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In diesem Buch erwarten dich 30 rabenschwarze Kurzgeschichten, jede so kompakt, dass sie in fünf Minuten gehört ist, doch ihr Echo hallt viel länger in deinem Kopf nach. Düsterer Humor, unheimliche Wendungen und kleine Alltagsmomente, die plötzlich aus dem Ruder laufen, ziehen dich in ihren Bann. Jede Story ist ein schneller Trip in die Abgründe der menschlichen Psyche, perfekt für zwischendurch, aber garantiert nichts für schwache Nerven.

En Canillejas hay un edificio de renta antigua sobre el que pone los ojos un fondo de inversión para comprarlo y echar a los vecinos. El bloque de pisos alberga a veinte familias y el bar del Julito. En él vive el Botas, protagonista de la novela Yonqui, que, junto a personajes de otras novelas del autor como Zip, el Tijeras o el Pirri empiezan a organizarse para intentar salvar el edificio.

This richly imagined collage of interconnected stories follows Prosperous and Agu and the motley community of Nigerian expats who gather at their apartment each week. Their reality is one of dashed hopes, twisted love, and the pain of homesickness, even as they fight to make their way in this new world. Better Never than Late is a layered and affecting portrayal of the everyday absurdities and adversities of migrant life.

Is there any chance of a second date? That all depends on what a woman and a man are willing to invest in the first, in this quick-witted short story of a perfectly equitable modern romance. After 10 years of bad blind dates, Candace is having a hard time believing Patrick is so spot-on. He’s sharp, handsome, and kind - her mind can’t help racing to where it all will lead. Then the check arrives. It’s time to get real.

Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacker lead an ordered, sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: He is a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine.

Things started out so sweet. Everyone was going to be rich. All because of Trunk Man. He was the guy Papa and his meatheads stuffed in the back of a stolen Nissan and drove to a forest preserve outside Detroit. He owed Papa big-time. To save his own sorry neck, Trunk Man made an offer: a million dollars in bonds tucked away in a safe. Boost it, split it, and toss Trunk Man from a roof. Easy.

In this eye-opening short story, a tech reporter’s mistake unites two women eight thousand miles apart. One in New Jersey, one in the Philippines. Same name: Sandra Guzman. Same job: content moderators for a mega social media website. What transpires between them is a friendship that changes their perceptions of each other’s privilege and challenges the power of the very industry they work for.

Garrett Adams, an uptight behavioral psychology professor who refuses to embrace the 1960s, is in a slump. As he sits at a New York City bar watching the Yanks strike out, he knows he needs a change. At a Columbus Circle bookstore he meets a mysterious young woman, Daphne, who draws him into the turbulent and exciting world of Vietnam War protest politics and the music of Bob Dylan and the Beatles. He starts to emerge from the numbness and grief over his father’s death in World War II.

In a crumbling neighbourhood in New Delhi, a child waits for a mother to return home from work. And, in parallel, in a snow-swept town in Germany on the Baltic Sea coast a woman, her memory fading, shows up at a deserted hotel. Worlds apart, both embark, in the course of that night, on...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild...

Apenas a sus dieciocho años, a Carlitos Villaurrutia lo mata una bala perdida, en mitad de una trifulca que se desata en el puesto de piratería de su familia. Para su amigo List, el duelo se convierte en horror cuando, meses después, recibe un mensaje instantáneo de Carlitos. Un mensaje que no debería existir. Así, entre el espanto y el absurdo, List se lanza a una investigación que es todo menos profesional para seguir el rastro de los chats de su amigo muerto. Un camino de pistas surreales, personajes tan cotidianos como extravagantes y recuerdos de una infancia compartida.

Mama Ella’s final words cling to Karina long after her grandmother passes—cryptic, unsettling, impossible to shake. When her estranged sister, Candace, appears at the funeral unannounced, those last words snap into focus, suddenly prophetic. Soon, buried truths and scabbed-over wounds surface, forcing the sisters to confront the betrayals and choices that shaped their lives—and the secrets that kept them apart.

Aurora nasce in un appartamento popolare a Roma Sud, mentre il Paese si prepara ad attraversare gli anni Settanta e il loro spegnersi nella strategia della tensione. Del resto il passato sembra aver lavorato per lei da prima che nascesse: la nonna, con la quale Aurora ha un rapporto d'amore profondo e privilegiato, era scampata per miracolo al bombardamento di San Lorenzo. Tutt'intorno, nel frattempo, la città respira come un organismo: abbraccia, tradisce, intreccia destini senza mostrarli.

Become a shifter. Build my pack. Be the leader these people need. I’ve always known I was different. There’s a beast inside me, clawing to get free—and it finally breaks loose when I return to Thornveil City, a magic-soaked metropolis crawling with shifters. Soon, I’m teamed up with a razor-sharp wolfgirl whose bite is much deadlier than her bark, and we have one mission: protect a dangerously-gorgeous kitsune heiress from those evil creatures who want her magic for their own twisted ends.

Para comemorar seu aniversário de quarenta e três anos, Tati decide organizar uma festa em seu apartamento, na rua Maranhão, em Higienópolis, bairro nobre de São Paulo. Durante a celebração, ela recebe uma mensagem preocupada de uma amiga contando que errou o endereço e foi parar em "um lugar medonho": o Largo do Maranhão, no Tatuapé, bairro onde Tati cresceu. O pavor da amiga desencadeia em Tati uma crise de pânico, o que a obriga a deixar a sala, os convidados e a certeza momentânea de seu pertencimento de classe...

Mateo, el protagonista de esta vibrante y conmovedora novela de Diego Ameixeiras, intenta salir adelante vendiendo cocaína y dejándose llevar por los extraños negocios que le ofrece Silvio, su mejor cliente y viejo amigo con el que se siente en deuda. Al mismo tiempo, mientras se esfuerza en superar la muerte de sus padres en un accidente de tráfico, se ocupa de atender a Eulalia, una maestra jubilada que ya no puede llevarle flores a su hermano muerto.

1941 - Amid the bombs falling over London’s East End, the residents of West India Dock Road endure wartime with courage, defiance and a good dose of humour. From nights spent sheltering together in the Underground station to sharing gossip, pastimes and meals, they lean on each other as their world is turned upside down.

Inspired by one of the first real-life female columnists at the New Yorker, this enticing historical mystery follows Freddie Archer as she solves crimes while reporting on the glamorous world of the rich and famous in 1920s Manhattan. This writer just found her next scoop . . . and it’s deadly...

A gritty drama that will appeal to fans of The Throwaway Children and authors Nadine Dorries and Kitty Neale. When little Terry and Nancy arrive at the door of St Saviour’s Children’s Home, they seem shellshocked after being orphaned in the fire that killed their parents. Terry is terribly...

La “costa brava” de Madrid es un conjunto de barrios del sur de la capital donde los índices de delincuencia son superiores y la esperanza de vida inferior a la media del resto de la ciudad. Por ellos pululan, entre colillas apagadas, chabolas hiperpobladas y pisos rebosantes de inquilinos desahuciados, los protagonistas de esta novela, Israel Cruz, un perdedor nato con una última misión que cumplir; Fraile, el tipo más espabilado de todo Madrid, jugando a mil bandas, siempre viviendo al filo; Santos, un policía con mil secretos y otros tantos confidentes.