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El desfile de escenarios y personajes fuera de serie es incesante: de las habilidades de un personal trainer que enseña a soportar la felicidad de los demás a un parque de diversiones de suspensión de conciencia y una brigada de aviones que fumigan con culpa. El ritmo es veloz y encantador. Como siempre. Asi es Una historia de la felicidad, el nuevo libro de Pedro Saborido.Hay un mundo donde una remera del Che y otra de Evita y otra de Ringo Starr debaten sobre el deseo y el disfrute, y un oficial principal retirado reflexiona sobre Jorge Luis Borges, y una politologa ofrece una clase de relajacion corporal con conciencia historica, y hay un cuarto rey mago reconocido por un club llamado ¡Biblia Peron!, y un estudio revela como los cantos de la hinchada de El Porvenir, en el sur del conurbano, diferencian conceptos con la precision de un cirujano. Es un mundo probablemente feliz. Y es el mundo de este texto. Una cajita feliz que habla, y no trae hamburguesa, y tiene una capacidad de expresion aguda y elocuencia brillante es uno de los momentos claves de esta veintena de cuentos con la potente marca registrada del autor: la risa y las ideas, de la mano.

In The Quantity Theory of Morality, Will Selfs pen remains dipped in vitriol and elegance as ever. In this dark yet hilariously satirical state-of-an-era novel, Selfs middle-class, middle-English characters appear trapped in a timeless go-round of polite chitchat in dinner parties that refract like a hall of mirrors as the novel progresses, until one day someone says something to the effect of, This way to the gas chamber, please, ladies and gentlemen. The Quantity Theory of Morality finally solves the equation of time and money that dominates our lives, in a way that is simultaneously deranging, destabilizing and hilarious.With recurring - if defeated - appearances from now-canonical characters like Zack Busner, the repetition of each chapter, or Proposition, shows Will Self to be both a master of satire and slapstick humour and a sublime and thoughtful critic of the alienation of modern life. With The Quantity Theory of Morality, Self provides the sequel to his award-winning debut of 35 years ago, The Quantity Theory of Insanity. That literary psycho-surgery proved there wasnt enough sanity go around - now hes established what many of us fear to be the absolute truth: there isnt enough good to go around, either.

Michael and Julia Glynn seem like the model couple. Wealthy and devout, theyre the envy of their neighbours and bear Michaels crippling arthritis with stoicism. Hoping for a miracle, their priest suggests a family pilgrimage to Lourdes.As these pious plans develop, Julia continues her affair with Michaels nephew - until she begins receiving anonymous letters that describe their trysts in obscene detail. Shaken by anxiety and frustrated desire, Julia starts to spin out of control, risking catastrophe in their small, curtain-twitching town.Frank in its depiction of sexuality and queerness in 1950s Ireland, The Pilgrimage was immediately banned on original publication. Scandalous and bleakly funny, it is a powerful evocation of the corrosive effects of repression.

When a major Pakistani political figure is hanged, OK Town erupts in protest.A few miles away, Sir Baghi is surprised by a knock at the door of his language school, the Rebel English Academy. An unexpected visitor, Sabiha, seeks refuge - but she has a gun, her parents are political prisoners, her husband has just died in a suspicious fire and shes clearly hiding something.Meanwhile Captain Gul, disgraced intelligence officer, has been banished to OK Town, where he aims to silence protesters by any means necessary. But his duties - and romantic desires - begin to overlap, and his already-dubious power is further threatened.In Rebel English Academy, we see Pakistan coming into modernity through a vibrant cast of interconnected characters that face a changing landscape with violence, passion and sharp humour. Wry, searing and deeply relevant, this is a triumphant novel about political power, religion, education, sexuality and dissent.

Cuatro jubiladas con una única obsesión: jugar. Cinquillo, mus, brisca, lotería... No hay nada que se les resista, sobre todo cuando lo que está en juego es el dinero.Pili, Rosario, Dolo y Carmen, ya jubiladas, son grandes amigas y estan completamente aficionadas al juego desde que se conocieron. Siempre con los mismos numeros, juegan cada semana a la quiniela y al Euromillones hasta que un dia descubren que les ha tocado. Ahora bien, el billete no esta donde se dejo por ultima vez. Nadie entiende que ha podido pasar. ¿Que es peor que no ganar la loteria? Ganarla y que te sea arrebatada.Saliendo de su rutina habitual, estas amigas tendran que tejer teorias y pensar en posibles culpables. Enseguida se veran envueltas en una voragine de situaciones inesperadas, rocambolescas y, sobre todo, desternillantes.

La guía definitiva y más divertida para superar el Fakin Insti. ¿Estás listo para sobrevivir a la partida más heavy de tu vida? ¡Ni te rayes! Karin Herrero te ayudará a superar el fakin insti. Prepárate para explorar los mapas mas epicos de esta etapa como si fueras el prota de un videojuego:Mundo Aula: donde los examenes son casi tan chungos como los profesores. Mundo Patio: ese territorio donde el caos, la locura y la diversion se fusionan en un solo recreo. Mundo Exterior: petado de retos y desafios que solo aquellos que alcancen su PRIME podran superar... En esta guia encontraras trucos brutales, tecnicas infalibles y secretos de supervivencia para que no solo pases el curso, sino que te conviertas en una leyenda del instituto. ¡Que empiece la fakin aventura, jugadores!

Fresh from a night in a Miami jail, Steven lands in Guatemala City, ready for riotous road trips fuelled by booze, cocaine and passionate curiosity about people from all walks of life.His guide? Antonio, a sweet-natured, streetwise hotel concierge who shepherds Steven through colonial Antigua, the volcanic shores of Lake Atitlan and the untamed beaches of Monterrico. Danger is never far off, but neither are laughs and theres plenty of both when Steven accompanies Antonio on a visit to his rural home village.Then theres Anabella, a glamourous, garrulous, middle-aged woman with whom Steven strikes up an unlikely friendship, accompanying her back to the capital with her family. There he mooches an open-ended stay in her gated community, which bristles with armed guards and famous eccentrics.Froelichs gonzo travelogue is a darkly hilarious, unapologetic plunge into beauty and madness, privilege and privation. With a raw, witty voice, Froelich explores the absurdities of the human condition, never letting truth get in the way of a good story.

Hes back! In this second travel memoir, The Man Without a Plan lands in Belize, a country about which he knows nada. But he quickly amasses an array of new friends some of whom can even match his penchant for being in a near-constant buzz from industrial-quantity drugs and drink.As ever, the characters with whom Steven ingratiates himself become his surrogate (dysfunctional) family. But Tracey, Devonais, Ask Bobby!, Valentino and a pack of kids led by the feral Molokai soon have Steven suspecting that his cheerfully transactional relationships are, in fact, ensnaring him in a web of scams. Will he be left for broke, stranded in this shabby paradise? Is his paranoia justifiable, or the result of continuous cocaine use? His response is to embark with the gang on a road trip along the coast, taking in shantytowns, hotels, beaches and, at a low ebb, jail.Coarse, irresponsible and wilfully uninformed, Froelich is nevertheless observant and interested. Belize is about the ways in which chaotic, complex human beings find community, no matter where theyre from or where theyre headed.