Absurdist Fiction

Lara the Runaway Cat tells the story of Gobi, the loveable pug who followed Dion Leonard across a gruelling 155-mile trek across the Gobi Desert, and her mischievous cat sister, Lara, who runs away from her family, seeking a courageous adventure and different life.

Otto Silbermann sta negoziando con un conoscente la vendita del suo elegante appartamento di Berlino quando alla porta di casa risuona un colpo secco seguito da un ordine: "Apri, ebreo" intima una voce. È il 10 novembre 1938, il giorno dopo la Notte dei Cristalli: i pogrom organizzati dal regime nazionalsocialista sono iniziati e Silbermann, ricco e stimato commerciante ebreo tedesco, sguscia fuori dalla porta di servizio, incontrando il suo destino di fuggiasco. "Berlino - Amburgo, pensò. Amburgo - Berlino. Berlino - Dortmund. Dortmund - Aquisgrana. Aquisgrana - Dortmund.

La novela comienza con el arresto de Joseph K., un joven empleado de un banco, que se despierta en la pensión donde reside con la extraña visita de unos hombres que le informan que está detenido. Acusado por alguien de un crimen del que sabe poco y nada, K., aún en libertad, se adentra en una auténtica y enigmática pesadilla. Así comienza un proceso laberíntico en el que se ve inmerso y lo lleva a tomar conciencia de sí mismo y reflexionar sobre su propia existencia, sobre la pérdida de la inocencia y la aparición de la muerte.

Jest grudzień 2012 roku. Zbliża się data zapowiedzianego przez kalendarz Majów końca świata. Pięćdziesięcioletni Jan jest redaktorem w niewielkim czasopiśmie. Jego praca polega na prowadzeniu korespondencji z czytelnikami. Ponieważ rubryka cieszy się małym powodzeniem, czasem musi pisać listy do samego siebie. W wolnym czasie prowadzi blog kulinarny, tytułową „Zupę z gwoździa”, i fascynuje się małpami z Borneo – nosaczami. Od dwudziestu lat jest w związku małżeńskim z Marysią. Ich życie jest przepełnione rutyną, marazmem i frustracją.

Ulisse è un giovane scrittore in crisi creativa (un tempo ha scritto un libro ma si è fermato lì), lavora in una casa editrice sull'orlo del collasso ed è innamorato di Pilar-Penelope, una bellissima immigrata senza permesso di soggiorno (ma non rinuncia alla sua inveterata poligamia). Un giorno riceve la lettera di uno sconosciuto che lo invita a un misterioso appuntamento. Ulisse, incuriosito, risponde e conosce Achille, un ragazzo gravemente malato che gli apre un mondo inatteso di assurdità, vitalità e dolore.

What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at the foot of Saint Sebastian’s Abyss along with Schmidt, hands cupped to the sides of our faces, debating art, transcendence, and the glory of the apocalypse.” Former best friends who built their careers writing about a single work of art meet after a decades-long falling-out. One of them, called to the other’s deathbed for unknown reasons by a “relatively short” nine-page email, spends his flight to Berlin reflecting on Dutch Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbauer.

A retired general—the leader of the latest military takeover—moves to a peaceful island and decides to rid it of what he sees as its last remaining “anarchic” components. The island, described by its people as a utopia, the last peaceful resort for mankind, morphs into dystopia when the general, in the hope of bringing order to the island life, begins to act more and more like a dictator. The first ones to revolt against the general are the seagulls.

Universal Love welcomes listeners to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another. In these gripping stories, a young boy tries to understand what keeps his father tethered to the drowned city they call home. A daughter gets to know her dead mother's hologram better than she ever knew her living mother. And, at a time when unpleasant memories can be erased, a man undergoes electronic surgery to have his depression, and his past, forever removed.

At the turn of the 20th century, as he composes a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt sets off from his small Croatian village in search of his hero and unwitting mentor, Emiliano Gomez Carrasquilla, who is rumored to have disappeared into the South American jungle - "not lost, mind you, but retired." Jacov's narcissistic preoccupation with melancholy consumes him, and as he desperately recounts the myth of his journey to his trusted but ailing scribe, hope for an encounter with the lost philosopher who holds the key to Jacov's obsession seems increasingly unlikely.

Ich darf gar nicht mehr daran denken! Nachdem ich mich als Mann von der bekannten Inhaberin eines TV-Shoppingsenders als Kindermädchen für ihre verwaisten Nichten einstellen ließ, fing der Wahnsinn an. Äußerlich ein zartes Pflänzchen, entpuppt sie sich als manische, rechthaberische Kaktee. Ihre Logik weigert sich, an der Realität auch nur als Gast teilzunehmen.

Stell dir vor, du könntest Gott genau eine Frage stellen. Was würdest du wissen wollen? Chelsea Chambers steht vor den Trümmern ihrer Ehe. Nachdem ihr Mann Sawyer sie betrogen hat, will sie sich und ihren Kindern eine neue Existenz aufbauen: Sie eröffnet das gemütliche Café ihrer Großmutter wieder. Doch die Konkurrenz ist groß und das Café läuft schlecht - bis überraschend ein kostenloser Internetzugang installiert wird, über den jeder Besucher Gott genau eine Frage stellen kann, die sofort beantwortet wird. Und plötzlich rennen die Kunden Chelsea die Tür ein.

A missing laptop, a critic, a sojourn in communal living - Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love is a bracingly intelligent examination of grief, autonomy, aging, desire, information overload, and the condition of being a thinking and feeling inhabitant of an often unthinkable, numbing world. Anna Moschovakis’s debut novel bristles with honesty, humor, and the hungers that propel us to revise and again revise our lives.

Existential noir meets absurd comedy when a young man reluctantly enlists as source material for an art project. Stanley had known it was a mistake to accept his uncle Lech's offer to apartment-sit in Prague - he'd known it was one of Lech's proposals, a thinly veiled setup for some invasive, potentially dangerous performance art project. But whatever Lech had planned for Stanley, it would get him to Prague and maybe offer a chance to make things right with T after his failed attempt to propose.

Benjamin Malaussène ha uno strano lavoro, è il capro espiatorio dell'Ufficio Reclami del Grande Magazzino di Parigi. Una cliente è appena uscita dalla sua stanza quando si sente un forte boato. Una bomba, poi due, nel dipartimento giocattoli! Il sospettato numero uno dell'ondata di oscuri attentati è proprio Benjamin. E allora per scoprire chi sia il vero responsabile delle esplosioni si mobiliteranno la sua tumultuosa famiglia e una esilarante banda di personaggi: Thérèse la sorella sensitiva, Jérémy il geniale e pestifero fratello, il Piccolo visionario.

Tilda et Elida Svensson, 79 et 72 ans, célibataires, mènent une vie à la routine paisible. Elles font des confitures, vont à l'église et se couchent chaque soir exactement à la même heure. Pas de commodités à l'intérieur de leur maison vétuste : les toilettes sont au fond du jardin, l'eau est à tirer au puits. Tout change à l'arrivée d'un nouveau voisin, Alvar Klemens, ou plutôt de son chat : le félin est pris de frénésie sexuelle en mangeant une des plantes d'Alvar, que celui-ci entretient avec un engrais curieux.

Lennart Evert Bengtsson är en man i sina bästa år, tycker han själv i alla fall. En dag råkar han ut för en olyckshändelse som ger upphov till egendomliga drömmar. Många har drömmar men Lennart är mannen som förverkligar dem! Han tar chansen och genomför en av sina märkliga idéer en idé som tar honom till världens alla hörn ... "Jag hade ett leende på läpparna genom hela läsningen och den lämnade mig med en "feel good"-känsla!"

Der neue Roman nach dem Bestseller "Die Ladenhüterin" Der neue Roman von Japans Erfolgsautorin Sayaka Murata erzählt die Geschichte zweier Außenseiter, Natsuki und ihr Cousin Yu, die sich jung verlieben und gemeinsam gegen eine Welt verbünden, die ihnen beileibe nicht nur Gutes will. Im alten Farmhaus der Familie, in dem früher die Seidenraupen ihren Dienst verrichteten, sind sie glücklich, denn sie sind beieinander. 20 Jahre später geht Natsuki an diesen Ort zurück.

Andrej is a postman in complete denial of his existence. He yearns for respect and fame but commits petty crimes for reasons he doesn’t fully comprehend. Josip is an increasingly irrelevant cable car operator and unfaithfully married. Life was so much simpler when neither one knew the other’s secrets. Now that they do - discovered quite by accident - each man has resorted to blackmailing the other. As their anonymous misdeeds escalate, a farce of mutual dependency begins. So does the unlikeliest of friendships when Andrej and Josip finally meet face-to-face.

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