Ficción moderna y contemporanea

Des del 1965, que va apareixer la primera edició de Postals d'Itàlia, el llibre de poemes de Jordi Sarsanedas no s'havia tornat a reeditar fins ara que ha aparegut junt Cor meu, el món en un pack de dos llibres que pretén ser un homenatge al poeta .



"És una poesia explícita, en què la bellesa de les imatges es correspon amb les criatures elegides per l'autor. I la lectura esdevé un procés d'intel·lecció -com diria...- orgàsmic" (Del pròle



DELUSIONAL,?Xavier Owen Selfe's meta-memoir-noir first novelty, is a horny old anti-hero's cross-continental journey, peppered with tales of fantasy sex, sport-sex, and train-wrecked relationships. Gore, humor, and magical canine character transformation takes place on this jaunt when the crusty codger seeks redemption and forgiveness from the two women he most loved in life.

El protagonista d'aquesta novel·leta extraordinària, Amerigo Ormea, fa d'interventor per un partit d'esquerres. Passa, doncs, moltes hores en un col·legi electoral, situat a l'interior d'una cèlebre institució religiosa de Torí: la Petita Casa de la Divina Providència, també coneguda amb el nom de Cottolengo, que és un hospici enorme destinat a donar asil a gent disminuïda, deficient i deforme. Quan surt de casa a quarts de sis del matí i comença a entomar la pluja, l'Amerigo no té manera de preveure fins a quin punt l'experiència al·lucinada d'aquest dia d'eleccions canviarà la seva manera de concebre el món, la política i la vida mateixa.



Componen el libro una novela corta donde se narra la relación del prestigioso comisario Peláez con un grupo cercano de personas a las que ayuda en difíciles situaciones, y siete relatos que tratan de temas tan dispares como la mitología, el costumbrismo o la rebelión irmandiña del siglo XV.





Un grupo de luchadores antifranquistas se proponen matar a Franco y solo disponen de una semana para preparar el atentado.La acción se desarrolla en Castro Urdiales (Cantabria), Bilbao y Las Arenas (Vizcaya), Irún (Guipúzcoa) y el yate Azor navegando por el Cantábrico.El relato está inspirado en un hecho real, la visita del dictador a Castro Urdiales el 2 de Agosto de 1968. Tan solo inspirado, aunque siempre nos quedará la duda de si pudo ocurrir algo tan disparatado.

Summer is winding down and strange days have hit the town of Needles, Massachusetts. Barry Drinkwater, a pool-boy for his parents, is unsure how to proceed when cryptic messages land in his lap while floating in the backyard. Whenever Barry thinks he is alone, he catches someone spying on him from behind shrubbery, gazing at him from around the corner, or peering at him over a newspaper. Then, one day, he happens upon a peculiar help wanted ad: an open position for a Courtroom Abstract Artist via Mirro Enterprises. Meanwhile, his guilt-ridden, morbid, and eccentric friend, Wayne, is obsessed with preparing for the impending apocalypse and introduces Barry to a fantastical realm ? a realm that raises more questions than answers. While pursuing the truth, Barry finds himself haunting the local cemetery, wandering through an abandoned mental hospital, and exploring a mysterious highway off-ramp. Important questions remain: Can Barry exist as a pool boy forever? Will Wayne perish as he fears? Will their fates intertwine? And, most importantly, what is the story behind Exit-Thirty-Three-B?



A widow, at an age when birthdays are best forgotten, with no children to occupy her mind, can be very lonely. Julia Dunstan knew she was more fortunate than most widows, not merely because she was prosperous?as widows go?but because she had always taken an interest in other people. And from the moment Julia moves to Goatstock, where she has inherited a house, there are plenty of people for her to take an interest in. For a start, there?s cousin Dora, who might just as easily been left the house herself and who instead becomes Julia?s companion. Then there?s Lady Finch, the local expert on Fresh Food and the victim of a deception so dastardly that even her attractive but irreverent niece, Harriet, is indignant. This distracts Harriet for a while from the rather thankless task of planning the futures of her friends, Marian and Robert. And all are concerned with news that the village will be made into a ?New Town?. However the old values, at least those of Elizabeth Fair?s fiction, remain: wit, charm, and romance. Furrowed Middlebrow is delighted to make available, for the first time in over half a century,