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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Some people look like people. They've got the right face, the right voice, the right way of asking how are you without waiting for the answer.Inside, where something warm is supposed to live, there's only the hollow.A collection of eleven short stories about the everyday imposters. No cape. No stage. No dramatic lighting. Just a Wikipedia administrator who has deleted 427 entries and never written one. A social media influencer who calls focaccia pizza bianca. A fake auteur filmmaker spending a widow's retirement savings. A gangster wannabe under house arrest in a village of 492 souls, playing the same song on repeat for three weeks straight. A philosopher who monetizes suffering and can't get up off his own courtyard floor. A pharma consultant with a Rolex and four and a half years in San Vittore.These are not monsters. They are you, slightly worse. They are your coworker, your Instagram feed, your LinkedIn network, your television.For some of them, a crack opens. Something that resembles light gets in.For others, it doesn't.Eleven stories. Zero redemption guaranteed. One hundred percent recognition.You already know these people. You've never seen them this clearly.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - These stories do not describe exceptional events. They describe the moment when ordinary reality ceases to be readable in the way it had been read until then.Every story begins from a common situation: a place, a gesture, a relationship, a body sleeping the wrong way around. There is nothing extraordinary in the source material. The exceptionality, if it exists, lies in the gap. In the precise point where what happens and the way it is recognized cease to coincide.There is no fantastical element, at least not in the conventional sense. No parallel world. No declared rupture. Only a progressive pressure on perception, until the structure that lay beneath becomes visible.That structure has always been there.This is, perhaps, the hardest thing to accept: not that things change, but that they were never what they seemed. The cage does not appear. It reveals itself.And the difference between the two is everything these stories are about.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - There is a house in the English countryside that appears on no map.The house number is 37, on a lane where the numbers stop at 25.The lane itself appears and disappears depending on who is doing the looking.Eleven guests who don't know each other. Or perhaps they do - somehow, in some era.Inspector Lawrence Brace of Scotland Yard, on enforced pre-retirement, arrives carrying more luggage than he holds in his hands. The others arrive after him. There is a woman who should have been dead for twenty years. There is the man convicted of killing her. And there is the Author, who has invited them all to reveal something unbearable.Then the Author is found dead in the Red Study, locked from the inside. Perhaps he was murdered. Or perhaps he took his own life. Or perhaps nobody did anything and everything happened exactly as it was always going to.A novel that plays with time, metaphysics and the classic thriller without betraying any of the three. Written with piercing aphorisms, black irony, a prose that can be baroque and surgical in the same breath - it tells a story in which the motive is neither hatred nor rage, but something considerably harder to stop.And in which doing the right thing does not require that you remember it. It only requires the act.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Edward Harlow is forty-two years old, has a scar crossing his face, and has killed the same woman fourteen times.He isn't a murderer. He's a man with a question.From 2029 back to 2015, one year at a time, Edward uses a stolen prototype to travel through time and reach Sigrid Miller: the woman he loved, the woman who vanished the morning after a bombing without leaving a message, without an explanation, without anything that named what she was doing. He returns. She runs. And neither of them can stop, because stopping would require understanding that the other is doing the same thing.A short speculative fiction novel set between 2015 and 2045, built around a topological structure: a continuous surface with no inside or outside, no identifiable beginning or end. Fourteen variations on the same obsession. Fourteen different ways of not getting an answer. And a fifteenth jump that is not a redemption.A silver pendant. A framed print on an Amsterdam wall. A letter that will never be opened. A young official who must choose between the Regulations and the truth.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Edward Harlow is forty-two years old, has a scar crossing his face, and has killed the same woman fourteen times.He isn't a murderer. He's a man with a question.From 2029 back to 2015, one year at a time, Edward uses a stolen prototype to travel through time and reach Sigrid Miller: the woman he loved, the woman who vanished the morning after a bombing without leaving a message, without an explanation, without anything that named what she was doing. He returns. She runs. And neither of them can stop, because stopping would require understanding that the other is doing the same thing.A short speculative fiction novel set between 2015 and 2045, built around a topological structure: a continuous surface with no inside or outside, no identifiable beginning or end. Fourteen variations on the same obsession. Fourteen different ways of not getting an answer. And a fifteenth jump that is not a redemption.A silver pendant. A framed print on an Amsterdam wall. A letter that will never be opened. A young official who must choose between the Regulations and the truth. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Marco is fifteen, plays striker, and already knows that football is the only language in which he can say everything.Then, on a November afternoon in Ancona, he misses the most important penalty of his life.In the stands is Arianna, the green-eyed girl he has never dared approach.The wrong moment, in the most definitive way possible.Twenty years later, under the floodlights of a World Cup final, Marco finds himself face to face with a man eleven metres away.A man who stares back at him with an air of arrogance, a look of pure challenge.But who is scratching the tip of his nose, exactly the way Marco used to do it, as a boy.The Penalty Taker is a novel about time that cannot be undone, about a love that changes shape without changing substance, and about that precise instant when foot meets ball and a whole life decides what it was meant to be.With a surprise ending. This story was adapted into the short film "The Last Penalty" (2013). This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Marco is fifteen, plays striker, and already knows that football is the only language in which he can say everything.Then, on a November afternoon in Ancona, he misses the most important penalty of his life.In the stands is Arianna, the green-eyed girl he has never dared approach.The wrong moment, in the most definitive way possible.Twenty years later, under the floodlights of a World Cup final, Marco finds himself face to face with a man eleven metres away.A man who stares back at him with an air of arrogance, a look of pure challenge.But who is scratching the tip of his nose, exactly the way Marco used to do it, as a boy.The Penalty Taker is a novel about time that cannot be undone, about a love that changes shape without changing substance, and about that precise instant when foot meets ball and a whole life decides what it was meant to be.>This story was adapted into the short film 'The Last Penalty' (2013).…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Pierfrancesco is a factory worker. His life is ordinary. Predictable. Safe.>It comes once, then again, then again - always the same, always at night, always leaving him sitting upright in the dark with a pen in his hand.He writes formulas he has never studied. Calculations he cannot explain. Drawings that take the shape of a violin.Equations for the propagation of sound through air.He has never built anything in his life.>He doesn't know why ten. The number arrives with the dream, without explanation - a certainty with no origin, a destination with no map.He will learn the reason by losing himself first.Because ten are the Buddhist worlds every human being must cross to fulfill their destiny: from Hell to Enlightenment, through Anger, Greed, Ecstasy, Seeking, Tranquility.Each violin will be a world. Each world will cost him something.>A novel about the things that choose us before we choose them - about craft as a spiritual path, about dreams that do not explain themselves, about the stubborn, quiet courage of ordinary people called to do extraordinary things. When the circle closes, Pierfrancesco will finally understand why it had to be him. Why ten. Why now. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Some people look like people. They've got the right face, the right voice, the right way of asking how are you without waiting for the answer.Inside, where something warm is supposed to live, there's only the hollow.A collection of eleven short stories about the everyday imposters. No cape. No stage. No dramatic lighting. Just a Wikipedia administrator who has deleted 427 entries and never written one. A social media influencer who calls focaccia pizza bianca. A fake auteur filmmaker spending a widow's retirement savings. A gangster wannabe under house arrest in a village of 492 souls, playing the same song on repeat for three weeks straight. A philosopher who monetizes suffering and can't get up off his own courtyard floor. A pharma consultant with a Rolex and four and a half years in San Vittore.These are not monsters. They are you, slightly worse. They are your coworker, your Instagram feed, your LinkedIn network, your television.For some of them, a crack opens. Something that resembles light gets in.For others, it doesn't.Eleven stories. Zero redemption guaranteed. One hundred percent recognition.You already know these people. You've never seen them this clearly. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - These are not extraordinary people.You've seen them. At the register. In the cubicle next to yours. In the stairwell. On the other side of your wall at eleven at night, dragging furniture around for reasons you'll never understand.They watch the good things happen to other people. They watch long enough that watching becomes its own kind of hunger. Then one day they decide: enough. I want what they have. I want what's mine. I want someone to pay.The desires are recognizable. You've had them. Maybe you have them right now.The problem isn't desire.The problem is how sloppy people get when they want something badly enough. They invoke forces they don't understand. They skim the instructions. They mispronounce the words that matter. They mix up one demon with another the way you mix up one pill with another.With results that are equally final.The demons in these stories are real. Their names, their sigils, their attributes come from the Western demonological tradition. From grimoires that people spent centuries copying by hand. People who believed in what they were doing. People who took their time.The mistake isn't invoking them.The mistake is doing it badly.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Lorenzo is thirty-three years old, works as a doctor, and dreams of a life in theater.He loves Ancona viscerally: a city where the sun rises and dies on the sea, even though he, paradoxically, has always watched only the sunsets.When he is diagnosed with an aggressive, treatment-resistant non-Hodgkin lymphoma, his life suddenly changes direction.What follows is a fierce battle of hospitals, chemotherapy, hopes, and falls.As his body weakens, Lorenzo continues to defend with stubborn determination his hunger for a future, clinging to the possibility of an experimental therapy available in the United States.To save him, an entire city mobilizes.Friends, strangers, artists, athletes, politicians, and thousands of people take part in an extraordinary fundraising campaign that in just a few days surpasses the half-million euros needed to attempt the treatment.But time, sometimes, moves faster than hope.Part memoir, part existential novel, part spiritual narrative, this is the story of a man who faces death without ever stopping to search for the light.>The proceeds from this book go to the Fondazione Lorenzo Farinelli ETS for scientific research in oncology and hematology.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. These are not extraordinary people.You've seen them. At the register. In the cubicle next to yours. In the stairwell. On the other side of your wall at eleven at night, dragging furniture around for reasons you'll never understand.They watch the good things happen to other people. They watch long enough that watching becomes its own kind of hunger. Then one day they decide: enough. I want what they have. I want what's mine. I want someone to pay.The desires are recognizable. You've had them. Maybe you have them right now.The problem isn't desire.The problem is how sloppy people get when they want something badly enough. They invoke forces they don't understand. They skim the instructions. They mispronounce the words that matter. They mix up one demon with another the way you mix up one pill with another.With results that are equally final.The demons in these stories are real. Their names, their sigils, their attributes come from the Western demonological tradition. From grimoires that people spent centuries copying by hand. People who believed in what they were doing. People who took their time.The mistake isn't invoking them.The mistake is doing it badly. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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