Impossible Stories
10 best books like Impossible Stories (Zoran Živković): Hex, 2010: Odyssey Two, 2061: Odyssey Three, The Fifth Child, Last Days, Winterwood, El tatuaje o la firma del yo, Animal doméstico, Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays, Breve historia de los samuráis
| Author | Thomas Olde Heuvelt |
| ISBN | 0765378809 |
Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay 'til death. Whoever settles, never leaves.
Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a 17th century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters your homes...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0345413970 |
Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft--to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong...and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.
Without...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0586203192 |
Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths,...
| Author | Doris Lessing |
| ISBN | 0679721827 |
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.
Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the...
| Author | Adam Nevill |
| ISBN | 1250018188 |
Last Days (winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year) by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult—with creepy consequences
When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is...
| Author | Patrick McCabe |
| ISBN | 1596911638 |
Once, Redmond Hatch was in heaven, married to the lovely Catherine and father to enchanting daughter Immy. But then he took them both to Winterwood. And it would never be the same again…
In Patrick McCabe's spellbinding new novel, nothing—and no one—are ever quite what they seem. When...
El tatuaje o la firma del yo
Un ensayo breve sobre el papel de los tatuajes en la sociedad actual:
"En una sociedad de las apariencias, de la imagen, del espectáculo, hay que convertirse en imagen para tener la sensación de existir plenamente en la mirada de los demás"
Algunas de las entrevistas a jóvenes con tatuajes,...
Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays
| Author | Siri Hustvedt |
| ISBN | 1250009529 |
The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting (Mysteries of the Rectangle) as well as an interdisciplinary investigation of a neurological disorder (The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves)....
Breve historia de los samuráis
| Author | Vince Hawkins |
| ISBN | 8497631404 |
Reviva la aventura de los temibles guerreros Samuráis, sus secretos, sentido del honor y extraordinario dominio de las artes marciales. Esta obra profundiza en el mito y desvela toda la verdad sobre estos luchadores, que dominaron Japón durante siglos gracias a su estricto entrenamiento derivado...
