Magical Realism Anthology

In this masterful debut, an award-winning writer and first-rate storyteller explores the tenuous bonds of family - fathers and sons, husbands and wives - as they are tested by the sometimes brutal power of love. In each of the stories in this remarkable collection, David James Poissant delivers a moving portrayal of a relationship in turmoil. His strikingly true-to-life characters have reached a precipice, chased there by troubles of their own making. Some stand frightened, some ready to fight. Some seek atonement, others the atonement that is owed them.

Una preciosa colección de cuentos de realismo mágico venidos del Japón tradicional, zen e intimista. Cuentos de tradición oral que han pasado a lo largo de los siglos de la boca de las abuelas a los sueños de sus nietos y nietas, siempre de corte fantástico, siempre con enseñanzas profundas y siempre portando la esencia de la identidad japonesa a través de su tradición.

Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon-to-be 26th president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Beginning with his sickly childhood and concluding with McKinley's assassination, the novel positions Roosevelt as a "perfect bull in a china shop," a fearless crime fighter and pioneering environmentalist who would grow up to be our greatest peacetime president.

There’s a little bit of everyone’s flavor in this listen, from steampunk love to horrific barters, dinopunk cowboys, and basilisk handlers. This short story collection begs to be heard by those who want their listening experiences to be a bit like a charcuterie board: a literary variety of the best Danielle Davis has to offer. So grab your flashlight and step with her into the darkness tonight!

Un gruppo di viaggiatori che, per un complesso di circostanze diverse, hanno perso la parola si ritrovano in un castello. L'unico mezzo che hanno per comunicare è rappresentato da un mazzo di tarocchi. Un romanzo affascinante composto da tante storie intrecciate.

L'ultima opera dell'autore de "L'ombra del vento", l'omaggio letterario con cui Carlos Ruiz Zafón ha voluto congedarsi per sempre dai suoi lettori. "Posso evocare i volti dei bambini del quartiere della Ribera con cui a volte giocavo o facevo a botte per strada, ma non ce n'è nessuno che desideri riscattare dal paese dell'indifferenza. Nessuno tranne quello di Blanca." Si apre così la raccolta di racconti che lo scrittore della saga del Cimitero dei libri dimenticati ha voluto lasciare ai suoi lettori.

Le "Storie naturali" di Primo Levi uscirono nel 1966 con lo pseudonimo di Damiano Malabaila. Fu la casa editrice a suggerire all'autore una qualche presa di distanza da questi racconti fantascientifici apparentemente così lontani dai due libri di Levi pubblicati in precedenza: "Se questo è un uomo" e "La tregua". Oggi che finalmente sappiamo distinguere il testimone dallo scrittore, i racconti delle "Storie naturali", come già quelli del "Sistema periodico", sono destinati a crescere nella considerazione dei critici e dei lettori.

Dos escuelas de escritores hiperbreves luchan por hacerse con el dominio del género. Los fundadores de las escuelas son los gemelos Salazar, irremediablemente enfrentados por su ideología y por un odio fratricida. Es este libro se recogen las obras de los excéntricos o los desgraciados que formaron parte de una de estas escuelas. Fantasía, horror, ciencia ficción, noir y realismo mágico quedan miniaturizados en los cien microcuentos que recoge la antología.

Three magical romances set in the contemporary English countryside and the fight for good versus evil....

Original, honest and thought-provoking, Roar is Cecelia Ahern's unforgettable story collection. With her trademark honesty, Cecelia Ahern gives us 30 linked stories, all titled 'The Woman Who...', that capture the different facets of women's lives. Humorous, moving, surreal and poignant, the stories capture the moments the characters are overwhelmed by guilt, confusion, frustration, intimidation, exhaustion - the private moments when they feel the need to roar.

Este libro de cuentos de Roberto Burgos Cantor lo conforman pequeñas historias - la del mecánico, la modista, el cantante, la reina, el obrero y líder sindical, la prostituta y otros personajes típicos de un barrio popular- que hacen parte de una gran historia, la de un lugar donde se entrecruzan destinos y donde la vida desgranan amores, sueños, fracasos.

Keenan, a guide at Daylight Chasers, is hired to lead Isabella through a day that "nearly" never ends. As the top agent, he excels at calming the excitable and inspiring the timid, as they journey across the globe one time zone at a time. Despite his years of experience, Keenan soon realizes that he is going to need a lot more than his familiar script when it comes to Isabella's expedition.

Adrift in outer space, a motley crew of human-made objects tell their tales, making real history sweeter and stranger. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, awaiting deorbit and burial in a spacecraft cemetery beneath the ocean, farewells its last astronauts. A team of tamponauts sets off on a perilous mission to Mars inspired by the courage of their predecessors.

Mi era stata chiesta una scelta dei racconti contenuti nei miei due volumi "Le Cosmicomiche" e "Ti con zero". Li organizzai in un libro costruito con un ciclo di storie sulla Luna, uno sulla Terra, uno su Sole Stelle Galassie, uno sull'Evoluzione, uno sullo Spazio e sul Tempo. Mi accorsi che il libro che avevo messo insieme, e che s'intitolò "La memoria del mondo", più che una rielaborazione di cose già pubblicate per avvicinare un pubblico di lettori nuovi, era il vero libro che avevo voluto scrivere fin da principio, o almeno era ciò che più vi si avvicinava.

A man who receives life-changing financial advice from the talking fruit in his breakfast bowl...a girl whose thoughts incinerate her family over and over again...a house that wants nothing more than to please its occupants, and will do anything at all to make sure they’re happy. From enchanting to troubling to downright disturbing, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things explores the notion that sometimes even the most promising of magic can go askew, through an array of characters whose outcomes can be horrifying, hilarious, or heartbreaking.

From USA Today best-selling author Casi McLean, five award-winning novelettes with supernatural twists grab you on minute one and hold you spellbound long after you listen.

And what if in each universe there reigned other Black woman gods? One million versions of god, and one million saints to watch over us? And what if this Black woman god were placed here on earth? These are just a few of the questions Anastacia-Reneé asks in this daring and mind-bending hybrid collection. Hers is a universe of striking variety—monsters, nontraditional saints, witches, zombies, the couple in the apartment next door, the wise elders from down the block, and gods watching over us all—as well as community and connectedness.

Worlds collide, mysteries unfold, and the extraordinary awaits in this kaleidoscope of tales. Step through the portal into a collection of spellbinding short stories where reality bends, humor sparks, and darkness lurks at the edges of imagination. From the satirical escapades of a giant and a Lilliputian journalist uncovering seismic scandals to a spectral lighthouse that beckons the brave, each tale invites you into a realm where the ordinary and the fantastical intertwine. Uncover chilling secrets in an enchanted garden, face the perils of corporate sabotage in the void of space, and ...

An enchanting collection of 12 evocative and macabre stories delving into the magical, ordinary, and darker aspects of love in all its powerful forms.

A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable listeners have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in Possession - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published separately. Here they take their place with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings.