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When a writer named Satya attends a prestigious artists’ retreat, he finds the pressures of the outside world won’t let up: the US president rages online, a dangerous virus envelops the globe and the 24 hour news cycle throws fuel on every fire. These Orwellian interruptions begin to crystallise into an idea for his new novel, Enemies of the People, about the lies we tell ourselves and each other. Satya scours his life for moments where truth bends towards the imagined and misinformation is mistaken as fact.

Scritto in risposta alla frase pronunciata dal ministro Depretis "bisogna sventrare Napoli!", il romanzo, scritto nel 1884, è molto più di un'inchiesta giornalistica. "Il ventre di Napoli" è un grido accorato di denuncia che conduce il lettore negli splendori e nelle miserie di Napoli, con le sue usanze e le sue tradizioni, laddove il degrado, la miseria e lo scempio non possono che generare rabbia e pietà.

A "La gran caiguda", Peter Handke ens porta a seguir a un personatge durant les seves aventures per la ciutat. El protagonista, un actor experimentat, desperta a casa d'una dona desconeguda. No recorda com o per quin motiu ha arribat allà. Començará a caminar sense rumb per la ciutat a l'espera del rodatge que comença el dia següent, i durant el seu camí es trobará a tot un conjunt de personatges a partir dels quals en Peter Handke parla de temes com la memória, la identitat i el passar del temps.

Alice is a working hard to provide for her daughter, Mollie. But it's a challenge juggling her job alongside her duties as a single Mum in Leeds: a city she barely knows. Her neighbours keep to themselves and as much as she longs for a friend to rely on, she knows that things don't work out that way. Bill has lived on Leodis Street for eighty years. It's where he was born, began his married life and eventually cared for his wife in her final days. Since Sally's death, Bill's home is a place of solitude, his talisman against an unrecognisable world.

Joe Hustle is a survivor. A Gulf War vet and ex-con always one stumble away from catastrophe, he manages to scrape together enough money from various jobs to eke out a precarious existence on the darker fringes of Los Angeles. When he meets Emily, the black-sheep daughter of a wealthy family, the two spark an instant connection—she seems like the best thing to happen to him in a while. But their whirlwind romance is put to the test when what starts out as a simple favor for a friend leaves Joe homeless, unemployed, and on the wrong side of a vengeful drug dealer.

Yeongju is burned out. With her high-­flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successful, but all she feels is drained. Yet an abandoned dream nags at her, and in a leap of faith, she leaves her old life behind. Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeongju moves to a small residential neighborhood outside the city, where she opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.

Se croire seule pour traverser une épreuve, et découvrir qu'on ne l'est pas... Aujourd'hui, on guérit du cancer du sein s'il est pris à temps. C'est ce qu'on dit à Lucie, et c'est vrai. Sauf que, si on est maman célibataire d'une petite Léa de onze ans qu'on tient à protéger, et si on se retrouve seule dans une nouvelle ville ou on ne connaît personne... ou trouve-t-on le soutien pour traverser vaillante l'espace incertain qui sépare le diagnostic de la fin du traitement ?

1985. Uprooted from her home in Bangladesh, 18-year-old Nazneen is sent to London for an arranged marriage with a much older man. Her new life is strange and bewildering - the busy streets and crowded tower blocks of the East End are a world away from the rural village she grew up in, and she struggles to adapt to living with her self-important husband, Chanu. Back in Bangladesh, Nazneen's sister Hasina has eloped with the man she loves, and been disowned by her family.

Mr. Hoopdriver is a frustrated draper’s assistant in Putney, London. He is badly paid, over-worked, and he needs a holiday. He also owns a bicycle—though he is an awkward rider. When his annual ten days’ holiday comes around, Mr. Hoopdriver sets out on a bicycling tour of the “Southern Coast.” Wells wrote this at the height of the bicycling craze and before the automobile. The bicycle gave freedom to the working class, weakened the English class structure and gave a boost to female emancipation. In his story he explores these changes.

Kate, a young woman newly arrived from London, is determined to become the kind of person who is up for it and down for it - and not remotely troubled over how those two semantically opposed phrases could have come to mean the same thing. In the sweltering city, she encounters Bill, a once-lauded now booze-sodden novelist, and Inez, his teenage daughter who makes extra cash catering to the sexual fantasies of men she has met online - and falls into a complex infatuation with them both.

Seit seiner Kindheit ist Simon Leyland von Sprachen fasziniert. Gegen den Willen seiner Eltern wird er Übersetzer und verfolgt unbeirrt das Ziel, alle Sprachen zu lernen, die rund um das Mittelmeer gesprochen werden. Von London folgt er seiner Frau Livia nach Triest, wo sie einen Verlag geerbt hat. In der Stadt bedeutender Literaten glaubt er, den idealen Ort für seine Arbeit gefunden zu haben - bis ihn ein ärztlicher Irrtum aus der Bahn wirft.

The neon lights of New York City flickered like stars in a velvet sky, casting a vibrant glow over the streets below. In the heart of the bustling metropolis, amidst the cacophony of honking horns and the distant hum of sirens, lay the emblem of Ethan Scott and Marcus Turner’s success—a nightclub called "Inferno." Its dazzling facade, ablaze with crimson and gold, promised nights of untamed revelry and escape from the ordinary.

Like most people, Bud Palmer felt this was just another day. Though the era was drawing to a close, he assumed his life as a sports columnist in the subtropics, in keeping with the benign fifties itself, would go on as predictable as ever. But that particular autumn morning he was thrust into a caper that was totally beyond him, forced him to leave Miami and take the train to Manhattan, and suddenly found everything in this restless "Big Apple" was up for grabs, on the brink, at a dicey turning point.

بالفعل كانت لى حكايات مريعة فى .... وسط البلد "

Lucas will nichts als seine Ruhe in einer Welt, die ihn einfach nicht in Ruhe lässt. Eine Kurzgeschichte vom internationalen Bestsellerautor Fredrik Backman Videospiele, Wein und Pad Thai – das ist der perfekte Abend für Lucas. Andere Menschen? Muss nicht sein. Warum denn, wenn er auch alleine glücklich sein kann? Als der dreiköpfige Vorstand der Bewohnervertretung überraschend an seiner Tür klingelt und eine Inspektion seiner Bratpfanne verlangt, ist Lucas alles andere als begeistert. Doch Abwimmeln ist nicht.

يسير المغني الإيطالي "طوني باغودا" في نابولي هائمًا على وجهه فهو يحبّ هذه الشوارع ويكرهها، يحبُّ الأزقة ويكرهها ،إنّه يكره الجميع ويكره نفسه، لا يستمتع بشيء سوى بنشوة الكوكايين بصحبة زميله في الفرقة. لكنّه لا يلبث إلّا أن يتذمّر من إدمانه وظهور التجاعيد في وجهه. لا يُبهجه شيء فى هذها العالم ولا حتّى حضور "فرانك سيناترا" للحفل الكبير الذي أحياه في نيويورك! لم يترك في نفسه أثراً للسّعادة؛ لكنَّ شخصًا غريبًا برداءٍ غريب يقرع جرسه ذات يوم ويغيِّرُ مجرى حياته

كان كلَّما دخل منزلًا هجره أهله تسلَّل إليه الشعور ذاته، مزيجٌ من الرَّهبة والحزن تختلط بروائح مختلفة من العفونة والحليب الفاسد والطعام الذي تُركَ في المطبخ لأسابيع، لم يكن يملك أمام هذا الشعور سوى التجاهل فقد كانت تلك وظيفته التي يعتاش بها؛ إصلاح ما فسد من المنازل بعد أن هجرها أهلها على عجل حتّى يتسنّى للبنك المصرفي بيعها في أقرب وقت، لم يجرؤ يومًا على أخذ شيءٍ من المقتنيات كما أصدقاؤه لكنّه مارس هوايته بالتقاط الصور الفوتوغرافية للأشياء المهملة لا يعرف لماذا وكأنّه أخذ على عاتقه أن يوثّقَ آخر رمقٍ من حياةٍ كانت هنا أو ربّما كي.

Una vieja factoría de la calle del Planeta, en el corazón de Gràcia, alberga un coworking con una singular fauna: Uwe es el hijo único de un industrial alemán que le ha dado "un año de gracia" para vivir la bohemia antes de hacerse cargo del negocio familiar. Maurici no para de diseñar nuevos e inverosímiles negocios que siempre están «a punto» de procurarle éxito. Vilma es una fotógrafa de misteriosos hábitos, como dormir dentro del coworking o desaparecer en una playa secreta. Gus es nómada digital y trabaja como lanzador de cursos online, acompañado de un ejército de figuras de Star Wars.

Embark on an extraordinary journey through the segregated South of 1957 with Drunetta Brown, a woman determined to rewrite her story of struggle and heartbreak. Fleeing her shattered dreams and an alcoholic husband, Drunetta takes her children to New York City for a fresh start. There, she finds unexpected allies in Raycie, a talented bar singer, and Rose, a devoted church secretary. As Drunetta navigates the challenges of her new life, her friendships become her lifeline, offering the strength she needs to carve her own path in a changing world.

تتشابك الأيدي من خلف القضبان، يصمت القلب لتنطق العيون وتفشي سرَّ قصّة حبٍّ نبتت في قلب يوسف منذ الطّفولة ولم تعرف عنه مريم شيئًا، كان يتنفسها، يصحو كلَّ يومٍ من أجلها، لم يخنها حتّى بفكره، كانت مريم كلّ إناث الأرض في نظره ولكن بينهما مسافةٌ شاسعة وألف جدار ، ولأنَّ مصير الحبّ الحقيقي أن يظهر للعلن فقد انتبهت مريم أخيرًا وأزهر الحبُّ في قلبها وقادها للبحث عن يوسف لتجده خلف قضبان السِّجن ولكنّها لم تستسلم وتحدَّت السجان بفعلةٍ عجيبة سترسم ملامح نهاية قصّتهما...