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28 de jan. de 1998 · Amis, who seems to be turning himself into a British Thomas Berger, continues his twisty tour of formulaic genres (The Information, 1995, etc.) with his most deadpan pastiche yet: the police investigation of an impossible suicide. Mike Hoolihan, a beefy female detective in an unnamed ``second-echelon American city,'' is called back from Asset Forfeiture to Homicide to break the news of his ...
25 de jul. de 2020 · As night fell, we began to swap stories about strange things we’d encountered on our journeys, including the mysterious series of artworks by Kishida Michio called “Night Train”. Morimi Tomihiko masterfully weaves strands of youth and fantasy into spine-tingling ghost stories of sojourns into night. “There’s no place that night doesn ...
All this is not to say that Night Train is an unadulterated success. It may be emotionally richer than Amis's previous novels, but in terms of style and form it doesn't measure up." - Natasha Walter, The Guardian "Martin Amis prefers [crime] bloody and for real and one of the strengths of his novel is that it never condescends or asks special ...
Night Train is a 1997 novel by British author Martin Amis.A pastiche of hard-boiled American detective novels, Night Train follows Mike Hoolihan, a female detective in a “second-tier American city” as she investigates the suicide of beautiful astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell, the daughter of Hoolihan’s former boss, police chief “Colonel” Tom Rockwell.
Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about his loss of faith and increasing disgust with ...
Ninguno de nosotros pudo olvidarla. Los seis pasamos nuestros días de universidad en Kioto. Hace diez años, en el Festival del Fuego de Kurama, Hasegawa se desvaneció en el aire. Diez años después, los cinco restantes nos encontramos de nuevo en Kurama, con la esperanza de encontrarla una vez más. Al caer la noche, empezamos a intercambiar historias sobre cosas extrañas que habíamos ...
9 de jun. de 2011 · Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd. in 1997--T.p. verso.
