Category: Fiction 1

By Banana Yoshimoto

Maria Shirakawa, l. a. narradora de esta delicada historia, tiene que marcharse a Tokio a estudiar en l. a. universidad. Deja atrás los angeles pensión Yamamoto, un lugar idílico junto al mar en los angeles península de Izu, donde ha crecido al lado de su madre. Y también a su amiga de los angeles infancia, Tsugumi, los angeles hija bellísima del matrimonio que regenta l. a. pensión. Aunque los caracteres de Maria y Tsugumi son muy distintos, l. a. dulce y pacífica Maria sabe que, tras l. a. aparente afabilidad de Tsugumi con los extraños, su amiga es en l. a. intimidad arisca y caprichosa, a veces incluso merciless y despótica con quienes los angeles rodean, porque sufre por una dolorosa enfermedad crónica que l. a. tiene sujeta a l. a. península y a l. a. pensión, y que tal vez sea los angeles causa de su carácter. l. a. amistad entre ambas ha superado ya muchas pruebas cuando Tsugumi invita a Maria a pasar un último verano junto al mar. Durante esas vacaciones, mientras ciertos incidentes amenazan con trastocar l. a. vida de l. a. pensión, Tsugumi encontrará el amor y Maria aprenderá el verdadero significado del hogar y los angeles familia.

By Mark Leyner

A fiendishly cutting edge younger author ups the ante on his cult classics Et Tu, Babe and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist with a e-book so humorous that it needs to be a managed substance. "With his pumped-up prose and steroidal satire . . . you may name him the Quentin Tarantino of cult fiction."--Newsweek.

From the exchange Paperback edition.

By Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

The small island state of Baqia turns into a tremendous foreign participant whilst a neighborhood physician by chance develops a brand new weapon with terrifying implications. The weapon, which reduces grown males to smoldering piles of goo, has the entire significant superpowers playing at the destiny of the small country. in the meantime, the mad dictator on top of things is taking part in his personal online game and intends to muscle out the neighborhood faith for keep an eye on over the folks. Remo has to roll the challenging six and decide a facet to avoid an international meltdown, yet will his quantity come up?

Remo Williams is The Destroyer, a probably unremarkable beat cop recruited—through hugely unorthodox methods—by a mystery executive law-enforcement association. informed to develop into the main lethal murderer, Remo is America's final defensive position opposed to mad scientists, geared up crime, old undead gods, and anything that threatens the structure. An action-adventure sequence leavened with social and political satire, the Destroyer novels were exciting readers around the world for many years.

By Tim Dorsey

“Dorsey’s brilliantly, profanely humorous eleventh novel…zips alongside like P.G. Wodehouse’s top work.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch

Tim Dorsey’s outrageously zany, gleefully violent, and uproariously humorous Nuclear Jellyfish marks the victorious go back of cute, thrill-killing Florida historian and tireless civic booster Serge A. Storms. The bestselling writer of Atomic Lobster, Triggerfish Twist, and Florida Roadkill, Dorsey can fit Carl Hiaasen punch-for-punch by way of fictionally depicting Sunshine kingdom madness—and he’s taken his rightful position along Christopher Moore within the pantheon of best American humorists. Nuclear Jellyfish is a veritable WMD of radioactive hilarity—as Denver’s Rocky Mountain information so aptly places it, “It doesn’t get any better.”

By Walter de la Mare

Publish 12 months note: First released in 1921
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Miss M., a good looking and diminutive younger girl with a keenness for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and crammed animals, struggles to accommodate her isolation from the remainder of society because of her measurement. She tells of her youth and her tempestuous 20th yr within which she witnesses demise, infatuation, suicide and madness.

An elegiac, misanthropic, occasionally perverse learn of isolation, de los angeles Mare's prize-winning vintage is a dismal and teasing riddle that seduces by way of its light attraction and chic prose.

Walter de l. a. Mare (1873–1956) was once born of a Scottish mom and a father descended from an previous Huguenot relations. He was once knowledgeable at St Paul's Cathedral Choir university, which he left at 16 to paintings within the urban place of work of the Anglo-American Oil corporation, writing in his spare time lower than the pseudonym Walter Ramal. He left after 9 years to commit his lifestyles to letters. His amassed poems have been released in 1942.

His significant works comprise the children's novel The 3 Royal Monkeys and the lengthy poem The Traveller. He was once the recipient of a lot compliment and lots of honours, together with the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Memoirs of a Midget.

[b]Literary Awards[b]
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1921)

By Barry Hannah

Nominated for the yankee ebook Award, Ray is the unusual, hilarious, and regularly adventurous tale of a lifestyles at the area. Dr. Ray--a womanizer, small-town inebriated, vigilante, poet, adoring husband--is a guy attempting to make feel of lifestyles within the 20th century. In flight from the loss of life he dealt flying over Vietnam, Dr. Ray struggles with these certain to him via desire, disease, lunacy, via blood and by means of love.

By J. M. Coetzee

A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his personal all too palpable flesh. a expert in mental conflict is pushed to breakdown and insanity via the stresses of a undertaking of macabre ingenuity to win the conflict in Vietnam. either the 18th-century Jacobus Coetzee and the 20th-century Eugene sunrise are within the enterprise of pushing again the frontiers of data and are purchasers in dying who denounce their very own humanity and spurn their emotions of guilt. In those narratives, Coetzee has crystallized of their absurdity and horror the extremes of clinical evangelism and heroic exploration.

By Yves Ravey

Mandrake Lennox, rapporteur à l. a. Chambre des websites, ne dispose que d’une journée pour révéler, aux historiens player à l. a. visite du camp de Waxhausen, les effets du salpêtre sur le mirador. Il en va de l. a. validité scientifique de sa découverte. Simultanément, comme il pressent le possibility qui threat sa fille à reason du mystérieux Karl, il se demande s’il peut compter sur sa femme quand elle lui promet de se rendre au rendez-vous qu’ils ont le soir même. Autant d’interrogations qui le tiennent en alerte. Doit-il quitter le camp et rejoindre sa fille ou téléphoner à los angeles police ?

By 山冈庄八

作者：(日本)山冈庄八 译者：岳远坤 陈都伟

山冈庄八(1907-1978)，日本著名历史小说家，著有《德川家康》、《织田信长》、《丰臣秀吉》、《伊达政宗》等，作品规模宏大，运笔细腻生动，代表了日本历史小说的最高成就。逝世后，因其杰出成就，被追授瑞宝勋章。
《德川家康》洋洋五百五十万言，将日本战国中后期织田信长、武田信玄、德川家康、丰臣秀吉等群雄并起的历史苍劲地铺展开来。在这样一个英雄辈出的时代，德川家康最终脱颖而出，结束战国烽烟，开启三百年太平盛世。作品展现了德川家康作为乱世终结者和盛世开创者丰满、曲折、传奇的一生，书中每一行每一页都充满着智慧与杀伐、谋略与权术、天道与玄机！它不仅成为商战兵法、政略宝典、兵家必备，更是不朽的励志传奇。
本书历时十八年始得完成，图书出版后，一时洛阳纸贵，掀起极大反响，日本前首相中曾根康弘要求日本内阁成员必读《德川家康》；经营之神、日本松下电器创建人松下幸之助要求松下员工必读《德川家康》；美国前驻日大使赖世和说：“要了解日本、超越日本，必须先了解德川家康。”著名史学家、作家柏杨先生则认为：“中国有两部书可以和<德川家康》相比，一是《资治通鉴》，一是《三国演义》。”

By Georges Simenon

Mademoiselle Berthe et son amant est une nouvelle de Georges Simenon, publiée en 1938. Elle fait partie de l. a. série des Maigret.

Historique
La nouvelle est écrite à Neuilly en hiver 1937-1938 ou à Porquerolles en mars 1938. Elle connaît une e-book en édition pré-originale dans l'hebdomadaire Police-Film, le 29 avril 1938.
La nouvelle est reprise dans le recueil Les Nouvelles Enquêtes de Maigret en 1944 chez Gallimard.

Présentation
Maigret, à los angeles retraite dans sa petite maison de Meung-sur-Loire, reçoit une lettre d'appel au secours d'une jeune femme à Paris: intrigué, il se rend au dwelling house de Mlle Berthe, à Montmartre. Celle-ci lui raconte qu'elle est menacée de mort par son amant, qui a participé à un cambriolage.