Fiction Realism

"Están a punto de asistir a un espectáculo de fuegos (o juegos) artificiales (es decir, profunda e inequívocamente literarios) que les dejará boquiabiertos y arrancará sus más encendidos aplausos", reza el exordio de Sara Mesa al presente volumen. Y es que Fricciones es, en efecto, una brillante exhibición del endiablado sentido del humor, la finísima ironía y la envidiable inteligencia de un escritor en estado de gracia.

Viviane Rose has lived with auditory hallucinations all her life. Despite this, she has a good job as the manager of the laundry at Vince Malum Residential Living Center, a long-term care facility for the mentally ill. She works there to be near her catatonic mother and amnesiac fiance, and she lives with her grumpy grandfather. Family is her top priority. Viviane has all aspects of her life running like clockwork until one of her hallucinations manifests and begins killing the patients at the Center.

When all the world's a stage, a sleepy Welsh village sits square in the spotlight. When the thrill of mysteries unfound beckons their parents away, twins Kayleigh and Lucy are shipped off to spend their summer holidays with their aunt and uncle. Angry at being left behind, they head out in search of their own adventure, but what they find defies all reason. In the blink of an eye, their world is turned upside down as unseen forces work to pull the inseparable sisters apart and engulf the people of Y Pentrefan in a never-ending torment of Shakespearean proportions.

Una saga familiare del XX secolo in cui si rispecchiano la storia e il destino di tutto un popolo. Un grande affresco che per fascino ed emozione può ricordare al lettore, nell'ambito della letteratura sudamericana, soltanto "Cent'anni di solitudine" di García Márquez.

Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European dictatorship where oppression seems eternal. When her dissident parents die in a car accident, she’s taken to an orphanage, only to be adopted soon after by a grandmother she has never met. While her homeland is shattered by a violent revolution, Emma—like a witch's apprentice—comes to learn the ways of her new grandmother, who can tell fortunes from coffee dregs, cause and heal pain at will, and shares her home with the ghost of her husband.

Agustin Blazquez's THE KILLER FLIES OF LUXOR, a novel about an artist's escape from Cuba into a dream-world of art and movies, illustrates Braque's insight that "Art is a wound turned into light."

Joey Whitmore made a bargain to change her past and never asked the price. When the fae prince returns, it's time to pay up. But will the former elite gymnast get more than she bargained for?

Dopo il successo ottenuto come spettacolo teatrale sul tema dei desaparecidos, "L'ultima madre" diventa un romanzo, sospeso fra indagine storica, realismo magico e studio sociologico. Ambientato nella Buenos Aires degli anni Settanta, al culmine di quella "guerra sporca" che sarebbe costata la vita a innumerevoli attivisti politici, esso mette a confronto le vicende di due personaggi apparentemente contrapposti: da un lato María, madre di due gemelli rapiti dai soldati e scomparsi nel nulla, dall'altro Mercedes, figlia e moglie di militari, a sua volta madre dei due gemelli Nacho e Mari.

De acordo com um mito japonês, os gatos são um símbolo de boa sorte. E, se você for gentil com eles, um dia esse favor será retribuído. Mas, se for gentil com o gato certo, talvez você seja convidado para conhecer um misterioso café que surge em noites de lua cheia em Quioto...

¿Cuántas vidas y cuántas muertes son posibles en la existencia de una misma persona? Los ingrávidos es una novela sobre existencias fantasmales; una evocación, a la vez melancólica y llena de humor, sobre la imposibilidad del encuentro amoroso y el carácter irrevocable de la pérdida. Dos voces componen esta novela. La narradora, una mujer del México contemporáneo, relata sus años de juventud como editora en Nueva York, en los que el fantasma del poeta Gilberto Owen la perseguía por el metro.

Guido Demian, un fabricante de pianos vienés de tercera generación, construye junto a su padre un instrumento musical al que bautizan acordeón. Tras la muerte de Cyrill, su padre, el misterioso artefacto empuja a Guido a una travesía azarosa que habrá de llevarlo, en enrevesadas circunstancias, hasta el otro lado del mundo, a una tierra de música y embrujo: las costas del Mar Caribe.

Una joven estudiante de biología emprende un viaje a Tierra del Fuego para trabajar en un museo con restos de cetáceos. Su novio naturalista se interna en Misiones para trabajar con el loro vinoso. La separación, la lejanía y el aislamiento repercuten en la relación. Ella, joven e inexperta, pero con avidez por aprender, será testigo de acontecimientos rayanos al realismo mágico y será, también, receptora de los relatos de cada uno de los personajes que irá conociendo en su viaje.

Fearless Queen Sigrid wants her twin children to fulfill their destinies: her son, Olaf, to become heir to the kingdom of Svealand, and her gifted daughter, Estrid, to secure passage to the underworld as she is promised to Hel, the Norse goddess of death. But Olaf's ascension to the throne depends on Sigrid's former husband, King Erik the Victorious, who despises her and suspects the twins are not his but Sweyn Forkbeard's, Denmark's exiled king.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK: Lauren Groff ne transportă într-o lume deopotrivă domestică și sălbatică, în care pericolele lumii naturale par să stea veșnic la pândă. Însă cele mai mari amenințări și mistere sunt de natură emoțională, psihologică. Scriitura, amintind de existențialism și realismul magic, e stră­bătută de valuri de tristețe, de câte o străfulgerare de cruzi­me, iar senzația de singurătate și obsesia trecerii timpului sunt omniprezente.

قد نخطط أحيانًا لحياتنا بالقلم والمسطرة، وننسى أن الحياة لا تخلو من الألم؛ ألم لفراق، وألم لابتلاء، وآلام لنفسٍ تتألم ولا تتكلم..

One prophecy. One jaguar. The fate of a forgotten world. Guided by the memory of Eden and the prayer of the last jaguar, Oracle encounters an unlikely band of animal companions—including a clever raccoon, a steadfast horse, and a wise old toad—as they guide a lost boy named Miracle through a landscape both beautiful and fraught with danger. Can Oracle not only fulfill the prophecy but help the animals reclaim ancient truths before they are lost forever? He must find the legendary Lonely Tree and reawaken the animal kingdom’s forgotten heritage before it’s too late.

"قبل أن أنسى أني كنت هنا" رواية تنتمي إلى عالم الخيال يمزج فيها المؤلف بين الواقع والفانتازيا حيث تبدأ الأحداث بصة الشاعر والصحفي "نور قنديل" الذي تزوج نجوان بعد أن مات حبيب كل منهما أمام عينيه في الانتفاضة الشعبية التي أسقطت نظام حكم حسني مبارك... يجد كل منهما العزاء في الآخر وينجبان ابنتهما الوحيدة نهاوند.

Ana Wicker’s life turns upside down, when her parents inform her, they intend to divorce. Ana thinks the answer is to run away, but in doing so, she finds herself transported to the strange world of Eperidium. There, she meets Frey, Felix, and Clomtrop, three magical children known in their world as Scions. They explain to Ana that the only person who can help her return home has disappeared without a trace.

Evie Berry is a 30-year-old wannabe screenwriter who spends her days managing a London cinema bar and making the podcast Pasta La Vista with her best friend, Ben. She's also obsessed with Hugo Hearst. Have you heard of him? Of course you have. He's only one of the most influential and not to mention swoon-worthy best-selling writers of his generation. When Evie's not hooking up with her on-again, off-again booty call 'Ever-Ready Freddy' (and sometimes even when she is), she fantasises about what might have been if she'd met Hugo years ago, when he was just a struggling writer.

Quando Danilo Chiesa riapre gli occhi, per la prima volta dopo la propria dipartita, sa perfettamente di essere morto, quello che non sa è dove si trova. Curioso, perché Danilo non si è mai perso. Seduto su un letto, studia la stanza: niente porte, niente finestre, solo una sedia bianca e due sedie. Nemmeno il tempo di formulare un pensiero, che di fronte a lui compaiono due loschi figuri per affidargli un compito: redigere la propria biografia e discutere poi con loro di ogni capitolo.