Category: Urban Fiction

Yoshio Kita’s hopelessness and shortage of religion in his destiny crystallizes right into a determination to dedicate suicide through what he calls ‘capital punishment at loose will’, which means his in basic terms urgent challenge now's tips to spend either his last self-allocated seven days on the earth and all his worldly cash. From high quality eating with a former porn actress to insuring his lifestyles, from pursuing an ex-girlfriend to an entanglement with an murderer, Yoshio’s final seven days in the world tackle unforeseen twists and turns during this darkly comedian exploration of the cult of suicide in Japan and the tradition that has created it.

Gesellschaftsdrama im big apple der 1920er-Jahre: Obwohl sich Marylin den Avancen Philips zu entziehen versucht, folgt er ihr nach manhattan. Dort kommen die beiden schließlich zusammen und beginnen ein glückliches, scheinbar sorgenfreies Leben im Jazz Age der Großstadt. Doch als Marylin ein type mit dunkler Hautfarbe zur Welt bringt, zerbricht Philips heile Welt in tausend Scherben ...
Arthur Rundt schildert in seinem Roman von 1928, der nun erstmals als Buch erscheint, nicht nur ein Amerika im Aufbruch, sondern auch den schwelenden (Alltags-)Rassismus, der von allen hingenommen wurde.

Quattro scarafaggi a Parigi, un most sensible vendor da scrivere, fifty seven giorni consistent with portare a termine limpresa. Ma le loro zampe sono troppo corte consistent with tenere una penna. Dobbiamo scrivere un romanzo sentimentale, alla through col vento, guerra di secessione e amori tormentati, soldati e corna. Ambientiamolo nel medioevo, alcuni alieni rapiscono un gruppo di monaci, un romanzo di fantascienza retroattiva. Io scriverei un western ambientato ai giorni nostri, dove i duelli con le pistole si svolgono a Wall highway, dopo un conflitto nucleare. Io avanzai lipotesi di un mystery con protagonista un anatomopatologo. Avevo sentito dire che gli anatomopatologi andavano consistent with l. a. maggiore nei top vendor, anche se avrei avuto qualche problema a spiegare quale professione svolgessero di preciso...Luca Ricci alle Storie di Corrado Augias. Guarda il video

Von Heimweh getrieben, kehrt der Kameruner Mambé nach zwanzig Jahren Aufenthalt in Amerika in sein Heimatland zurück. Mit einem Empfinden, das zwischen Fremdheit und Vertrautheit schwankt, durchstreift der Protagonist die Straßen der Hauptstadt Yaoundé. Auf seinen Wegen begegnet er den unterschiedlichsten Menschen, die ihm aus ihrem Leben und von ihren Problemen erzählen. Protagonist und Leser nehmen so teil am Lebensalltag in Kamerun. Einem Alltag, der Gefahren birgt - wie Mambé auch am eigenen Leib erfahren soll. Der Autor, selbst Kameruner, vermittelt in seinem Roman anschauliche Eindrücke vom Leben der armen Bevölkerung und zeichnet ein kritisches Bild der wirtschaftlichen und politischen scenario des Landes.

„Immer soll es sein, als liefe ich über ein Feld der Sonne zu und in die Sonne hinein, aber wenn ich dann dort bin, sind da nur Stoppelhalme, die meine Füße pieksen.“
Saskia hat keine Lust auf ein geordnetes „Scheißleben“. Sie ist wie eine Nomadin. Eine Nomadin, die ein type hat, das sie liebt und verwünscht. Je tiefer die deutsche Novemberdepression Saskia einholt, desto mehr verklärt sie die Erinnerung an Brasilien, an Sonne, Meer, Unbeschwertheit und intercourse. Für ihr „Milchkaffeebaby“, das sie allein großzieht, will sie so gern eine perfekte Mutter sein. Aber wie entrinnt guy der eigenen Unbeherrschtheit bei Schlafmangel, Eintönigkeit, Einsamkeit, wenn guy so jung ist und so viel erleben will wie all die anderen? In diesem Teufelskreis aus Überforderung und Lebensgier trifft sie eine verstörende, radikale Entscheidung.
Ein intensiver Roman, der weder beschönigt noch verurteilt und lange nachhallt.

„Die Autorin schlägt das Familienalbum verlässlich dort auf, wo die Seiten fein säuberlich herausgetrennt sind.“ DIE ZEIT über „Das Gut“

Arabella is a standard teenage lady who lives along with her general, critical family members, minus a puppy and a white wooden fence. Or so it seems that. Her father works as a prison safeguard formally, yet his pastime, the so referred to as kin enterprise, is with the intention that those that he deems "bad" humans, by no means have the opportunity to visit penitentiary. Arabella is helping her father with the relatives enterprise, incomes herself progressively more accountability in her father's eyes as she a long time. yet simply after Arabella's 16th birthday, every thing is going mistaken, and Arabella has not anyone to show to.

Oggi nessun occidentale si aspetta qualcosa di decisivo dalla storia e dalla politica, i grandi avvenimenti sono vissuti come astrazioni, meccanismi o spettacoli e tutto quello che interessa, a cominciare dai conflitti fra legami e piacere, si gioca nel pace presente e nello spazio del privato.

Negli ultimi cinquant'anni los angeles vita psichica delle masse occidentali ha subìto una metamorfosi molto profonda; tutti noi ne siamo stati trasformati e travolti. Oggi le categorie con cui di solito si giudica il presente, con cui si prende una posizione etico-politica sui problemi del nostro pace, danno l'impressione di non cogliere l. a. realtà, o perché si riferiscono a un futuro che, non rimandando più a un progetto politico, costituisce solo los angeles proiezione di un desiderio, o perché si riferiscono a un passato che non tornerà. Quali sono i tratti più vistosi della metamorfosi? Che cosa è accaduto?

Seguramente en algún momento de su vida ha escuchado alguna anécdota o relato que le contó un pariente, amigo o conocido sobre los llamados elementales. Esas entidades de los angeles naturaleza, que han recibido a lo largo de los angeles historia, en diferentes regiones del mundo, distintos nombres y que son universalmente conocidos como duendes, son los protagonistas del presente libro que usted tiene en sus manos, que ya compró o que está a punto de comprar, y cuyo contenido tiene los angeles finalidad de contestar las interrogantes que siempre nos han inquietado sobre su existencia, además, le presentaremos los orígenes más remotos de estas minúsculas criaturas dentro de nuestras culturas antepasadas (mexica, maya y olmeca), su modo de actuar e interactuar con el ser humano, así como sus características morfológicas mediante los relatos que, de primera mano, nos han contado los testigos.

Tabitha involves New Jersey after loosing her mom and dad in a automobile coincidence at age 11. Being raised via her aunts she meets a infamous drug king pin Silk. Silk is getting out of the sport yet is right into a much more ruthless career. Upon checking out Tabitha needs to choose to both stick with Silk for the lengthy haul or concetrate on collage and get her measure and out of the hood. allow the journey begin

whilst Ramona grabbed the bag that her now jailed boyfriend stashed after his robbing sprees, she had no proposal how a lot her lifestyles was once approximately to alter. turning into the Lead Mama and overseeing her all lady workforce, they ran the drug online game within the urban of Pittsburgh. The Cuties contain Ramona, twins Nijah and Kinnik, Mink Ray Ray and Tonique.
Bosses in each experience of the observe, the younger women discovered find out how to wash their funds and remain out the best way of the legislation. With a squad of gorgeous assassins in the back of her, Ramona had made her option to to the head, preventing simply to step over those that attempted to prevent her. whilst deceit among a staff member became their global the wrong way up, Ramona vowed to prevent at not anything until eventually revenge used to be hers.
Once she begun extra chapters of the Cuties in different towns and states it used to be obvious that the staff used to be unstoppable. And even though Ramona believed that "money used to be the foundation of all issues nice" it her maximum downfall. With every thing from pricey autos and garments at her fingertips it appeared the single factor that could not be obtained used to be her sanity and he or she might quickly see simply how a lot of that she had misplaced during this video game. Being betrayed via those that she proposal have been down for her confirmed her something for sure, what is going round without doubt comes again round and Ramona was once no exception. relax and revel in the trip the Cuties take you on and be grateful that you simply by no means crossed their path!