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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A VERY VERY VERY WEIRD LOVE STORYJennifer Watts is a candid, hard-working girl exploited by Britney, her cynical, devilish sister. Jennifer's destiny changes when she meets billionaire (not millionaire) Richard Wealthy, who is kind of stupid but has rock-hard abs.Just as Jennifer's circumstances begin to improve, her sinister sister screws up and ruins her life, until a stroke of fate, hidden in waffles and the contemporary art market, puts Jeniffer back in control of her life.But there will still be one last challenge to face.If you are a fan of Carlton Mellick III, Charles V, and Camillo VI, you will absolutely enjoy this bizarre story.\*\*\*Editor's note: a tailor and a boy who works in the kitchen (hence the title) also play a key role in the story.End of editor's note.\*\*\*WARNINGPlease understand that this book is a parody full of moronic stereotypes. If you were expecting a regular romance novel or a light comedy please don't buy this book to save yourself from further disgust. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Half RoomAfter years of being a guinea pig for a mysterious pharmaceutical company, Wilson Brown wakes up with three women's breasts on his body.In search of a cure, he travels from Los Angeles to a lost city in the middle of the desert.There he will encounter planes that cannot fly, an illegal shipment of baseballs, the new Russian mafia, a huge book with cryptic messages, a violinist turned radio prophet and a young criminal who travels in a Mustang at 500 miles per hour.The Half Room is a crazy, dizzying and surreal novel. A journey full of doors that open to absurdity and nonsense.WARNINGThis book is absolutely irrational and parodic. The cover should read: 'I am not a normal novel'.If you are a fan of Carlton Mellick III, Charles V, and Camillo VI, you will absolutely enjoy this story.- - - - - - - -'A strange story, full of parentheses, bifurcations and leaps into the void' Cajo Leg. ¿¿¿¿¿'Baltazar Boeuf puts a gun in your mouth, then leaves, and doesn't come back.' R. Indie. ¿¿¿¿'The Half Room is the reverse of the world seen with the lucid lens with which nightmares are admired. Disturbing, eclectic, arrhythmic. (.) Between epiphany and hallucination, The Half Room is a journey adrift, a shipwreck'. Lextralia. ¿¿¿¿¿'Post-apocalyptic dystopia or pre-apocalyptic utopia, this is one of the most incomprehensible novels of all time.' PostData ¿¿¿'It is better to read The Half Room as stand-alone, loose, lost chapters, though it's best not to read it at all.' The bookseller on the corner. ¿¿¿'Boeuf is what he is. You can't ask more of him, nor can you ask less.' Daniel Bi ¿¿¿¿¿'Like other Boeuf books, The Half Room is nonsense, bizarre, psychedelic, B-movie style pulp fiction.' Pereira Auto Repair ¿¿¿.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In these nine short stories, absurdity undermines the foundations of reality until there is no turning back:A boy gets trapped between the walls of a building. / Five friends establish a new country inside their apartment and set out to defend it with their teeth. / The sensual voice of a jazz singer disturbs the life of a musician to the point of driving him mad. / A jaded married couple receives a mysterious black box on their doorstep that will bring them together again. / In the midst of a war that seemed distant, three children and their tutor repeat over and over again the same form of death. / A mobster tells a crime as if it had already happened, but in reality he is anticipating it. / On their honeymoon, a couple of newlyweds get lost in a remote and mysterious village that does not appear on any map and end up involved in a crime that will accompany them for years.Between the fantastic, the absurd, the extravagant and the crude reality, these short stories are a winding path for the reader to venture into their own stray.Reviewers say of JM Soto's work:'Fear, absurdity and helplessness are expressed here through characters who live a shared, paradoxical and essential loneliness that can only emerge in the midst of the collective. Mariano Nava Contreras.'Wonderful collection of stories stuffed with humanity, desolation and caustic humor; above all, assumed with a comfortable prose and without excesses. Moments without waste through journeys through childhood, through non-existent places, doses of surrealism, micro moments of terror. a shortcut through the most vile emotions, with a consistent influence of visual fables -Gillian, Lynch, Tarantino- that have marked the new generations of the most audacious writers without complexes'. Joaquín Ortega.'We are before a book of high quality, but even more, before a young author who without much fuss exposes a sharp, deep narrative, with characters that allow themselves to be glimpsed in the possibilities of everyday reality. Soto's ideas always seem to be born from a particular image, a scene; but not the one that seems to recreate the story he tells, but the one that hides behind a simple detail of the whole story'. Geraudi González.'A mature author, with expertise, gifted with the art of leading stories and creating characters, and with them to move us, given his ability to maintain the tension and the dramatic arc, in impeccable consonance with the internal verisimilitude'. Oscar Marcano.'His stories maintain tension from beginning to end; there is a clear craft in his prose, and with the brazenness of an author who thinks his work through, his endings leave the reader wanting more and with the possibility that everyone can imagine alternate endings'. Librería Sónica.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - NINE STRAY SHOTSIn these nine short stories, absurdity undermines the foundations of reality until there is no turning back:A boy gets trapped between the walls of a building. / Five friends establish a new country inside their apartment and set out to defend it with their teeth. / The sensual voice of a jazz singer disturbs the life of a musician to the point of driving him mad. / A jaded married couple receives a mysterious black box on their doorstep that will bring them together again. / In the midst of a war that seemed distant, three children and their tutor repeat over and over again the same form of death. / A mobster tells a crime as if it had already happened, but in reality he is anticipating it. / On their honeymoon, a couple of newlyweds get lost in a remote and mysterious village that does not appear on any map and end up involved in a crime that will accompany them for years.Between the fantastic, the absurd, the extravagant and the crude reality, these short stories are a winding path for the reader to venture into their own stray.REVIEWS:'A succinct collection of literary nuggets .'A good short story should reveal itself in a quick glancing light. But it's often hard to lose oneself in the brevity of such short works so when an anthology like Nine Stray Shots comes along it's worth taking note.A succinct collection of literary nuggets where tragedy, relationships, death and serendipity are briefly illuminated, There's no lyrical wandering with each story punching above its word count with unexpected moments encroaching on the reader's headspace and demanding reflection.The genre thrives on authors who can quickly tap into our imagination and in the main Soto achieves this through the economy of his settings which are readily absorbed and allow us to retain story arcs in our mind without relinquishing the detail.With short story anthologies like Nine Stray Shots, you can engage with them briefly, nod and think about them, then forget about them later. But if you do stop to think a little more about Soto's collection, you'll come to recognise the intricacy of what he's constructed as he holds his characters and events up to scrutiny.At just nine stories in all, Soto is quite adept at evoking social nuance. This is clearly evident in stories like Wrong Short Cuts, Black Box and The Weirdo and whilst they couldn't be more different each one is eminently readable and a testament to the passion with which Soto writes.A must-read for fans of short-form fiction Nine Stray Shots is unreservedly recommended.The BookViral ReviewReviewers say of JM Soto's work:'Fear, absurdity and helplessness are expressed here through characters who live a shared, paradoxical and essential loneliness that can only emerge in the midst of the collective. Mariano Nava Contreras.'Wonderful collection of stories stuffed with humanity, desolation and caustic humor; above all, assumed with a comfortable prose and without excesses. Moments without waste through journeys through childhood, through non-existent places, doses of surrealism, micro moments of terror. a shortcut through the most vile emotions, with a consistent influence of visual fables -Gillian, Lynch, Tarantino- that have marked the new generations of the most audacious writers without complexes'. Joaquín Ortega.'A mature author, with expertise, gifted with the art of leading stories and creating characters, and with them to move us, given his ability to maintain the tension and the dramatic arc, in impeccable consonance with the internal verisimilitude'. Oscar Marcano.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - No es posible salir de Vladik sin un gui¿a que ayude a esquivar los caminos minados. La ubicacio¿n de las minas antipersona se detalla en los mapas, el principal pertrecho de los gui¿as. Hay mapas confiables para salir ileso de Vladik. Por tanto, tambie¿n hay mapas que no son de fiar. Basta que un mapa tenga un desliz en un trazo (cuando son en papel) o un mi¿nimo error de co¿digo de programacio¿n (cuando consisten en algoritmos alojados en dispositivos electro¿nicos) para que se torne letal, pese a que en su hechura o reproduccio¿n hayan privado los buenos propo¿sitos y el conocimiento veri¿dico de la ubicacio¿n, calidad y estado de las minas resen¿adas. (.)Las minas antipersona se plantaron con el objeto de proveer a Vladik de una muralla invisible para la proteccio¿n frente a los enemigos externos que quisieran entrar y contra los enemigos internos que quisieran salir. (.) No es necesario transitar los caminos minados para padecer sus estragos. Una mina antipersona no necesita explotar para cumplir con su objetivo primario: la prohibicio¿n de imaginar o enunciar un mundo distinto. Las minas no solo demarcan las aparentes fronteras vlädikas, tambie¿n aspiran a delimitar el mundo y sus posibilidades, con el mensaje subrepticio de que despue¿s de un supuesto finisterre nada hay. (.)Aunque no hay certeza de cuäntos, hay muchos gui¿as que se han asomado a trave¿s de la puerta de salida de Vladik. ¿Pero por que¿ vuelven Quizä tiemblan de terror de solo pensar co¿mo seri¿an sus vidas mäs allä, en esas tierras ignotas. ¿Persistiri¿an en su oficio ¿Gui¿as de que¿ Acaso suponen que al cruzar la frontera se encontrarän con un nuevo Vladik, con otro nombre, otros caminos minados y otros gui¿as mäs jo¿venes y capaces, y a los viejos gui¿as recie¿n llegados no les quedari¿a mäs remedio que perseguir las sombras de estos nuevos gui¿as hasta llegar a otra frontera mäs.Así comienza Finisterre, una novela sobre el destierro en un mundo en ruinas.FINISTERRESigilosos guías conducen a caravanas de viajeros hacia las fronteras de Vladik: un vasto territorio asolado por guerras remotas y sembrado de minas antipersona.En su recorrido por las ruinas del país, los caminantes se valen de mapas tan pequeños como la palma de la mano mientras sortean decapitadores, bestias transgénicas, tecnócratas del absurdo, cavernas hechas prisiones, murallas derruidas e interminables fosos.Finisterre es un no-lugar, el límite de toda fuga, una fábula delirante en clave de humor negro sobre el destino trágico de este siglo, del anterior y del siguiente.Libro raro y difícil de encasillar, mezcla de falsa novela histórica y falso ensayo, Finisterre escarba en la llaga de los discursos totalitarios, el absurdo de muchas ideologías, las distopías hechas presente y el horror de las migraciones forzadas.\* \* \*Jesús Miguel Soto nació en Caracas, Venezuela, en la década de los ochenta del siglo pasado. Ha publicado las novelas Finisterre, La máscara de cuero y Boeuf, así como el libro de relatos Perdidos en Frog. En 2017, en el marco del evento Bogotá39, fue seleccionado por el HayFestival como uno de los 39 escritores latinoamericanos de ficción más destacados con menos de 40 años.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. The Kitchen guy, a Reliable Tailor, and the Wicked, Lying and Treacherous Rival Sister | Baltazar Boeuf | Taschenbuch | BABEL PROJECT | Englisch | 2023 | Disaster Books | EAN 9798224704545 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…