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((Vorschau))London, 1984. Winston Smith arbeitet fur den Uberwachungsstaat von Oceania und er hat es satt, standig die Wahrheit zu verdrehen. Als er sich in seine Kollegin Julia verliebt und sie von der Widerstandsbewegung erfahren, wollen sie die Partei gemeinsam sturzen. Doch eine Katastrophe bahnt sich an.1984, einer der prophetischen Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts, pragt unsere Vorstellung von Uberwachung und Unterdruckung bis heute.((ONIX))London, 1984. Winston Smith no longer wants to rewrite history to serve the surveillance state of Oceania. When he falls in love with his colleague Julia, they make contact with an underground organisation and want to put an end to the rigid rule of the Party, as the disaster takes its course.Often regarded as one of the most prophetic novels of the 20th century, 1984 still shapes our thinking about surveillance and oppression.

A woman with a successful career in child protection is floored by her husbands sudden death; a retired civil servant smothers his wife, but cant go through with their pact; a teacher fleeing a disastrous school trip finds himself literally in a dark wood.Pascal famously said we shall die alone. But there are always others left behind to grieve, to cheer, to feel guilt, relief or laughter, because we are human, whether we like it or not. In these stories, a dozen characters find at least a dozen ways to live by facing death their own or that of those they love in familiar worlds shot through with a strange absurdity.A man with cancer is employed to smoke by a character from a novel who may never have existed; an historian finds a love he hopes will last beyond the grave, even if it isnt his; a former judge dispenses justice in a prison camp; a randomly-selected Prime Minister confronts the biggest life-or-death decision she or anyone will ever have to take.A Day Like Any Other explores death natural, assisted, promised and unexpected with compassion, wit, a steady gaze and a desire to confront the challenge we mostly prefer to avoid: why live at all? It is the perfect collection for anyone whos going to die one day.

A novel of identity and resistance from one of Palestines most striking literary voiceswritten entirely from behind bars Nur, a Palestinian refugee from a camp near Ramallah, is often mistaken for an Ashkenazi Jew. Fluent in Hebrew and with a degree in archaeology, he dreams of freedom beyond the fence, and of writing a novel about Mary Magdalene based on the Gnostic Gospels. When he discovers an Israeli ID card in the pocket of a secondhand coat, he assumes a false identity and is hired for an archaeological dig near Megiddo. Passing as an Israeli, he moves through a world previously off-limits and gains insight into the lives of those hes been taught to perceive as enemies. As Nurs borrowed identity deepens, so does the rift within. Through an exploration of this internal conflict, Basim Khandaqjis Arabic Booker-winning novel offers a meditation on the personal toll of occupation and the elusive desire to belongfully, honestly, and without fear.

A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form, deft and humorous in its use of the Scots language, courageous in its characterisation and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie, one of the most remarkable female characters in modern literature. In Sunset song, Gibbons finest achievement, the reader follows Chris through her girlhood in a tight-knit Scottish farming community: the seasons, the weddings, the funerals, the grind of work, the gossip. As the Great War takes its toll, machines repalce the old way of life. Cloud Howe and Grey Granite take Chris from her rural homeland to life in an industrial Scotland and the desperate years of the Depression. The triology as a whole is a major achievment, a picture of society undergoing traumatic and far-reaching transformation. Always readable, never sentimental, A Scots Quair is one of the most important works of Scottish literature.

"And I struggle to find my place in this dark novel. I yearn for passion and despair for that is what makes good literature while Ishwari seeks a life of joy for herself and her son."A powerful novel from the author of Panty about a woman who runs away from home, seeking to free herself from the shackles of society and familial attachments, and instead devote her attentions to writing a novel. When she realises that her five year old son Roo has followed her, Ishwari struggles with her identity as a mother and the responsibilities that brings, versus the guilty knowledge that she cannot want her own child when his existence requires her to suppress her own dreams.Ishwari and Roo wander the streets at night, looking for a place to stay, until an elderly caretaker takes pity on them and offers them an empty room on the terrace of a guest house. Ishwari gets work as a caregiver to the handsome gentleman who lives next door, while Roo, who is lame, spends all day locked up in the room on the roof. Pulsating with raw energy, Abandon gives voice to the perpetual conflict between life and art.

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWPoignant and tender. FERDIA LENNONA dynamic voice. IRENOSEN OKOJIELushly written and formally audacious . . . moving. NICOLAS PADAMSEEThis is the story of one mans weekend, a weekend in which everything could changeThese lines could change everything /He sips more of his tinny / Imagines a new lifeAidys just punched a co-worker, but he hasnt got time to deal with the fallout. With a deadline fast looming he must get home, knuckle down and finish the story hes been working on, a story he hasnt been able to stop thinking about. Its the story of a falling plane and of a grieving mother.Set across one weekend, About to Fall Apart is the exhilarating story of a man of mixed heritage - living on the Irish border - as he tries to stay positive, reconnect with his children and maybe, even, find his own birth mother.

After she encounters a poem about love and friendship etched on the Homomonument in Amsterdam, Hélène Giannecchini is moved to attempt to do justice to a form of relation often subordinated to romanc

In 1947 and again in 1971, entire communities in the South Asian subcontinent crossed newly drawn borders, seeking new homes as partitions divided and reshaped nations. Kalyani Thakurs evocative novel tells the story of her people, Dalits of the Matua sect, who settled around a local water body Andhar Bil in a newly formed country. This new bil, reminiscent of the one left behind, becomes a place for the refugees to slowly, painfully, rebuild their lives.Children play in and around the bil, the novels central character, while people catch fish and cook them in ways that recall the flavours of home. Festivals and boat races unfold, jute is harvested and sold, floods push people to higher ground, marriages are arranged, and property disputes arise. The still waters of the bil hold all these stories, while the boroi tree stands in the centre, a silent witness to everything.Woven through this episodic, plotless narrative is the story of Kamalini, a young girl who, one day, will leave her beloved Andhar Bil behind for the city just as her parents generation left their villages and their cherished bil for a new land.

Virginia Woolf escreveu poucos contos, muitos deles meros esboços, exercícios, ensaios de escrita. Mas em alguns estão concentradas características de seus romances mais experimentais: a rejeição do

Diane sempre sonhou com pouco: um marido, dois filhos, um trabalho que lhe fizesse sentido mais do que jamais se permitiu desejar. Mas, no dia em que Seb a deixa, seu mundo desaba. Entorpecida pela dor, ela no percebe o outro silencio que cresce ao seu redor: no quarto em frente, o riso de Lou se apaga.Aos dezesseis anos, Lou sofre o tumulto da adolescencia e o impacto do primeiro amor perdido, uma perda que lhe arranca mais do que lagrimas. Quando Diane finalmente se da conta, esta disposta a tudo para resgatar a filha, mesmo que isso signifique revisitar um passado do qual tentou escapar.Me e filha caminham sobre um fio tenue, entre o que foi e o que pode ser. Sob seus passos, o turbilho da vida ruge, e ameaça arrastar consigo as suas horas mais frageis.

Martim achava que estava no comando de sua vida até ela implodir em suas mãos. Uma traição devastadora o deixou sem emprego, sem amor e sem direção aos vinte e poucos anos. São Paulo, que antes era s

Ella buscaba calma, pero encontró una historia que no podrá olvidar.Un anillo perdido. Un pasado enterrado en una comunidad de vecinos. Un misterio irresistible.Cuando Koldo, una joven embarazada de alto riesgo, se muda a una antigua colonia escondida en el corazon de Madrid, espera tranquilidad. Pero el reposo forzoso pronto se ve truncado. En el patio de su nuevo hogar descubre los ecos de una tragedia olvidada: la violenta muerte de Pascual Silva, un carismatico heredero de una editorial, y la desaparicion de su prometida, junto con un misterioso anillo que nunca volvio a aparecer.Intrigada por la historia y por los silencios de sus nuevos vecinos, Koldo comenzara a indagar entre recuerdos, viejas cartas y secretos que el tiempo creia haber sepultado. Lo que empieza como una distraccion se convierte en una obsesion que la llevara a descubrir que algunos misterios no solo habitan en el pasado sino tambien en quienes los investigan.Con una atmosfera envolvente, personajes llenos de matices y una escritura elegante, Leticia Echavarri firma una novela que combina intriga, memoria y emociones profundas.Ayer en mi patio es una historia sobre lo que permanece oculto, sobre las heridas que dejan los secretos y sobre como el pasado, tarde o temprano, siempre llama a la puerta.

Um advogado nova-iorquino de meados do século XIX resolve contratar um novo copista. Atendendo ao anúncio do advogado, apresenta-se à porta de seu escritório um jovem que ele caracteriza como uma fig

¿Hasta dónde puede llegar la investigación de un crimen?Él solo quería hacer reír. Ella solo quería justicia. Lo que no sabían es que juntos podían incendiar el país.Bécquer es la estrella más famosa de la television. Elena Izaguirre, inspectora de policia e hija de un agente asesinado hace veinte años, lleva toda su vida buscando respuestas que nadie quiere darle.Cuando una tragedia irrumpe en la vida de Becquer, sus caminos se cruzan. Lo que comienza como una alianza improbable entre una estrella mediatica y una policia curtida acaba destapando la verdad detras del crimen que cambio a Elena para siempre.Entre ataques encubiertos, traiciones internas, viajes internacionales y un romance tan inevitable como peligroso, Becquer y Elena se enfrentan al mayor poder del pais: una red de corrupcion que opera en las sombras... y cuyo brazo llega hasta la mismisima embajada española en Paris. Ahora, con su propia vida en juego, solo una cosa esta clara: el humor puede ser un arma... pero la verdad es una bomba.Un thriller frenetico, emocional y adictivo, donde la estrella mas famosa del pais y una inspectora marcada por la tragedia unen fuerzas para desmantelar una red de corrupcion que llega hasta el corazon del Estado.

Afinal, é com ou sem uva-passa?Caos Gastronômico deixa de lado os clichês de renas e neve para abraçar o que o Natal brasileiro tem de melhor: o improviso, a farofa, o salpicão e aquela mistura de pa

The greatest tragic love story ever told but this time, Catherine tells it herself. In Catherine, Essie Fox breathes new life into Wuthering Heights, transforming a gothic masterpiece into a haunting confession of obsession, madness and love that even death cannot end.With a nature as wild as the moors she loves to roam, Catherine Earnshaw grows up alongside Heathcliff, a foundling her father rescued from the streets of Liverpool. Their fierce, untamed bond deepens as they grow until Mr Earnshaws death leaves Hindley, Catherines brutal brother, in control and Heathcliff reduced to servitude.Desperate to protect him, Catherine turns to Edgar Linton, the handsome heir to Thrushcross Grange. She believes his wealth might free Heathcliff from cruelty but her choice is fatally misunderstood, and their lives spiral into a storm of passion, jealousy and revenge.Now, eighteen years later, Catherine rises from her grave to tell her story and seek redemption.Essie Foxs Catherine reimagines Wuthering Heights with beauty and intensity a haunting, atmospheric retelling that brings new life to a timeless classic and lays bare the dark heart of an immortal love.

By the Bram Stoker Award Winning author of the Fisherman, this masterful and haunting blend of horror and fantasy sees a young Conan visit the cursed village where the ultimate crime took place. Where will this journey into the darkness take the young barbarian?On the day he was born, warriors attacked Conans village in Cimmeria, kidnapping children before fleeing. The villagers pursued the raiders and exterminated them to a man. But they were too late. The children were already dead.Fourteen years later, Conan and his cousin, Ruardih visit the site of the massacre, finding strange artefacts and feeling a dreadful unease as they near the cursed village. Upon their arrival, they are greeted by the corpses of the damned.Despite the portents, Conan and Ruaridh continue exploring the village. Met with bizarre and arcane creatures, they will stumble upon darknesses that should not have been revisited. What is this strange place? Who were the mysterious raiders who attacked the village? And why did they sacrifice innocent children? The answers lie deeper in the mountains, and Conan will chase them into the dark, whatever the cost.

La sensibilidad es una forma de rebeldía. Porque vivir con el corazón abierto aún es posible. Textos que atraviesan lo cotidiano con belleza y verdad. ¿Qué hacer con un corazón que lo siente todo?Karmele Jaio se plantea esta pregunta en los textos que componen Corazon de piedra, escritos desde un lugar intimo y atento, y con la mirada puesta en los pliegues de lo cotidiano.A lo largo de estos breves relatos emocionales, luminosos, a veces dolorosos y siempre lucidos la autora nos invita a detenernos, a mirar con mas calma lo que nos rodea: la herida, la belleza, la injusticia, la amistad, la vejez, el tiempo. Sus palabras nos interpelan porque nacen de lo vivido, de lo que se ve en los demas y en una misma. Y porque nos recuerdan que la vida no es una suma de grandes momentos, sino una larga conversacion con quienes somos y con quienes nos rodean.Corazon de piedra es el mapa vital de quien no se conforma con endurecerse ante la intemperie. Un libro que nos invita a permanecer vulnerables y permeables. A seguir sintiendo. A seguir viviendo con el corazon abierto.

Una nueva aventura del universo Dungeons and Dragons.La arrogancia del Príncipe de los Sacerdotes de Istar provoca la ira de los dioses y, como resultado, se produce el Cataclismo. Con él llegan la anarquia, la desesperacion, la vileza..., pero tambien el heroismo. Los diez cuentos de este volumen nos ofrecen diversas muestras de lo sucedido en Krynn tras el desastre.El volumen se cierra con una novela corta de Margaret Weis y Tracy Hickman, Un autentico caballero, que retoma la historia del clerigo de Mishakal, el hermano Michael, y de Nikol, hija de un caballero de Solamnia. Los dos sobreviven al Cataclismo y tienen un encuentro con el caballero que, segun los rumores, podria haber evitado la hecatombe.

«Cuando se habla de literatura inmortal, el lector no puede sino pensar en Cumbres Borrascosas».Del prólogo de Alejandro GándaraLockwood, el nuevo inquilino de la Granja de los Tordos, situada en los