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La novela comienza con el arresto de Joseph K., un joven empleado de un banco, que se despierta en la pensión donde reside con la extraña visita de unos hombres que le informan que está detenido. Acusado por alguien de un crimen del que sabe poco y nada, K., aún en libertad, se adentra en una auténtica y enigmática pesadilla. Así comienza un proceso laberíntico en el que se ve inmerso y lo lleva a tomar conciencia de sí mismo y reflexionar sobre su propia existencia, sobre la pérdida de la inocencia y la aparición de la muerte.

Yang Wei wakes to find himself still a patient at the hospital. Somehow, he’s aged decades overnight and is confined to the geriatric ward on a massive Hospital ship as it floats along a bloodred sea full of unsightly things. But human remains and sea nymphs are perhaps nothing compared to the goings-on belowdecks.

A selection of funny, surreal, and grotesque short stories by a new master of the genre, Alex Burrett. Ideal for the daily commute....

“As intellectually playful as the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of Kurt Vonnegut, The Heap is both a hilarious send-up of life under late capitalism and a moving exploration of the peculiar loneliness of the early 21st century. A masterful and humane gem of a...

It’s as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall away when she beholds the idol in concert, where Moon dances as if his movements are creating their own gravitational field; on live streams, as fans from around the world comment in dozens of languages; even on skincare products endorsed by the wildly popular Korean boy band, of which Moon is the youngest, most luminous member. Seized by ineffable desire, our unnamed narrator begins writing Y/N fanfic.

The excoriating stories in Mark Doten's brilliant first collection dissect the pathological narratives that shape our culture and country. Narrated by a crosscutting array of White people, Doten's stories spotlight the self-serving logic through which their characters struggle to make sense of, and take control of, the narrative of our time.

All Opal Slepecki wants is loyalty. But when her badly behaved friends refuse to kill her, it's impossible to feel loved. It's been eighteen agonizing hours since she asked them to help her die. Now, it's gone quiet. The brash pill-popper. The shameless exhibitionist. The quiet beauty. She knew the request would be jarring, awkward even, but these women have weathered worse. Haven't they?

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on August 17, 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, now under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon. According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.

Una legione di spiriti diabolici, malvagi, virtuosi, paranoici e sexy contro il conformismo del Megaconcerto di Beneficenza e la violenza dei signori della guerra. Non si sa chi vincerà, ma come dice Stan Hakaleimekalahani "ci sarà gran piagnanza e gran ridanza".

Il maggiore Kovalev si risveglia una mattina senza il proprio naso. Peggio ancora: il naso sembra aver assunto una vita autonoma, vagando per la città in uniforme da funzionario e comportandosi come se fosse un rispettabile membro della società. Tra smarrimento, vanità ferita e tentativi disperati di ristabilire l'ordine, la vicenda si trasforma in una satira tagliente dell'apparenza sociale, della burocrazia e dell'identità personale.

'Profoundly surreal, intensely melancholic and boldly exploratory.' - DAMODAR MAUZO 'N. Prabhakaran's tales restore our sense of delight, not just in this literary form but in the crying human need for retrieving, remembering, retelling experience.' - ANJUM HASAN 'Vividly imagined and narrated...

In this fiendishly original novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models–fantasies that naturally revolve around him.

Heather, a young performance artist with middling talent but flawless instincts for self-promotion, becomes an emblem of our times. As she prepares a work that promises ultimate revelation, her sense of the real begins to disintegrate. By smashing apart the circuit board of late-capitalist life...

Anna vend des poulets rôtis sur les marchés pour assurer l'essentiel, pour que son fils Léo ne manque de rien. Anna aspire seulement à un peu de tranquillité dans leur mobile-home au bord de l'Atlantique, et Léo à surfer de belles vagues. Mais quand elle perd son camion-rôtissoire dans un accident, le fragile équilibre est menacé, les dettes et les ennuis s'accumulent. Il y aurait bien ce "Jeu" dont on parle partout, à la télé, à la radio, auquel Léo incite sa mère à s'inscrire.

Neste romance baseado em um crime real e construído de forma circular — ele começa no ponto em que termina —, Estela está presa em uma sala de interrogatório policial para esclarecer a morte de uma menina a seus inquiridores. Anônimos, eles estão separados da protagonista por um vidro...

Während der Erzähler melancholisch in einem Kochbuch blättert, flattert durchs offene Fenster seiner Stadtwohnung ein Rabe in den Raum. Nachdem dieser zwanglos auf der Rückenlehne eines Sessels gelandet war, schüttelte er sein Gefieder und sagte: „Hallo!" Wer glaubt, dass dies nicht schon genug verdreht wäre, wird bald darauf eines Besseren belehrt, denn nach einem kurzen, aber einigermaßen tiefsinnigen Monolog des Besuchers kommt auch noch ein schüchterner Bussard nach, der das illustrierte Selbstgespräch des Raben durch weitere mystische Erläuterungen ergänzt.

In einem Wiener Spital, das er wegen einer Gallenoperation aufgesucht hatte, gerät der ansonsten unbenannte Ich-Erzähler zwischen die sonderbare Front seines vulgär selbstsicheren Bettnachbarn Herrn Körber und seiner eigenen, aufwühlenden Gedanken, die er sich über diese unklare Begegnung notgedrungen macht, und deren Entfaltung sich unbeirrt Schritt für Schritt vor seinen hilflosen Augen zu einem beängstigenden Gesamtbild formt.

Im Krematorium von Juschno-Sachalinsk kommt es während einer Verabschiedungszeremonie des Künstlers Sergejewitsch Prygun zu einer Reihe sonderbarer Szenen, die teilweise unabhängig voneinander stattfinden, jedoch trotzdem ihren gemeinsamen Ursprung im energiegeladenen Umfeld des Verblichenen zu haben scheinen. Ein verschlagener Galerist spielt hierin eine besondere Rolle, aber auch ein fröhlich singendes und tanzendes Damentrio, welches gegen das Gebot der schweren Stunde leichte Unterhaltung bietet.

“You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An exhilarating, clever, funny debut novel from a prize-winning talent...

Margot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of expectation and the bad end of the worst relationship yet, she leaves New York and heads to to the Pacific Northwest. She's seeking to escape both the eyes of the world and the echoing voice of that last bad man. But a chance encounter with a dubious doctor in a graveyard, and the discovery of a dozen old film reels, opens the door to a study of both the peculiarities of her body and the absurdities of her famous family.