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El planeta Pegasi es la cuna de la raza titán, cuyos integrantes tienen interés en la humanidad y un gran deseo de influir en la Tierra.Esta trepidante novela te sumergirá en un épico enfrentamiento entre los titanes originales, gobernantes de Pegasi, y los olimpicos, que luchan contra el dominio de Kronos y defienden la Tierra de sus ansias de poder.Una original perspectiva de la mitologia griega, cuya verosimilitud involucra a lectores y personajes en una realidad alternativa.Zeus, titan y hombre es la opera prima de Halcon Torres, seudonimo de un arquitecto mexicano que reside entre su pais de origen y Colombia, y que incursiona en la ficcion literaria con esta obra compleja, desafiante y, sobre todo, interesante y entretenida.

Nadie podía imaginar que un simple encuentro entre dos criaturas, uno terrenal y otro ajeno al planeta tierra, nombrados Adam y Zeus, perduraría por años, viviendo inverosímiles aventuras que llegan a traspasar los limites terrenales con grandes repercusiones sobre la supervivencia, la paz, la comunicacion y la amistad entre todos los paises de este mundo y otro planeta.

In cento ore allucinate di un destino accanito, di una continua sfida alla morte e di amore gridato a squarciagola, risucchiati in un vortice fra Firenze, Livorno e le montagne lucchesi, travolti da un vento capriccioso, indifferente ed imperterrito, scaraventati in un incubo oppressivo dalla pazzesca concomitanza di convergenze nagative, si incrociano e si intrecciano in modo casuale, ma con diabolica precisione, le vicende di questa storia vera in cui gli interpreti, proprio nellinsieme delle coincidenze, misurano il proprio io e scoprono il loro assurdo e beffardo destino.

Sold out Rock Concerts in Rome, Amsterdam and London. A spell in Wormwood Scrubs jail. A potential Indian arranged marriage. The back streets of Rome. London buses. A random ventriloquist. The occasional drug addict. Plenty of cricket, and, of course, a lot of of beautiful women. A steam train. Yellow tailed monkeys. Brazilian pirates, Ecuadoran asylum seekers. A helicopter co-pilot called Pontius. Building a hotel in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. Welcome again to the worlds most unusual drummer. The Mozart, cricket and blonde loving, Eddie Zero. "I cried, nearly as much as I laughed" said a preview reader

In this, the second volume of a projected Manchester trilogy, the young writer takes a zero-hours job in a mail-sorting depot but struggles to cope with the demands of menial work and the attitudes of his colleagues. Only after rescuing and acquiring a pet tortoise does he realise what is most lacking in his life: intimacy. Embarking on a handful of sexual misadventures, he continues to struggle as a writer. He sees the city in which he was born and brought up changing all around him and, when he gets sacked from the sorting office, some hard choices lie ahead.A powerful indictment of austerity politics and Brexit Britain, the novel never loses sight of its working-class characters dignity and humanity, and Campbells mordantly witty dialogue ensures that the next laugh is never far away. Gripping in its fascination with the everyday, Zero Hours is keenly observed, blackly funny and ultimately uplifting.

I tell her Ive stopped taking my pillsI write that Im still not well, that its making day-to-day life difficultThat I often do things I regret, and that theres some sort of membrane between what I want to do and whatever I end up doingThat I really want to be an actor, but that its a dream that seems all too distant for the time beingI tell her I use and abuse alcohol and drugs, and that Ive got a death wish that sometimes becomes difficult to ignoreThat I dont know who I amThat I change my mind as frequently as I change my socksThat Im horrible to the people around meThat my sex life is depravedGine Cornelia Pedersens debut novel won the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas First Book Award in its native Norway upon publication and went on to garner numerous glowing reviews, with major broadsheet Aftenposten declaring Sometimes, as a reviewer, one forgets a works failings and mistakes and becomes completely absorbed by an insistent narrative voice. Thats the case with Gine Cornelia Pedersens debut, a firework out of control: sparks fly all over the place and the rocket could strike anywhere and does Elsewhere described by the Norwegian press as like listening to a punk-rock single, Zero finds its young, female protagonist constantly torn between hope and despair, rage and confusion, as she tries to find her place in and, eventually, far outwith, society.

Estamos diante de um livro que assombrou o Brasil durante a ditadura e continua fascinando as novas geraçes pela ousadia e pelas inovaçes. Para dar uma dimenso de tal impacto, nada melhor do que a palavra de Armindo Blanco, jornalista e critico de semana, que combateu Salazar, teve de se exilar e aqui morreu: "Espantoso romance. As vezes, da a impresso de uma reportagem crua, despojada. Outras, de um filme correndo a velocidade de um milho de imagens por segundo. Ignacio de Loyola Brando supera o ambito do individual para nos dar o retrato de corpo inteiro de uma cidade. De um parque industrial. De um caldeiro fervente de raças. De um pais. De um continente. Melhor ainda: de um tempo desvairado, com os homens se transmudando em ratos e perdendo o sentido da propria existencia. Ele nos transmite repulsa e fascinio por esse universo selvagem, dominado pelo dinheiro e pela solido e em que mesmo o amor e uma proposta de aniquilaço mutua, a fuga a abjeço. A ordem na desordem, a desordem das palavras".

Quando era apenas uma criança, Diana decidiu arriscar a sua vida para salvar a da sua irmã mais nova. Porém, embora tenha conseguido, Diana vive a sua vida presa a esse acidente e à marca física que

¿Quiénes somos?, ¿de dónde venimos?, ¿a dónde vamos?Puede que algún día la ciencia sea capaz de dar luz a estas cuestiones y desvelar la angustia existencial que subyace en sus respuestas.Mientras tanto, la unica herramienta capaz de responder a tan enormes cuestiones es la imaginacion. Gracias a la imaginacion el hombre ha escrito preciosos libros, pintado exquisitos lienzos, edificado majestuosos palacios y hasta construido maravillosas naves espaciales.¿Puede acaso cualquier otro ser inteligente dentro y fuera de la Tierra crear algo igual? ¿Esta capacidad intrinseca de crear,solo atribuida a un Dios, puede ser transferida al hombre? ¿Es el hombre tambien un ser divino capaz de crear?Recebel, la ultima mujer viva en la Tierra y protagonista de nuestra historia, nos contesta a todas estas cuestiones.

Zenos Conscience is a novel presented as the fictional autobiography of Zeno Cosini, an unreliable narrator who recounts his life story to his psychoanalyst. The novel is structured around Zenos attempts to quit smoking, his relationships with his father and wife, his business ventures, and his extramarital affairs.Svevo employs a stream-of-consciousness technique to delve into Zenos psyche, revealing his self-deceptions, rationalizations, and contradictions. Zenos reflections on his life are marked by irony and humor, and his unreliable narration adds layers of complexity to the story.One of the central themes of Zenos Conscience is the exploration of human irrationality and self-delusion. Zenos repeated failures to quit smoking serve as a metaphor for his broader inability to control his impulses and understand his true motivations. Svevos portrayal of Zenos inner life anticipates many of the themes and techniques later associated with psychoanalysis and modernist literature.The novel also reflects Svevos interest in the emerging field of psychoanalysis, influenced by his reading of Sigmund Freuds works. Svevos depiction of Zenos sessions with his psychoanalyst serves as a vehicle for exploring the complexities of human consciousness and the limitations of self-knowledge.