検索キーワード： 短編小説

A Nobel-díjas író novelláiban is ugyanazzal a pontossággal és finomsággal építkezik, mint amit regényeiben már megszokhattunk. A hangoskönyvünkön hallható mindkét történetben a zene játssza a központi szerepet: Hogyan képes bármelyikünk életét befolyásolni, a legkülönbözőbb sorsú embereket egymáshoz fűzni. - Egy kedves, bölcs könyv az idő múlásáról és azokról a pillanatokról, melyek megszépítik az életet, szerelmi vallomások a zenéhez.

This is a story from the Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories collection.

Il tema dell'audiolibro si svolge lungo l'analisi del significato di Felicità. La Felicità è quella necessità che deriva dalla sua proverbiale mancanza. La sua stessa essenza implica l'esistenza dell'antipode, che si definisce Infelicità.

Che cosa fa una ragazza ingenua, ambiziosa, che non si rassegna a sistemarsi con un matrimonio qualunque? che vuole evadere dal meschino mondo della provincia che ragiona per pregiudizi e condanna senza appelli una donna sulla base del sentito dire?

Personaggio buffo e melanconico, Marcovaldo è il protagonista d'una serie di favole moderne, dove Italo Calvino va segnando avvenimenti impercettibili nella vita di una grande città industriale. Partite come divagazioni comico-poetiche sul tema della più elementare lotta per la vita, le venti favole di Marcovaldo arrivano alla rappresentazione della più complicata realtà d’oggi, alla satira del "miracolo economico" e della "civiltà del consumo"; ma sempre restano fedeli a una classica struttura narrativa: quella delle storielle a vignette dei giornalini per l'infanzia.

"Venga, le ho detto. Perché? Guardi fuori, è già l'alba. E allora? È ora che lei torni a casa a dormire. Cosa c'entra che ora è, sono mica una bambina. Non è questione di ore, è una questione di luce. Che cavolo dice? È la luce giusta per tornare a casa, è fatta apposta per quello. La luce? Non c'è luce migliore per sentirsi puliti. Andiamo". Si incontreranno per tre volte, ma ogni volta sarà l'unica, e la prima, e l'ultima.

Xuan Juliana Wang's remarkable debut introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth. From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids) to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new experience of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are, in a world as vast and varied as their ambitions. In stories of love, family, and friendship, here are the voices, faces, and stories of a new generation never before captured in fiction.

From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua’s early work, that shows his far-reaching influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Yu Hua and other young Chinese writers began to reimagine their national literature. Departing from conventional realism in favor of a more surreal and subjective approach inspired by Kafka, Faulkner, and Borges, the boundary-pushing fiction of this period reflected the cultural changes sweeping the world’s most populous nation.

Dr. Heidegger invites four elderly friends to his macabre study. He claims to his friends to have found liquid from the fountain of youth! The friends are skeptical, but choose to drink the liquid anyway.

Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of 86 stories, now we have 89 in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves - and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives - and hers - and ours.

The following books are included: Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation and Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled.

These 18 stories range from magical realism to the Gothic and macabre. Whether describing a burg of one-legged miners, a bizarre brother/sister relationship, or salty seamen telling their favorite real-life horror tales, Eric McCormack disturbs and enchants.

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits - an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies - who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love, “that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.”

Una serie di storie, favole, leggende scritte e raccolte dal grande Leonardo da Vinci e attualizzate nello stile e nel linguaggio per un ascolto più scorrevole e immediato. Dalle parole di Leonardo emerge l'immenso amore per la natura di un autore che riesce a colorare di poesia anche i miti e i racconti popolari più ingenui, come solo i grandi geni riescono a fare.

What strange science made Nameless who he is? What catastrophes have been erased from his memories? In the stunning conclusion of this series, the dark past comes flooding back, and Nameless must decide how much he really wants to know. In Indiana, a murderous psycho has kidnapped his own six-year-old stepson, Jamie, and secreted him away in a subterranean cave. It’s become their bunker. For Nameless, the case is breaking down his defenses, and it may force him to face his memories.

A bloodthirsty sheriff is terrorizing a small Texas town where justice has been buried with his victims. Until Nameless arrives - a vigilante whose past is a mystery and whose future is written in blood. Anyone who crosses Sheriff Russell Soakes is dead, missing, or warned. One of them is a single mother trying to protect her children but bracing herself for the worst. Nameless fears the outcome. He’s seen it in his visions. Now it’s time to teach the depraved Soakes a lesson in fear. But in turning predators into prey, will Nameless unearth a few secrets of his own?

Billie Montgomery was always known as the sick kid with the therapy dog. Dylan Bowden never had two nickels to rub together, let alone a true home to call his own. They're always there for each other, so when Billie opens his own bakery called Montgomery's Sweets no one supports him better than Dylan. The business is a success, and Billie figures he's got everything he needs. Everything except the guy he's been saving himself for, no matter how often Dylan tells him it's time to move on. After a night out turns into a sexy exchange, they pretend like nothing happened.

From the author of The Natural comes a classic short story about a young rabbinical student and his fateful encounter with an enigmatic matchmaker. A co-production with the National Jewish Theater. Recorded before a live audience at Chicago’s Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in July 1992.

Selections include: "A Madison Square Arabian Night", "The Lost Blend", "The Buyer from Cactus City", "Georgia's Ruling", "Blind Man's Holiday", "The Ransom of Red Chief", "Halloway's Code", and "The Last Leaf".

From the author of such classics as Breakfast of Champions and Cat's Cradle comes this collection of unabridged short fiction originally published in some of America's most popular magazines of the 1950s and 60s. Vonnegut himself selected his best early works for this collection, and he reads the preface and afterword to boot!