LLORA PALESTINA

Un viejo campesino calabrés llega a casa de sus hijos en Milán para someterse a una revisión médica. Allí descubre su último afecto, una criatura en la que volcar toda su ternura: su nieto, que se llama Bruno, como a él le llaman sus camaradas partisanos. Y vive también su última pasión: el amor de una mujer que iluminará la etapa final de su vida concediéndole toda su plenitud.

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke, so it's back to Bush Falls for the town's most famous pariah. His brother avoids him, his former classmates beat him up, and the members of the book club just hurl their copies of Bush Falls at his house. But with the help of some old friends, Joe...

Tras las paredes de un elegante rascacielos de cuarenta pisos a las afueras de Londres (el primero habitado de cinco edificios iguales) sus dos mil inquilinos se entregan a una orgía de destrucción. Las fiestas degeneran en ataques a los pisos "enemigos" y la tecnología va dejando de funcionar hasta que en todas partes impera la ley de la selva. Ballard muestra en esta distopía radical el descenso a la barbarie de una comunidad cerrada de profesionales acomodados.

Sara’s abusive marriage has finally ended. She now must get out of the Kansas City area before Paul, her ex-husband, finds out she is pregnant with his child and tries to prevent from her leaving the city. She is sitting at her favorite spot in the city, taking one last look before she leaves this city forever. She has money from the sell of their house in the bank and a new job waiting for her in Colorado. She is ready to leave for the train station when her ex-husband shows up and points a gun at her head. He tells her he knows about the baby and that they will be remarried as soon as...