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When Fitz, an overlooked foreign policy strategist, is summoned to the seventh floor, he is thrust into the derangement of late 2010s Washington, DC—national security incompetence, diplomatic intrigue, and institutional decadence. Absurdity follows in this darkly comic tale of frivolity...

The first New World monkey and his journey to become the first American astronaut. People forget NASA started with a stolen rocket, a captive scientist, and a poached monkey. For seventy-five years, his story was buried, classified and redacted, until now. In 1938, a pregnant rhesus macaque is...

"Il fu Mattia Pascal", il romanzo più famoso e amato di Pirandello, scritto nel 1903, ruota attorno al tema dell'individualità e dell'introspezione. Il bibliotecario Mattia Pascal fugge da un matrimonio infelice a Montecarlo, dove riesce a vincere una discreta somma. Tornando a casa scopre dal giornale di essere morto. Subito si inventa un'altra identità, convinto di poter cambiare vita, ma inesorabilmente si ritroverà prigioniero delle convenzioni e delle regole cui ha tentato di sottrarsi.

"La testa fra le nuvole è un omaggio alla letteratura, alla forza del sogno e della fantasia. Ed è un omaggio alla letteratura che mi ha formata più di tutte le altre, quella della cosiddetta Mitteleuropa. Ruben è il nipote di Karl Rossman di "America", il cugino del protagonista di "Ho servito il re d'Inghilterra". Lo svagato, l'irregolare, lo Schlemihl che si aggira stupito e maldestro nella realtà degli uomini grandi, degli uomini che non scorgono l'insensatezza della vita. Ruben è anche una parte del mio carattere che, con la saggezza degli anni, ho imparato a mascherare..."

There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel...

In Georgi Gospodinovs Roman trifft der Erzähler auf Gaustín, einen Flaneur, der durch die Zeit reist. In Zürich eröffnet Gaustín eine »Klinik für die Vergangenheit«, eine Einrichtung, die Alzheimer-Kranken eine inspirierende Behandlung anbietet: Jedes Stockwerk ist einem bestimmten Jahrzehnt nachempfunden. Patienten können dort Trost finden in ihren verblassenden Erinnerungen.

BRUJERÍASEN PUERTO CERO. TRILOGIA COMPLETA. SEGUNDA EDICIÓN. Zulú, pícaro, cínico, un producto de la crisis, sueña con volverse proxeneta. Catalina o Kathy busca salir de la miseria juntándose a un tipo con la billetera abultada. Rubustiano, su padre, militar cerrero como un buey, se pone lírico y dice que su amor tiene más amanecidas que el sol. Tres historias, un solo hilo. Los personajes se dedican a extorsiones express, sablazos y falsos casting que rompen sueños."Vine a este casting para llegar a ser modelo de pasarela y me quieres romper mi ... sueño".

Ambientada a fines de los años cuarenta del siglo XX en Orán, La peste narra las vicisitudes de una ciudad cerrada durante un inesperado brote de peste bubónica. Ya en fechas de su publicación original, el autor confirmó lo que muchos lectores veían por sí solos: la epidemia era una alegoría de la ocupación nazi en Francia. Sin embargo, ese paralelismo no agota la capacidad profética del relato, que advierte sobre los peligros invisibles que acechan a toda sociedad moderna.

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...

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...

I am having problems relating to my crew member, having never been a great fan of cats, nor they of birds. Why have we been press ganged into service together? What can they hope to achieve by sending this absurd duo out to sea? I am an owl. The Cat is a cat... In Pea Green Boat, Stewart Lee and...

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World'...

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...

Obsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse, a mismatched trio sets off on a globe-trotting road trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared In the fading days of summer...

“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...

Imagine a noir thriller that turns completely sideways. A man confronting the darkest reflections of his own obsessions and delusions, and discovers that killing the mirror only deepens the fracture. A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT is a darkly comic psychological noir in which a mild-mannered man's life descends into chaos when he confronts Andor Vescov, a charming and unhinged figure from his past; a fever-dream of absurdity, horror, and dark comedy, blending psychological tension, cult rituals, and a protagonist whose only crime is surviving his own madness.

Cementing her mastery across genres, Catherine Lacey returns with a new collection of visceral and absurdist short fiction. Across the nine stories in My Stalkers, Catherine Lacey’s second collection of short fiction, women are constantly confronted with the thrill, banality, and horror of...