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A razor-sharp debut that reveals how one woman can go so far off the deep end, she might never make it back up. Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, Manhattan's most challenging psychiatric institution. She believes if she can't save...

Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, The Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface, this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but soon basic facts become obscure and the listener realizes this book is much more than a love story. Although The Blind Owl has been compared to the works of Kafka and Poe, it defies categorization. By preserving the spirit as well as the structure of Hedayat's writing, this edition brings the English listener into the world of The Blind Owl as never before.

A new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth century Winner of the 2023 Lois Roth Persian Translation Award A Penguin Classic Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an...

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 ""Haynes is master of her trade . . . She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories.”—Telegraph (UK) The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly perceptive...

Wie kann man die eigene Familie schützen und sich gleichzeitig vor ihr bewahren? In Blinde Geister erzählt Lina Schwenk eine berührende Familiengeschichte von den 1950er-Jahren bis in die Gegenwart. Olivia, die Tochter von Rita und Karl, kennt seit jeher die Angst der Erwachsenen vor einem erneuten Krieg, obwohl seit Jahren Frieden herrscht in Deutschland. Beharrlich überprüft Karl die Speisekammer auf Vorräte, und immer wieder sucht die Familie gemeinsam Zuflucht im Keller, wenn der Vater den Einfall der Russen fürchtet.

Dem Buchhändler Friedrich Keller wird von einem verwahrlosten Unbekannten ein Manuskript mit Gedichten zugespielt. Keller, neurotischer Einzelgänger und passionierter Kenner der Dichtkunst, beginnt eines Tages das Manuskript zu lesen und entdeckt bald, dass ihm ein Meisterwerk vorliegt. Geraume Zeit später erkennt er den Mann auf der Straße wieder und folgt ihm spontan in die derbe Welt einer Säufer- und Hurenkneipe, wo er das Gespräch mit dem Genie sucht. Die Begegnung bringt seine Welt ins Wanken.

Kate Karlson's only focus in life is her Midwestern horse farm. Ignoring her husband, she spends long days giving riding lessons and training horses. To showcase her teaching ability, she enters her three sons and daughter in all the equestrian shows. But when her family dares to thwart her interests, the results bring tragedy and devastation.

Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He’s come here to hide from the violence and madness that have shattered his life, but what he finds is what he least expects. It seems that every inhabitant of this forgotten outpost has a story, a reason for taking a detour to this place—or a reason for staying.

His life's work and ambition fulfilled, Francis Brimm believes the only metamorphosis left him is a slow, affable decline toward death. So he returns to the town of his youth and to his sister, Muriel, whose life has been as uneventful as Francis's has been exciting.But life is not about to let Francis go. Faces from the past haunt him, surprises in the present unsettle him. And suddenly, two people who thought their lives were over find themselves struggling not to be overwhelmed by new knowledge, hidden truths, and unexpected danger.

It's Prohibition. It's Philadelphia. And Jersey Leo doesn't fit in. Jersey is an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he tends bar at a speakeasy the locals call the Ink Well. There, he's considered a hero for having saved the life of a young boy. But when his old grade school buddy, Aaron Garvey, calls from death row and asks for one last favor, all hell breaks loose. Jersey finds himself running from a band of crooked cop and hiding an escaped convict in the Ink Well....

Kvinde - kvinde. Mand - mand. Biseksualitet. Fleksibel. Queer. Nogle har aldrig sat spørgsmålstegn ved deres homoseksualitet. Andre er heteroseksuelle og har ægteskab og børn, da tanken om ens bedste veninde pludselig gør brystvorterne hårde, eller når en berøring fra ens bedste ven gør pikken stiv. Dette er en erotisk novellesamling fra Cupido. Novellesamlingen indeholder følgende noveller: "Hun blev vanvittig glad, aede hende over håret og kyssede hende med en inderlighed, hun ikke troede, hun besad.

Un capitán del ejército de Franco que, el mismo día de la Victoria, renuncia a ganar la guerra; un niño poeta que huye asustado con su compañera niña embarazada y vive una historia vertiginosa de madurez y muerte en el breve plazo de unos meses; un preso en la cárcel de Porlier que se niega a vivir en la impostura para que el verdugo pueda ser calificado de verdugo; por último, un diácono rijoso que enmascara su lascivia tras el fascismo apostólico que reclama la sangre purificadora del vencido.

A vividly original literary novel based on the astounding true-life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person who learned language and blazed a trail for Helen Keller. At age two, Laura Bridgman lost four of her five senses to scarlet fever. At age seven, she was taken to Perkins...

"El país de los ciegos: Y Núñez se encontró a sí mismo intentando explicar el ancho mundo del que había caído, el cielo y las montañas, la visión y otros prodigios como aquellos ... Y ellos se negaron a creer o a entender nada de lo que les dijo ... Ni siquiera comprendieron muchas de sus palabras. Durante catorce generaciones, aquella gente había estado ciega y aislada del mundo de los videntes. Los nombres de las cosas alusivas a la visión se habían olvidado y habían cambiado."