Títulos en Literatura y ficción

Twelve early stories from the comic master, including the romantic truth behind the odd success of a Soho restaurant; the mysterious ways of a lucky black cat; a tale of three exiled baseball fans; a private detective in love with an actress in a touring company; a policeman in love with a parlor maid in the Battersea Park Road; Mr. Henry Wallace Mills of the two left feet; and the first appearance of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, as Bertie is sent to New York to rescue his cousin from the clutches of a Vaudeville starlet...

This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological— that destroy the rain forest and all birds of Brazil.

Wang Er, a twenty-one-year-old ox herder, is shamed by the local authorities and forced to write a confession of his crimes, but he instead takes it upon himself to write a modernist literary tract. Later, as a lecturer at a chaotic, newly built university, Wang Er navigates the bureaucratic maze of 1980’s China, boldly writing about the Cultural Revolution’s impact on his life and those around him. Finally, alone and humbled, Wang Er must come to terms with the banality of his own existence.

Well, this year, after the Spring Planting season, I’m really gonna relax and put down roots. It’s the slow life for me. Sure, the talking animals and cultivators coming to live with me are a bit weird, but this year everything is gonna be basically normal. There definitely won’t be any Heavenly Tribulations, ancient formations, or cultivator issues to deal with . . .

""It began as a mistake."" By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged...

Julius Fischer hasst Menschen. Das fängt bei Kindern an. Pubertät geht auch gar nicht. Noch ätzender sind eigentlich nur Studenten. Und natürlich Berufstätige. Die sind am schlimmsten. Aber nichts im Vergleich zu Rentnern. In seinem neuen Buch erzählt er davon, wie er versucht, all diesen Leuten aus dem Weg zu gehen. Und wie er daran scheitert. Er berichtet von einer viel zu langen Zugfahrt nach Köln, von der Wanderung mit seinen Lesebühnen-Kollegen und erzählt vom Besuch der Leipziger Buchmesse mit seinem Freund, dem Dynamo-Ultra Enrico.

This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "None of this is real and all of it is true." —Jim Carrey Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege—but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even ... getting fat? He's tried diets, gurus...

Brought to you by Penguin. Annie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan, and now she's like her money back, please. It's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked. Is she really going to find real, proper...

Marta es una actriz argentina que vive en New York, es joven, linda y perturbada. Intenta quedar en películas de gran despliegue, pero nunca termina de encajar en los estereotipos de lo que se espera de una latina. Una noche, en una fiesta, conoce a un músico muy famoso y se enamora de él. Pero lo que podría ser el inicio de una historia de amor es en cambio el inicio de una historia rabiosa y fracturada, minada de desencuentros.

Un exceso de confianza condenó al ladrón. O quizás, el ímpetu de la adolescencia. Tiene apenas catorce años, y la anciana a la que pretende robar mientras ingresa a su casa, noventa y tres. En principio, nada puede salir mal. Pero sale mal. Cuando el joven se quiere dar cuenta, está...

Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. Exuberant, scandalous and exceptionally discerning, The Bonfire of the Vanities was Tom Wolfe's first venture into fiction and cemented his reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.

Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone. Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells. When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new friendship. But can it survive the journey?

Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.

Vernon sigue en la calle y ha perdido todo contacto con el mundo real. El parque Buttes-Chaumont, al nordeste de París, es ahora su nuevo hogar, y allí convive con otros vagabundos, sin ser consciente de que se ha convertido en una especie de celebridad en internet y de que sus antiguos amigos, un heterogéneo grupo de individuos socialmente muy dispares, lo buscan desesperadamente. Todos quieren conocer las grabaciones que la estrella del rock Alex Bleach dejó en sus manos antes de morir.

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR & GLOBAL TIK TOK SENSATION, EMILY HENRY Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. That is until it became the prologue to his actual love story with his childhood bestie, Petra. Which is how Daphne ends up rooming with...

Un día común y corriente, un funcionario ruso se despierta y descubre que su nariz ha desaparecido de su rostro. La nariz ahora se pasea por la ciudad, como si fuera una persona. Desesperado, el protagonista empieza una búsqueda frenética para recuperarla. ¿Podrá restaurar su apariencia normal?

Meet Seth Brakes. Musician. Reluctant romantic. Inherent troublemaker. Addict. And three hundred and twenty days sober. After a near-death experience, Seth is carving a new path for himself. Having reformed the band — the infamous Lucky Fuckers — things are looking up for Seth: gigs are falling back into the diary, he's in love and finally getting back to what he enjoys most: writing music. That is until his past starts to creep up on him . . .

L'avvocato del diavolo immagina un futuro distopico in cui la Russia è governata da un nuovo regime dopo l'improvvisa caduta del Leader Nazionale, chiara trasfigurazione dell'attuale presidente Putin. Quando Boris Turgencikov, uno scrittore dissidente perseguitato dal vecchio esecutivo, torna in Russia per assistere ai cambiamenti messi in atto al suono dello slogan "Onore e Onestà", resta invischiato in una surreale vicenda giudiziaria.

According to Max Disher, an ambitious young black man in 1930s New York, someone of his race has only three alternatives: "Get out, get white, or get along." Incapable of getting out and unhappy with getting along, Max leaps at the remaining possibility. Thanks to a certain Dr. Junius Crookman and his mysterious process, Max and other eager clients develop bleached skin that permits them to enter previously forbidden territory. What they discover in white society, however, gives them second thoughts.