Homer Macauley trabaja como mensajero para una compañía de telégrafos y se convierte en testigo de la vida cotidiana de los habitantes de Ithaca, una pequña población del valle de San Joaquín, en California, que ve como muchos de sus soldados, en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, no regresan al frente.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River comes an immersive novel about a missing child whose disappearance sends shockwaves through three distinct worlds: an opulent Adirondack summer estate, a rustic teen summer camp, and the blue-collar community that serves them. When Barbara Van Laar goes missing from her camp bunk in August 1975, a frantic search ensues. Her disappearance is particularly tragic as she is the daughter of the wealthy family that owns both the camp and the nearby estate. This incident is eerily reminiscent of a past tragedy—Barbara’s older brother vanished sixteen years earlier, never to be found. Liz Moore crafts a richly textured drama, balancing emotional depth with a compelling mystery. As the narrative unfolds, the secrets of the Van Laar family and the surrounding community are revealed, drawing readers into the lives of characters forever altered by this harrowing summer. This ambitious novel explores themes of love, inheritance, identity, and second chances, delving into the tensions between family and community, and the haunting legacy of secrets that bind them all.
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.THE SYMPATHIZER is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, THE SYMPATHIZER explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times. "A harrowing and hilarious glimpse into the future of civilization.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers. Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song’s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, he’s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistant’s truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest.
Opętani to opowieść o koszmarach, ale nie o tych, które dręczą dzieci we śnie, tylko o upiorach i lękach, prześladujących nas na jawie. Głównym miejscem akcji jest ustronie pisarzy czyli stary, opuszczony teatr, luźno wzorowany na Villi Diodati nad jeziorem Genewskim, gdzie Lord Byron gościł Mary Shelley i kilku innych pisarzy, którzy podczas deszczowego lata opowiadali sobie straszne historie, a opowieść Mary Shelley stała się zalążkiem słynnego Frankensteina. Pisarzom uwięzionym w teatrze brakuje talentu i ochoty do pracy, ale dla sławy gotowi są na wszystko. Kiedy w zamkniętym na głucho budynku zaczyna brakować jedzenia, przestają działać urządzenia i niebezpiecznie spada temperatura, bohaterowie opowiadają sobie własne horrory. Są to opowieści odrażające, chore, ale właśnie taki styl jest typowy dla Palahniuka. Jednym z najbardziej znanych opowiadań jest to zatytułowane Flaki. Kiedy Chuck Palahniuk jeździł po Stanach Zjednoczonych, promując Opętanych, czytał Flaki na spotkaniach autorskich. Podczas tych odczytów ponad sześćdziesiąt osób zemdlało z obrzydzenia.