinamitar els fonaments de la seva obra. Una trama que no et deixarà indiferent.
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Un gran mundo
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Pombo, Álvaro

Vuelve el Pombo de Donde las mujeres. El retrato de un personaje femenino quenació con el nuevo siglo. Elvira, una mujer de la generación cuya juventud se derramó por la Europa de entreguerras y la España franquista, es recordada por su sobrina durante un verano de remembranzas en 2014. Narcisista, un tanto lunática, con una conciencia de sí misma que raya la banalidad, tía Elvira es un personaje que nació con el nuevo siglo y a cuya vida asisten en primera fila tres niños (la narradora, su hermana y el primo de ambas, nieto de tía Elvira): sus matrimonios, el primero roto, el segundo corto y por compromiso, y el tercero con Helio, un guapísimo, alegre y simpático argentino como salido del Quartier Latin de París, sus viajes, sus escapadas, las desavenencias familiares y los problemas de financiación de sus negocios quiméricos. Pero, para el lector, el relato de esa vida desmedida se une a la deliciosa novela de crecimiento que compone el trío de protagonistas, un enérgico estudio psicológico de una generación que empieza a mirar atrás para poder seguir adelante.Un gran mundo es la nueva y excelente novela de Pombo, cuya atmósfera se emparenta enprimer grado con su archiconocida Donde las mujeres.
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
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Hemingway, Ernest

Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil WarHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels...
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The Third Realm
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Knausgaard, Karl Ove

If no one ever died, what would happen then?For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards psychosis. Line falls in love with a musician named Valdemar and is lured to a secret death metal gig in a remote forest. Geir, a policeman, is investigating a ritual murder but chances upon something more horrifying even than the bodies in the trees – the last bodies he sees, because, as undertaker Syvert is the first to realise, people have stopped dying since the star appeared.What is haunting the world – and why?As profound as it is thrilling, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Third Realm is a breathtaking novel about ordinary lives on the cusp of irrevocable change.
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
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Cervantes, Miguel de

El texto ha sido fijado a partir del examen de todas las ediciones significativas, antiguas y modernas, y con la aplicación de los métodos filológicos más rigurosos. Las notas aclaran todos los puntos que pueden plantear dudas al lector moderno y están redactadas siempre con la máxima claridad y del modo que más agiliza la lectura. Los anexos, al final del volumen, incluyen mapas, esquemas e ilustraciones, así como un amplio estudio literario e histórico del Quijote y detallada información sobre la vida y escritos de Cervantes y sobre las primeras ediciones y el lenguaje de la novela. Un sumario del argumento permite localizar rápidamente los principales episodios del relato. Para facilitar la relectura y la consulta, la edición contiene completos índices de refranes, obras y autores citados, temas y pasajes memorables, nombres propios, palabras, locuciones y modismos.
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The Ghost Cat
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Howard, Alex

Early morning, 1902. At 7/7 Marchmont Crescent, Eilidh the charlady tips coal into a fire grate and sets it alight. Overhearing, Grimalkin the cat ambles over to curl up against the welcome heat and lick his favourite human's hand. But this is to be his last day on earth ... before he becomes the Ghost Cat.Follow Grimalkin as he witnesses the changes of the next 120 years, prowling unseen among the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement, while unearthing some startling revelations about the mystery of existence, the unstoppable march of time and the true meaning of feline companionship.
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Summer With My Sister
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Diamond, Lucy

Summer With My Sister is a captivating tal
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Le Chant de la dune
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Fouchet, Lorraine

Le fameux appel du désert de Lorraine Fouchet enfin e
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Die Schwestern vom See
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Beck, Lili

Zwei Schwestern, die familieneigene Pension und de
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Die Inseltöchter
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Swan, Karen

Eine Insel voller Geheimnisse, eine widerwillige B
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The Vaster Wilds
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Groff, Lauren

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to surviveA servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.
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Gliff
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Smith, Ali

O brave new world, that has such people in't.Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house.What does it mean?It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort out our increasingly toxic world.What would that actually be like?In a state turned hostile, a world of insiders and outsiders, what things of the past can sustain them and what shape can resistance take?And what’s a horse got to do with any of this?Gliff is a novel about how we make meaning and how we are made meaningless. With a nod to the traditions of dystopian fiction, a glance at the Kafkaesque, and a new take on the notion of classic, it's a moving and electrifying read, a vital and prescient tale of the versatility and variety deep-rooted in language, in nature and in human nature.
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Zero-Sum
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Oates, Joyce Carol

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers.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.In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.
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Lady Tan's Circle Of Women
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See, Lisa

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!*An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China.According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations—looking, listening, touching, and asking—something a man can never do with a female patient.From a young age, Yunxian learns about women’s illnesses, many of which relate to childbearing, alongside a young midwife-in-training, Meiling. The two girls find fast friendship and a mutual purpose—despite the prohibition that a doctor should never touch blood while a midwife comes in frequent contact with it—and they vow to be forever friends, sharing in each other’s joys and struggles. No mud, no lotus , they tell from adversity beauty can bloom.But when Yunxian is sent into an arranged marriage, her mother-in-law forbids her from seeing Meiling and from helping the women and girls in the household. Yunxian is to act like a proper wife—embroider bound-foot slippers, recite poetry, give birth to sons, and stay forever within the walls of the family compound, the Garden of Fragrant Delights.How might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later? How might the power of friendship support or complicate these efforts? A captivating story of women helping each other, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a triumphant reimagining of the life of one person who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today.
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Clara lit Proust
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Carlier, Stéphane

« Proust. Avant, ce nom mythique était pour elle comme celui de certaines villes — Capri, Saint-Pétersbourg... — où il était entendu qu’elle ne mettrait jamais les pieds. »Clara est coiffeuse dans une petite ville de Saône-et-Loire. Son quotidien, c’est une patronne mélancolique, un copain beau comme un prince de Disney, un chat qui ne se laisse pas caresser. Le temps passe au rythme des histoires du salon et des tubes diffusés par Nostalgie, jusqu’au jour où Clara rencontre l’homme qui va changer sa vie : Marcel Proust.
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Vernon Subutex
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Despentes, Virginie

Qui est Vernon Subutex ?Une légende urbaine.U
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Nineteen eighty-four (clothbound classics)
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Orwell, George

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.
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A room of one's own
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WOOLF, VIRGINIA

A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing writing on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.
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Veiller sur elle
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Andrea, Jean-Baptiste

Au grand jeu du destin, Mimo a tiré les mauvaises cartes. Né pauvre, il est confié en apprentissage à un sculpteur de pierre sans envergure. Mais il a du génie entre les mains. Toutes les fées ou presque se sont penchées sur Viola Orsini. Héritière d'une famille prestigieuse, elle a passé son enfance à l'ombre d'un palais génois. Mais elle a trop d'ambition pour se résigner à la place qu'on lui assigne. Ces deux-là n'auraient jamais dû se rencontrer. Au premier regard, ils se reconnaissent et se jurent de ne jamais se quitter. Viola et Mimo ne peuvent ni vivre ensemble, ni rester longtemps loin de l'autre. Liés par une attraction indéfectible, ils traversent des années de fureur quand l'Italie bascule dans le fascisme. Mimo prend sa revanche sur le sort, mais à quoi bon la gloire s'il doit perdre Viola ? Un roman plein de fougue et d'éclats, habité par la grâce et la beauté.
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Be Mine
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Ford, Richard

Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is, here, once more our guide to the great American midway.Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colourful lives - sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent - Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all, caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter's odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank in typical Bascombe fashion faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days.In this memorable novel, Richard Ford puts on display the prose, wit and intelligence that make him one of the world's most acclaimed living writers. Be Mine is a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered world.
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The Tin Drum
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Grass, Günter

Bitter and impassioned, The Tin Drum delivers a scathing dissection of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life, from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures in post-war Germany.
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Sweet Mercies
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Booth, Anne

Even saints need second chances...Discover the new heartwarming Christmas adventure with the Sisters of Saint Philomena, about friendship, family, and forgiveness. Perfect for fans of AJ Pearce, Katie Fforde and Call the Midwife.Everyone loves Sister Bridget. The cheerful Mother Superior of St Philomena's convent is friend to many in the town of Fairbridge and the irrepressible caller at the weekly Parish Bingo. There is nothing she can't sort out with a kind word, a cup of tea and a slice of her amazing chocolate cake.But as the Christmas tree goes up and festive cheer rises, a visitor arrives at the convent who doesn't like Sister Bridget one bit. Sister Bridget soon learns that secrets are bubbling to the surface back home in Ireland - especially for her younger sister Mary. She will need to face up to past deeds, however well-intended.With the help of her friends, and the power of love and forgiveness, maybe she can finally make things right.Sweet Mercies reminds us that none of us is perfect, and everybody deserves another chance at finding peace and happiness.
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Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark
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Fremlin, Celia

Spine-chillingly creepy Halloween tales of horror from author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Uncle Paul: the ‘grandmother of psycho-domestic noir’ (Sunday Times) for fans of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith and Stranger Things.I tried to open my mouth to call out again, but it was not my mouth that opened, it was a great beak, jutting out of my face, cruel and curved like a bird of prey …Celia Fremlin’s classic Gothic story collection is a masterpiece of psychological horror, mining the darkest elements of marriage, childhood, and ageing, probing paranoia, grief and toxic relationships, inviting the ghosts of the past into our present, and exploring the nightmarish secret impulses and supernatural forces lurking beneath suburban Britain.
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I Shall Never Fall In Love
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Conner, Hari

A joyfully queer and stunningly romantic graphic novel inspired by the work of Jane Austen and perfect for fans of Heartstopper, Bloom and Lex Croucher.George has always been in love with their best friend, Eleanor – and has always tried to ignore it.Now Eleanor is coming of age and expected to marry a suitable man, it doesn’t matter how George feels – they have to let her go. Besides, George is busy avoiding their aunt’s matchmaking, taking over the failing family estate, and trying to keep their dressing in men’s clothes a secret.Eleanor has always wanted to do everything ‘right,’ including falling in love – but she’s never met a boy she’s interested in. She’s more concerned with finding the perfect match for her cousin Charlotte, and working out why George is suddenly pulling away. But Eleanor’s friendships seem to be falling apart, and she’s beginning to realise that she likes George more than any man she’s met at a ball…With a swoon-worthy friends-to-lovers romance, I Shall Never Fall in Love shines a light on what it means to be true to yourself and rewrites the rules of Happily Ever After.
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Memòria de tots tres
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Español, Piti

A mig camí entre la novel·la i la crònica, que l'apropa a l'autoficció, aixeca els decorats, els colors i les emocions de tota una època i ens fa reviure la vida de tres nois, més reals que ficticis, de la generació que vorejava els vint anys el 1975.
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The Premonition
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Yoshimoto, Banana

Longlisted for the PEN Translation PrizeThe internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truth.Yayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino.No one understands her aunt's unusual lifestyle. For as long as Yayoi can remember, Yukino has lived alone in an old gloomy single-family home, quietly, almost as though asleep. When she is not working, Yukino spends all day in her pajamas, clipping her nails and trimming her split ends. She eats only when she feels like it, and she often falls asleep lying on her side in the hallway. She sometimes wakes Yayoi at 2:00 a.m to be her drinking companion, sometimes serves flan in a huge mixing bowl for dinner, and watches Friday the 13th over and over to comfort herself. A child study desk, old stuffed animals--things Yukino wants to forget--are piled up in her backyard like a graveyard of her memories.An instant bestseller in Japan when first published in 1988, The Premonition is finally available in English, translated by the celebrated Asa Yoneda.
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The Third Realm
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Knausgaard, Karl Ove

From bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face of enormous change—and the warring impulses between light and dark that live in all of usShapeshifting visitors, unsolved murders in the forest, black metal bands, and an online bank of thousands of people’s dreams—the star is back. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Morning Star kept readers up all night, immersed with nine characters whose individual lives are heightened by the sudden appearance of a blazing new star, and The Wolves of Eternity portrayed the intimate experiences of two estranged half-siblings decades before the star rises. In The Third Realm, the effects of the star are felt around the world, as people start to reckon with what it might possibly mean.With this next novel, the limitless scale and ambition of Knausgaard’s new universe are clear. This is life, death, the human condition, and the real-time creation of an epic and utterly immersive world.
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Let the Games Begin
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Faith Mazarura, Rufaro

Als sich die Wege von Sprinter Zeke und Volunteer Olivia kreuzen, fliegen die Funken ...Sommer 2024. Olivia und Zeke reisen beide mit einem klaren Ziel zu den Olympischen Spielen nach Athen: Olivia will den Grundstein für ihre Karriere beim IOC legen, Zeke – der Herzensbrecher und Starsprinter des britischen Teams – träumt von der Goldmedaille im 100-Meter-Lauf. Als Zeke im Olympischen Dorf versehentlich in Olivia hineinstolpert, geraten die beiden ordentlich aneinander. In den nächsten Tagen kreuzen sich ihre Wege immer wieder, und von Wortgefecht zu Wortgefecht wächst die gegenseitige Anziehung, bis sie ihre Gefühle nicht mehr leugnen können. Aber wird ihre Liebe sie über die Ziellinie tragen, oder scheitern sie an der ersten Hürde?
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The Hole
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Oyamada, Hiroko

When Asa's husband is offered a new job away from the city, the couple end up relocating. And since his new office is very close to his family's home, it makes sense to move in next door to his parents.Through the long hot summer, Asa does her best to adjust to their new rural lives, to the constant presence of her in-laws, to the emptiness of her existence and the incessant buzz of cicadas. And then one day, while running an errand for her mother-in-law, she comes across a strange creature, follows it to the embankment of a river, and ends up falling into a hole - a hole that seems to have been made specifically for her.Thus begins a series of bizarre experiences that drive Asa deeper into the mysteries of this rural landscape and the family she has married in to, leading her to question her role in this world and, eventually, who she even is.
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Poems For Christmas
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Morgan, Gaby

Poems for Christmas is an exquisitely produced gift anthology which is guaranteed to get anyone in the festive spirit.Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library series, featuring expert introductions for your favourite classics. This edition features an introduction by Judith Flanders, author of Christmas: A Biography.Through the generations, poets from William Shakespeare to Thomas Hardy and from John Donne to Christina Rossetti have been inspired to celebrate the Christmas season in verse. Just as we cherish our Christmas traditions now, so many of the great poets wrote beautifully about the Christmas story, magical wintry landscapes, festive traditions and making merry. And then, of course, there are the much-loved songs and carols from around the world that we still sing today, many of which are included in this enchanting anthology.
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Tremor
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Cole, Teju

Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, and a traveller drawn to many different kinds of stories: from history and the epic, of friends, family, and strangers, those found in books and films. One man's personal lens refracts entire worlds, and back again.A weekend spent shopping for antiques is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis.Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that examines the passage of time and how we mark it. It is a reckoning with human survival amidst ''history's own brutality, which refuses symmetries and seldom consoles'' - but it is also a testament to the possibility of joy. This is narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.
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The Mortal And Immortal Life Of The Girl
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Starnone, Domenico

Imagine a child, a daydreamer, always gazing out of the window. His grandmother, busy in the kitchen, keeps an eye on him. The child stares at a balcony on the opposite building, watching the black-haired girl as she dances her reckless dance. For a love like this, a child can push himself to extreme feats. He can turn into explorer or cabin boy, cowboy or castaway, he can fight duels to the death, or even master an unfamiliar language.His grandmother is not articulate, but does not lack imagination, and her love for the boy is immeasurable. She tells him about the entrance to the underworld, engraving indelible images in her nephew’s mind.An irresistible book, as sharp as the swords of fantasy hidden under the bed, as precious as a family jewel, in which the discovery of love and the discovery of death follow each other, marking the end of childhood.
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Journeys And Flowers
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Rodoreda, Mercè

With an introduction by Helen OyeyemiA mesmerising and enigmatic collection of short stories, haunted by the horrors of war, never before translated into English, and divided into two halves: journeys and flowers.A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in gleaming armour play at being soldiers. Thirty-eight stories of invented flowers follow: absurd, lush and dreamlike, they capture different truths of humanity.Mercè Rodoreda, in these beguiling, uncanny stories, fragments of beauty and darkness, combines inventive force and lyrical power in a poetic voice of indelible magnetism, and confirms herself as one of the greatest Catalan writers of the twentieth century.
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