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One of the New York Times' “Novels We’re Excited About This Spring” David Lynch meets Fight Club in T. C. Boyle’s No Way Home, an obsessive psychological study that illuminates the darkness that lurks inside all of us. Terrence Tully, work-obsessed and a naif in the arenas of sex and...

At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in JapanThe English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task...

Mit dem ihm eigenen Humor und Sound erzählt David Schalko in neunzehneinhalb Kurzgeschichten von den seltsamen Träumen, täglichen Krisen und bizarren Obsessionen dieser eigenartigen Spezies Mensch.

Dr.Juniper Thornton is the head of the Brandywine Penal colony. She runs the sanitarium like a funhouse with her 2nd in command Dr. Simba Camino. Both of them feed off of each other to make the best experience for each patient. All eyes have gone onto the island, once a new law has removed...

Die Geschichte schildert das Schicksal von Gregor Samsa, der eines Morgens als Ungeziefer erwacht – und mit der Entfremdung seiner Familie und der eigenen Isolation konfrontiert wird. Kafkas Erzählung ist zugleich beklemmend, grotesk und tiefgründig, eine zeitlose Reflexion über Menschlichkeit, Schuld und Ausgrenzung.

Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.

THE THEORY OF GRAVITY ACCORDING TO CLOUDSIn 1802, Britain became obsessed with clouds—not just watching them, but classifying, debating, and conquering them. At the Askesian Society, eccentric scholars clash over balloons, machines, shadows, dirt, and even the proper gender of spoons, all...

Joar faller handlöst ner på en gräsmatta vid ett hus han inte känner igen. Där får han syn på sin bästa vän och en stor hund med vänliga ögon. Joar är död, men hans medvetande vägrar släppa taget. Han försöker orientera sig i en ny, förvirrande tillvaro, kontakta de levande...

Nothing: When Nothing Becomes Something by Takezo Art and Susan Ogden Benting, narrated by Ernesto Garcia and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a witty, thought-provoking satirical audiobook that explores consumer culture, modern marketing, public perception, and the surprising...

Au début des années 1860, à l’heure où la Russie se libéralise, un fonctionnaire se fait avaler par le premier crocodile jamais montré à Saint-Pétersbourg. En cette période de naissance du capitalisme, le crocodile est à la fois propriété privée et source de revenus, il est donc...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, winner of the 2019 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he...

Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell in love, had sex and procreated. As Amane grows up and enters adulthood, she does her best to fit in and live her life like the rest of society: cultivating intense relationships with anime characters, and limiting herself to extra-marital sex, as is the norm.

'A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything' New York Times 'Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight' James Wood, Guardian 'He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said...

Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip by his parents’ friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary road trip. Alfred and the Professor encounter towns where Black residents speak only in sign language and towns that hold indigenous parades; it is a land of house burnings, werewolves, and witches.

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...

She can build almost anything. Except a normal life.Engineer Lezi McGyver would rather spend the weekend rebuilding a circuit board than talking to people. But when she's dragged to StimulateCon—the world's biggest adult technology convention—she comes face-to-face with the man who stole her...

Everyone is looking for something. Most of them are looking in the wrong place. ZAC is a yoga instructor, a self-appointed financial visionary, and according to ZAC, a man on the verge of something significant. His wife Suzanne has heard this before. ZAC possesses a rare talent for drawing...

As irreverent as it is amusingly insightful, Cinephilia is the world’s only transgressive work of satirical fiction that involves both cat strangling AND ninjas. The characters are as hilarious as they are absurd and persons of every potential gender, race, and creed are welcome to laugh...

Kelvin is a mild-mannered guy with dreams like anyone else. He works at a fast-food restaurant, keeps to himself and crushes on one of his coworkers. Things never change...Until one day, Kelvin discovers he has a super power when he gets annoyed. The power to slap people with gory and deadly...