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Nergal e Damkina vivono in un kibbutz e per fuggire da lì, organizzano un imbroglio vendendo puntaspilli trovati su una nave affondata. Ma i molluschi hanno capacità speciali e porteranno ai protagonisti anche molti guai e scelte difficili.

Di cosa è fatta una vita? Di domeniche pigre in cui non rispondiamo al telefono per rimanere sul divano abbracciando un libro appena iniziato. Di ore spese inutilmente a cercare le sigarette, le chiavi della macchina, gli occhiali da sole, perché si sa che spesso le cose si spostano per farci dispetto. Di mattine in cui scopri allo specchio che in una notte hai preso cinque anni e non ti resta che tifare per un po’ d’indulgenza.

A provocative collection of literary horror stories by one of America’s most acclaimed and inventive writers whose unique prose “can be soul-shaking” (New Yorker).

Evenson's first collection of 25 short stories and one novella, Altmann's Tongue (1994), garnered comparisons to Paul Bowles, Poe, and Kafka and is considered by many an existential masterpiece.

A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men: Of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans. In this new short-story collection, Brian Evenson envisions a chilling future beyond the Anthropocene that forces excruciating decisions about survival and self-sacrifice in the face of toxic air and a natural world torn between revenge and regeneration.

In these deeply felt, slyly humorous stories, Bezmozgis pleads no special causes but presents immigrant characters with all their contradictions and complexities, their earnest and divided hearts.

A quiet night in a local pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword wielding fugitive; a funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts simply won’t lay in wake; a shooting sees a veteran policewoman confront the banality of her own existence; and an aspiring writer grapples with his father’s cancer diagnosis and in his despair wreaks havoc on his mentor’s life.

Tres cuentos que nos hablan de libertad y muerte, de represión y pureza, de espiritualidad y transformación dirigidos al "niño interior" de cada lector. "Memorias de un niño bombero", historia de un niño que desea ser bombero, es más la historia de un aprendizaje: la de aprender a ser uno mismo. "Loïe del cielo" cuenta la relación que –durante la dictadura del loco y perverso Horzatt– mantienen un hombre mayor y Loïe. "La increíble mosca humana" es una reflexión que narra la metamorfosis que realiza una mosca en ser humano.

Jodorowsky revisa y amplía su audiolibro de cuentos "El tesoro de la sombra", dándole nuevas dimensiones y prácticamente duplicando el volumen. Alejandro Jodorowsky explica que, en su infancia, la lectura de cuentos "le impidió morir", ya que encontró un alimento que reencantó su difícil existencia. Desde entonces le gusta crear cuentos: cortos, largos, sabios o locos.

A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses—whether we know it or not.

Con il suo caratteristico stile ironico e surreale, ricco di riferimenti colti e soluzioni linguistiche originali, Roberto Barbolini torna con una nuova raccolta di racconti che esplorano il tragicomico intreccio fra le "basse voglie" del corpo e il richiamo insopprimibile del sacro nell’epoca della sua impossibilità.

Boris Pahor, scrittore sloveno e cittadino italiano, non si colloca nel panorama letterario europeo come autore di un solo libro; altri capolavori segnano il suo percorso creativo che ruota in prevalenza intorno al destino della gente slovena nel Novecento e alle suggestioni di una città elusiva e ammaliatrice come Trieste. La prima di queste opere è la raccolta di racconti Il rogo nel porto, che non solo lievita ai livelli più alti della grande letteratura europea ma prelude a quasi tutta la restante produzione dell’autore quanto a temi e motivi ispiratori.

The Bookworm Box is proud to present Two More Days, our second anthology installment. Much like the first installment, Two More Days is an exciting and unique listening experience with contributions from several of our charity's featured authors. Each author was given the same first sentence. Where they took that sentence was completely up to them.

A woman falling out of sync with the world; a king’s servant hypnotized by his murderous horse; a transplanted ear with a mind of its own—the characters in these 25 stories live as interlopers in a world shaped by mysterious disappearances and unfathomable discrepancies between the real and imagined, revealing the breadth and depth of Evenson’s uncanny vision.

Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just 23, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: “remarkably gifted” (The Washington Post), with “a genius for empathy” (The New York Times Book Review), and “a knowledge of others' lives...that a writer twice his age might envy” (USA Today). “Regardless of age,” wrote the New York Times, “few writers so effortlessly achieve the sense of maturity and earned compassion so evident in these pages.”

David Leavitt's second collection of stories further confirms a talent deep and wonderfully creative in its empathy. A Place I've Never Been explores family relationships, friendships, and romantic relationships, among characters whose sexuality is fluid or uncertain—a barrier or under threat. A real estate agent happily married to a woman finds himself in love with another man in "Houses". A man entering a bold new world of gay hookups feels sheltered from the most intimidating attentions by his more attractive, charismatic friend.

Best-selling author Susie Bright’s first work of fiction and her first collection of short stories. Bright reveals the outlier reaches of family, tribe, last rites—as well as the elegiac care and feeding of the fast-disappearing.

A. G. detesta la gente per svariate ragioni. In questa raccolta di racconti si imbatte in alcune situazioni che portano la sua antipatia all'esasperazione, dal viaggio in autobus all'imbarazzo in ascensore, dall'incontro di un adorabile bambino un po' vivace all'attesa di qualcuno non troppo puntuale. Situazioni a cui, per sopravvivere, è bene affidarsi ciecamente alla propria misantropia. Non tutti riescono però a farlo con il cinismo di A.G., che ha il coraggio di comportarsi come tutti vorrebbero ma non possono fare.

Even a city that boasts three hundred days of sunshine a year has its sudden, often violent storms—and writers have long taken advantage of that metaphor. Renowned authors Katherine Anne Porter, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Rex Burns, Robert Greer, Michael Connelly, and Kali Fajardo-Anstine—among many others—have brilliantly portrayed this picturesque but often merciless city. Today, Denver is home to a thriving literary scene, with writers of all stripes finding inspiration in its people and streets. The authors and stories featured in Denver Noir are no exception....

Though published second after Altmann's Tongue, The Din of Celestial Birds (1997) consists of the best of Evenson's early stories. They take place in a country (perhaps several countries) that seems at once everywhere and nowhere, haunted by birds, ghosts, poverty, tyranny, and the permeability of the line between the living and the dead. These stories offer a heady mix of absurdity and bleakness on the one hand and exuberant magic realism on the other.