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In Vision entwirft Thomas Mann ein fein schattiertes Stimmungsbild zwischen Wirklichkeit und innerem Erleben. Ein sensibler Beobachter verliert sich in einer flüchtigen Wahrnehmung, die sich zu einem intensiven, beinahe entrückten Moment verdichtet. Die Erzählung spiegelt die Macht der Imagination und zeigt, wie fragile Eindrücke zu tiefen seelischen Erfahrungen werden können.

Rozmaryn never knew his mother. When he finds an old photograph of her in the company of a stranger, he goes looking for answers. What he finds is Tefil. Tefil lives in a garret flat in a quiet Polish town. He is balding, not especially fragrant, and fiercely committed to avoiding the repayment of small debts. His philosophy centers on mould. Mould, Tefil argues with full conviction, is the only truly unconquerable living thing—it survives being eaten and digested, it outlasts civilisations, and it is destined to consume everything, including humanity itself.

ليتصور القارئ قبل إقدامه على مطالعة الكتاب مرجًا واسعًا في سفح جبل، هناك يتلاقى رجلان على غير ميعاد أحدهما شيخ والآخر فتى. الأول خرج من المدينة والثاني من الغاب، أما الشيخ فيسير بخطى ضعيفة متكئًا على عصاه بيد مرتجفة، وفي غضون وجهه وشعره الشائب المسترسل ما ينم على أنه عرك الدهر وعرف أسرار الحياة ومخاتها فذاق منها مرارة أوصلته إلى التشاؤم منها. يصل هذا الشيخ إلى المرج، فيستلقي هناك على العشب قصد الراحة، وإذا فتى جميل غض الإهاب قد لوحت الشمس بشرته وأكسبته الحياة جذلاً وانبساطًا، خرج من الغاب يحمل نايه فيسير حتى يصل إلى مكان راحة الشيخ فيضطجع بجانبه.

More potatoes for the Potato Lord! More workers for the potato plantations! I have mastered the Mage, resisted Temptation, and even learned to brew my own System Cider. But soon the curtain between System zones will fall. What waits behind it? People? People on boars?!

In this enchanted family saga, Kate is a neuroscientist who reveres logic and order, unless she’s sleeping with her married lab director and then logic goes out the window. So does Kate’s orderly life in Manhattan after she takes the fall for their affair and Kate’s mother presses her to accept responsibility for her nephew, Teague, an orchid child who hears voices and talks to trees but rarely people. To salvage her career, Kate agrees to conduct a study in West Ireland.

In the debut novel DREAMS AND SHADOWS, screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill takes us beyond the veil, through the lives of Ewan and Colby, young men whose spirits have been enmeshed with the otherworld from a young age. This brilliantly crafted narrative - part Neil Gaiman, part...

“Una pieza de arte. En cada una de sus páginas, sentirás el flujo de una poderosa energía que murmurará a cada una de tus células que es tiempo de salir de tu escondite, de abrir las ventanas, de respirar con libertad, de vestirte de colores… de volar”. —Laura Esquivel, autora de...

Mexican author Rubirosa is attending a book fair in Tangier when he reconnects with an old acquaintance, a Moroccan artist who asks one favor of his visiting friend: to access the puzzling files on a memory card. It could help fulfill the destiny of his son Abdelkrim. It could also unwittingly draw both men into irreversible events already in motion on distant shores. In America, Abdelkrim, a brilliant aspiring astronaut deemed “too Muslim” for citizenship, has teamed up with an equally gifted young prodigy, a witness to the plight of Syrian refugees.