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Searching for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend in contemporary Japan, the protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread, colliding with call girls, playing chaperone to a teenage psychic, and receiving cryptic instructions from a shabby oracle.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in Colliers Magazine on May 27th, 1922. The story follows Benjamin's life from his birth in 1860. However he is no ordinary child, as he has the appearance of a 70 year old man, already capable of speech. His family soon realizes that Benjamin is aging in reverse, becoming younger as the years go by. The fascinating story looks at his triumphs and struggles as he slowly gains his youth. Adding in themes of love and acceptance, F.

El viaje de Ayrus es un cuento filosófico para todos. Relata la historia de un hombre joven quien efectúa una búsqueda iniciática con miras a obtener los secretos del elixir de la vida y de la píldora de la inmortalidad. En el transcurso de su periplo, Ayrus tratará de encontrar sus remotos orígenes al contacto con ciertas tradiciones ancestrales. Su recorrido lo llevará hasta varias regiones del mundo, incluyendo la América, el continente Negro, Villapayaso y Asia.

The Voyage of Ayrus is a philosophical tale for everyone. It relates the story of a young man on an initiation quest, seeking the secrets of the elixir of life and the pill of immortality. During his travels, Ayrus will come in contact with various ancestral traditions as he attempts to retrace his distant origins. His quest will take him to different parts of the world, including America, the Black Continent, Clownville and Asia.

Le voyage d’Ayrus est un conte philosophique pour tous. Il relate l’histoire d’un jeune homme qui poursuit une quête initiatique afin d’obtenir les secrets de l’élixir de vie et de la pilule d’immortalité. Au cours de son périple, Ayrus tentera de retrouver ses origines lointaines au contact de certaines traditions ancestrales. Son parcours l’amènera dans plusieurs régions du monde, incluant l’Amérique, le continent Noir, Clownville et l’Asie.

Récit, conte ou sotie, Un secret de Polichinelle est une jubilante allégorie dans laquelle Jean-François Bonin donne libre cours à sa fantaisie. Trois joyeux lurons, Mylène, Émile et Rock-Igor, s’y moquent allègrement des travers de notre société. À la grande surprise de Mylène, voilà que son fistounet Rock-Igor, à peine né, s’exprime dans la langue de Ferron et de Miron, et exige qu’on lui apprenne l’alphabet sur-le-champ. Pas facile, le rejeton ! « Quelle sera la place de cet enfant prodige dans un monde où règne l’ignorance ?

Voici un livre étonnant. On y découvre une Nicole Houde rieuse et moqueuse, tendre et grave, avec un brin de fantaisie impertinente. Des fées et des mages s'amusent au milieu d'une foule de personnages croisés au hasard de promenades dans le quartier Rosemont de Montréal. Marx et Darwin sont de la partie... L’idée de ce livre lui est venue de son rapport avec son petit-fils. De son désir de lui raconter le monde à travers des contes et des récits. D’une redécouverte de l'éblouissement face à la vie, en quelque sorte.

The Magic Dogs of San Vicente is set in the aftermath of the war in El Salvador (1980-1992), a war in which the two Flores brothers were arrested and savagely tortured, but a war that they ultimately survived. On a heat-soaked morning in El Salvador's wild countryside, the Flores brothers encounter something -- part vision, part phantasm, part shuddering echo of their past -- that almost frightens them out of their wits.

A Floating Life will delight lovers of Kafka, Murakami, and the magic realism of Gabriel GarcIa MArquez. A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking to a woman he doesn't know who proves to be his wife. Soon separated but still living in the same apartment, he is threatened by a litigious dachshund and saddled with a stubborn case of erectile dysfunction in a world that seems held together by increasingly mercurial laws and elusive boundaries.

A "moving and memorable" novel about a cafe where everyone has a story to tell from the award-winning author of The Women of Brewster Place (The Boston Globe). In post-World War II Brooklyn, on a quiet backstreet, there's a little place that draws people from all over-not for the food, and definitely not for the coffee.