Absurdist Fiction

Blending the piercing humor of Alexandra Kleeman and the jagged satire of Black Mirror, an audacious, eerily prescient debut novel that chronicles the rise and fall of a massive high-rise housing complex, and the lives it affected before - and after - its demise. Standing nearly 500 stories tall, Los Verticalés once bustled with life and excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of rubble known as the Heap.

Benjamin Malaussène ha uno strano lavoro, è il capro espiatorio dell'Ufficio Reclami del Grande Magazzino di Parigi. Una cliente è appena uscita dalla sua stanza quando si sente un forte boato. Una bomba, poi due, nel dipartimento giocattoli! Il sospettato numero uno dell'ondata di oscuri attentati è proprio Benjamin. E allora per scoprire chi sia il vero responsabile delle esplosioni si mobiliteranno la sua tumultuosa famiglia e una esilarante banda di personaggi: Thérèse la sorella sensitiva, Jérémy il geniale e pestifero fratello, il Piccolo visionario.

Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next, literary detective, finds herself in an unusual situation her job policing the fictional characters of the BookWorld has been downgraded since her previous escapades are now themselves in print. However, a pressing threat may call her back into action: first Sherlock Holmes and then Miss Marple are found dead, stopping their series in their tracks.

The Sven Chronicles: Synergy, Sausages and Spuds Wisdom Nobody Asked For – But Here We Are Are you tired of self-help books that tell you to wake up at 5am, eat chia seeds, and achieve inner peace while riding a a monocycle? Meet Sven. He’s not here to optimise your workflow. He’s here to remind you that it’s okay to accidentally walk into the Gents’, eat cake in your knickers and find meaning in a potato. Inside, you’ll find: - A prophetic potato who speaks in starch-based riddles - A dog named Biscuits who has mastered the ancient art of Doing Nothing With Purpose - Golden ...

The Late Mattia Pascal (Italian: Il fu Mattia Pascal) is a 1904 novel by Luigi Pirandello. It is one of his best-known works and was his first major treatment of the theme of the mask. The protagonist, Mattia Pascal, finds that his promising youth has, through misfortune or misdeed, dissolved into a dreary dead-end job and a miserable marriage.

Bob Honey, the disillusioned divorcee with a penchant for murder by mallet, weaves his way toward Washington DC, for the ultimate showdown with a certain nefarious "landlord", but nothing is as it seems, and Bob will have more than just the government working against him. Part comedy and part thriller, Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn establishes Sean Penn as a fixture of the literary landscape for years to come.

The best description of this novel can be found in its forward, otherwise known as The Reader Advisory: In case it is not readily apparent, readers are advised that this novel is not only a fantasy, it is also a joke, a joke comprised of other jokes. The title is a joke, the chapter titles are jokes, some of the character’s names are jokes, even the illustrations are jokes. The effect the author intends here is one devoid of any serious treatment of any serious themes. Readers with the sensitivity, creativity, and intellect to detect any such treatment are to be commended for their ...

Uncover the terrifying secrets of Sacramento, California, once a symbol of American pride, now morphed into an oppressive urban hellhole ominously known as the Ward. This chilling city-prison, with its unfathomable horrors, is a place where even angels fear to tread. In the grim depths of the Ward, a trio of horrifying factions clash. Avalon Company, fueled by an obsession with fire and destruction; the Breedless, cannibals who echo the ferocity of ancient Vikings; and Talon's Legion, a death-cult reminiscent of the terrifying might of the Roman Empire. Each is embroiled in a brutal battle ...

Life is so unfair, and it sends many things to try Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg. There is the undeserved rise of his rival (and owner of a one-legged dachshund), Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer; the interminable ramblings of the librarian, Herr Huber; and the condescension of his colleagues with regard to his unmarried state. But when his friend Ophelia Prinzel takes it upon herself to match-make, and duly produces a cheerful heiress with her own Schloss, it appears that the professor's true worth is about to be recognised.

Oyelo.com lo invita a seguir disfrutando de las aventuras de Don Quijote en esta segunda parte de la gran obra de Miguel de Cervantes. Es una obra clásica de la literatura hispana y en la que el autor ha logrado capturar con su magnífica prosa el espíritu humano, con todos los sueños y las aspiraciones que todos tenemos de cambiar el mundo y hacerlo un lugar mejor para todos. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

When Nolan Grey receives news that his father, a once-prominent biologist, has drowned off Leap's Island, he calls on Elsa, his estranged, older half-sister, to help pick up the pieces. This, despite the fact that it was he and Elsa who broke the family in the first place. The Greys have been avoiding each other for a dozen years. Elsa and Nolan travel to their father's field station, a wild and isolated spot off the Gulf Coast.

Un día Matías Pascal, bibliotecario en Sicilia, lee en un periódico la florida reseña de su propia muerte. Toda la novela es una profunda reflexión sobre la constante pugna por establecer una identidad definida y tener un lugar bien definido en el mundo.

Un capolavoro letterario senza tempo, in cui l'autore mescola il reale con l'assurdo, l'insensibilità con la compassione...

Yang Wei wakes to find himself still a patient at the hospital. Somehow, he’s aged decades overnight and is confined to the geriatric ward on a massive Hospital ship as it floats along a bloodred sea full of unsightly things. But human remains and sea nymphs are perhaps nothing compared to the goings-on belowdecks.

Ghost Cities—inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China—follows multiple narratives, including one in which a young man named Xiang is fired from his job as a translator at Sydney's Chinese Consulate after it is discovered he doesn't speak a word of Chinese and has been relying entirely on Google Translate for his work. How is his relocation to one such ghost city connected to a parallel odyssey in which an ancient Emperor creates a thousand doubles of Himself?

Shelf Death by Mit Namzo Dive into the darkly whimsical world of Shelf Death, a gripping and imaginative eBook that transforms an ordinary supermarket into an epic battleground of sentient groceries. In the fluorescent-lit aisles of Grimley’s Supermarket, where the doors lock and the lights dim, a hidden war rages. Canned goods, fresh produce, frozen foods, and processed snacks—each faction fights for dominance, driven by survival, pride, and the cold gaze of the Algorithm, a profit-obsessed AI that tallies every move. At the heart of this chaos is Tommy the Tomato, a pacifist dreamer ...

In these 11 stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien - and through it, find a way to liberation. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly inventive young writers.

Are you a Law & Order or CSI crime junkie? In these You Solve It mini mysteries, you get to be the lead detective who takes on the case. You will read the case file, collect the evidence and solve the crime. Become an iDetective.

A mysterious object has appeared out in the snow. Gibbs and Cline are mesmerized. They can’t discern its exact shape and color, nor if it’s moving or fixed in place. But it is there. Isn’t it? Whatever it might be, Hart thinks the thing in the snow is an unwelcome distraction, and probably a huge waste of time. Though, come to think of it, time itself has been a bit wonky lately. Weekends pass in a blur, and he can hardly tell day from night. Gravity seems less-than-reliable. The lights have been flickering weirdly, and he feels an odd thrumming sensation in his beard.

The buzzing didn't grow louder—only harder to ignore. A man is haunted by the sound of an insect only he can hear—an invisible presence that grows louder after he suffers a tragic loss. The narrator spirals through grief into a life of tailored luxury and surface-level ease. Despite this, the buzzing continues—until a new arrival stirs long-buried memories and reveals cracks in the story he's been living. The Insect charts a haunting journey through identity, obsession, and the inescapable echoes of the past.