Narrado en primera persona por la protagonista Mercedes Sánchez, nos cuenta la triste vida de su familia: su madre, tres hermanos y ella misma. Su padre murió muy pronto dejándoles sumidos en la más absoluta pobreza. No obstante, un rayo de luz aparece en su vida. Un hombre, Sebastián, enamorado de su madre, que hace que la vida de todos vuelva a brillar. Pero sólo 5 años duró esta dicha: La mala suerte hace que Sebastián muera en un atentado de ETA que iba dirigido a un camión de militares.La vida de Mercedes vuelve a hundirse en la negrura más absoluta, y su corazón, desde este momento, sólo puede albergar odio. Odio y deseos de venganza.Nuevamente en la miseria, es ella quien ahora consigue sacar adelante a la familia pidiendo limosna, cuidando niños e incluso prostituyéndose.Calculadora, decidida, fria…, para llevar a cabo su venganza, no se amilanará ante nada, incluyendo el asesinato. Empieza a relacionarse con pequeñas bandas armadas, narcotraficantes, grupos terroristas de menor calado, hasta que consigue introducirse entre la gente a la que tanto odia, entre los responsables del acto criminal que marcó su vida.Siempre con una idea fija en la cabeza, la venganza será la única razón de la existencia de Merche y por ella renunciará a muchas cosas, incluida la posibilidad de ser llegar feliz, de poder ser una persona normal, de abandonar y descansar.

"Bradbury’s familiar poetic magic sings in every paragraph, reminding his readers why Green Town is worth visiting again and again."— BooklistGREEN TOWN, Illinois stands at the very heart of Ray Bradbury Country. A lovingly re-imagined version of the author’s native Waukegan, it has served as the setting for such modern classics as Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Farewell Summer. In Summer Morning, Summer Night, Bradbury returns to this signature locale with a generous new collection of twenty-seven stories and vignettes, seventeen of which have never been published before. Together, they illuminate some of Green Town’s previously hidden corners, and reaffirm Bradbury’s position as the undisputed master of a unique fictional universe.In the course of this volume, readers will encounter a gallery of characters brought vividly to life by that indefinable Bradbury magic. Included among them are a pair of elderly sisters whose love potion carries an unexpected consequence; a lonely teacher who discovers love on Green Town’s nocturnal streets; a ten-year-old girl who literally unearths the intended victim of a vicious crime; and an aging man who recreates his past with the aid of a loaf of pumpernickel bread.Each of these stories is engaging, evocative, and deeply felt. Each reflects the characteristic virtues that have always marked the best of Bradbury’s fiction: optimism, unabashed nostalgia, openness to experience, and, most centrally, an abiding generosity of spirit. Summer Morning, Summer Night is both an unexpected gift and a treasure trove of Story. Its people, places, images, and events will linger in the reader’s mind for many years to come.

A Novel by the Governor General’s Literary Award — winning author of A Complicated Kindness.Lucy Van Alstyne always thought she’d grow up to become a forest ranger. Instead, at the age of eighteen, she’s found herself with quite a different job title: Single Mother on the Dole. As for the father of her nine-month-old son, Dillinger, well…it could be any of number of guys.At the Have-a-Life housing project — aptly nicknamed Half-a-Life by those who call it home — Lucy meets Lish, a zany and exuberant woman whose idea of fashion is a black beret with a big silver spider brooch stuck on it. Lish is the mother of four daughters, two by a man on welfare himself and twins from a one-week stand with a fire-eating busker who stole her heart — and her wallet.Living on the dole isn’t a walk in the park for Lucy and Lish. Dinner almost always consists of noodles. Transportation means pushing a crappy stroller through the rain. Then there are the condescending welfare agents with their dreaded surprise inspections. And just across the street is Serenity Place, another housing project with which Half-a-Life is engaged in a full-on feud. When the women aren’t busy snitching on each other, they’re spreading rumours — or plotting elaborate acts of revenge.In the middle of a mosquito-infested rainy season, Lish and Lucy decide to escape the craziness of Half-A-Life by taking to the road. In a van held together with coat-hangers and electrical tape and crammed to the hilt with kids and toys, they set off to Colorado in search Lish’s lost love and the father of her twins. Whether they’ll find him is questionable, but the down-and-out adventure helps Lucy realize that this just may be the summer of her amazing luck.Miriam Toews’s debut novel, Summer of My Amazing Luck opens our eyes to a social class rarely captured in fiction. At once hilarious and heartbreaking, it is inhabited by an unforgettable and poignant group of characters. Shortlisted for both the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, it also earned Miriam the John Hirsch Award for the Most Promising Manitoba Writer.

**Emmy Award winner, renowned lawyer and journalist, and View cohost Sunny Hostin makes her literary debut with this dazzling novel about a life-changing summer along the beaches of Martha's Vineyard.**

Welcome to Oak Bluffs, the most exclusive black beach community in the country. Known for its gingerbread Victorian-style houses and modern architectural marvels, this picturesque town hugging the sea is a mecca for the crème de la crème of black society--where Michelle and Barack Obama vacation and Meghan Markle has shopped for a house for her mom. Black people have lived in this pretty slip of the Vineyard since the 1600s and began buying property in the 1800s, making this posh town the embodiment of "old money."

Every summer, Esperenza "Perry" Soto, a beautiful and talented Afro-Latina lawyer, escapes the fetid heat of New York City for the gorgeous weather, cool water, and stunning views Oak Bluffs offers. Sharing a cottage on the beach, owned by...

The author of The Beach Club and Nantucket Nights, Elin Hilderbrand is a master at putting together a compulsive beach read. In Summer People, her intricate plot links a grieving widow and her teenage twins to a troubled stranger during one healing summer in the pastoral haven of Nantucket. Always a place of peace for the family, their beach house becomes the scene of roiling emotions and turbulent passions as the teens' first loves-as well as a surprising secret from the widow's past-threaten to destroy their family. This novel is as essential as sunscreen for the beach bag.

A riveting novel of power, passion and intrigue, from the author of Soldiers of ’44.

Harry Selby knows disturbingly little about the father he never met — until he comes to Summitt City, a chillingly efficient “planned” city where his long-lost half-brother begins to unlock the mystery of their common past... and then suddenly disappears. The brutal sexual assault upon Selby’s young daughter convinces him that beneath the dark currents of the two tragedies is a dimly discerned secret malice, a leviathan whose nature confounds even as he presses his search to the highest levels of law and government. The trail twists to a frightening military experiment in mind and memory control; to a sensational — and darkly suspicious — murder trial; and finally to Summitt City, where it all began — a city now lethal guardian of a most terrible truth.

Summitt is a novel of remarkable range and depth, a brilliant exploration of at once the lowest and noblest in human behavior, including a touching father-daughter relationship that defies and survives the mindless evils arrayed against it. Summitt is the premier work of a fine writer at the top of his creative powers.

Этот мир фальшив чуть более, чем полностью.

Мир, в котором дополненная реальность подменила собой действительность. Мир, в котором люди видят только то, что хотят: красивые дома, красивые машины, красивых себя. Идеальных, без изъяна. Это наш мир, Земля 2029 года, мир, в котором нельзя доверять собственным глазам.

Мир лжи.

Мир, падающий в бездну апокалипсиса. Ложь заставила людей начать самую страшную войну в истории – против самих себя. Ложь накинула на мир удавку тотальной диктатуры, готовясь обратить людей в стадо рабов. Ложь погубила и закон, и мораль, но не смогла убить чувства, и посреди чудовищной лжи прекрасного будущего разворачивается удивительная история искренней любви между мужчиной и женщиной, которых, кажется, свела сама Судьба.

suMpa – вторая арка 2029 года от мастера прозы завтрашнего дня Вадима Панова.

As the 19th century draws to a close, the politically disgraced Mahmoud Abd El Zahir takes up his post as District Commissioner of the remote and dangerous Egyptian oasis of Siwa, knowing he has no choice. The hostile, warring natives are no surprise — but little did he expect to fall in love, his Irish wife to alienate the entire community, or a local beauty to prove a fatal ally. As the gulf between occupier and occupied, husband and wife, dreams and reality widens, tensions reach boiling point.

`Sunset Park` cuenta la historia de Miles Heller, un joven de veintiocho años, que hace ocho, rompió todos los vínculos que lo unían al mundo que había conocido hasta entonces. Abandonó la universidad, y dejó una breve nota de despedida para sus padres, se alejó de Nueva York y nadie volvió a saber nada de él.Desde ese momento, ha estado errando por sitios casi marginales y oficios poco cualificados, moviéndose siempre en ese sombrío espacio entre el suelo y el peldaño más bajo del escalafón social y laboral. Ahora vive en Florida y tiene un empleo en una empresa de servicios para las entidades bancarias de la localidad, que se ocupa de despejar las casas de los desahuciados, que en plena recesión, no pudieron seguir pagando su hipoteca, y las acondiciona para una nueva venta.Miles no tiene pretensiones, vive con lo mínimo, mantiene relaciones sociales muy escasas, y el único exceso que se permite son los libros, que adquiere en ediciones económicas, y la cámara con la que registra a los `fantasmas` (se dedica a fotografiar los objetos abandonados por las familias desalojadas).Si hay una cosa que ha conseguido, en estos siete años, ha sido poder vivir el presente, sin anhelos y sin mañana. Y así habría continuado de no ser por una muchacha, Pilar Sánchez. La conoció en un parque, cuando los dos estaban sentados en la hierba leyendo `El gran Gatsby`. Miles era la tercera vez que lo leía, porque fue un obsequio de su padre al cumplir los dieciséis años.Y esa es, exactamente, la edad de Pilar, una menor. Y debido a que Miles puede ser detenido por sus amoríos con ella, cuando la codiciosa hermana de Pilar empieza a coaccionarlos, él regresa a Nueva York para aguardar allí la emancipación de su amiga.Su regreso es la vuelta al pasado y a sus secretos, a su padre, un magnífico editor, a su madre, una actriz despiadadamente cautivadora, y a su madrastra, una intelectual cuyo juicio no pudo aguantar. Pero es también el retorno al mundo, a la comunidad de Sunset Park y a sus camaradas okupas, a la vida, con todas sus penas y glorias.

Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force unlike anything he's ever writtenSunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families.A group of young people in a squat in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.A Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world.William Wyler's 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives.A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway.An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage.These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. Sunset Park is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers.

Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force unlike anything he's ever writtenSunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families. A group of young people in a squat in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. A Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world. William Wyler's 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives. A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway.An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage.These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. Sunset Park is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers.

Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities; a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach.Hidden away inside the present, the past is explosive; the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter; ordinary moments are illuminated with lightning flashes of dread or pleasure. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.

The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years – and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.In a very near future – oh, let's say next Tuesday – a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn't it? Lenny's from a different century – he totally loves books (or 'printed, bound media artifacts,' as they're now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness.After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our 'ancient dork' effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lenny's new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New York's Central Park, the city's streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. He's going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospect's 'hotness' and 'sustainability' with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being.Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.

Super-Cannes – a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback – was the winner of the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Eurasian region.'Sublime: an elegant, elaborate trap of a novel, which reads as a companion piece to Cocaine Nights but takes ideas from that novel and runs further. The first essential novel of the 21st century.'– Nicholas Royle, Independent'Possibly his greatest book. Super-Cannes is both a novel of ideas and a compelling thriller that will keep you turning the pages to the shocking denouement. Only Ballard could have produced it.'– Simon Hinde, Sunday Express'In this tautly paced thriller he brilliantly details how man's darker side derails a vast experiment in living, and shows the dangers of a near-future in which going mad is the only way of staying sane.'– Charlotte Mosley, Daily Mail'Vintage Ballard, a gripping blend of stylised thriller and fantastic imaginings.'– Alex Clark, Guardian'Ballard at his best. Truly superb: the best book he has written. The story achieves the optimum balance of perfectly wrought lucid thriller-writing with formidable and pervasive intelligence.'– Edward Docx, Daily Express'Like watching a slow-motion action replay of a spectacular collision, you can't take your eyes away from Super-Cannes.'– Mike Pattenden, The Times'Super-Cannes is one of those novels whose last 100 pages you turn over faster and faster, wanting hundreds more: One peels this novel like an onion. Halfway through, I thought I could see the denouement. Three-quarters of the way through, something quite different seemed to be looming up. I have to say that the ending eluded and amazed me. As Ballard always amazes.'– John Sutherland, Sunday Times'Ballard's extraordinary new novel reads like a survival manual for the new century: There is a peculiar Englishness that manifests itself in exploration of the exotic, and J. G. Ballard is the most exotic author of all. Super-Cannes is a gleaming, tooled-up taste of tomorrow, beguiling, subversive and so appropriate to the mood of the new century that it feels like a survival handbook; it might just save your life.'– Christopher Fowler, Independent on Sunday'A magical hybrid that belongs to no known genre, a masterpiece of the surrealist imagination, Super-Cannes is another triumph by Britain 's most uncompromisingly contemporary novelist.'John Gray, New Statesman'J. G. Ballard is the Dr Moreau of British fiction, creator of controlled environments and out-of-control dystopias: More than any other writer Ballard understands the transformation technology may effect on human desire. This is his most potent statement yet of the outcome of that transformation, an elegant nightmare with all the internal coherence of an Escher engraving or a Calvino fable: Ballard unravels the secrets of his post-industrial Elysium with panache, leading us into a society which is both an exaggerated parable for our times and a chill piece of futurology: compelling.'– Tim Adams, Observer'With this sharply focused novel, Ballard takes a long sniper's look at the mirror-walled corporate dream, and then shatters it.'– Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph'Ballard remains that very rare thing, an original. He is undoubtedly the most exciting of contemporary novelists.His genius lies in the mood he creates and his often dazzlingly surreal images. Super-Cannes possesses a relentless energy and an atmosphere of calculated corruption: the chilling narrative succeeds as an apocalyptic comment on modern society's inhuman dance of death.'– Eileen Battersby, Irish Times'Tainted idylls have always been J. G. Ballard's fictional speciality. With Super-Cannes, he dreams up one of his most memorable. Electrifyingly vivid prose and a storyline alive with shocks power a novel that casts lurid light on an exclusive Riviera enclave of the technological ©lite.'– Peter Kemp, Sunday Times'For those who know his work, the familiar pleasures are all present: fecund ideas, the disquieting poetry of his imagery and a strong spine of narrative. For first-timers, the ride begins here. Much writing is touted as essential; little, however, can claim any such distillation of its times. Ballard's is the real thing.'– Gareth Evans, Time Out'A dark and incendiary thriller, doing to the gated community and business park what Bram Stoker did for the Transylvanian castle.'– S. B. Kelly, Scotland on Sunday'He continues to produce the most trenchant and effective critique of the era and remains the most important contemporary British writer.' Will Self, Independent 'The storyline of intrigue and manipulation sees Ballard's devious imagination on tiptop form. Pacy, intelligent and accessible – one of his most enjoyable books ever, a pageturner that is also a novel of ideas.'– David Profumo, Literary Review'One of our strangest and most brilliant novelists. A new novel from Ballard is a literary event to make the heart jolt with uneasy expectation. Super-Cannes, super-saturated with Ballard iconography, is one of the first novels to gaze unflinchingly at the new millennium.'– Catherine Lockerbie, Scotsman'Super-Cannes is prime Ballard – weighty, potent and extraordinary.'– John Preston, Evening Standard'Ballard just gets hipper and hipper.'– Guardian

In bestselling author Christopher Buckley's hilarious novel, the President of the United States, ticked off at the Senate for rejecting his nominees, decides to get even by nominating America 's most popular TV judge to the Supreme Court.President Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees onto the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill a Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the nerve to reject her-Judge Pepper Cartwright, star of the nation's most popular reality show. Will Pepper, a vivacious Texan, survive a Senate confirmation battle? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.

A bittersweet debut novel, Surprise Me is an unconventional love story about two writers who see more in each other than they see in themselves, and how that faith transforms them.The fragile dream of becoming a writer takes hold of Isabelle Rothman during her senior year of college. Feeling brave, she begins a one-on-one tutorial with a once highly praised novelist, Daniel Jablonski, who is known on campus as eccentric, difficult, and disengaged. Despite his reputation, Isabelle loves his early novels and hopes Daniel can teach her the secrets of his luminous prose. But their first meeting is a disaster. He never read the chapters she submitted and will not apologize for being unprepared. He has lived up to his reputation, and she feels dismissed, humiliated, and furious.But slowly, over the semester, they gingerly form a bond that begins to anchor both of them. And over the next twenty years, as they live very separate lives — she in Northern California and he finally settled in a tiny New Hampshire town — they reach out to each other through e-mails, phone calls, and visits. Their continual connection helps Isabelle find the courage to take greater risks and push Daniel to work through layers of self-loathing and regret that have kept his career from flourishing. They are the single constant in each other’s life and the most profound influence.Daniel and Isabelle recognize they are among the blessed few who meet at the exact moment they need each other the most, and that their lives are transformed by this connection. In a final collaboration, the boundaries of teacher and student give way to a work that heals something in each of them. They truly see each other as extraordinary — as people do when they love — and that belief makes all the difference.

Finalist for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize

Landon Locke is no ordinary barista. A man of many names and identities, he has lived though many lifetimes, but his memory spans only days.

Danger brews as Landon struggles to piece together reality through his fog of amnesia. A mysterious organisation called CODEX bent on hunting him down, a man named John who claims to be a friend, and women from Landon’s past who have come back to haunt him.

As CODEX closes in, he finds himself increasingly backed into a corner. Battling an unreliable memory, Landon is forced to make a choice: who can he trust?

In the not-too-distant future, no one trusts anyone and everyone is watching everybody else. America is obsessed with information and under siege from an insidious enemy: paranoia. National identify cards are mandatory, terrorism alerts are a daily event, and privacy is laid bare on the Internet. For a freelance journalist, her daughter, a bestselling author, and a struggling actor, these tumultuous times provide the backdrop as their lives become inextricably bound in a darkly humorous, frighteningly accurate story of life in an unstable world. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

Londone gyvenanti Liza, moteriško žurnalo Femme redaktorė, mano, kad bus paaukštinta ir išvažiuos dirbti į išsvajotąjį Niujorką. Bet staiga ji perkeliama į Dubliną leisti naujo žurnalo Kolin. Jei ne jos naujasis bosas, susitaršęs, nuolatos susirūpinęs, prastai nusiteikęs, bet išvaizdus Džekas Divainas, būtų apsisukusi ant savo aukšto Prados batelių kulno ir pirmu lėktuvu grįžusi į Londoną...