Resultados para "The Twenty" en Psicológica

Veinticinco mil días son los que un ser humano vive de media en su vida adulta. Este libro cuenta 32 historias cortas sobre cómo vivir esos 25.000 días. "Veinticinco mil días es la cifra aproximada de oportunidades que la vida le brinda a una persona durante su periplo vital. Los seres humanos tenemos alrededor de 25.000 vidas, que empiezan y acaban cada día, para el elegir cómo vivir cada una de ellas..."

Thought-provoking philosophical fiction. Psychological literary fiction. Dark, dialogue-driven stories about guilt, grief, trauma, identity, and the lies we tell ourselves to survive. There's a voice in your head that won't let you hide. In this collection, that voice has a face. Across twenty existential, emotionally layered stories, ordinary people at their breaking points find themselves seated across from a figure who calls himself the Devil. Sometimes he's calm. Sometimes cruel. Sometimes unsettlingly compassionate. Always precise.

In the small, picturesque town of Oxford, Maryland, nine-year-old Anna Baker's life looks perfect from the outside. But behind closed doors, her world is crumbling. When her mother abandons her to a life of abuse, neglect, and homelessness, Anna learns early that survival means adapting to the unthinkable. From the streets of Cambridge to the psychiatric wards that tried to silence her, from teenage motherhood to medical neglect that left her broken, Anna's life becomes a relentless series of traumas that would destroy most people.

It is the early months of the Arab Spring, 2011. But for three young men, two American and one Iraqi, their minds return again and again to 2006, to the bloodiest stretch of the Iraq War. Members of the same platoon, they were tasked with the often deadly job of repairing potholes in the roads of the Al Anbar Province: potholes that almost always concealed a home-made bomb. They have survived the war but now they must learn to live with themselves.

People today hardly ever think about Hell unless it is a scene in a Hollywood blockbuster. A journey of despair and distress can be metaphorical, but it can also be quite literal and waiting around the next corner. No one plans on sudden health complications or a substantial loss of income, but life is full of randomness and the unexpected. No matter how much we fool ourselves into thinking that we have a firm grip on our fate, a transformative change can cause the fairy tale to fade and disappear.