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Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up…What do they want? What everybody wants: to come home. "Handling the Undead" is a story about our greatest fear and about a love that defies death. Following his success with "Let the Right One In", this novel too has been a bestseller in his native Sweden.
Oskar, un niño solitario y triste que vive en los suburbios de Estocolmo, tiene una curiosa afición: le gusta coleccionar recortes de prensa sobre asesinatos violentos. No tiene amigos y sus compañeros de clase se mofan de él y le maltratan.
Una noche conoce a Eli, su nueva vecina, una misteriosa niña que nunca tiene frío, despide un olor extraño y suele ir acompañada de un hombre de aspecto siniestro. Oskar se siente fascinado por Eli y se hacen inseparables. Al mismo tiempo, una serie de crímenes y sucesos extraños hace sospechar a la policía local de la presencia de un asesino en serie. Nada más lejos de la realidad.
Considerado por la Academia Sueca uno de los autores de mayor talento, aclamado por la crítica como el nuevo Stephen King y considerado por los lectores el sucesor de Stieg Larsson, el maestro escandinavo del terror se imagina en su nueva novela qué pasaría si Estocolmo fuese tomado por los zombies.
Algo muy extraño está ocurriendo en la capital de Suecia: en medio de una inusual ola de calor, la gente se da cuenta de que no puede apagar la luz ni los aparatos eléctricos. De repente, una noticia sacude a la nación: en la morgue los muertos están resucitando. ¿Qué es lo que quieren? Lógicamente, volver a casa…
It was a beautiful winter's day. Anders, his wife and their feisty six-year-old, Maja, set out across the ice of the Swedish archipelago to visit the lighthouse on Gavasten. There was no one around, so they let her go on ahead. And she disappeared, seemingly into thin air, and was never found. Two years later, Anders is a broken alcoholic, his life ruined. He returns to the archipelago, the home of his childhood and his family. But all he finds are Maja's toys and through the haze of memory, loss and alcohol, he realizes that someone or something is trying to communicate with him. Soon enough, his return sets in motion a series of horrifying events which exposes a mysterious and troubling relationship between the inhabitants of the remote island and the sea.
Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he's frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn't go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel, a huge bestseller in his native Sweden, is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend; and a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.
One autumn day in 1992, former pop singer Lennart Cederstrom finds something unexpected in the forest: a baby girl in a plastic bag, partially buried. He gives her the kiss of life, and her first cry astounds him; it is a clear, pure musical note. He takes her to his wife and persuades her that they should keep this remarkable child. But the baby becomes a strange girl, made more unusual by their decision to hide her in their basement to keep her from the prying eyes of government departments. When she reaches puberty, a terrifying scene sees her kill both her parents. When her scheming adopted brother returns to find her over their bodies, he seizes the opportunity and enters her into an X Factor-style talent competition. She quickly becomes famous. In spite of this, she remains very lonely, until she befriends another damaged girl on the internet. They form a powerful bond and soon create a growing gang of other disgruntled girls and, calling themselves the Wolves, they set out to take revenge for all they've ever suffered.
The internationally celebrated author of The Debt to Pleasure returns with this major, breakout novel – scathing and subversive, sharply witty and brilliantly observed as it follows the lives and fortunes of a group of people in London that becomes connected in unforeseen ways.
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the capital. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife, two small sons and a powerful job in the city. Freddy Kano, teenage football sensation, has left a two-room shack in Senegal to follow his dream. Traffic warden Quentina has exchanged the violence of the police in Zimbabwe for the violence of the enraged middle classes. Elsewhere in the Capital, Zbigniew has come from Warsaw to indulge the super-rich in their interior decoration whims. These are just some of the unforgettable characters in Lanchester's unputdownable masterpiece novel of contemporary urban life.
John le Carré classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him — and his hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley, who is introduced in this, his first novel — unprecedented worldwide acclaim.
George Smiley had liked Samuel Fennan, and now Fennan was dead from an apparent suicide. But why? Fennan, a Foreign Office man, had been under investigation for alleged Communist Party activities, but Smiley had made it clear that the investigation — little more than a routine security check — was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. The very next day, Fennan was found dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn't go on. Smiley was puzzled...
Agentenroman vom besten: Mitten im kalten Krieg wird George Smiley, ehemaliger Chef des britischen Geheimdienstes, aus dem Ruhestand zurückgeholt, um den führenden Agenten der Gegenseite zu stellen. Dabei holt ihn auch die eigene Vergangenheit ein, hat doch gerade dieser Gegner ihm die große Liebe seines Lebens genommen. Alte Freunde arbeiten auf der Suche wieder mit ihm, einer seiner früheren Helfer kommt tragisch ums Leben.
Spannung bis zum Schluß!
Esta extraordinaria novela cuenta la peripecia de Barley Blair, un modesto editor británico, aficionado al jazz, bebedor y negligente, que fortuitamente se ve envuelto en una trama de espionaje internacional y en una intensa relación amorosa… De visita en Moscú, en el transcurso de una fiesta se gana las simpatías espontáneas de un extraño ruso que pretende salvar a su país pasando información militar de alto secreto a Occidente. Lo que parece simple anécdota adquiere un giro inesperado cuando, más tarde, Katya, una hermosa joven rusa, envía a Blair un manuscrito que contiene sorprendentes revelaciones acerca del sistema de defensa soviético. El manuscrito cae en manos de la inteligencia británica y, tras un minucioso operativo, se comprueba su veracidad. Blair se convierte en improvisado espía, vuelve a Moscú y conoce a Katya… pero quizá ya sea demasiado tarde. De un lado sometido a las presiones del servicio secreto británico y sus aliados de la CIA, y del otro, a las de sus informadores soviéticos, idealistas y románticos empeñados en un desesperado intento de disolver los dos bloques a impulsos de la perestroika, Blair se enfrenta a un terrible dilema moral…
Agentenroman vom besten: Mitten im kalten Krieg wird George Smiley, ehemaliger Chef des britischen Geheimdienstes, aus dem Ruhestand zurückgeholt, um den führenden Agenten der Gegenseite zu stellen. Dabei holt ihn auch die eigene Vergangenheit ein, hat doch gerade dieser Gegner ihm die große Liebe seines Lebens genommen. Alte Freunde arbeiten auf der Suche wieder mit ihm, einer seiner früheren Helfer kommt tragisch ums Leben.
Spannung bis zum Schluß!
John le Carré was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. Later he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, his third book, secured him a wide reputation and was followed by THE LOOKING-GLASS WAR, A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY, THE NAIVE AND SENTIMENTAL LOVER, and his trilogy TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY and SMILEY'S PEOPLE. His most recent novels are THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL and A PERFECT SPY. Though he divides his time between England and the continent, he is most at home in Cornwall.
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