Títulos em Urbano

Damballah, Hiding Place, and Sent for You Yesterday provide a stunning introduction to the uncompromising work of John Edgar Wideman, whose literary achievements have inspired The New York Times to name him “one of America’s premier writers of fiction”. Damballah’s narratives examine the vexed history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, neighborhood whose origins are rooted in a time when slavery was still legal in the United States of America.

Geschichten machen die Welt zu einem besseren Ort. New York im April 2020. Während des ersten Lockdowns wird das Dach ihres Mietshauses für die Bewohner zur überraschenden Zuflucht vor der Isolation. Jeden Abend treffen sie sich dort und erzählen einander ihre ungewöhnlichen, spannenden, komischen und bewegenden Geschichten. Jeder Mieter und jede Mieterin steuert eine bei (wahr oder zumindest gut erfunden), und ein neues Decamerone für unsere Zeit nimmt seinen Anfang. Allmählich findet die Runde zu einer unerwarteten Gemeinschaft und Anteilnahme füreinander.

A story told in two parts as a graphic novel and novella, about elderly Wong Cho Sum’s attempt to cope with the death of her husband by taking up bottle and can collecting. Denison Avenue explores the price of progress in cities like Toronto and those it leaves behind.

Ci sono uomini abituati a esprimersi solo attraverso il denaro. Uomini che non vanno liquidati con facili parole: lo sa bene Romolo Bugaro, che - oltre a essere uno scrittore ipnotizzato dal mondo - è un avvocato che conosce da vicino, per lavoro, le traiettorie di ascese e fallimenti. Ritrarli con verità, nel bene e nel male di cui sono capaci, è la scommessa di questo suo romanzo. Perché la verità non indebolisce il giudizio etico, anzi lo rafforza proprio nella misura in cui lo complica.

When she’s having sex with her boss, Iris likes to have the lights on so he can see how much younger she is than his wife. She likes watching her colleagues eat unhealthy lunches at their desk while her stomach aches with emptiness. She likes coasting at work knowing she’s going to land a big promotion anyway. So why when it arrives does she find herself sprawled on her hallway floor, crying uncontrollably? Why, instead of a sense of triumph, does a crippling depression threaten to overwhelm her? Why does the support and stability of her family and friends feel so suffocating?

Cora has found herself in a pickle. Namely, she's dying. No one can change the hand that fate deals, yet Cora is offered a choice when she reaches the limits of what medicine can do to keep her alive. Will she defy fate and agree to an attempt to transform her into a vampire? The odds of success aren't good. Not to mention that vampires have earned a nasty reputation.

Eigentlich hat sie es geschafft. Wo sie herkommt, studieren die Menschen nicht, und sie arbeiten auch nicht in einem Amsterdamer Start-up. Doch während der Xerox die Kundenbriefe druckt, wächst ihre Wut: auf die Vergangenheit, die sich nicht abschütteln lässt, ihren Bullshit-Job und die jovialen Phrasen der Kollegen. Doch wie einen Platz finden, wenn alle die Regeln kennen, außer man selbst? Und nur der Drucker einem zuhört? Fien Veldmans gefeiertes Debüt entlarvt die Leere der modernen Arbeitswelt und erzählt die Geschichte einer eigenwilligen jungen Frau, deren verletzlich-bissige Stimme niemand vergisst.

A large party was given to me and Tony for our release from prison. We were also celebrating our promotions to Capo. Our new business venture was to run drugs and counterfeit money in phony taxis. They were perfect replicas of cabs that traveled thru the city. We operated right under the cop's noses --- making the mob millions. Don Mancini was pleased until I had an accident. I actually had two --- one with the taxi and the other with my girlfriend, both were life changers. Don Carmine Mancini was a brilliant and he turned my negatives into positives.

'Block Party', is the dope in urban fiction. This gripping narrative revolves around the protagonist, Cashmere, a man fresh out of Federal Prison, determined to reclaim his position in the streets. However, the young underlings he left back at home, have grown into men during his absence, Those young men refuse to accept his authority. Cashmere soon finds out that there's a new kingpin in control of the city. The new ruler, known as The Mayor, is ten years younger than Cashmere and rules the city with an iron fist.

Mr. Hoopdriver is a frustrated draper’s assistant in Putney, London. He is badly paid, over-worked, and he needs a holiday. He also owns a bicycle—though he is an awkward rider. When his annual ten days’ holiday comes around, Mr. Hoopdriver sets out on a bicycling tour of the “Southern Coast.” Wells wrote this at the height of the bicycling craze and before the automobile. The bicycle gave freedom to the working class, weakened the English class structure and gave a boost to female emancipation. In his story he explores these changes.

An unnamed young trans woman grows up in a working class suburb that has no place for her. She discovers community and kinship in downtown Madrid, amid a lively party scene animated by junkies, pop divas, and fallen angels. But with each step she takes forward, she finds herself confronted by a violence she does not yet know how to counter; in this thrilling and yet often terrifying world each choice can truly be a matter of life and death.

Published in 1896, A Child of the Jago is a gritty and realistic portrayal of life in the slums of London’s East End during the late 19th century. The novel is set in an area known as the Old Jago (based on a real-life slum called the Old Nichol) and vividly describes the poverty, crime and squalor that characterised the impoverished neighbourhood.

In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's delight and where hunters of first editions or autographed copies prowl the bookcases. The Morisaki bookshop, a small family-run shop, is so packed with books that barely five people can fit inside. Books crowd the shelves and invade every corner of the floor; when a customer arrives, the owner, Satoru, immediately pops out from behind the counter.

When Goldie moved from Richmond, CA to Los Angeles, he just knew he was going to have it made in the shade. Pretty women, sandy beaches, and prominence as a rap superstar. Goldie figured he would be at the top in no time. But after surviving gang bangers trying to recruit him, shoot outs and a 280-pound gorilla named Uncle Luke, Goldie found himself stuck in a tough spot. That is until he met Ben Ready!

Un pomeriggio d’inverno, freddo da spezzare le ossa, Bina si ritrova sola. Ha ottantatré anni e aspetta suo nipote al parco del Cinghio, un quartiere da cui è meglio tenersi alla larga ai margini di una cittadina perbene. Marta, che di anni ne ha venticinque, e che al Cinghio è cresciuta imparando che il mondo è storto e non lo si può aggiustare, la osserva dalla finestra: la vede farsi rigida su una panchina sfondata, il naso gocciolante, un berretto rosa calato sugli occhi spauriti. Decide di offrirle un tetto per la notte. Poi per la notte dopo e per quella dopo ancora.

Daisy Hastings has always thought she was born in the wrong era. So when she bags a summer job at the Tower of London helping to run their Knight school, it feels like a step in the right direction. Theodore ‘Teddy’ Fairfax is a loose cannon. A disgraced distant relative of the royal family, he’s tall, dark and now (begrudgingly) helping with the Tower of London’s summer programme – and there’s nowhere he’d like to be less. When Teddy’s oath to be an obstruction almost gets Daisy fired, she declares war. But as the two cross swords, they start to discover they both need a little rescuing.

When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.

Adrift in her early thirties, Mary sets out to change her life, one ill-advised decision at a time. First, she books a spontaneous flight to Ibiza where she meets Tom, a brilliant young chemist working on an experimental drug called Eudaxa that claims to cure the anxieties of modern life. As their connection deepens, Mary thinks she might finally be falling in love. Then Mary lands a job at Openr, an innovative dating app with no limits. Its founder, Mary’s ex girlfriend Lara, will do everything it takes to make it a global phenomenon.

Phoebe Spencer left home a long time ago, desperate to get away from her mother's emotional manipulation. She knows her life is better away from her family, but she can’t help feeling she’s simply running away from her problems… Then Phoebe hears that her younger sister Lucy has disappeared, leaving behind her four-year old daughter, Darcy. Phoebe's certain Lucy will be back soon - she'd never leave Darcy alone - and then Phoebe can get on with her life again.

När Kates perfekta liv plötsligt går i kras flyr hon London för det fridfulla Nightingale Square i Norwich, i hopp om en lugn tillvaro långt borta från sveket och smärtan. Hennes planer på att leva ostört kullkastas dock när hon dras in i den lokala gemenskapen, bestående av en brokig skara personligheter ledda av den rättframma trebarnsmamman Lisa. Planerna på att förvandla ett grönområde till en gemenskapsträdgård skapar oväntade band i grannskapet, men den nyfunna sammanhållning testas då de plötsligt står inför hotet från en fastighetsutvecklare som har siktat in sig på det viktorianska huset.