T. C. Boyle

El pequeño salvaje es una prodigiosa nouvelle que narra, de modo desgarrador, la historia del célebre niño salvaje de Aveyron, quien a principios del siglo xix atemorizó y luego fascinó a toda Francia por tratarse de uno de los raros ejemplares de niño asilvestrado y criado entre bestias. A finales de septiembre de 1797, en los bosques del Languedoc frances, tres cazadores hallaron a un niño errante, completamente desnudo, hirsuto, que adoptaba los modales de un animal. Aparentaba unos ocho o nueve años. Una vez capturado, empezaria su peregrinacion por la Francia recien salida de la revolucion, recalando tanto en instituciones mentales como en refinados salones, donde constituiria poco menos que una atraccion de feria. La historia, una de las mas apasionantes de la literatura reciente, seria llevada a la pantalla por François Truffaut en 1969. Una nouvelle genial que rescata un mito latente en la literatura moderna: el del niño feral criado por lobos.

'How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured to death? Civil? I'll be civil when the killing's done ' The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds...

From the bestselling author of The Women comes an action- packed adventure about endangered animals and those who protect them.

A man falls from a roof whilst spying on his on his beautiful widowed neighbour. A newly married couple seeking enlightenment take a three year vow silence and move to a yurt in Arizona desert. A handsome young man works in real-estate by day, but has a far more sinister profession by night. Giant men are kept in cages to ensure their nightly service to their country. A man develops an unhealthy interest in his recently deceased reclusive rock-star neighbour. And on Christmas day at the San Francisco Zoo a terrible and tragic event occurs.These stories explore the mundane, the devastating, the figurative and the implausible in an enthralling collection.

An einem Marztag 1946 schippert Beverly mit Ehemann Till und dessen Bruder vorder wilden Sudkuste Kaliforniens. Sie wollen in der Nahe der Inseln vor dem Santa-Barbara-Kanal angeln. Doch dann bricht ein Unwetter aus, und nur Beverly kommt knapp mit dem Leben davon.Etwa funfzig Jahre spater kampft ihre Enkelin Alma, eine Umweltschutzerin, fur die Wiederherstellung des okologischen Gleichgewichts dieser Inseln. Sie sind von Ratten verseucht, von Wildschweinen uberlaufen, von fremden Adlern heimgesucht. Im gegnerischen Lager engagiert sich Dave LaJoy, um das Leben der Tiere zu retten. Wer hat recht? Soll man die Rettung eines Okosystems verfolgen oder Toten um jeden Preis verhindern?

San Miguel ist eine kleine, karge Insel vor der kalifornischen Kuste. Als die schwindsuchtige Marantha am Neujahrstag 1888 dort mit ihrem Mann Will, ihrer Adoptivtochter Edith und der Magd Ida eintrifft, ahnt sie schnell, dass San Miguel nicht der Ort ihrer Genesung sein wird. Funfzig Jahre spater sucht wieder ein Paar sein Gluck auf San Miguel. Herbie Lester, ein Kriegsveteran, und seine junge Frau Elise beschlieen in der stillen Abgeschiedenheit der Insel ihr Ehegluck zu leben. Und abermals stellt San Miguel menschliche Beziehungen auf eine Zerreiprobe.

A man falls from a roof whilst spying on his on his beautiful widowed neighbour. A newly married couple seeking enlightenment take a three year vow silence and move to a yurt in Arizona desert. A handsome young man works in real-estate by day, but has a far more sinister profession by night. Giant men are kept in cages to ensure their nightly service to their country. A man develops an unhealthy interest in his recently deceased reclusive rock-star neighbour. And on Christmas day at the San Francisco Zoo a terrible and tragic event occurs.These stories explore the mundane, the devastating, the figurative and the implausible in an enthralling collection.

Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired school principal, and his wife, Carolee, are on a cruise in Costa Rica when their coach excursion is hijacked. Sten's military training overtakes him and within moments one of the attackers lies dead. The rest flee and Sten finds himself hailed a hero by the tour group and everyone back home. Meanwhile, in the redwood forests north of San Francisco, Sara - a farrier who refuses to recognize the authority of the government - is arrested after failing to cooperate with police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with twenty-five-year-old Adam, Sten and Carolee's unstable son, sparks a strange but passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. Adam, an angry and misunderstood outsider, perennially dressed in camouflage and with his head shaved to the bone, has an unhealthy obsession with nineteenth-century mountain man John Colter. As Adam's views and behaviour become steadily more extreme, he descends into a spiral of fanatical violence that is impossible for his family or Sara to halt. The latest novel by internationally bestselling author T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come is as timely as it is provocative. A deep and disturbing meditation on the roots of American gun violence, it explores the fine line between heroism and savagery, and just how far a parent can be held accountable for the actions of his child.

Identitatsdiebstahl eine Verbrechensvariante, die Existenzen vernichten kann. Das Zeitalter der PINs, Codes und Passworter macht es den Tatern leicht, sich Zugang zu fremden Konten zu verschaffen, diese zu plundern und sich die Identitat anderer uberzustulpen. Dana Halter ist jung, schon und gehorlos und sie wird unversehens Opfer eines solchen Verbrechens. Eines Morgens wird sie verhaftet und wegen Delikten angeklagt, die sie nie begangen hat.

Eight people take part in an ecological experiment in 1990s Arizona. Inspired by real events, The Terranauts places human behaviour under the microscope to spellbinding effect Linda is desperate to be one of the lucky eight chosen to take part in the world's most ambitious ecological experiment.

A dynamic new collection from one of our most original storytellers: satirical, surreal and very much of the moment.In these stories, T. C. Boyle focuses hisunerring eye on humanity''s relationship with nature, and the unintended consequences of our efforts to control it. The prize-winning ''Are We Not Men?'' reflects on the impact of new gene-editing technologies while ''The Relive Box'' parodies our obsession with electronic games.In ''She''s the Bomb'', a young woman waits on her graduation day, heart in mouth, for an explosive event. A burrito-seller has a killer business idea in ''The Five-Pound Burrito'', but learns that success comes at a price. An Italian couple moves south for a fresh start in ''The Argentine Ant'', but finds that paradise holds a nasty sting. And in the chilling ''The Designee'', a lonely widower can''t believe his luck when he receives a mysterious letter from England.In electric prose T. C. Boyle explores myriad facets of society: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world and the way we understand our mortality. Roaming unrestrainedly throughthe present and near future, he inhabits his characters'' minds with a ventriloquist''s flair, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humour.

Im Herbst des Jahres 1797, die Jahre der Revolution und des Terrors sind vorbei, stößt der Schmied des Ortes im Wald von Aveyron auf ein nacktes, seltsame Laute ausstoßendes Wesen, die Haut schwarz vor Schmutz, das Haar zottelig. Ein Mensch, ein Tier? Ein Knabe. Die Männer vom Dorf fangen ihn ein, bringen ihn in die Hauptstadt, nach Paris. Man führt ihn bei Hofe vor, er bekommt ein Zimmer in der Taubstummenanstalt und einen Namen. Schließlich wird Victor, das Wolfskind, der Obhut eines jungen Arztes übergeben. Victor wird ihm zu Ruhm verhelfen, aber trotz all seiner Bemühungen wird der Arzt scheitern ...