John Lanchester
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English
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"Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Wall. In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw," the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker. "Signal" was a sensation among readers and was featured on public radio--and it was the first short story of any kind Lanchester had ever written. Since then he's written several more eerie stories of contemporary...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time. Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall--an enormous concrete barrier around its entire border. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and attack constantly. Failure will result...
4) El muro
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Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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Kavanagh llega al Muro para incorporarse a una de las patrullas de Defensores que protegen las diversas secciones de los intentos de invasión de los Otros. Esos extranjeros tratan de treparlo desde el Mar e invadir el país isleño, que debe protegerse del exterior desde que se produjo el Cambio que, entre otras cosas, provocó una subida del nivel del mar. Kavanagh está obligado a cumplir dos años de servicio, y el único modo de evitarlo sería...
5) Capital
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English
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Residents of Pepys Road in London receive odd, anonymous postcards demanding "We Want What You Have" during the financial meltdown of 2008.
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English
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The wildest story in the world these days is not fiction; it's what's really happening all around us as the world's global economy has gone into freefall. How did we get here? What does it all mean? How could so many smart people be so dumb and believe their own hype?Accessibly, cleverly, and with mordant humor, journalist John Lanchester trots the globe in search of the answers to these questions-to Iceland, the scene of catastrophic bank collapse;...