Fiction Realism

‘एकाकीपन के सौ वर्ष’ की कहानी आपको विस्मित करती है; इसकी अतिरंजनाएँ आपको अवाक् और हास्य के आवेग में विह्वल छोड़ देती हैं; आप एक विराट स्मृति-गाथा के अतिमानवीय मायाजाल में धीरे-धीरे यथार्थ और वास्तविकता के कठोर पत्थरों पर पैर रखते हुए आगे बढ़ते हैं; और इस तरह मानव नियति के साथ बिंधे अनन्त अकेलेपन की एक सामूहिक गाथा के दूसरे छोर तक जाते हैं।

He paid for the latest tech. He got something he didn't expect.When Ethan's Realism Level Nine robot arrives at his door, he tells himself she is practical. An investment. A machine to help run his business. Nothing more.But he didn't expect her to cry. Or bleed. Or dream. And a lifelike robot...

El murmullo de las abejas llega ahora como una audioserie narrada con más de 70 voces (incluidas las de Sofía Segovia y su nieta Elena), un diseño sonoro monumental y música original que dan vida a una versión fresca, innovadora e inmersiva, que le una voltereta a la entrañable novela de Sofía Segovia.

For 15 years the weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom near the village of Raveloe, alone and unjustly in exile, cut off from faith and human love, he cares only for his hoard of golden guineas. But two events occur that will change his life forever; his gold disappears and a golden-haired baby girl appears. But where did she come from and who really stole the gold? This moving tale sees Silas eventually redeemed and restored to life by the unlikely means of his love for the orphan child Eppie.

Nicole has wanted to own a haunted car her entire teenaged life, and when she finally finds one - a junker of a Chrysler Neon with its own tragic backstory - her best friend, Johnny, has some serious doubts. Would a demon even want to possess a Chrysler Neon? But when the two of them take it for a test drive, Johnny’s doubts begin to fade: The steering wheel burns hot, the car traps Johnny in the back seat, and is Nicole even driving? Or is the car driving itself? They soon find themselves forced to face the potential evil controlling the car, and possibly even themselves.

Author Michael McDowell, known for his chilling Blackwater series, left behind the unfinished manuscript of Candles Burning upon his death in 1999. His close friend, Tabitha King, has taken up where he left off, weaving a Southern gothic fabric of murder, guilt, innocence, corruption, and...

رواية قصيرة للأديب الروائي الروسي دوستويفسكي، فهو يحكي عن شاب من صغار الموظفين راضٍ عن مصيره برغم مرتبه الصغير وحاله الضعيفة، أُسند إليه رئيسه في العمل عملاً كثيراً ضخماً، ولكنه يقع في حب فتاة بريئة فينشغل بحبه ناسياً عمله، يقيم ذلك الشاب مع صديقه الوفي، الذي يحبه حباً جماً، يضخم الشاب خطأه في التأخر عن تسليم عمله إلى سيده، ذلك

Imagine a London where magic is real...real, but feared. This is Eliza Braxton's London, and she has always accepted her place in it gladly. As one of the Riftborn, her magic has relegated her to the servant class, where she dutifully serves as the lady's maid in one of the most powerful households in the country. There, she uses her remarkable powers of persuasion to keep Elder Hallewell's rebellious daughter in the path to an arranged match of power and prosperity. Eliza has never questioned her loyalty...until now.

Tara Selter has become someone new. It becomes clear just how ridiculous it is: life in progressive time. Or was. Before we came to a halt. How foolishly one can spend a life in a time that moves forward. The nonsense of the ceaseless grind. The enchanting word-of-mouth sensation accelerates as...

Yarima Lalo believes he has been murdered twice before. The cause? Love. To make sense of these vivid memories he cannot shake, he travels from Abuja to Kano with his new friend and love interest Aziza to meet an old woman who he might have known in a past life. She is skeptical at first - and hesitant to revisit painful memories of her own - but together, they dig deeper and deeper into the past, piecing together a shared history with ripple effects that could shape Lalo’s future.

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Londen 1897: Na het verlies van hun ouders ontdekken weesjes Martha en William dat ze erfgenamen van een magisch koninkrijk zijn en raken verwikkeld in een gevaarlijk avontuur vol geheimen. Deel 1 van 2.

Emilio recuerda cómo entrevió a través de la piel translúcida de la barriga de su madre la réplica de Murillo que colgaba en el hospital madrileño donde nació. Se pregunta, desde dentro de un lienzo de Magritte, por qué al final del hilo rojo que ataron a su dedo meñique tras nacer leyó entonces el nombre de un mes. Octubre desconoce de dónde viene su nombre; nosotros tampoco lo sabremos. Recuerda aquel primer amor al que besó debajo de las faldas de una menina del Prado. Se pregunta dónde estará ahora, mientras bucea bajo las aguas de la laguna Estigia de Patinir.

A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking to a woman he doesn't know who proves to be his wife. Soon separated but still living in the same apartment, he is threatened by a litigious dachshund and saddled with a stubborn case of erectile dysfunction in a world that seems held together by increasingly mercurial laws and elusive boundaries.

Il 2 marzo del 1993, a ventidue anni, in conseguenza di un grave incidente stradale, Charlotte entra in coma. Quando riapre gli occhi si ritrova in un luogo onirico e surreale: Ajalgea, l'isola dell'impazienza. Scopre di non avere più un corpo e crede di essere sola, fino a quando incontra sulla spiaggia un uomo intento a fare un piccolo monte di foglie secche e legnetti.

So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story.

When Cole Harper is compelled to return to Wounded Sky First Nation, he finds his community in chaos: a series of shocking murders, a mysterious illness ravaging the residents, and re-emerging questions about Cole’s role in the tragedy that drove him away 10 years ago. With the aid of an unhelpful spirit, a disfigured ghost, and his two oldest friends, Cole tries to figure out his purpose and unravel the mysteries he left behind a decade ago. Will he find the answers in time to save his community?

‘Outstanding’ – Daily Mail ‘Glorious’ – V. E. Schwab ‘Blacktail will consume you’ – Marcus Kliewer A dark, brutal work of fantasy and animal revenge from Scott Hawkins, the critically acclaimed author of The Library at Mount Char. Blacktail is a half-breed wolf, born to hunt...

Late at night our friend wanders a little and ponders quite a lot on a long walk along a river looking for a reason to keep on living. He meets up with a troll and a few other all-night ghouls as he drifts along, searching for purpose. They all find it amazing our friend can negotiate his way through the day posing as a teacher.

Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.