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Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

In 1938 Paris, Pierre Pain, a lonely bachelor and a beleaguered mesmerist, receives a telegram from his friend Madame Reynaud. An acquaintance of hers lies in a hospital bed with a mysterious—and apparently terminal—case of the hiccups, and she entreats Pain to cure him. Quietly in love with Reynaud, and buoyed by her faith in him, he agrees to see the patient, the exiled Peruvian poet César Vallejo. So sets off a nightmarish and labyrinthine chain of events that sees Pain racing, breathless, through the umbrous streets of Paris: He finds himself barred from approaching Vallejo’s bedside.

Oft called the “big bang” of Roberto Bolaño’s universe, Antwerp is his first novel—or the shattered remnants of one. Written when he was just twenty-seven years of age, it was so intensely strange and solitary that he tucked it away for more than twenty years, certain that any publisher would slam the door in his face. It proceeds in hallucinatory sketches: a lonely highway, a desolate campground, a freshly abandoned hotel room; a tryst, an interrogation, a murder; and somewhere just out of reach, a young, feverish writer named Roberto Bolaño drifting in and out of view.

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and widower—through the maze of his revolutionary past, his relationship with his teenage daughter, Rosa, his passion for a former student, and his retreat from scandal in Barcelona.

Однажды, в 1968 году, Лоу, его брат Марк и две их подруги — Коринна и Мария — отправились в Индию в поисках свободы и просветления. Полвека спустя Коринна, ставшая женой Лоу и матерью Люси, неожиданно исчезает. Обеспокоенные отец и дочь отправляются на поиски и вновь проходят тот же путь — от Берлина до Ришикеша, вспоминая прошлое, разбираясь в недомолвках, раскрывая сокровенные тайны о любви, памяти и выборе, сделанном когда-то давно, одним летним днем.

Есть вещи в жизни человека, которые всегда, при любых обстоятельствах будут самыми для него важными. Мы видим: любовь. Любовь! Оторвавшись от ленты новостей, мы, прежде всего, переживаем за любимых людей.

Un piccolo e paradisiaco paese, il Regno Proibito, incastonato tra le montagne dell'Himalaya, che vive in un pacifico e millenario isolamento; un monaco buddista che si sta occupando della formazione spirituale del giovane erede al trono; la preziosa statua del Drago d'oro in grado di predire il futuro in una lingua sconosciuta. Questi sono gli ingredienti della nuova avventura che vede protagonisti Nadia e Alexander, stavolta alle prese con il malefico piano di trafugare la statua dai poteri divinatori e di rapire il re del Regno Proibito, l'unico che può interpellarla.

"Per loro il mondo fisico era colmo di misteri, e la vita stessa era un sortilegio" Kate Cold, i suoi amici fotografi, il nipote Alex e l'inseparabile amica Nadia ricevono dall'"International Geographic" l'incarico di preparare un reportage sui safari che si svolgono a dorso d'elefante. A Nairobi Alex e Nadia incontrano però un'indovina che li avverte di un pericolo imminente. Quando ormai il lavoro sta per concludersi, entra in scena fratel Fernando, un missionario in cerca di aiuto. Non ha più notizie di due suoi confratelli che si sono persi in una regione inaccessibile.

«Inguaribile conservatore»: così l'amico Osorio definisce il centenario narratore di questo romanzo. Che da buon nostalgico, insieme a pochi altri «relitti» come lui, non poteva mancare alla manifestazione contro la chiusura del cinema Ideal, una delle ultime sale ancora attive a Madrid. L'evento si è svolto nell'indifferenza generale: del resto alle nuove generazioni non interessa la scomparsa di quel luogo obsoleto, insieme a musei, librerie, biblioteche, teatri. Ormai basta uno schermo per avere il mondo a portata di mano, e l'arte assume la forma di una meraviglia digitale.

混雑した駅中、彼女は驚いた様子でまっすぐ僕の方へ歩いてきた。それが僕たちの出逢いであり、恋人同士になるきっかけだった。でも、心も身体もすっかり馴染みきったある日、唐突に知ってしまう。

A 19th century novel that defied the repressive moral conventions of Victorian England. Young Tess Durbeyfield comes from an impoverished home. Her father, desperate to alleviate the family's financial plight, presses his daughter into work for the wealthy D'Urbervilles. But in doing so, Tess meets the manipulative Alec, who forces himself upon her. And though Tess later meets a kinder man who proposes marriage, her salvation is jeopardized when she reveals to him her troubled past.

Mid-19th century Britain—and America—come to life in this darkly humored classic by Charles Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit the elder is an old man whose death will result in a vast inheritance—but for whom is the question. Though his avaricious and sycophantic relatives hope to benefit from his demise, Martin has other plans. He raises an orphan, Mary Graham, who looks after him and draws an income—so long as the old man lives. But young Martin—named for his grandfather who has raised him along with Mary—falls in love with the orphan, which threatens to spoil the elder Chuzzlewit's plans.

Biographer Ellen Wroe approaches the eminent conductor Cecil Woodbridge with a proposal to tell his life story. Despite her reputation as a serious author with a shelf of prizewinning books, he rejects the idea and then actively tries to stop her work. As Wroe pursues Woodbridge—maestro, cellist, conductor-king—she discovers that beneath his mighty façade and towering ego lie a dark history and a troubling connection to her own past.

Ciudad de México, 1951. Una lluvia torrencial sorprende a los citadinos. El caos cunde mientras una serie de sucesos trágicos —como el hallazgo de mujeres asesinadas flotando en los drenajes de la ciudad— ha puesto en evidencia la descomposición de la gran urbe. Los habitantes de una vecindad del centro histórico, náufragos entre las montañas nevadas del valle de México, padecen —como todos— el diluvio.

Maria è una ragazza del sertão brasiliano che, dopo aver incontrato un impresario teatrale sulla spiaggia di Rio de Janeiro, si lascia sedurre dal miraggio di una vita diversa. Trasferitasi a Ginevra, sfumato rapidamente il sogno di lavorare come ballerina di samba, la ragazza, con l'ingenuo cinismo di chi non ha ancora conosciuto il vero amore, affronterà la vita come un'avventura, cercando di conoscere il mondo e l'anima delle persone attraverso la lente dei fugaci incontri che la sua attività le impone, finché un pittore non saprà aprirle le porte di una nuova consapevolezza.

Un periodista freelance que busca el dinero para comprarle un ataúd a su difunto padre, un desempleado cuya esperanza gira alrededor de un sofá abandonado frente a su casa, un adolescente que encuentra el amor gracias a la adicción al NyQuil de su padre, un hombre desesperado que roba una pistola de agua para su hijo y protagoniza un milagro equivocado: así es la vida en Levittown, uno de los proyectos suburbanos más grandes del Caribe.

Literatur muss nicht kompliziert oder voll von Fremdwörtern und langen Sätzen sein. Alle können mit Geschichten in Einfacher Sprache etwas Neues erfahren. Einfache Sprache ist eine Sprache, die wir verlernt haben. Der Herausgeber Hauke Hückstädt hat das Experiment fortgesetzt und 12 namhafte Autor:innen dafür gewonnen.

Ein Reisender bezieht ein Zimmer in einem Gasthaus, das über einen direkten Zugang zur Fremdenloge des benachbarten Theaters verfügt. Dort besucht er eine Aufführung von Mozarts » Don Giovanni « – und ist zutiefst beeindruckt. Besonders die Darstellerin der Donna Anna zieht ihn in ihren Bann.

Als Yeonhwa von ihrer Großmutter das Hwawoldang, eine Konditorei für koreanisches Gebäck, erbt, ist sie etwas ratlos. Das bleibt allerdings nicht die einzige Kuriosität im Zusammenhang mit der Konditorei, denn Yeonhwa merkt schnell, dass ihre Kunden nicht ganz lebendig sind, und das nicht nur in dem Sinne, dass sie nur einen Kaffee benötigen … Mit Hilfe von Yeonhwa, ihrem Gebäck und einer magischen schwarzen Katze versuchen die Verstorbenen, ihren Liebsten eine Nachricht zu schicken, um so ihren Frieden zu finden.

Seit dem tragischen Amoklauf an ihrer High School lebt Emma Larsen mit der Frage, ob sie hätte etwas verhindern können – wäre sie an diesem Tag nicht krank gewesen. Ihr bester Freund Liam starb bei dem Vorfall, und mit ihm alles, was Emma jemals kannte. Die Tage in der Kleinstadt verstreichen grau und leise, bis ausgerechnet Noah McKenzie, Liams älterer Bruder, zurückkehrt. Als Emma auf Hinweise stößt, die Liams wahre Geschichte erzählen beginnt sie, das Puzzle der Vergangenheit neu zusammenzusetzen. Gemeinsam mit Noah folgt sie den Spuren in ein altes Sommercamp.