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In diesem Buch erwarten dich 30 rabenschwarze Kurzgeschichten, jede so kompakt, dass sie in fünf Minuten gehört ist, doch ihr Echo hallt viel länger in deinem Kopf nach. Düsterer Humor, unheimliche Wendungen und kleine Alltagsmomente, die plötzlich aus dem Ruder laufen, ziehen dich in ihren Bann. Jede Story ist ein schneller Trip in die Abgründe der menschlichen Psyche, perfekt für zwischendurch, aber garantiert nichts für schwache Nerven.

Quand Martin Jobard, un enfant du pays devenu haut fonctionnaire à Paris, décide de revenir briguer la mairie de son village normand et de moderniser le réseau d'eau potable, il trouve sur son chemin Maria, la joyeuse et idéaliste tenancière de l'épicerie, qui défend la source des anciens. La lutte qui s'engage va éveiller, chez les habitants, le pire comme le meilleur.

En Canillejas hay un edificio de renta antigua sobre el que pone los ojos un fondo de inversión para comprarlo y echar a los vecinos. El bloque de pisos alberga a veinte familias y el bar del Julito. En él vive el Botas, protagonista de la novela Yonqui, que, junto a personajes de otras novelas del autor como Zip, el Tijeras o el Pirri empiezan a organizarse para intentar salvar el edificio.

Rainer Maria Rilkes Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge – ein poetischer Seelentauchgang eines jungen Dichters zwischen Selbstfindung und urbaner Einsamkeit. Ein Roman über das Licht und die Schatten der Großstadt, Erinnerungen und ästhetische Reflexion, ungekürzt und eindringlich vorgetragen von Sven Görtz. In Maltes Notizen verbinden sich Impressionen aus Paris mit tiefen Gedanken über Leben, Tod, Sprache und die Erfahrung des Fremdseins – ein Klassiker der modernen Lyrikprosa und ein Schlüsseltext der literarischen Moderne.

Erst war es nur ein ONS, dann nimmt er mir mein Erbe weg und dann soll ich seine Frau spielen? Ganz schon viel verlangt von diesem reichen, gutaussenden Mistkerl, dem ich nicht widerstehen kann.
Und das war noch nicht alles: Seine Familie hasst mich und ich bin von ihm schwanger! Josie steckt in der Klemme: Sie hat ihren Job verloren und ein Hotel geerbt – eine Bruchbude, die nichts als Ärger macht. Dann soll sie auch noch auf der Hochzeit ihrer Cousine Lea die Trauzeugin spielen. Danach steht ihr wirklich nicht der Sinn.

Lucas will nichts als seine Ruhe in einer Welt, die ihn einfach nicht in Ruhe lässt. Eine Kurzgeschichte vom internationalen Bestsellerautor Fredrik Backman Videospiele, Wein und Pad Thai – das ist der perfekte Abend für Lucas. Andere Menschen? Muss nicht sein. Warum denn, wenn er auch alleine glücklich sein kann? Als der dreiköpfige Vorstand der Bewohnervertretung überraschend an seiner Tür klingelt und eine Inspektion seiner Bratpfanne verlangt, ist Lucas alles andere als begeistert. Doch Abwimmeln ist nicht.

Nadia is an abstract thinker coming to terms with the harsh realities around her. She is a bookworm, a prankster, a wanderer, and a note-taker. She sees people gambling with life and soul for little apparent gain and wonders what she can do to make a difference. Progressively, her life is pulled apart by her family’s migration to Ukraine, a dubious courtship, the Chernobyl disaster, police surveillance, and an Afghan war. As Nadia comes of age, she finds that the bonds of family and friendship create an inseparable fate: to rescue one another or to drown.

Step into the pulse of Las Vegas—where glitz hides chaos, lust fuels crime, and not everything that happens here stays hidden. From drunken confessions to criminal escapes, these true-inspired tales pull you inside the raw, unfiltered nights of the city that never sleeps.

In the heart of post-7/7 London, amidst the shadows of violence, addiction, and a family legacy soaked in secrets, Kalooki unravels the raw, unflinching story of Lenny Bell—a barrow boy turned bruised soul navigating survival in a world that never gave him a chance.

When his older brother gets gunned down, 14-year-old Junius Posey puts down the weed he’s pushing and grips a gun for the first time. As he makes his way into the Rindge Towers, a territory of vicious drug dealers, Junius is forced to defend his best friend to deadly effect. Now there’s no going back. Shocked by the violence he’s created and determined to see his quest through to its end, he pushes ever farther into the towers to find a woman known as “The Oracle” who might have his answer.

In the gritty streets of Chargeton, a fictional London borough known for its high crime rates, hope emerges from an unlikely source: the Chargeton Oaks basketball team. Richard Furzton and his childhood friend Walton join Chargeton College in 2015, balancing their studies with their dreams of basketball careers. The Oaks are a mismatched group, struggling to overcome their differences and form a cohesive unit. Amidst internal conflicts and external pressures, Coach Lake must lead a conflicted team through a journey of transformation.

Apenas a sus dieciocho años, a Carlitos Villaurrutia lo mata una bala perdida, en mitad de una trifulca que se desata en el puesto de piratería de su familia. Para su amigo List, el duelo se convierte en horror cuando, meses después, recibe un mensaje instantáneo de Carlitos. Un mensaje que no debería existir. Así, entre el espanto y el absurdo, List se lanza a una investigación que es todo menos profesional para seguir el rastro de los chats de su amigo muerto. Un camino de pistas surreales, personajes tan cotidianos como extravagantes y recuerdos de una infancia compartida.

Mama Ella’s final words cling to Karina long after her grandmother passes—cryptic, unsettling, impossible to shake. When her estranged sister, Candace, appears at the funeral unannounced, those last words snap into focus, suddenly prophetic. Soon, buried truths and scabbed-over wounds surface, forcing the sisters to confront the betrayals and choices that shaped their lives—and the secrets that kept them apart.

Aurora nasce in un appartamento popolare a Roma Sud, mentre il Paese si prepara ad attraversare gli anni Settanta e il loro spegnersi nella strategia della tensione. Del resto il passato sembra aver lavorato per lei da prima che nascesse: la nonna, con la quale Aurora ha un rapporto d'amore profondo e privilegiato, era scampata per miracolo al bombardamento di San Lorenzo. Tutt'intorno, nel frattempo, la città respira come un organismo: abbraccia, tradisce, intreccia destini senza mostrarli.

“The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with outsize intensity.” Along the streets of Manhattan, a...

Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each as too limiting - until he tangles with the glamorous perfectionist Thea.

Giappone, inizi degli anni '70. In un paese già scosso dagli effetti dei violenti moti studenteschi del '68, Ryū, Lily e il loro gruppo di amici gravitano nei dintorni della base militare americana di Yokota, a poche decine di chilometri da Tokyo, di cui frequentano alcuni dei soldati lì di stanza. Vivono una quotidianità scombinata, fatta di un uso costante e ossessionato di qualsiasi sostanza stupefacente si ritrovino a portata di mano, di sesso estremo, di piccoli furti e di qualunque altro comportamento vada a costituire un'anomalia e una sfida alle regole.

Dopo aver perso il padre in quello che ha tutta l'aria di essere stato un doppio suicidio d'amore, Yoshie si trasferisce dalla sua casa di Meguro a un minuscolo e vecchio appartamento a Shimokitazawa, un quartiere di Tokyo famoso per le sue stradine chiuse al traffico, i ristoranti, i negozietti, nonché meta degli alternativi della capitale. Qui Yoshie spera, aiutata dall'atmosfera vivace, di superare il dolore e dare una nuova direzione alla sua vita. Un giorno, però, sua madre le si presenta a casa all'improvviso con una borsa Birkin di Hermès e qualche sacchetto.

Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a penchant for ladies clothes, and he's lost his teaching post at Princeton's Pretty Brook Day School after an unfortunate incident involving a colleague's brassiere.

In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews). In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city...