Download e-book for kindle: The Sound of Salt Forming: Short Stories by the Post-80s by Geng Song,Qingxiang Yang

By Geng Song,Qingxiang Yang

ISBN-10: 0824856368

ISBN-13: 9780824856366

ISBN-10: 0824856392

ISBN-13: 9780824856397

China's post-80s iteration, occasionally known as new release Y, is the 1st whose participants have grown up solely in the reformist period. they're prepared to differentiate themselves from their predecessors in each element of lifestyles. To Western eyes, this new release of chinese language, who're hugely engaged with the realm, exhibit the ambiguities and paradoxes linked to China's monetary upward push: they're either nationalistic and cosmopolitan, subservient and defiant, hedonistic and mundane, materialistic and aspirational.

This quantity brings jointly essentially the most renowned and influential writers of this iteration. such a lot of them stay principally unknown outdoors China. the fast tales were translated into English via a group of enthusiastic and expert sinologists, and symbolize many of the "sweetest songs" that inform of the rigors and desires, frustrations and needs, crises and endeavors of this new release in city China. The works additionally reveal how "youth" itself is commodified in a process of writing and creation that considerably breaks clear of the previous socialist mode. The e-book is a must-read in case you have an interest in not just the China of this day but in addition of tomorrow.

Not on the market in mainland China

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Download PDF by Pietro Grossi: L'uomo nell'armadio: e altri due racconti che non capisco

By Pietro Grossi

ISBN-10: 8804650494

ISBN-13: 9788804650492

Uno sgabello che, nella grande corridor di un aeroporto, inizia a girare sul proprio perno e non si ferma, come animato da un moto perpetuo, suscitando prima le occhiate distratte di qualche viaggiatore, poi curiosità crescente, infine una smisurata forma di culto collettivo.

Il rampollo solitario ed eccentrico di una nobile famiglia si appassiona all'uso del bisturi, che impara a utilizzare in line with dare vita a opere d'arte di sconvolgente intensità: asportando los angeles superficie delle cose – di tutte le cose.

Una ragazza unmarried, desiderosa di trovare un fidanzato dolce ma non invadente, si innamora di un uomo che in step with non disturbarla è pronto anche a sparire, come un'applicazione che si chiude con un semplice tocco sullo schermo.

Pietro Grossi dà vita a tre racconti totalmente insoliti, surreali, pieni di ironia e di mistero: sorprendenti quanto los angeles sua prima raccolta, sicuri e originali come lo stile maturo che li percorre. Storie che, sotto una superficie di assoluta limpidezza, lasciano crescere un piccolo germe alieno eppure umanissimo, una spora di irrazionalità destinata a crescere introducendo nella quotidianità l. a. scheggia fantastica del dubbio, dell'inspiegabile, dell'inconscio. Che, come sempre, è quella capace di spostare il nostro sguardo, porci le domande più grandi e farci profondamente emozionare.

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José Luis Calandrón's Cuentos del amor al humor: Antología (Spanish Edition) PDF

By José Luis Calandrón

ISBN-10: 1521912181

ISBN-13: 9781521912188

Mis cuentos están inspirados en mis múltiples realidades, aficionado a muchas artes mi imaginaría va desde lo soñado al cine, al teatro. Algo que vi en l. a. calle, algo que escuché y que resulta como una concept detonadora que debo plasmar en letras. Con lo cual algunos cuentos son totalmente oníricos otros podrían ser de un cortometraje y algunos como personajes salidos de algún escenario maldito.
Los invito a sumergirse en ellos con suspiros, risas o suspenso

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Download e-book for iPad: Hautnah: Sinnliche Begegnungen (German Edition) by AAVAA Autoren,Sophie R. Nikolay

By AAVAA Autoren,Sophie R. Nikolay

ISBN-10: 3845904941

ISBN-13: 9783845904948

18 sinnliche Begegnungen – Zusammentreffen unterschiedlichster Art.

Sarah trifft auf Adriane und entdeckt, was once guy mit Pinseln alles anstellen kann. Thorsten und Arne finden auf ungewöhnliche Weise wieder zueinander und Finn zeigt Hannes, dass guy nicht sehen muss, um zu lieben. Diana wird am Strand von einem hinreißenden Mann verführt und schwarze Witwen sind nicht immer das, used to be guy ihnen nachsagt.

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Beteiligte Autoren:
Sophie R. Nikolay
Sigrid Lenz
Denis Atuan
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Roland Lieverscheidt
Justin C. Skylark
Sarah Krueger
S.B. Sasori
Regina Schleheck
S.A. Urban
Nik S. Martin

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Pasiones y obsesiones. Secretos del oficio de escribir by Sandra Lorenzano PDF

By Sandra Lorenzano

ISBN-10: 6071611954

ISBN-13: 9786071611956

Pasiones y obsesiones reúne a diferentes cuentistas, poetas y estudiosos de l. a. lengua que desarrollan sus reflexiones en torno a los dos temas que dan título a este libro. Cada uno a su modo y según su especialidad, ya con artículos de tono académico, ya con composiciones narrativas, ya con memorias, elabora sus propuestas y aportaciones, entre las que se cuentan las participaciones del poeta colombiano Darío Jaramillo Agudelo, y de Mario Bellatin, Sealtiel Alatriste, Anamari Gomís, entre otros.

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Prague Noir (Akashic Noir) by Pavel Mandys PDF

By Pavel Mandys

ISBN-10: 161775529X

ISBN-13: 9781617755293

Akashic Books keeps its groundbreaking sequence of unique noir anthologies, introduced in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. every one tale is determined in a special local or position in the urban of the book.

Brand-new tales by means of: Chaim Cigan, Martin Goffa, Irena Hejdová, Michaela Klevisová, Štěpán Kopřiva, Ondrej Neff, Markéta Pilátová, Jirí "Walker" Procházka, Petra Soukupová, Petr Stančík, Michal Sýkora, Petr Šabach, Kateřina Tučková, and Miloš Urban.

While Prague may possibly this day be one of many world's most sensible vacationer locations, and a worldly capital of ecu tradition, it is still an open-air monument to a historical past of violence. right here, Prague's best writers discover the hidden corners of the "City of 100 Spires," pulling again the curtain to bare gloom and despair.

From the creation through Pavel Mandys:

How to jot down noir in a urban the place, until eventually 1990, the occupation of personal detective hadn't existed? the place the censors insisted on portraying police within the media and literature in a good gentle? the place freelance prepared crime hadn't existed, yet the place the most important felony staff was once the key police? earlier than you delve into the fourteen tales during this assortment, a heads-up: lots of the tales owe their allegiance extra to Prague than the noir genre...but if the idea that of "noir" is prolonged, and regarded a characterization of literary works containing parts of crime, probability, threat--or the place critical characters locate themselves in severe existence situations--then you'll find fourteen such tales during this collection.

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Download e-book for kindle: A Children's Treasury by L. Frank Baum,Anna Sewell,Kenneth Grahame,C. Collodi,Hugh

By L. Frank Baum,Anna Sewell,Kenneth Grahame,C. Collodi,Hugh Lofting,Henry W. Longfellow,Johanna Spyri,Lewis Carroll

ISBN-10: 1604590114

ISBN-13: 9781604590111

This omnibus version comprises 8 of the main enjoyed kid's books of all time. Your baby will treasure this magical ebook all through their early life. incorporated are the glorious Wizard of ounces, Black attractiveness, The Wind within the Willows, The Adventures of Pinocchio, the tale of surgeon Dolittle, The tune of Hiawatha, Heidi, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This e-book will preserve little ones captivated for hours on finish and supplied them with magical stories to final a existence time. (now with new conversion that addresses matters cited y Kindle user)

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ROAR Volume 6 by Kyell Gold,Pete Butler,Ocean Tigrox,Marshall Moseley,Alice PDF

By Kyell Gold,Pete Butler,Ocean Tigrox,Marshall Moseley,Alice Dryden,Kevin Glover,Blake Hutchins,Eric Witchey,Mary Lowd

ISBN-10: 161450251X

ISBN-13: 9781614502517

lovely scoundrels and scoundrels we like to hate.

From rascals inflicting risk free mischief to darkish lords with evil of their hearts, scoundrels are available in each international, mundane to fantastical. We struggle them, snicker at them, and occasionally root for them.

The twenty-eight tales in ROAR quantity 6 discover scoundrels of each stripe, in each stroll of lifestyles. learn tales from celebrated anthropomorphic authors, award-winning science-fiction and fable authors, and gifted rookies to the bushy genre!

Contents:

Squonk the Dragon by way of Pete Butler
Brush and Sniff by means of mwalimu
Faithful by way of Marshall L. Moseley
Gerbil 07 via Huskyteer
CSI: Transylvania by means of Kevin M. Glover
Hard Scratching In Kittytown through Blake Hutchins
Hold the Moon via Eric M. Witchey
Ernest via Lyn McConchie
Two Crows, Wires, and the Moon via Andrew S. Taylor
Ivan and the Black Riders through Kris Schnee
Into the Wind via Rechan
At What expense via Jeeves the Roo
A urban with out young children through James Stegall
Perch through Sarah Doebereiner
The Cat Thief through Laura "Munchkin" Lewis
Food, Feuds and faux vegetation through Ocean Tigrox
Puppy Love via George S. Walker
I carry My Father's Paws by means of David D. Levine
0mega via Garrett Marco
Skinned by way of Kyell Gold
Relics, Rabbits, and Tuscan Reds by means of Slip Wolf
Shadows of Horses via Phil Geusz
Coyote's Voice by way of Altivo Overo
Prof Fox by means of Mark Patrick Lynch
Wolves and Foxes through Amy Fontaine
Unexpected Bouquets by way of Ellen Saunders
Clearance Papers by way of Fred Patten
Edward undergo and the Very lengthy stroll by means of Ken Scholes

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