ANNOTATIONAn electric piece of work that takes off like a screaming rocket about the world of drugs in Las Vegas.FROM THE PUBLISHERA book about the world of drugs in Las Vegas. "The best book on the dope decade." – NYT Book Review

According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amélie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfillment of a dream for Amélie; working there turns into comic nightmare. Alternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight to the pages of this taut little novel, caught up in the throes of fear, trembling, and, ultimately, delight.

ERICA JONG’S GLORIOUSLY WICKED, SEXY NOVEL ABOUT THE WAY THINGS OUGHT TO BE FOR A WOMAN…“A PASSIONATE NOVEL… the body wanting sex, sex, sex and love and safety, comfort; the mind wanting freedom, independence, the power to work, to write… very alive and real. It is wonderfully funny and sad, witty and agonizing, brilliant, sensual, serious.”-Hannah Green“The heroine is as sexy as Tom Jones and as outspoken about her sexuality as Portnoy was about his!”– Cleveland Plain Dealer“FOR AN EXHILARATING FUEL-BURNER, A BLAZE OF ONE-WOMAN ENERGY AND SEXUAL PLENTY, FEAR OF FLYING IS DEFINITELY A VEHICLE FOR EXCEEDING ALL LIMITS OF THE OPEN ROAD!”– Village Voice“A FLAMBOYANT SEXUAL IMAGINATION!”– New York TimesFor every woman who ever dreamed of living her sexual fantasies…For every man who still believes women “don’t think like that”…“It is rare these days to come upon a book written by a woman which is so refreshing, so gay and sad at the same time, and so full of wisdom about the eternal man-woman problem.”-Henry Miller“THE MOST OUTRAGEOUSLY ENTERTAINING WOMEN’S LIBRETTO YET, lusty raw material served up by a new writer of great talent!”-Cosmopolitan“A BAWDY, SWAGGERING first novel of fine touches and insightful observations on sex and marriage.”– The Minneapolis Star“SHE’LL TAKE YOU FARTHER FROM HOME THAN YOU EVER DREAMED YOU’D GO. AND AFTER THIS BOOK, THERE MAY NEVER BE A WAY BACK.”-Lois Gould

Yglesias’s New York Times — bestselling novel of trauma, loss, and the bonds formed between victims of catastropheMax Klein suffers from many anxieties — including a terrible fear of flying — but after surviving a plane crash his worries vanish and he suddenly believes himself invincible. Back home, a psychiatrist puts him in touch with Carla, a victim of the same crash who lost her infant son and suffers from a morbid, debilitating depression. Now Max and Carla begin a relationship that is sometimes intimate, sometimes painful, and perhaps the only path to recovery for both.Fearless is a brilliant portrait of trauma and its aftermath — the shock of loss and the sometimes unexpected ways that people learn to cope with disaster.This ebook features a new illustrated biography of Rafael Yglesias, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.From Publishers WeeklyA powerful examination of denial and guilt, Yglesias’s (Hot Properties) terrific new novel opens with a gut-wrenching scene incarnating the worst nightmares of anyone who is afraid of flying. Forty-two minutes after takeoff, a DC-10 en route from New York to Los Angeles loses its rear engine. Max Klein, an architect traveling with his business partner, imagines the worst. Carla Fransisca, her two-year-old son in her lap, refuses to believe that she and her child are in danger. When the plane crashes, both are ironically confounded: Max walks away unhurt, and Carla blames herself for her son’s death. The ordeal crushes Carla, elevates Max to a higher level of perception and strips them both of everything except brutal, fearless honesty. Yglesias chronicles their actions after the flight with the same candor, often portraying Max and Carla as abrupt and abrasive without making them any less real or less likable to the reader. A screenwriter as well as a novelist, he makes good use of cinematic techniques. Each image in his simple, precise prose is vivid and memorable; the pre-crash scene on the plane and a later re-enactment of the accident, in particular, linger in the mind. Film rights to Spring Creek Productions; audio rights to Simon & Schuster; BOMC alternate.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.From Library JournalAcclaimed author Yglesias (The Murderer Next Door, LJ 8/90) examines how almost dying can affect one’s life. His protagonists are Max and Carla, who experience psychological problems after surviving a DC-10 crash. An architect traveling on business, Max accompanies his partner, who is killed in the crash. Having outwitted death, Max decides that he has nothing further to fear. Carla, traveling with her baby, feels unworthy to live once she loses him. Consumed by guilt, Max and Carla reexamine their lives, their relationships, and their religious beliefs, and eventually realize that they alone can make each other whole. Yglesias, a talented writer, immediately involves readers in the fate of his characters, telling their story extremely well. Highly recommended.Ellen R. Cohen, Rockville, Md.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso López, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition: to prove to the world that the myth of Simón Bolívar, El Libertador, is a sham and a scandal.In Pasto, south Colombia, where the good doctor plies his trade, the Feast Day of the Holy Innocents is dawning. A day for pranks, jokes and soakings … Water bombs, poisoned empanaditas, ground glass in the hog roast — anything goes.What better day to commission a float for The Black and White Carnival that will explode the myth of El Libertador once and for all? One that will lay bare the massacres, betrayals and countless deflowerings that history has forgotten.But in Colombia you question the founding fables at your peril. At the frenzied peak of the festivities, drunk on a river of arguardiente, Doctor Justo will discover that this year the joke might just be on him.

Томас Гунциг, бельгийский писатель, лауреат многих литературных премий, рассказывает о нелегкой жизни матери-одиночки, которая героически сражается с превратностями судьбы. Пытаясь выбраться из нищеты, ради любимого сына она совершает самые невозможные поступки, вплоть до похищения ребенка. Мужество и талант помогают ей преодолеть все невзгоды.

Два профессиональных афериста, оказавшись гостями богатого коневладельца в поместье «Villa Amentia», решают похитить его любимца, бесценного жеребца по кличке Феликс. Но напарники явно недооценивают своих таинственных соперников, которые, скрываясь под масками любящих членов семьи, преследуют каждый свои собственные интересы.

A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the early twentieth century — by an award-winning writer chosen as one of “5 Under 35” by the National Book Foundation.Mary Mallon was a courageous, headstrong Irish immigrant woman who bravely came to America alone, fought hard to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic service ladder, and discovered in herself an uncanny, and coveted, talent for cooking. Working in the kitchens of the upper class, she left a trail of disease in her wake, until one enterprising and ruthless “medical engineer” proposed the inconceivable notion of the “asymptomatic carrier”—and from then on Mary Mallon was a hunted woman.In order to keep New York’s citizens safe from Mallon, the Department of Health sent her to North Brother Island where she was kept in isolation from 1907–1910. She was released under the condition that she never work as a cook again. Yet for Mary — spoiled by her status and income and genuinely passionate about cooking — most domestic and factory jobs were heinous. She defied the edict.Bringing early twentieth-century New York alive — the neighborhoods, the bars, the park being carved out of upper Manhattan, the emerging skyscrapers, the boat traffic — Fever is as fiercely compelling as Typhoid Mary herself, an ambitious retelling of a forgotten life. In the hands of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes an extraordinarily dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable character.

In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that’s before the players even take the field.Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny. Or call it preschool. Fever Pitch is his tribute to a lifelong obsession. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, Hornby’s award-winning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandom—its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young mens’ coming-of-age stories. Fever Pitch is one for the home team. But above all, it is one for everyone who knows what it really means to have a losing season.

Translated into English at last, Fiasco joins its companion volumes Fatelessness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child in telling an epic story of the author’s return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian government. Fiasco as Imre Kertész himself has said, “is fiction founded on reality” — a Kafka-like account that is surprisingly funny in its unrelentingly pessimistic clarity, of the Communist takeover of his homeland. Forced into the army and assigned to escort military prisoners, the protagonist decides to feign insanity to be released from duty. But meanwhile, life under the new regime is portrayed almost as an uninterrupted continuation of life in the Nazi concentration camps-which, in turn, is depicted as a continuation of the patriarchal dictatorship of joyless childhood. It is, in short, a searing extension of Kertész’ fundamental theme: the totalitarian experience seen as trauma not only for an individual but for the whole civilization — ours — that made Auschwitz possibleFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

A daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and an obsessed young reporter named Mischa Berlinski.When his girlfriend takes a job as a schoolteacher in northern Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, working as little as possible for one of Thailand's English-language newspapers. One evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story. A charismatic American anthropologist, Martiya van der Leun, has been found dead — a suicide — in the Thai prison where she was serving a fifty-year sentence for murder.Motivated first by simple curiosity, then by deeper and more mysterious feelings, Mischa searches relentlessly to discover the details of Martiya's crime. His search leads him to the origins of modern anthropology — and into the family history of Martiya's victim, a brilliant young missionary whose grandparents left Oklahoma to preach the Word in the 1920s and never went back. Finally, Mischa's obssession takes him into the world of the Thai hill tribes, whose way of life becomes a battleground for two competing, and utterly American, ways of looking at the world.Vivid, passionate, funny, deeply researched, and page-turningly plotted, Fieldwork is a novel about fascination and taboo — scientific, religious, and sexual. It announces an assured and captivating new voice in American fiction.Fieldwork is a 2007 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Called “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence”, “Field Work in Ukrainian Sex” by Oksana Zabuzhko is the tale of one woman’s personal revolt provoked by a top literary scandal of the decade. The author, a noted Ukrainian poet and novelist, explains: “When you turn 30, you inevitably start reconsidering what you have been taught in your formative years—that is, if you really seek for your own voice as a writer. In my case, my personal identity crisis had coincided with the one experienced by my country after the advent of independence. The result turned explosive: ‘Field Work in Ukrainian Sex.’”

Ces neuf histoires de petite folie sont des fictions ; et pourtant, elles n'ont pas été inventées. Leur matière est puisée dans une expérience familière. Tous les jours, nous perdons la tête à cause d'un peu de température, d'une rage de dents, d'un vertige passager. Nous nous mettons en colère. Nous jouissons. Nous sommes ivres. Cela ne dure pas longtemps, mais cela suffit. Nos peaux, nos yeux, nos oreilles, nos nez, nos langues emmagasinent tous les jours des millions de sensations dont pas une n'est oubliée. Voilà le danger. Nous sommes de vrais volcans.Il y a longtemps que j’ai renoncé à dire tout ce que je pensais (je me demande même parfois s’il existe vraiment quelque chose qui s’appelle une pensée) ; je me suis contenté d’écrire tout cela en prose. La poésie, les romans, les nouvelles sont de singulières antiquités qui ne trompent plus personne, ou presque. Des poèmes, des récits, pour quoi faire ? L’écriture, il ne reste plus que l’écriture, l’écriture seule, qui tâtonne avec ses mots, qui cherche et décrit, avec minutie, avec profondeur, qui s’agrippe, qui travaille la réalité sans complaisance. C’est difficile de faire de l’art en voulant faire de la science. J’aimerais bien avoir en quelque sorte un ou deux siècles de plus pour savoir.J. M. G. L. С.

An utterly convincing and moving look at the beauty and perils of consciousness.— I wonder, said Hermes, what it would be like if animals had human intelligence.— I'll wager a year's servitude, answered Apollo, that animals — any animal you like — would be even more unhappy than humans are, if they were given human intelligence.And so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks.André Alexis's contemporary take on the apologue offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. By turns meditative and devastating, charming and strange, Fifteen Dogs shows you can teach an old genre new tricks.

Новый рассказ об эротических экспериментах Майкла Дуридомова. 50 оттенков черного.  Может дальше не рассказывать? Вы и так уже обо всем догадались. Вот и умнички, вот и молодцы

Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk's apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. Mayhem ensues, beginning with the narrator's condo exploding and culminating with a terrorist attack on the world's tallest building. Writing in an ironic deadpan and including something to offend everyone, Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore, especially with a particularly bizarre plot twist he throws in late in the book. Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling, Palahniuk's utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. Movie rights to Fox 2000.

When his bicycle is intentionally run off the road by a neighbor's SUV, something snaps in Bob Coffen. Modern suburban life has been getting him down and this is the last straw. To avoid following in his own father’s missteps, Bob is suddenly desperate to reconnect with his wife and his distant, distracted children. And he's looking for any guidance he can get.Bob Coffen soon learns that the wisest words come from the most unexpected places, from characters that are always more than what they appear to be: a magician/marriage counselor, a fast-food drive-thru attendant/phone-sex operator, and a janitor/guitarist of a French KISS cover band. Can these disparate voices inspire Bob to fight for his family? To fight for his place in the world?A call-to-arms for those who have ever felt beaten down by life, Fight Song is a quest for happiness in a world in which we are increasingly losing control. It is the exciting new novel by one of the most surprising and original writers of his generation.

Premio PlanetaEsta novela obtuvo el Premio Planeta 1988, concedido por el siguiente jurado: Ricardo Fernández de la Reguera, José Manuel Lara, Antonio Prieto, Carlos Pujol y José María Valverde.Filomeno, gallego de origen portugués por parte de madre, es un personaje de incierta y compleja personalidad, lo cual se refleja en un nombre de pila indeseado que suena a ridículo y en el uso habitual de sus diferentes apellidos según la situación y el país en que se encuentra. Tras estudiar Derecho en Madrid, se traslada a Londres para trabajar en un banco, es corresponsal de un periódico portugués en París y, después de residir en Portugal durante la guerra civil española, acaba volviendo a la Galicia donde nació. En el curso de estos viajes, y mientras la historia de Europa se va ensombreciendo progresivamente, Filomeno tiene experiencias de todo género que le hacen madurar y se enamora varias veces. Este itinerario personal forja la personalidad del protagonista, y constituye un hondísimo retrato que en la pluma de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester se enriquece con sugestivos matices de observación e ironía. Extraordinaria novela en la cual lo real y lo misterioso, la tragedia y el humor, el curso de una azarosa vida y la trama de la historia contemporánea se mezclan en una armoniosa síntesis de arte narrativo y verdad humana para darnos una de las grandes obras maestras de su autor. «El Filomeno Freijomil que se desdobla en Ademar de Alemcastre para disfrazar su desasosiego, no es sino expresión de ese juego de máscaras en el que el hombre moderno necesita refugiarse para afrontar el dolor de su propia inconsistencia» (Juan Manuel de Prada).

Fima lives in Jerusalem, but feels that he is in Jerusalem by mistake, that he ought to be somewhere else. In the course of his life he has had several love affairs, several ideas, has written a book of poems that aroused some expectations, has thought about the purpose of the universe and where the country has lost its way, has spun a detailed fantasy about founding a new political movement, has felt longings of one sort or another, and the constant desire to open a new chapter. And here he is now, in his early fifties, in this shabby flat on a gloomy wet morning, engaged in a humiliating struggle to release the corner of his shirt from the zipper of his fly. With rare wit, intimate knowledge of the human heart, and his usual storytelling mastery, Amos Oz portrays a man — and a generation that dreams noble dreams but does nothing.