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“The daily grind got you down? Escape into this Swedish dark comedy about a scaldingly contemptuous office drone who discovers a secret room in his workplace.”—O: The Oprah Magazine The inspiration for the upcoming feature film Corner Office, starring Jon Hamm Björn is a compulsive...

Publicado na Hungria em 1985, Sátántangó é um romance monstruoso. A ação se concentra na chegada de um homem misterioso, que pode ser um profeta, um vigarista, ou o próprio demônio, a uma aldeia húngara onde a chuva não para de cair. Os habitantes do lugar, um elenco de desajustados e enlouquecidos (camponeses esfarrapados; um médico alcoólatra observando obsessivamente seus vizinhos; jovens perdidas num moinho destroçado; uma garota com deficiência tentando matar seu gato).

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

Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell in love, had sex and procreated. As Amane grows up and enters adulthood, she does her best to fit in and live her life like the rest of society: cultivating intense relationships with anime characters, and limiting herself to extra-marital sex, as is the norm.

Existentialism does not begin in the 19th or 20th century. It begins the moment Shakespeare invents a character who becomes aware that he must author himself in a world without metaphysical guarantees. This is not a metaphor. This is not a provocative reading. This is a structural correction to the history of thought. The Academic Regime insists that existentialism begins with Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus. It must insist on this, because its authority depends on the belief that philosophy originates in philosophy. But Shakespeare exposes this as false. He stages the ...

From the first puzzling sentence, Banker's Holiday—a euphemism for a federal bank closure—conjures the bleak and humorous world of Cincinnatus Stillman Fuller, a billionaire financier who suffers a breakdown in the middle of a Monday morning staff meeting.

Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her the whole astonishing tale. What follows is an account of fantastic proportions and ingredients: the existence of a shadowy Internet TV show with a certain morality clause, a threat to the storyteller's life, a diabolical nun, and the story of a girl with a missing left thumb.

The Ridiculous is an imaginative sci-fi comedy about one ordinary human, several highly opinionated aliens, and a cosmic experiment that may or may not involve saving existence through laughter, curiosity, and extremely questionable decision-making. When reality starts bending in unexpected directions, our reluctant hero is swept into a universe filled with eccentric beings, absurd logic, and revelations that feel suspiciously meaningful. Along the way, nothing behaves as expected, wisdom appears in strange disguises, and the line between nonsense and insight becomes delightfully blurred.

1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend - who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at Sugar Land Prison for men, hoping to keep her secret attractions under lock and key. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Leadbelly, who sings his way out (true story) - but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison. Sugar Land is a triumphant, beautiful debut novel about the heart’s refusal to be denied what the heart wants.

"These immersive linked stories grapple with Ukrainian history through the waning years of the USSR and birth pangs of democracy ... Reva's characters spark off the page as they confront a brutal bureaucratic past with the only tool they possess—hope."—O, The Oprah Magazine A brilliant and...

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World'...

La Métamorphose raconte la troublante transformation de Gregor Samsa en quelque chose de totalement inattendu : «un insecte monstrueux». Ce n’est pas seulement le récit d’un changement physique, mais aussi une réflexion profonde sur l’aliénation, la solitude et le rejet.

When failed farmer, Jack Wilbur, finds his family has been butchered and skinned, he sets out on the hunt for the vicious mass-murderer, Vulture Rathbone. Along the way, he teams up with rabbi-turned-zombie hunter, Yishai ben Raziel; and the pair set off on a hunt that will leave bodies, gore and a lot of blood on the prairie. This Splatter Western novella features graphic depictions of SA, gore, violence and dated cultural references. Listener discretion is advised!

An explosive, jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she’s filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, a calamity that unravels her mind, spiraling her through history until she’s united with a centuries-old coven of ecstatically revolutionary women...

According to a recent survey, millions of people in the UK and US claim to have sampled "Canine Cuisine" at least once in the last year. However, due to its underground nature, the rearing and preparation of dogs for human consumption remains firmly below the radar. Recipes are handed down from generation to generation as part of a largely undocumented oral tradition. This groundbreaking, taboo-busting book brings together both modern and traditional recipes into a single unified volume of delicious treats. From boundary-pushing modern classics such as "Bitchin' Black Bean Sauce" and "...

What if the most dangerous decisions do not feel like decisions at all? He does not give orders. He does not choose outcomes. He signs. Each document is precise. Each process is justified. Each action is necessary. And every time, Authorization granted. At first, it feels procedural. Administrative. Neutral. But language begins to shift. Responsibility begins to dissolve. Repetition turns action into routine. Unintended losses. Acceptable parameters. Necessary measures. Until one realization becomes unavoidable. Understanding changes nothing. The system continues. The signatures remain. The...

Andrej is a postman in complete denial of his existence. He yearns for respect and fame but commits petty crimes for reasons he doesn’t fully comprehend. Josip is an increasingly irrelevant cable car operator and unfaithfully married. Life was so much simpler when neither one knew the other’s secrets. Now that they do - discovered quite by accident - each man has resorted to blackmailing the other. As their anonymous misdeeds escalate, a farce of mutual dependency begins. So does the unlikeliest of friendships when Andrej and Josip finally meet face-to-face.

Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows is widely hailed as one of the greatest works of supernatural fiction ever written. Blending breathtaking descriptions of nature with an atmosphere of mounting unease, Blackwood creates a tale where the boundary between the real and the unknown grows dangerously thin.

The excoriating stories in Mark Doten's brilliant first collection dissect the pathological narratives that shape our culture and country. Narrated by a crosscutting array of White people, Doten's stories spotlight the self-serving logic through which their characters struggle to make sense of, and take control of, the narrative of our time.

In this fiendishly original novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models–fantasies that naturally revolve around him.