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Tatlı Kız
By Dan Alatorre, Remzi Bulbul. 2014
Bu kitap, potensiyel olarak ölümcül bir kalp rahatsızlığı olan Uzun QT Sendromunu (UQTS) anlatıyor. Hem kendisinin hem de kızının bu…
hastalığı asemptomatik olarak taşıması ile, yazar Alatorre okuyucuya, ailede olup bitenleri bazen bir mizah içinde bazen de esinlendirici olarak sunuyor. Bunu yaparken de, kendi kızının etkinlikleri ve günlük yaşamı içine, UQTS ile savaşan diğer insanların öykülerini de serpiştirerek süslüyor. Bu insanların UQTS'li olduklarını nasıl öğrendikleri, bu hastalıkla nasıl uğraştıkları ve yaşamlarını nasıl sürdürdükleri akıcı bir dille anlatılıyor. Bu hastalığı taşıyan kimi insanların, hastalığı taşıdıklarının farkına bile varmadan yaşamlarını normal bir şekilde sürdürüyorlar veya bu hastalıktan ölüp gidiyor. Bazılarına tesadüf eseri UQTS tanısı konuyor ve ilaç ve cihazlarla yaşamlarına devam ediyor. Diğer bazılarının da öbür dünyaya çok kısa ziyaret ettikten sonra geri döndürülüyorlar, büyük ızdıraplardan sonra tanılanabiliyor ve devamında yaşamlarını sürdürüyor. Yazar, bütün bunları, insanların bir mayın tarlasından geçip gitmelerine benzetiyor. Yazarın benzetmesine göre insanlar, mayınlı arazide olduklarını bilmeden geçerken, tesadüfen kıllarına zarar gelmeden geçip gidiyor veya bazıları mayına basıp ölebiliyor, diğer bazıları yaralı olarak kurtuluyor ve bazı müdahalelerle yaşamlarını sürdürüyorlar.Bu hastalığı taşıyan insanlara, potensiyel olarak ölümcül bir hastalık olmasına rağmen, UQTS tanısı konmasının bir umut ışığı olduğunu belirterek kendilerinin şanslı olduklarının altı çiziliyor. Bunu, yaşamı sürdürmek için, tanısı konularak sorunun ne olduğunu bilmek hiç bilmemekten çok daha iyi seçim olduğunu belirterek onların daha mutlu bir yaşam sürdürmeleri için cesaret veriyor.Identidade Trocada
By Giselle Renarde, Luiza Aragón Pedrada. 2016
Quando Brenda é sequestrada por dois agentes secretos que estão convencidos que ela é outra pessoa, as técnicas de interrogatório…
deles se tornam pouco convencionais. Existe um encontro lésbico pela primeira vez, depilação em um quarto de motel velho, um ménage no chuveiro... Ela consegue tudo o que quer, e tudo o que ela quer é ter mais!Divas, Dames & Daredevils
By Maria Elena Buszek, Mike Madrid. 2013
ComicsAlliance and ComicsBlend Best Comic Book of the YearBUST Magazine "Lit Pick" RecommendationCertified CoolTM in PREVIEWS: The Comic Shop's Catalog"Mike…
Madrid gives these forgotten superheroines their due. These 'lost' heroines are now found-to the delight of comic book lovers everywhere." -STAN LEEWonder Woman, Mary Marvel, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle ruled the pages of comic books in the 1940s, but many other heroines of the WWII era have been forgotten. Through twenty-eight full reproductions of vintage Golden Age comics, Divas, Dames & Daredevils reintroduces their ingenious abilities to mete out justice to Nazis, aliens, and evildoers of all kinds.Each spine-tingling chapter opens with Mike Madrid's insightful commentary about heroines at the dawn of the comic book industry and reveals a universe populated by extraordinary women-superheroes, reporters, galactic warriors, daring detectives, and ace fighter pilots-who protected America and the world with wit and guile.In these pages, fans will also meet heroines with striking similarities to more modern superheroes, including The Spider Queen, who deployed web shooters twenty years before Spider Man, and Marga the Panther Woman, whose feral instincts and sharp claws tore up the bad guys long before Wolverine. These women may have been overlooked in the annals of history, but their influence on popular culture, and the heroes we're passionate about today, is unmistakable.Mike Madrid is the author of Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics and The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, an NPR "Best Book To Share With Your Friends" and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. Madrid, a San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture, also appears in the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines.Bacacay
By Witold Gombrowicz, Bill Johnston. 2004
A balloonist finds himself set upon by erotic lepers...a passenger on a ship notices a human eye on the deck...a…
group of aristocrats enjoy a vegetarian dish made from human flesh...a virginal young girl gnaws raw meat from a bone...a notorious ruffian is terrorized by a rat. Welcome to the bizarre universe of Witold Gombrowicz, whose legendary short story collection is presented here for the first time in English. These tales, hilarious, disturbing, and brilliantly written, are utterly unique in world literature. After reading them, you'll never be the same.Expecting Jeeves
By P. G. Wodehouse. 2016
"Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don't know?""I could not say, sir."That, in brief, is the essence of the…
relationship between aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his dryly superior valet, Jeeves. Originally published in The Strand magazine from 1918 to 1922 and later collected as The Inimitable Jeeves, these ten tales by comedic master P. G. Wodehouse abound in sparkling wit. "Scoring off Jeeves" recounts a lunch with Aunt Agatha ("A pretty frightful ordeal ... Practically the nearest thing to being disemboweled."), who insists that Bertie propose to Honaria Glossop ("simply nothing more nor less than a pot of poison"), necessitating Jeeves' rescue of the perennial bachelor ("and according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that"). Other stories include "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace," featuring Bertie's frolicsome cousins ("as innocuous as a pair of sprightly young tarantulas"); "Aunt Agatha Takes the Count," involving our hero's formidable relative and her intrusion upon his vacation in the south of France; and "Comrade Bingo," in which Bertie's school chum masquerades as a Bolshevist and Jeeves comes very near to being rattled.Bloodknots
By Ami Sands Brodoff. 2005
"Bloodknots is a truly singular and remarkable book of stories. Lyrical and disturbing, this is the work of a writer…
of unmistakable talent."--Joan Silber, author of Ideas of Heaven, a National Book Award nominee"Bloodknots is a marvelous collection peopled by unforgettable characters."--Nalini Warriar, author of Blues from the Malabar Coast and a McAuslan Book Award winnerA collection of beguiling stories from an American writer who excels at depicting the family ties that bind: fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters whose connections to one another are as fragile as they are irrevocable. Stubbornly honest, and imbued with a sensibility that speaks to the author's Jewish heritage, Ami Sands Brodoff writes with authority, passion, and razor-sharp detail about identity and the longing for human connections in the face of loss and exclusion. Her stories evoke the delicate familial weaves of Alice Munro, exposing the raw nerves of shattered lives redeemed by the willingness to forgive. Written close to the senses, Bloodknots penetrates to the core.Ami Sands Brodoff is from New York and also lived in Princeton, New Jersey, before relocating with her husband to Montreal, where she writes and teaches creative writing. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize nomination and has been anthologized in numerous journals and book collections. Her first book, Can You See Me?, received wide acclaim, including a rave from Publishers Weekly.Novelists
By C. P. Boyko. 2014
Novelists: the soul of an age, certainly. Brilliant? Perhaps. Yet aren't they also doddering, petulant, pedantic, knockkneed, skittish, and thunderingly…
insecure-resentful, awkward, annoying-demanding, deluded, and vexingly indifferent to reality? New from short fiction devotée C.P. Boyko, Novelists is a comedy of manners (and manuscripts), rivalling Vanity Fair for its satirical wit... though not, mercifully, for its length.Skin Folk
By Nalo Hopkinson. 2001
Throughout the Caribbean there are stories about people who aren't what they seem. Skin gives these folk their human shape.…
When the skin comes off, their true selves emerge. And whatever the burden their skin bears, once they remove it, skin folk can fly...Nalo Hopkinson has gained universal acclaim as one of the most impressively original authors to emerge in years. Her debut novel, "Brown Girl in the Ring," won the "Locus" Award for Best First Novel, became a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and garnered Hopkinson the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her second novel, "Midnight Robber," was a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards.Now she presents "Skin Folk," a richly vibrant collection of short fiction that ranges from Trinidad to Toronto, from fantastic folklore to frightening futures, from houses of deadly haunts to realms of dark sexuality. Powerful and sensual, disturbing and triumphant, these tales explore the surface of modern existence... and delve under the skin of eternal legends.El espejo distraído
By Elsa Bornemann. 2001
Una obra clásica de poemas, canciones y versicuentos donde se pueden encontrar noticias divertidas y raras, personajes simpáticos e ingeniosos…
juegos con el lenguaje, entre los cuales se destacan "La bruja enjabonada", "Receta para hacer un poema" y "Canción del sol resfriado". Un libro que merece el lugar de prestigio que conserva desde su primera edición.The World Afloat
By M.A.C. Farrant. 2014
In The World Afloat, a series of seventy-five "miniatures" that melds narrative with elements of prose poem and farce, master…
of the absurd and expert observer M.A.C. Farrant peers into the complexities of human experience - through the rear window.Inside the linoleum-lined kitchens and lace-trimmed living rooms that drift through these stories, Farrant interrupts the daily routines - doctor's appointments, gardening, mealtimes - of her eccentric yet familiar characters with intensely surreal, laugh-out-loud moments. What happens when a whimsical spirit becomes captive to a middle-aged body? At the end of a Love Your Package workshop, what does the wrap-up dinner look like? Can a soggy tomato salad really end someone's marriage? Brimming with pathos and bathos in equal measure, Farrant's smart prose offers escape and renewal from the monotony of modern life, while at the same time poking fun at her readers' pathological devotion to the technology and interpersonal relationships that leave them feeling bored and empty.Sexuality and depravity, childhood and bad parenting, and love and divorce are all deftly handled in this hot flash of a book that goes straight to the heart of things. As each "miniature" reads stranger (and truer) than the one before, Farrant manages to coax her readers from their well-worn, earthbound narratives and into a world afloat on satire, absurdity, and, in her most brilliant moments, expansive joy.É Por Isso Que a Vovó Comprou Aquele Carro ...E Outras Histórias e Versos
By Mauricio Goldani Lima, Anne R Allen. 2014
Contos e poemas da humorista e novelista de mistério Anne R. Allen. Algumas dessas histórias são sátiras, como Vive La…
Révolution, que teve sua primeira aparição na revista Opium de humor cáustico; outras são mais cordiais, apesar de retratos cômicos de mulheres rebeldes. Desde a envelhecida Betty Jo, que se sente tão ignorada que cogita assaltar um banco, até a negligenciada Maude, de 10 anos, que busca em um Elvis de fantasia o amor negado por sua família patrícia; e também a versão sanguinária e adolescente de Madame Defarge. Essas mulheres, velhas e jovens, rebelam-se contra os estereótipos e papeis tradicionais que as reprimem. E é por isso, claro, que a vovó comprou aquele carro.The Storyteller Essays
By Walter Benjamin. 2019
A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes…
short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work.“The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between narrative form, social life, and individual existence—and the product of at least a decade’s work. What might be called the story of The Storyteller Essays starts in 1926, with a piece Benjamin wrote about the German romantic Johann Peter Hebel. It continues in a series of short essays, book reviews, short stories, parables, and even radio shows for children. This collection brings them all together to give readers a new appreciation of how Benjamin’s thinking changed and ripened over time, while including several key readings of his own—texts by his contemporaries Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács; by Paul Valéry; and by Herodotus and Montaigne. Finally, to bring things around, there are three short stories by “the incomparable Hebel” with whom the whole intellectual adventure began.Todos mis cuentos
By Ana María Matute. 2015
Reunimos en un libro todos los cuentos para niños y mayores de Ana María Matute La obra de Ana María…
Matute se cuenta entre las mejores de la literatura contemporánea. Ha cultivado varias facetas de la escritura, como la novela o la narración autobiográfica, pero en la totalidad de su producción desempeñan un papel central los cuentos. Presentamos aquí una recopilación de sus relatos, en la que pueden encontrarse joyas del género como «Sólo un pie descalzo» o «El polizón del Ulises», galardonados con los más importantes premios y disfrutados por lectores de todas las edades. Este libro es una invitación al mundo creativo de una autora que ha roto fronteras, tópicos, cegueras y, especialmente, tedios. Reseña:«Ana María Matute tiene algo de maga, desde luego: es una hechicera de la palabra.»Rosa MonteroSunset: A Ch'ae Manshik Reader (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
By Manshik Ch'Ae. 2017
Ch’ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished modern Korean writers yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the…
challenges posed by his distinctive voice and colloquial style. Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik Reader is the first English-language anthology of his works and features a variety of genres—novella, short fiction, anecdotal essay, travel writing, children’s story, one-act play, three-act play, and roundtable discussion.This anthology moves beyond the usual “representative works” to provide a well-rounded selection of writing by one of Korea’s most innovative and memorable voices, drawing on Ch'ae's ten-volume Complete Works. This edition also provides a comprehensive introduction outlining the limitations of existing approaches to Ch'ae. It contextualizes the anthology's contents both in terms of the author's career and the rich Korean tradition of intertextuality and intermediality that he reflects from the country's earliest times to the new millennium.The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
By Woody Allen. 2007
Comprising the classic bestsellers Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, this definitive collection of comic writings is from a…
man who needs no Introduction. Really-this book has no Introduction. The Insanity Defense reveals many sides of Woody Allen as he holds forth on the most human of urges ("Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage"); reflects on death ("I don't believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear"); and notes the effect on history wrought by trick chewing gum, the dribble glass, and other novelties. There is also an inspiring story of the futile race to beat Dr. Heimlich to the punch: "The food went down the wrong pipe, and choking occurred. Grasping the mouse firmly by the tail, I snapped it like a small whip, and the morsel of cheese came loose. If we can transfer the procedure to humans, we may have something. Too early to tell. " All Woody Allen fans will cherish this uproarious treasury-and those who don't enjoy The Insanity Defense are just plain crazy. "If you don't care if you break into helpless whoops of laughter on buses, trains, or wherever you happen to be reading it. " -Chicago Tribune, on Without Feathers "Brilliant flights of fancy whose comic detail and inspired silliness are at once dramatic and controlled. " -The New York Times, on Side EffectsThe Short Stories of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection
By Oscar Wilde. 2020
An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era.“I cannot…
think other than in stories,” Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend André Gide. In this new selection of his short fiction, Wilde’s gifts as a storyteller are on full display, accompanied by informative facing-page annotations from Wilde biographer and scholar Nicholas Frankel. A wide-ranging introduction brings readers into the world from which the author drew inspiration.Each story in the collection brims with Wilde’s trademark wit, style, and sharp social criticism. Many are reputed to have been written for children, although Wilde insisted this was not true and that his stories would appeal to all “those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.” “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” stands alongside Wilde’s comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, while other stories—including “The Happy Prince,” the tale of a young ruler who had never known sorrow, and “The Nightingale and the Rose,” the story of a nightingale who sacrifices herself for true love—embrace the theme of tragic, forbidden love and are driven by an undercurrent of seriousness, even despair, at the repressive social and sexual values of Wilde’s day. Like his later writings, Wilde’s stories are a sweeping indictment of the society that would imprison him for his homosexuality in 1895, five years before his death at the age of forty-six.Published here in the form in which Victorian readers first encountered them, Wilde’s short stories contain much that appeals to modern readers of vastly different ages and temperaments. They are the perfect distillation of one of the Victorian era’s most remarkable writers.Ch'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploration of the inner…
life. Readers celebrate her creative play with fantasy and admire her deep engagement with trauma, history, and the vagaries of remembrance.In this collection's title work, There a Petal Silently Falls, Ch'oe explores both the genesis and the aftershocks of historical outrages such as the Kwangju Massacre of 1980, in which a reported 2,000 civilians were killed for protesting government military rule. The novella follows the wanderings of a girl traumatized by her mother's murder and strikes home the injustice of state-sanctioned violence against men and especially women. "Whisper Yet" illuminates the harsh treatment of leftist intellectuals during the years of national division, at the same time offering the hope of reconciliation between ideological enemies. The third story, "The Thirteen-Scent Flower," satirizes consumerism and academic rivalries by focusing on a young man and woman who engender an exotic flower that is coveted far and wide for its various fragrances. Elegantly crafted and quietly moving, Ch'oe Yun's stories are among the most incisive portrayals of the psychological and spiritual reality of post-World War II Korea. Her fiction, which began to appear in the late 1980s, represents a turn toward a more experimental, deconstructionist, and postmodern Korean style of writing, and offers a new focus on the role of gender in the making of Korean history.The Taste of Apples (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
By Huang Huang Chun-ming. 2001
From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of…
everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius. In "The Two Sign Painters," TV reporters ambush two young workers from the country taking a break atop a twenty-four-story building. "His Son's Big Doll" introduces the tortured soul inside a walking advertisement, and in "Xiaoqi's Cap" a dissatisfied pressure-cooker salesman is fascinated by a young schoolgirl.Huang's characters—generally the uneducated and disadvantaged who must cope with assaults on their traditionalism, hostility from their urban brethren and, of course, the debilitating effects of poverty—come to life in all their human uniqueness, free from idealization.Slow Boat to China and Other Stories (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
By Kim Chew Ng. 2016
"Dream and Swine and Aurora," "Deep in the Rubber Forest," "Fish Bones," "Allah's Will," "Monkey Butts, Fire, and Dangerous Things"—Ng…
Kim Chew's stories are raw, rural, and rich with the traditions of his native Malaysia. They are also full of humor and spirit, demonstrating a deep appreciation for human ingenuity in the face of poverty, oppression, and exile. Ng creatively captures the riot of cultures that roughly coexist on the Malay Peninsula and its surrounding archipelago. Their interplay is heightened by the encroaching forces of globalization, which bring new opportunities for cultural experimentation, but also an added dimension of alienation. In prose that is intimate and atmospheric, these sensitively crafted, resonant stories depict the struggles of individuals torn between their ancestral and adoptive homes, communities pressured by violence, and minority Malaysian Chinese in dynamic tension with the Islamic Malay majority. Told through relatable characters, Ng's tales show why he has become a leading Malaysian writer of Chinese fiction, representing in mood, voice, and rhythm the dislocation of a people and a country in transition.Cuentos completos
By José Agustín. 2001
Todos los cuentos de José Agustín, el autor más emblemático de La Onda y uno de los mejores narradores en…
México. Esta antología reúne todas las narraciones cortas que José Agustín publicara entre 1968 y 2002: desde Inventando que sueño (1968), No hay censura (1988) y No pases esta puerta (1992), hasta los relatos de Los grandes discos de rock (2001) y el extenso relato inédito Los ojos de los demás (2002). Ésta es, en pocas palabras, la recopilación que los lectores de José Agustín esperábamos con tanto anhelo. Los relatos que aparecen en Cuentos completos destacan, como el resto de la obra de José Agustín, por su originalidad, por la fusión de la tradición con la rebeldía, por el humor, la irreverencia y por el profundo y sutil erotismo que habita estas historias. Cuentos completos incluye textos clásicos como Cuál es la onda, Amor del bueno y Transportarán a un cadáver por exprés, relatos que abrieron nuevos caminos para la narrativa mexicana y que representan una de las propuestas literarias más ambiciosas en la historia de nuestras letras.