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She woke from a sleep of countless years, reborn from the heart of a raging volcano. Her body was a masterpiece all men desired, her face a monstrosity that must go masked. Warrior, witch, goddess and slave, she was doomed to travel through a world of barbaric splendour, helped and betrayed by her lovers, searching for escape from the taint of her forgotten race, and the malice of the demon that haunted her.<

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“Lopez has the ability to give the reader whiplash with his unconventional and bewitching stories.” —

“Robert Lopez is the master of deadpan dread, of the elliptical koan, of the sudden turn of language that reveals life to be so wonderfully absurd. Always with Lopez, the voice is all his — enchanting, surprising, at times devastating.” —, author of

“Robert Lopez’s strange, incantatory, visionary stories reveal the mysteries behind the ordinary world. You lift your head from this book and it’s as if a third eye has been opened.” —, author of and

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,” claims Samuel Beckett. To this, we add: nothing is funnier than unhappiness with a heavy dose of amorality, as we learn from Robert Lopez’s unforgettable . In these twenty stories, a motley cast of obsessive, self-deluded outsiders narrate their darker moments, which include kidnapping, voyeurism, and psychic masochism. As their struggles give way to the black humor of life’s unreason, the bleak merges with the oddly poetic, in a style as lean and resolute as Carver or Hemingway.

Treading the fine line between confession and self-justification, the absurd violence of threatened masculinity, and the perverse joy of neurosis, Lopez’s stories reveal the compulsive suffering at the precarious core of our universal humanity.

“ meets .” —The Skimm

Janice Y. K. Lee’s New York Times bestselling debut, , was called “immensely satisfying” by , “intensely readable” by , and “a rare and exquisite story” by Elizabeth Gilbert. Now, in her long-awaited new novel, Lee explores with devastating poignancy the emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in the same small expat community in Hong Kong.

Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident in her recent past. Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, something she believes could save her foundering marriage. Meanwhile, Margaret, once a happily married mother of three, questions her maternal identity in the wake of a shattering loss. As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all. Atmospheric, moving, and utterly compelling, confirms Lee as an exceptional talent and one of our keenest observers of women’s inner lives.

Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization: a distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature, he was one of the first Westerners to expose the horrors of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Leys’s interests and expertise are not, however, confined to China: he also writes about European art, literature, history, and politics, and is an unflinching observer of the way we live now. No matter the topic he writes with unfailing elegance and intelligence, seriousness and acerbic wit. Leys is, in short, not simply a critic or commentator but an essayist, and one of the most outstanding ones of our time.

In questi dieci reportage narrativi apparsi tra il 1962 e il 1966 sul settimanale "Polityka", con l'occhio attento e la profondità di giudizio che gli sono propri Kapuscinski descrive il periodo di rottura nella storia del continente: la nascita di nuovi Stati, i capi che li hanno guidati, la crisi dei primi sistemi politici e le storie della gente comune. Storico per formazione e per passione, Kapuscinski ha osservato ogni cosa sul campo, rischiando talvolta la vita; e questo fa sì che, per quanto gli stessi eventi siano stati narrati da giornalisti di tutto il mondo, nessuno di loro abbia lasciato una testimonianza paragonabile. L'acutezza, la densità, la complessità delle analisi sono quelle che ritroviamo in "Ebano" e "La prima guerra del football". Ma la cosa più straordinaria è che a distanza di quarant'anni questo libro continui a essere fondamentale per chiarire i problemi dell'Africa e, per varie ragioni, resti una delle più importanti testimonianze mondiali della decolonizzazione africana.<

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