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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the famous Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named John Gabriel Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.
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El contacto entre el horror y la belleza es un bellísimo libro sobre las raíces más minerales de los hombres. Un muchacho polaco, Jakob Beer, aparece hundido en el barro en una ciudad polaca, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Lo salva un científico humanista, Athos Roussos, que lo preserva en una isla griega, entre cartografía y botánica y pieza de arte. Jacob y Athos, con el transcurso del tiempo, acaban instalándose en Canadá. Pero llevan consigo toda la vida que no han vivido, todo el recuerdo de la barbarie nazi, el mar, el sol, las islas, la lengua griega. Y, en la memoria de Jakob, el recuerdo de Bella. Luego será el encuentro entre Ben, un joven profesor obsesionado por la memoria ajena de la guerra, y el ya viejo Jakob, ahora poeta y traductor: el contacto entre ambos atraerá la cuidadosa paz del más joven. En un choque de herencias terribles.Críticas:«Este libro extraordinario es un mundo. Quizá sea el mundo.»Ha dicho John Berger de Piezas en fuga «Es el libro más importante y más bello que he leído en los últimos cuarenta años.»
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A mischievous and genre-spanning story collection from legendary film director Pedro AlmodóvarThe Last Dream brings together for the first time twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day. Delivering a tantalising glimpse into Almodóvar’s world, this wildly inventive collection reflects his most intimate obsessions, as well as his daring evolution as an artist.Ranging from ‘The Last Dream’ - a beautiful chronicle of the death of Almodóvar’s mother - to a love story between Jesus and Barabbas,, a cult film director out in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend, the original story behind the film Bad Education, and a gothic tale of a repentant vampire, these stories delight and surprise.The Last Dream is a celebration of the relationship between life and art, fiction and reality from an artist unafraid to write about our most intimate moments. It explores desire, mortality and the pain and glory of artistic creation, laced with playful humour and a deep love of literature and culture.
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S'ha repetit sovint que Kafka havia decidit destruir tota la seva obra literària. Així, si més no, s'expressa Max Brod, l'amic de l'escriptor i escriptor ell mateix, que en va ser marmessor. I, tanmateix, hi havia dues cartes que Brod va trobar en un calaix, ja mort l'amic, fent pila amb altres papers. Una, en tinta, en la qual hi havia escrita l'adreça de Broch, l'altra, amb llapis, més detallada. En aquesta segona carta, Kafka expressa amb total precisió quines són les obres que vol que siguin conservades: «De tot el que he escrit, són vàlids únicament els llibres La sentència, El fogoner, La metamorfosi, A la colònia penitenciària, Un metge de poble i un conte, Un artista de la fam (els pocs exemplars de Contemplació poden quedar: no vull donar a ningú la molèstia de destruir-los, però no s'ha de reimprimir.» Més endavant, hi afegirà encara tres contes més: «Primer patiment», «Una doneta» i «Josefina la cantant», per tal de fer-ne un llibre, les proves del qual va corregir al sanatori, poc abans de morir. Aquest volum que no pretén prendre partit ni tampoc establir cap cànon recull tots aquests títols, compostos, a més, seguint la presentació tipogràfica prevista pel seu autor.
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In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn’t really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little brother, Joar, on his own, he no longer has time or space for lofty speculations.In present-day Russia, Alevtina Kotov, a biologist working at Moscow University, is traveling with her young son to the home of her stepfather, to celebrate his eightieth birthday. As a student, Alevtina was bright, curious and ambitious, asking the big questions about life and human consciousness. But as she approaches middle-age, most of that drive has gone, and she finds herself in a place she doesn’t want to be, without really understanding how she got there. Her stepfather, a musician, raised her as his own daughter, and she was never interested in learning about her biological father, when she finally starts looking into him, she learns that he died many years ago and left two sons, Joar and Syvert.Years later, when Syvert and Alevtina meet in Moscow, two very different approaches to life emerge. And as a bright star appears in the sky, it illuminates the wonder of human existence and the mysteries that exist beyond our own worldview. Set against the political and cultural backdrop of both the 1980s and the present day, The Wolves of Eternity is an expansive and affecting book about relations—to one another, to nature, to the dead.
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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 is a captivating tal
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Le fameux appel du désert de Lorraine Fouchet enfin e
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Zwei Schwestern, die familieneigene Pension und de
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Eine Insel voller Geheimnisse, eine widerwillige B
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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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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 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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*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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« 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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Qui est Vernon Subutex ?Une légende urbaine.U
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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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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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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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Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker, she is a dutiful wife. But their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, commits a shocking act of subversion: she refuses to eat meat. Thus begins a disturbing and thrilling psychological drama about taboo, desire, rebellion and fantasy.The Vegetarian is a haunting masterpiece about one woman's desire for another mode of existence.
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Hill House ist der perfekte Ort für ihr Projekt, davon ist Holly Sherwin überzeugt. Das Herrenhaus, hoch in den Wäldern von Upstate New York, soll für einige Wochen ihr Zuhause werden. Hier will die Autorin zusammen mit drei weiteren Künstlern ihr Theaterstück über einen Hexenprozess proben, das ihr den Durchbruch bringen soll. Sie fragt sich nicht, warum die Besitzerin selbst sich von ihrem Anwesen fernhält, oder weshalb das Paar, das hier nach dem Rechten sieht, nie über Nacht bleibt. Holly weiß, dass die Atmosphäre von Hill House sie inspirieren wird. Bei den Proben ist die Energie mit Händen zu greifen. Oder ist hier noch etwas anderes am Werk? Woher kommen die Blutflecke auf dem Tischtuch, die seltsamen Stimmen? Die schwarzen Hasen, die immer wieder auftauchen? Etwas Unheimliches geht vor in Hill House ...
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Nur noch drei Tage bis Weihnachten. Die ersten Schneeflocken rieseln vom Himmel, als Libby und ihr neuer Freund Max zu einem Treffen mit alten Unifreunden nach Yorkshire fahren. Archie, der Herzensbrecher der Gruppe, hat alle in das wunderschöne Herrenhaus seiner Familie eingeladen. Der Abend ist ein voller Erfolg, doch als die Gäste zu später Stunde abreisen wollen, sind die Straßen vollständig vom Schnee blockiert. Und dann fällt auch noch der Strom aus. Bei Kerzenlicht schwelgen die Freunde in Erinnerungen an alte Zeiten, und so manches Geheimnis kommt ans Licht. Dabei wird Libby mit Gefühlen konfrontiert, die sie jahrelang verdrängt hat …
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Als ihr Freund kurz vor Weihnachten geschäftlich nach Athen fliegen muss, beschließt Jen, ihn dort zu überraschen. Bei ihrer Ankunft in der griechischen Hauptstadt muss sie allerdings feststellen, dass David sie belogen hat. Jen ist am Boden zerstört und würde am liebsten sofort nach London zurückkehren. Doch sie bekommt keinen Flug. Hilfe findet sie bei dem liebenswerten Astro, Mitarbeiter einer kleinen Bar. Mit ihm erkundet sie Athen, das zu dieser Jahreszeit einen ganz besonderen Zauber entfaltet: Die antike Stadt erstrahlt im Glanz der Lichter, Schnee bedeckt Straßen und Plätze, und es duftet nach herrlichem Mandelgebäck. Und dabei kommen Jen und Astro sich immer näher …
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Die Suche nach ihrem vermissten Vater führt Julia Win von New York nach Kalaw, einem malerischen, in den Bergen Burmas versteckten Dorf. Ein vierzig Jahre alter Liebesbrief ihres Vaters an eine unbekannte Frau hat sie an diesen magischen Ort geführt. Hier findet sie nicht nur einen Bruder, von dem sie nichts wusste, sondern stößt auch auf ein Familiengeheimnis, das ihr Leben für immer verändert.
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Ce nom si romanesque est un déclic : Que se passerait-il si Elisabeth prenait sa place ? Et si c’était enfin l’occasion de réaliser un vieux songe : changer vraiment de vie, au lieu de n’en donner l’illusion en jouant mille personnages… Qui d’entre nous n’a pas pensé, quitter la ville pour se fondre dans le paysage, disparaître pour se réinventer. Et la voilà partie pour vivre une vie qui n’était pas la sienne.
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Another Life is a powerful, moving and hopeful story of the life-changing impact of the connections we form, by the international number one bestselling author Kristin Hannah.Angie DeSaria has spent years of her life trying to have a child. Now, her marriage has crumbled under the strain. Adrift and alone, she returns to her childhood home, a small coastal town in the Pacific Northwest, to help try and rescue the beloved, failing family business.Lauren Ribido is a senior in high school. She dreams of an Ivy League education, escaping her hometown and her troubled mother.When Angie hires Lauren to work at the restaurant, they form an immediate bond, which deepens when Lauren’s mother abruptly leaves town and Angie offers her a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. Together, these two women – one who longs for a child and the other who longs for a mother’s love – will be tested in ways that neither could have imagined.
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Cela fait bientôt sept ans qu'Eric et sa petite Anna Nina sillonnent les routes de France. Solitude choisie. Jusqu'à ce soir de juin, où le vent et la pluie les obligent à frapper à la porte de Valentine. Un orage peut-il à lui seul détourner d'un destin que l'on croyait tout tracé ?
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Sur le flanc du mont Hakodate, au nord du Japon, le café Dona Dona est réputé pour sa vue imprenable sur le port de la ville. Mais surtout, comme au café Funiculi Funicula à Tokyo, il est possible pour ses clients d’y vivre une expérience extraordinaire : voyager dans le passé, le temps d’une tasse de café. On y rencontre Yayoi, une jeune fille qui en veut à ses parents défunts d’avoir fait d’elle une orpheline , Todoroki, un comédien se languissant de son épouse et de leurs rêves communs , Reiko, submergée par la disparition de sa sœur , et Reiji, qui comprend trop tard à quel point il aime son amie d’enfance… Autant d’âmes sincères goûtant à la saveur de moments perdus, et qui apprennent à envisager l’avenir avec plus de sérénité. Après Le Café du temps retrouvé et Tant que le café est encore chaud, Kawaguchi confirme, avec ce troisième roman réconfortant, son talent de conteur.
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A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby, author of Razorblade Tears, and series editor Steph Cha.S. A. Cosby, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland, picks the best twenty mystery and suspense stories from the previous year.
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Teorema es la inexorable descripción de la conducta y de los conflictos de una familia burguesa en un momento de crisis y, al mismo tiempo, una parábola acerca de la irrupción de lo religioso en el orden familiar y de sus demoledoras consecuencias, que se desatan a partir de la visita de un enigmático joven. Este establecerá una irresistible conexión sexual e intelectual con todos los componentes de la familia, a través de la cual cada uno de ellos tomará conciencia de su más íntima naturaleza. Provocador y profético como su autor, Teorema marca un punto de inflexión en la obra de Pasolini y configura esa visión fuertemente sagrada y simbólica de la realidad que el intelectual italiano desarrolló en la última etapa de su vida.
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Descobreix l'ombra de l'olivera de Francesca Clausell, una captivadora novel·la en català que et transportarà a un món ple de misteri i emoció.
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Este no es un libro sobre el incio y el final de los libros , aunque el primero de los títulos seleccionados te va remontar a esos inicios y el número cincuenta a la distopía de su posible final. Este es un libro atípico que da voz a la primera y última página de una selección de cincuenta y un títulos que se van conectando entre sí y merecen la pena ser leídos. En su dedicatoria ya acaricia la esencia didáctida e inspiradora de casi cualquier libro: A quienes sostenéis la pluma, con la mano o con la vista, escribiendo o leyendo, porque la semilla de las ideas elude el fugaz lapso de la existencia cuando migra del papel a la retina para brotar en una nueva mente.
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A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media.March, 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, though, and after Japan’s defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the North-South split that remains today.But what if the KPG still existed now, today—working toward a unified Korea, secretly harnessing the might of a giant tech company to further its aims? That’s the outrageous premise of Same Bed Different Dreams, which weaves together three distinct narrative voices and an archive of mysterious images and twists reality like a kaleidoscope, spinning Korean history, American pop culture, and our tech-fraught lives into an extraordinary and unforgettable novel.Early on we meet Soon Sheen, who works at the sprawling international technology company GLOAT, and comes into possession of an unfinished book authored by the KPG. The manuscript is a mysterious, revisionist history, tying famous names and obscure bit players to the KPG’s grand project. This strange manuscript links together figures from architect-poet Yi Sang to Jack London to Marilyn Monroe. M*A*S*H is in here, too, and the Moonies, and a history of violence extending from the assassination of President McKinley to the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.Just as foreign countries have imposed their desires on Korea, so too has Park tucked different dreamers into this sprawling bed of a novel. Among them: Parker Jotter, Korean War vet and appliance-store owner, who saw something--a UFO?--while flying over North Korea, Nora You, nail salon magnate, and Monk Zingapan, game designer turned writing guru. Their links are revealed over time, even as the dreamers remain in the dark as to their own interconnectedness. A thrilling feat of imagination and a step forward from an award-winning author, Same Bed Different Dreams begins as a comic novel and gradually pulls readers into another dimension—one in which utopia is possible.
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A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its youngest daughter as she comes of age in the 1990s.So begins award-winning poet DéLana R. A. Dameron’s debut novel, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Tabor spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their stories and witnessing their struggles. On Redwood Court, the cul-de-sac in the all-Black working-class suburb of Columbia, South Carolina, where her grandparents live, Mika learns important lessons from the people who raise her: her exhausted parents, who work long hours at multiple jobs while still making sure their kids experience the adventure of family vacations, her older sister, who in a house filled with Motown would rather listen to Alanis Morrisette, her retired grandparents, children of Jim Crow, who realized their own vision of success when they bought their house on the Court in the 1960s, imagining it filled with future generations, and the many neighbors who hold tight to the community they’ve built, committed to fostering joy and love in an America so insistent on seeing Black people stumble and fall.With visceral clarity and powerful prose, Dameron reveals the devastation of being made to feel invisible and the transformative power of being seen. Redwood Court is a celebration of extraordinary, ordinary people striving to achieve their own American dreams.
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A pianist falls grandly, helplessly in love in this elegant new novella from the twice-Booker Prize winnerThe Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist, who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his Barcelona concert.Although Beatriz, who is married, is initially unimpressed by Wittold, she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world. As he sends her letters, extends countless invitations to travel, and even visits her husband's summer home in Mallorca, their unlikely relationship blossoms, though only on her terms.As the power struggle between them intensifies -- Is it Beatriz who limits their passion by controlling her emotions? Or is it Witold, trying to force into life his dream of love? Evocative of Joyce's 'The Dead,' The Pole is a haunting work, evoking the 'inexhaustible palette of sensations, from blind love to compassion' (El País) typical of Coetzee's finest novels.Published together with five exceptional stories, this new work from one of our greatest writers is a must for all literary connoisseurs.
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L’ELOGI DELS FUMUTS és un recull de dotze contes sobre la improbable extinció dels idiotes, relats ben diversos i diferents en tractament, estructura i gènere, si bé domina el color negre: de veure-ho tot negre, de posar-se negre amb el que passa al món, d’humor negre, de gènere negre, de vegades fosc, negríssim, però sempre amb un nexe en comú, una mirada tendra i astorada sobre l’estupidesa humana.Diu el diccionari que un idiota és qui es comporta i pensa de manera absurda i inadequada a les situacions. Un mot que, passant pel llatí, ve del grec antic ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs, «home particular, ciutadà simple, ignorant». Individus absurds que es passegen en les pàgines d’aquest llibre sense donar mai treva a la seva estupidesa, prenent forma de marit, polític, guerrer, somiatruites, maltractador, assassí, víctima, escriptor, lector... Tant en masculí com en femení o no binari. A tothom, en un moment o un altre, li toca rebre, però també, sovint, personatges semblants reben l’elogi dels fumuts, dels perjudicats, dels insurgents que es rebel·len.
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