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First published in 2014, this tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning collection includes three new stories.A young mother intrudes in the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters...
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2021
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Todos podemos ser el demonio del otro. Todos podemos ser el sacrificio humano de ese otro. María Fernanda Ampuero, una de las voces imprescindibles de la literatura latinoamericana actual, nos empuja magistralmente a un universo húmedo, podrido y hostil donde la violencia marca la narrativa de nuestras vidas. En ese mundo se yergue una bestia de muchas cabezas que aterroriza y muerde a los débiles, a los marginales, a los sacrificables en aras...
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Náufragos, origami, posesión y ciencia: estos cuentos encarnan el punto de encuentro entre los horrores contemporáneos y los terrores antiguos.
Seis relatos de una belleza oscura que laten con temáticas perturbadoras: la legitimidad de la venganza, el incesto como medio de supervivencia, brujería indígena versus tradición japonesa, el cuerpo como la víctima fatal que habitamos. Los cuentos de Rivero perforan al lector
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El albacea: 24 cuentos para el olvido es una colección única y descaradamente irreverente de cuentos que originalmente eran 27, pero que el autor, en un acto de desesperación literaria, tuvo que reducir a 24 para evitar ese inquietante número. ¿Por qué? Porque en la literatura, como en la vida, se permite todo, incluso matar.
A través de estas historias, el autor explora los límites de la escritura, donde se permite amar, golpear, disparar,...
5) Next
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What is next? Answering that question everyday will keep you young. This volume of fictional short stories explores the possibilities ahead and the outcomes for a host of characters in contemporary life.
6) Miedos
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¿Aún crees en monstruos bajo la cama? ¿Te aterroriza la oscuridad? ¿Hasta dónde estarías dispuesto a llegar para no caer en el olvido? ¿Qué harías si te hubiese tocado crecer en la Ruanda de 1994? ¿Y si la desidia se hubiese apoderado de tu vida? ¿Tienes miedo a estar solo? ¿O a sentirte solo?
Miedos no es un libro de terror. Estos veintisiete relatos no pretenden que nos escondamos asustados bajo la almohada, sino más bien que nos enfrentemos...
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Having very little memory very few memories of my childhood in Iran… and less and less as time goes by… I chose to pay tribute to the Iranians… my own way… at last I have a bridge back to Iran again…Iran is often confused with a country with ill-famed people… little do people know how wrong they can be in assuming so… and those (usually self-proclaimed) specialist of Iran and Iranian life and culture are not specialist at all…Iran...
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Fred and I enjoyed wrestling around on the playground. We tried not to hurt each other, and both of us knew that. "Oh no. Here comes the teacher.""Here we go. To the office again. I don't mind. I had fun wrestling with you, Fred.""Yeah, me too. My mom and dad will not like this. I just hope the paddle does not have any holes in it."The paddle did not contain any holes. However, the next time, and every time after that, there were holes in the paddle....
10) Nowhere to Hide
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About the Book Love, jealousy, greed, just some of the raw human emotions that fill the pages of St. Giles' latest collection of short stories.
11) About Face
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About Face is an illustrated children's book about a dream in which ears, eyes, nose and mouth become detached from the narrator's face, taking on lives of their own.
The facial characters, free from all restrictions, delve into mischief including party music, trying to bake a pie without burning down the kitchen, eating and even dancing!
About Face is a hilarious children's story illustrated with remarkable 3D effects and fantasic visual innovation...
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Each of the nine short stories collected here feature two types of people - the troubled and the troublemakers. In "The Guest," a homeless man gleefully takes credit for a robbery he did not commit. "In the Alley" tells the story of a terminally ill man who begrudgingly outlives his initial prognosis. And the satiric "I Look Out for Ed Wolfe" features a charismatic salesman auctioning off his life's possessions in order to determine his value in the...
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The stories of Vladimir Torchilin, representing the irrationality and phantasmagorical nature of everyday life both in Russia and in America, reveal the difficult world of the people of our time. The writer's gaze sharply notices the details – sometimes funny, sometimes tragic. Written in a lively, fascinating, and often ironic way, these stories are easy to read and at the same time make you think.
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In the title story of this collection, Alysson was raised to believe in a sisterhood of women. She is plunged into a world where the 'sisters' are twisted. Women set her up at work by a malicious prank. A manager tries to molest her. These events occur in the stories set in a fictitious agency where she is a badly treated casual. In 'Bad Neighbours', Trudy, Alysson, the owner of the property, and most of the street, are victimised, any hour of the...
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A collection of short stories by one of America's great twentieth-century writers In his introduction to this collection of sharply crafted short stories, James Jones compares novel writing to a long-term, chronic illness. Writing short stories, he says, is like a brief, intense fever: the kind that can kill or disappear in a matter of days. Although best known for epic war novels such as From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line, Jones also wrote...
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En esta segunda parte de Los cuatro mundos, el protagonista junto al Rymperión deberán frenar la llegada del Hombre Prisma, un ser que representa la oscuridad que todos los seres llevan dentro.
Sin embargo, no será tarea fácil, pues su influencia no ataca a nivel físico, sino de un modo mucho más atroz y despiadado. La Kingdom of Darkness es su dimensión, donde si te atrapase sufrirías la tortura eterna de un mundo de desilusión.
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Big brother said that when I was born in the shadow, I was born to deal with the dead. I was born with Yin and Yang eyes, and I have learned a few mystical skills, and I can handle ordinary children. But one day, I met a thing that I don't know whether it is a person or a ghost, this thing is handsome and extraordinary, but it insisted on pegging me to marry him
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In the appropriately titled The Corridors of Longing, a wide variety of otherwise ordinary people anxiously face crucial choices. Personal trauma, anger, frustration, sexual desire, cultural shifts, work, and an assortment of other common issues are deepened and made singular, even in these very short stories, by the sharp focus of close observation.In settings and situations that range from mid-20th century to the present, fathers and sons, mothers...
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We all sometimes miss the stories of our fathers or grandfathers, told on cold nights by the fire in the fireplace.
Unfortunately, people socialize less and less, so stories like this slowly fall into oblivion.
I desire to save from the oblivion at least the little bit of soul that remained in the stories I heard.
This story is a fond memory of one such night.
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This is a collection of eleven short stories whose common theme is the heroism of our flawed lives. It explores the arduousness of people's lives and covers such diverse subjects as human solidarity, generational change, single parenthood, domestic violence, the tragic complexity of revolution, police brutality, artistic hubris, and the limitations of rationalism. In 'The Hat', a polish Jew on the run in Eastern Europe goes down to a town in search...
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