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Shamus Boyle is an upper echelon Financial Banker in the city of Europe Honesty. He’s worked his way up to the top floor with a small group of analysts. When his company, Country Lane Financial, gets a big contract with Maltese and Ferek, the whole stock market gets a significant boost. They’re the biggest drug and beauty company in the world, however, some issues began to get unearthed as the spreadsheets get a thorough inspection. Shamus ends up being picked to be the prime fund manager for the project, even though he’s not fond of the position.

A collection of twenty-six shocking, awe-inducing short stories! A doctor tells a patient they can speak only one thousand words before their life ends. Someone’s boyfriend turns into a can of mackerel. A woman is in her sixth year of pregnancy. This mysterious world is full of laughter and...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is a story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is...

Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated film. An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories...

Crushed by agoraphobia and desperate to reclaim her life, Jenna agrees to an experimental retreat that claims to cure fear itself. Three days in an isolated lakeside cabin. Cutting edge augmented reality therapy. A chance to finally feel free.

War on the mainland is draining Reykjavík. For some, the remote islands off Hrímland's coast are their only hope of survival. Elka, a recovering addict, has fled there with her son Sölvi. In their village they find a new life—all thanks to the Deep, a peculiar power their neighbours praise for the booming fishing industry. Everything seems perfect, but Sölvi does not trust the people who take his mother in.

Urkomisch, tragisch, berührend – ein echter Hendrik Groen. Als sein Chef sich mit großem Bedauern von ihm verabschiedet, steht für Arthur Ophof fest: So kann es nicht weitergehen. Dreiundzwanzig Jahre im Toilettenpapiervertrieb, im Reihenhaus eines Örtchens nahe Amsterdam, in der Ehe mit seiner lieben, sanften, verständnisvollen Frau Afra – damit ist jetzt Schluss. Und so stirbt Arthur. Natürlich nicht wirklich, vielmehr fädelt er ein, was es für ein plausibles Ableben einzufädeln gilt. Aus Arthur Ophof wird Luigi Molima. Nur hat er die Rechnung ohne Afra gemacht.

An immigrant arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, falls into a job at a famous hedge fund, and is startled to discover how business is done on Wall Street. His observations of American culture and finance are jarring, surreal, and hilarious. The author worked directly for George Soros and launched funds with several other Soros alumni. In addition to his career in finance, he founded and continues to host one of the largest veteran fundraisers in New York.

Wilder Crick, the worst presidential candidate in history, is dead. Now his reluctant apprentice Tom and ruthless campaign manager Shelly must carry out his final order—a bizarre, posthumous search for the true, hidden nature of reality.

The only adaptation that powerfully reimagines Albert Camus's The Stranger! When you feel unsupported by those around you, as if the world is singling you out for blame, When you find yourself wanting to condemn your own immorality, That's when you need this book.

The boy and the girl have been married for decades, mostly getting along as they go about their lives. But one day, like thousands of people around the world, the boy vanishes, and the girl is left to wait, wonder, and worry. Will he return? Who might she be if she moves on without him?

On the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, Doctor Quintana pines for head nurse Menéndez while he and his colleagues embark on a grisly series of experiments to investigate the line between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes in search of aesthetic transformation, turning himself into an art object. How far are we willing to go, Larraquy asks, in pursuit of transcendence?

Un capolavoro letterario senza tempo, in cui l'autore mescola il reale con l'assurdo, l'insensibilità con la compassione...

Cervantes se adjudica, con mucha razon, el credito de haber sido quien escribio las primeras novelas en lengua espanola en su serie de doce Novelas Ejemplares, llamadas asi, segun el mismo Cervantes en el prologo a ellas, por "no hay ninguna de la que no se pueda sacar un ejemplo provechoso".

Capolavoro della letteratura spagnola, il personaggio di Don Chisciotte è entrato dal 1605 (anno in cui fu pubblicata la prima parte) nella storia dell'arte letteraria, pittorica, e musicale, e nell'inconscio collettivo, insieme all'inseparabile scudiero Sancio Panza. In entrambi la follia si alterna alla saggezza, componendo una miscela inseparabile.

In this outrageously funny, outrageously inventive debut, one of the most outrageously talented new writers to break onto the sci-fi scene in decades asks the most loaded question of all . . . “Don’t you hate it when this happens?” . . . that’s what the business card asks Jonny X67...

La clinica è sempre lì : su per la Fuyachodori, ovest sulla Rokkakudori, giù per la Tomikojidori, est per la Takoyakushidori. Anche il trattamento che offre è lo stesso, unico e speciale: a ciascuno, secondo il caso, si prescrive un gatto. In questo secondo capitolo della trilogia bestseller di Ishida Syou incontriamo Moe, una giovane ragazza che ha paura di lasciare il fidanzato e ritrovarsi da sola; Tatsuya, alle prese con la morte della moglie e la distanza con il nipote Hayato; Reona, che dovrà prendersi cura del fratello tornato a casa dopo tanto tempo.

What happens when a man tries to abolish desire from his life — and discovers desire has other plans? In this fearless, fast-paced erotic dark comedy, Puchy Mushkin attempts the impossible: to purge himself of every dream, ambition, and craving. The result is a cascade of hilariously catastrophic misadventures that blur the line between absurdity, scandal, intimacy, and self-destruction. Both wildly funny and provocatively candid, The Tyranny of Desire is brilliantly written smut — a true sexistential masterpiece.

Der neue Roman nach dem Bestseller "Die Ladenhüterin" Der neue Roman von Japans Erfolgsautorin Sayaka Murata erzählt die Geschichte zweier Außenseiter, Natsuki und ihr Cousin Yu, die sich jung verlieben und gemeinsam gegen eine Welt verbünden, die ihnen beileibe nicht nur Gutes will. Im alten Farmhaus der Familie, in dem früher die Seidenraupen ihren Dienst verrichteten, sind sie glücklich, denn sie sind beieinander. 20 Jahre später geht Natsuki an diesen Ort zurück.

"La Metamorfosis" fue publicada por primera vez en 1915. Cuenta la extraña historia de Gregor Samsa, un comerciante viajante que vive con su familia en un apartamento. Un día, al despertar, descubre que se ha transformado en un insecto gigante y repugnante. La transformación de Gregor en un insecto simboliza su alienación y aislamiento dentro de la sociedad. A medida que la historia avanza, se muestra cómo sus seres queridos, incluidos su padre, su madre y su hermana, reaccionan de manera diversa a su metamorfosis.