Showing results for "Zone" in Literary Fiction

Esta novela demuestra una vez más que a Martin Amis no le tiembla el pulso a la hora de abordar temas controvertidos. Después de la demoledora Lionel Asbo. El estado de Inglaterra, que levantó ampollas por su crudo retrato de lo peor de la sociedad británica, el autor regresa al nazismo y al Holocausto, que ya había tratado en La flecha del tiempo. Y lo hace desde un ángulo cuando menos sorprendente, cediendo la palabra a los verdugos, y sin renunciar a incomodar al lector con ciertos toques de comedia negra.

Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two residents remain: retired safety inspector turned beekeeper Sergey Sergeyich and Pashka, a 'frenemy' from his schooldays. With little food and no electricity, under ever-present threat of bombardment, Sergeyich's one remaining pleasure is his bees.

Izzy Gam wants to be buried on the Mount of Olives, known as "the number one place for a Jew to be buried", as the resurrection is supposed to begin there. Unfortunately, it turns out that his planned resting place is already occupied, as is every other place in Israel that his increasingly flustered family tries to put him.

Ovunque è un paesaggio da dopobomba in un’immobilità che sa di preistoria. Cartacce in balìa del vento. Rumori di semafori che cambiano colore. Brusio di insegne di centri commerciali. Respiri di cani randagi sui marciapiedi umidi. Per avere conferma che in questo mondo l’uomo ancora sopravvive, bisogna cercare i teleschermi accesi. Le centinaia di milioni di persone che li guardano immobili sono uno sterminato esercito di terracotta incapace di reagire.

Comunque sia, la tua vita iniziava a farsi interessante: avevi costruito diversi portali di emergenza e andavi e tornavi anche più volte al giorno nell’universo parallelo. Avevi iniziato a esplorarlo e quando tornavi mi raccontavi dettagliatamente di tutte le differenze. Gli artisti, per esempio, erano diversi, le nostre guerre non c’erano state ma ce n’erano state altre altrettanto brutali, la tecnologia era molto simile ma con alcune notevoli divergenze.

This century unfolds with a fast-changing world riven by immense wars and glutton hungry Empires. Women strive to win the most basic of rights, the right to vote. Their literary testament is now a vital part of our cultural world. They write on all manner of subjects with truth, with imagination and with undeniable talent. We are all the richer for their words.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. The plains of the American Mid-West are home to some very fine exponents of the literary craft. Throughout this vast landscape stories seem to be everywhere offering their experiences as works just awaiting the final touches and flourishes of these famed authors. They deliver in very talented ways.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. A decade of monumental change and slaughter. Many of society’s telling questions are cast aside in times of that speak of greater needs, greater priorities. For these talented authors their ideas and words keep these magnificent stories at the forefront of our literary lives.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this Century of profound change for women our Atlantic neighbours produced authors of extraordinary ability that dazzled us all with a range of ideas, characters and stories of such magnificence that literature would never be the same again. Genius is written in their names.