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Vidas Secas conta a história de uma família pobre da região seca do Nordeste e sua luta diária por trabalho e comida para sobreviver e superar as dificuldades do ambiente árido em que vive.

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author! A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an...

In a renovated Gothic church on Long Island lives Jonathan Hemlock, an art professor and a world-renowned mountain climber who finances his black-market art collection by working as a freelance assassin. Now, Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps: the Eiger. His target is one of his three fellow climbers. The problem is that the CII can't tell him which one.

El gran regreso de Mario Mendoza a la ficción después de cinco años. Adán Santana, un novelista con el cuerpo desbaratado y maltrecho por varios accidentes sucesivos, con un precario estado mental, que menguó sus fuerzas y su espíritu, sobrevivió como pudo al encierro de la pandemia y ahora es un náufrago inmóvil. La humanidad no cambió un ápice tras la prueba extrema que experimentó y él, en medio de ese caos, no sabe cómo retomar el rumbo, si es que aún existe alguno, después de todo lo que ha pasado.

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century...

A desperate young man plans the perfect crime - the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime - to transgress moral law - if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious, and social commentary.

Twenty years ago Emily Mills's father was murdered, and she found his body hanging in the backyard. Her younger sister, Madison, claims she was asleep in her room. Her older sister, Tara, claims she was out with friends. The tragedy drove their mother to suicide and Tara to leave town forever. The killer was caught. The case closed. Ever since, Emily and Madison have tried to forget what happened that night - until an eerily similar murder brings it all back.

Dostoevsky’s narrator is the anonymous voice of the masterful novella. Retired and isolated from society, he is bitter, contemptuous, and contemplative as he presents his anecdotes and philosophical outlooks. Presented as an extract from the narrator’s memoirs, Notes from the Underground is divided into two parts. Opening with a monologue attacking Western philosophy, Dostoevsky follows this theoretical exploration with the anti-hero’s accounts of various destructive and restorative life experiences.

When celebrated singer Calista plunges to her death during a concert in Rio, her former girlfriend Stevie is watching, along with the rest of the world. But while millions of fans mourn, Stevie can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t right. Then Calista returns—alive, a little changed, but wanting Stevie back in her life for the first time in years. At first, seeing her again feels like a miracle.

On the edge of a fog-swept cliff in Maine, a lighthouse keeper named Ephraim Merrow keeps watch—not for ships, but for someone to finally see him. He was once told he was destined for greatness. But after a failed career in New York and years of solitude, Ephraim begins writing journals filled with bitter philosophy, painful introspection, and a growing obsession with a woman from town named Clara Albright.

Claire Mercer thought maps were the only truth—until the ledger at Blackpine Ridge began to keep account. When a remote mountain town trades a promise recorded in ink for a strange, supernatural balance, Claire is pulled into a slow, bureaucratic hunger that steals people’s presence, one name at a time. Friends vanish. Legal safeguards become instruments. A child made of ledger and hollow keeps time. Claire must choose: obey the book’s cruel arithmetic or pay with memory, blood, and what she loves most.

عندما تقابل صوفي مرشدًا غامضًا يهديها إلى درب الفلسفة، تزداد الألغاز عمقًا في حياتها. إذ لماذا تستمر في الحصول على بطاقات بريدية موجّهة إلى فتاة أخرى؟ ومن هي تلك الفتاة الأخرى؟ بل، بسبب ذلك كلّه، من تكون صوفي نفسها؟ لحلّ المعضلة، تستعين بإلمامها الجديد في الفلسفة، غير أن الحقيقة أغرب بكثير مما بوسعها تخيّله. عالم صوفي رواية استثنائية، ومن أكثر الكتب مبيعًا في جميع أنحاء العالم، فهي تنطلق لتجذب القراء إلى عالم سقراط وديكارت وسبينوزا وهيجل وجميع الفلاسفة العظماء. إنها قصة إبداعية ورائعة فيها العديد من المنعطفات والمنحنيات، مثيرة أسئلة عميقة المغزى عن معنى الحياة وأصل الكون.

Liz Tucker's childhood was ruled by the stars. Every morning, her mother read the horoscope page. When the prediction was positive, all was good. But God help them if the planets were out of alignment. Now a successful producer in an LA public relations firm, Liz has escaped those arbitrary forecasts, but her mother's stroke takes her back to her stepfather's beautiful Atlanta house, a place she could never bring herself to call home.

When nine-year-old Oli’s brother Brooks takes his own life, she assumes she’ll never see him again. She assumes she’ll now be forced to rely on photographs and memories and little more. But then, deep in the woods on Halloween night, Brooks returns for one day. For twenty-four hours. For one thousand four hundred forty minutes. Against all odds, Oli is being given the gift of more time, and over the next fleeting hours, she must decide whether to create new memories, revel in cherished moments, or face a painful past and the fear of a future without Brooks.

Ich bin ein Serienkiller. Das hier ist meine Geschichte. Ich erzähle dir von meinen Taten, von meinen Ideen, davon, was mich zu dem gemacht hat. Ich möchte, dass du an meiner Seite bist, während ich mein nächstes Opfer finde. Und ich will, dass du dabei mitwirkst. Sieh nicht nur zu.

Just when Grace Walker finally achieves the stable, happy life she's always dreamed of, a dangerous character from her past resurfaces and her life spins out of control. The freefall begins when Johnny accidentally uncovers Grace's lies about his past, and their bond suffers a near-fatal blow. At that moment, the kidnapper who got away with abducting Johnny as a baby resurfaces and lures him into her trap.

Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story.

Diese Kurzgeschichte ist aus meinem realen Leben. Wenn du eine Freundin hast, die Prostituierte ist, erfährst du schon sehr viel was Freier mögen. Wenn dein Freund auch noch Autohändler ist, bist du bereit für ein Buch. Wenn du dann noch selbst ein Chaot bist, wird das Buch auch noch lustig. Viele, die dieses Buch lesen, werden Situationen im Leben besser verstehen. Es hat nämlich eine sehr starke psychologische Komponente. Geht der Partner oder Partnerin fremd, könntest du eine Antwort finden warum.

In this first mini-collection, I explore three facets of revenge in three separate stories: a gory thriller, a fantastic tale and a psychological thriller. Three hard-hitting, uncompromising stories already published in my collection Quatre Saisons de nouvelles Tome 1.