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«Un gigante de la novela alemana contemporánea.» The Times Las escaleras de Strudlhof es a un tiempo el retrato magistral de la sociedad vienesa entre 1911 y 1925, una novela panorámica sobre el fin de una época y una de las más altas cumbres literarias del siglo XX. La figura central de la trama es el ex teniente y empleado público Melzer, un hombre corriente, casi trivial, que en el ocaso de Austria-Hungría empieza su carrera militar en Bosnia para luego luchar con el ejército imperial en la Gran Guerra de 1914. Al finalizar la contienda regresa a Viena y se da cuenta de que el...

Algo despertou no quarto 217 da Clínica de Traumatismo Cerebral. Algo maligno. Brady Hartsfield, o diabólico Assassino do Mercedes, está há cinco anos em estado vegetativo em uma clínica de traumatismo cerebral. Segundo os médicos, qualquer coisa perto de uma recuperação completa é improvável. Mas sob o olhar fixo e a imobilidade, Brady está acordado, e possui agora poderes capazes de criar o caos sem que sequer precise deixar a cama de hospital. O detetive aposentado Bill Hodges agora trabalha em uma agência de investigação com Holly Gibney, a mulher que desferiu o golpe em...

Tessa and her kind are sick and tired of being the victims. Now is payback time! "Shooting pool all by yourself can be fun for a little while, but it gets boring in the end, and I had been doing it for two days in a row now. All I knew was that this was where the recruiter was likely to show up. I hoped that my platinum blond hair and my innocent blue eyes would be enticing enough for him to hit on me; otherwise, I would have to find another way. But wait a minute--you have no idea what this is all about, right? And you may be wondering what blond hair and blue eyes I'm blabbering about when...

Nina only steals what others don't miss ... And only from those who can afford it. This is what will happen to the next millionaire who crosses Nina's path: when the evening they just shared turns into a vague memory and he grabs his #louisvuitton suitcases for a getaway with his jet-set friends with bottles of #domperignon and outfits of #versace, she will park a van in front of the empty mansion of her new quarry. He will use the codes from the alarm he got the night before and take some pieces with him. It could steal more from you, but it won't. He will follow his own rules ... until his...