Ficción moderna y contemporanea

Una dona jove, que lluita contra la tuberculosi, rep una carta del seu amant una carta de ruptura o, més ben dit, de comiat, en la qual li anuncia que és a punt de casar-se amb una altra i li proposa una relació d'amistat. La seva resposta, l'epístola d'una dona esquinçada per la tristesa i consumida per la malaltia, és la d'un ésser humà que es rebel·la contra el desamor, la indiferència i la mort en nom d'una vida que, per curta que sigui, mereix tot el seu fervor. Un crit legítim, inflexible, de qui es resisteix a renunciar a un amor sense concessions, lleial i apassionat, d'una ànima els desitjos de la qual cremen abans d'extingir-se.

Alice Green realises that reaching fifty is much the same as being invisible so why not make the most of it? Her head-in-the-sand husband doesn?t notice the clothes mountain and the piles of pretty stationery.When two police cars draw up outside her house in leafy Edinburgh, Alice knows the game is up. While dealing with the present, she backtracks through her memories, recasting the events and people who chipped away at her confidence and contentment over the years.?Run, Alice, Run is an irreverent coming-of-middle-age novel that looks with irony and black humour at the way society defines and diminishes women of all ages.?

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Zhanna-a grammarian, compulsive spellchecker, and young copy editor-simmers when her expert redlines are questioned. As her agitation grows, she begins making editorial corrections outside the publishing house. On a lunch break, she confronts the cashier about quotation marks indicating "free" coffee and finally abolishes them from the chalkboard herself. She broods about careless writing and the death of language. Sometimes she feels like a dangling modifier. Clearly, she needs a break. Confessions of the Editor Brigand chronicles Zhanna's obsession. For six weeks, she travels from one town to the next, visiting her close-knit group of girlfriends but soon discovering that even a good vacation needs an editor. Clad in black, Zhanna becomes the ultimate grammar guardian, the Editor Brigand, scouring the streets for misspellings and bad grammar. When a friend suggests the dating website, Assisted Kismet, as a distraction, Zhanna combs it for someone whose profile isn't ridden with misspellings, or just ludicrous. In the end, Zhanna's enthusiastic love of language brings her friends closer together, an

Premi 23 d?abril 2004Amb Dr. Pearson, Xavier Moret novel·la la vida de l'enginyer nord-americà Frederick Stark Pearson, que a començaments del segle XX va portar l'electricitat a Catalunya. El relat engega amb l'arribada de l'enginyer a Barcelona, el

La convivencia de un grupo de personas que deciden llevar a cabo una experiencia de vida comunitaria permite a IRIS MURDOCH hacer una exploración filosófica sobre el origen de la moralidad y de los comportamientos humanos a través de la confrontación entre los impulsos carnales y los religiosos. A la sombra y amparo de un convento habitado por una pequeña comunidad de monjas, cuya superiora ejerce una omnipresente función de orientación y control de vidas ajenas, un grupo de homosexuales, esquizofrénicos y alcohólicos enfrentan sus represiones, sus miedos y sus culpas con la inocencia de la juventud. Iris Murdoch desarrolla armoniosamente el pasado y el presente de los personajes, dejando patente su sensibilidad y talento para crear tipos humanos en un ambiente opresivo y enfermizo. Trata sus problemáticas con un humor distante que permite asistir a los conflictos de conciencia sin caer nunca en el tópico. LA CAMPANA se sitúa a medio camino entre la novela de tesis y la figuración simbólica. Comparada en su día con Virginia Woolf, el mundo literario de Iris Murdoch está animado fundamentalmente por el deseo de recuperar una concepción humanista de la novela mediante la plasmación de personajes autónomos, distantes del autor y no reducibles a simples categorías sociológicas o a tipos psicológicos determinados. El amor, la culpa, la responsabilidad, las posibilidades de hallar la felicidad en la sociedad contemporánea, nuevamente aparecen en LA CAMPANA con la dimensión filosófica que adquieren en el resto de la obra de Iris Murdoch.

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Segunda novela de “Crónicas de los Deverill”. Santa Montefiore, la reina del romance épico, une de manera magistral la convulsa historia de Irlanda a lo largo de varios siglos con una trama familiar y romántica que atrapa desde las primeras páginas. El

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The Goddess is returning!?She takes shape in the hands of an Episcopal priest?s shy, retiring wife. She invades the dreams of a grande dame who thinks women priests are a scandal. She lures a poker-playing ex-convict onto unfamiliar terrain, literally. Then there is the mysterious old man in the wood, who?s been watching, waiting for a sign of her return.?Who?is?the Goddess? Where has she been for so long? What does she want from the four human beings whose lives she is turning upside down and inside out??As they confront these questions, Esther, Spencer, Marvin and Fergus find themselves drawn together, forging friendships across boundaries of age, class and race, discovering?and recovering?powerful, erotic passions. All their encounters, with themselves and each other, lead them deeper into Blackwood, an old estate that shelters an imperiled grove of trees sacred to the Goddess, a grove it becomes their mission to save.?The Return of the Goddess, A Divine Comedy?marks Cunningham?s first explicit exploration of Christianity and the power of a divine feminine, long forgotten, obscured, and suppressed by the

En aquell any turbulent, 1348, el recinte sagrat del monestir de Poblet acollirà els reis en una visita que es veurà envoltada pel misteri i que comportarà greus conseqüències a tota la comunitat.Set segles després, rere els murs on descansen les despulles dels reis catalans, s'amaga encara un secret mai revelat: el manuscrit d'un jove mestre escultor, Aloi de Montbrai, que amenaça de capgirar la història tal com la coneixem fins ara.Dos joves historiadors de la Universitat de Barcelona lluitaran per treure a la llum una informació guardada amb zel durant molt de temps. Perseguits per les poderoses forces que volen preservar els secrets de la reina, l'Enric i la Beatriu descobriran que la història pot ser manipulada i que la passió també ens pot conduir cap a l'obscuritat.Entra a www.elssecretsdelareina.cat i descobreix tot el que s'amaga rere els murs de Poblet.