Ficción moderna y contemporanea



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Veus és una antologia que reuneix textos de quaranta-un autors que escriuen en llengua catalana i vénen d'una tradició comuna: la de Francesc Trabal, Caterina Albert, Mercè Rodoreda o Llorenç Villalonga. Però no està feta amb criteri acadèmic o vocació canònica, sinó que neix de la curiositat lectora de Lolita Bosch i de la seva voluntat d'observar de la vora una literatura que a vegades ens sembla poc visible i sovint és rebuda, fins i tot a casa nostra, amb estereotips literaris sense fonament. Així que Veus és, sobre tot, una invitació a fer una immersió insòlita i poc freqüent en la nova narrativa catalana. I és també el resultat d'un procés de recerca independent, meticulós, honest i molt gratificant.Contes inèdits i publicats, fragments de novel·la, la prosa d'alguns poetes, escriptors inèdits, veus novíssimes, i d'altres que ja coneixem i admirem... és a dir: la possibilitat de descobrir una literatura enlluernadora i moderníssima en la qual trobarem una voluntat universal, arriscada i radicalment viva. Prop d'una cinquantena de textos d'autors menors de quaranta-cinc anys, amb referents, lectures, gustos i projectes literaris diferents, que Lolita Bosch ha volgut endreçar en un ordre inventat per tal de crear una narració comuna. Un recorregut atípic i original que travessa les veus, diverses, sòlides i personals, de la nostra narrativa contemporània.

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La campanya més disputada estudia en profunditat la dinàmica entre mitjans de comunicació i partits a Catalunya, en la campanya de les eleccions catalanes del 1999. Una campanya fortament polaritzada entre les figures dels dos principals líders

Dr. Lydia Giddens has taken an oath to do no harm. But now she stands in the shadows of her success, wondering if honoring her profession is even possible. Surely, her family doesn?t expect her to jeopardize everything she?s worked so hard for all of her life. No matter. Age, death, and declining health have forced her predecessors to appoint her to this new role. She isn?t given a choice. As her powerful family?s new matriarch, she understands how their world works. She?s seen it up close, but she isn?t sure if she has the strength or the prowess to take on such a complex responsibility. There are certain obligations, and certain risks, associated with this hierarchy. What were they thinking? she wonders. After all, she has her own challenges, battling an incurable disease that could take her life at any moment?

In the winter of 1968, Scots Ridge, Tennessee is covered in ice and snow. Woke from a dead sleep to the sound of his newborn daughter convulsing with a high fever, Sonny Price does what he always does. He runs. With his daughter draped over his arms, Sonny runs across a frozen field to the door of Ellis and Virginia Hatch. Racing down the ridge to the county hospital, Sonny?s life suddenly comes crashing down.? Overwhelmed, his wife lost in a dark world of deep depression, his daughter burning with fever, and feeling like he never measured up in life to everyone?s expectations, Sonny runs out of the hospital. Runs out of town. And, runs out of everyone?s life. Including his. With the help of those that know him better than he knows himself, Sonny Price wrestles the demons that haunt him and back to his wife and child, back to his life. But not before he discovers that all he believed to be true about his life, about the father he never knew, about the woman he called mama, was all lies. His is an accidental legacy. Growing up in the shadows of the hills and valleys, the rumors and the gossip of Scots Ridg

En Bill, fill d'una família aristocràtica, ha suspès els exàmens d'accés a la universitat. Com a càstig, durant l'estiu, en comptes de passar les vacances prop del mar amb la mare i els germans, s'haurà de quedar estudiant a la finca de la família, en companyia del seu pare, amb qui amb prou feines ha tingut mai tracte. A mesura que passen els dies, en un ambient de calor sufocant, en Bill comença a intuir el caràcter real del pare, que dista molt de la imatge que amaga darrere de les convencions socials.

HYBRID ARE AMONG US Earth has changed. Humans are Changed. Now Hybrids are here. The Nixo Chief Norkam, along with the hybrid-human Leiana and her Warrior Cyan, rule the new world. Yseut and Gael run away in order to reunite with Hugo, his father, and accomplish their mission in the planet Aether. On the way, they will rescue a 18-year-old boy called Jano who, together with the seasoned Leon, will take part of the growing group of «Normal» humans; they will try to resist the Change created by the Nixos planning the destruction of the «Distinct» people. But everything could blow up when Gael discovers Leiana's true identity?

Es una noche como tantas otras en un barrio periférico de una pequeña ciudad norteamericana en el que nunca pasa nada. Pero, de pronto, un grito desgarrador, atávico, rasga la átona placidez de una familia convencional de los años sesenta. ¿Por qué aúlla de rabia el joven Rick reclamando a su chica Sheryl ? ¿Por qué, acompañado de su banda de amigos armada de cadenas hasta los dientes, irrumpe Rick en casa de los padres de su novia ? ¿Por qué nadie le dice dónde está ella ? ¿Por qué ha desaparecido ? De repente, aquella noche, todo cambió, no sólo en esa familia desconcertada, sino también en todo el barrio. Nunca nada será igual. Y puede que al lector también algo irremediable le ocurra a medida que vaya conociendo esta estremecedora historia de amor entre dos adolescentes que le llega gracias al testimonio, a la vez frío y conmovedor de la narradora, testigo privilegiado de un drama poco común.

Esta es la fascinante historia del hermano secreto de Christian II, rey de Dinamarca, quien terminó su vida como un carismático monje franciscano en México. Expulsado de su país durante la reforma, emprende la aventurosa travesía de la inquietante Europa del siglo XVI. Contagiado por la risa provocadora del escritor-monje Rabelais, inspirado por el filósofo humanista Erasmo, atraído por el utopista Tomás Moro, perseguido en España por la Inquisición, embarca hacia el nuevo mundo. El contacto con una cultura totalmente nueva produce en él un impacto que dará un vuelco radical a su visión del mundo. Aunque, por mostrarse «demasiado complaciente con los indios», lo expulsan por segunda vez de la orden franciscana, a fray Jacobo nada puede ya desviarle de su camino, espléndida escenificación de la rebeldía contra los determinismos, la estrechez de espíritu, el puritano sentido de culpa, así como de la irrefrenable necesidad de sueños y leyendas que anima a todo ser humano.