The First Person and Other Stories

Author

Lucy Ellmann

LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of “happy couples”, Weapons of...

Author	Max Porter
ISBN	0571340288

There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and...

Author	Margaret Atwood
ISBN	0385491085

Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber.  She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto,...

Author

Afonso Cruz

O pano de fundo deste romance é um Oriente efabulado, baseado no que pensamos que foi o seu passado e acreditamos ser o seu presente, com tudo o que esse Oriente tem de mágico, de diferente e de perverso. Conta a história de um homem que ambiciona ser invisível, de uma criança que gostaria de voar como...

Author	Renata Adler
ISBN	0060971444

"Pitch Dark is the story of the end of a love affair—a story that, in Renata Adler’s brilliant telling, becomes a richly diffracted, illuminating, investigation of an exceptional woman. After a nine-year affair with Jake, a married man, Kate Ennis decides to escape. She takes off, looking for...

Author	Robbie Arnott
ISBN	1925603520

A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, Charlotte—who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire.

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Author

Vitor Martins

O show mais aguardado do ano! Pelo menos para Antônio, um jovem de 26 anos que não sente vergonha nenhuma em virar a madrugada na rua para conseguir comprar um ingresso para o show de retorno da sua boyband favorita. A noite está fria, os fãs são barulhentos e a calçada está longe de ser confortável,...