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In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker. "Signal, " an eerie story of contemporary life and the perils of technology, was a sensation among readers-and since then Lanchester has written several more. Reality and Other Stories gathers the best of these, taking readers to an uncanny world familiar to fans of The Twilight Zone or Blac...

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Very modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall.

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In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw, " the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker. "Signal" was a sensation among readers and was featured on public radio-and it was the first short story of any kind Lanchester had ever written. Since then he's written several more eerie stories of contemporary life and the perils of technology that plunk the reader down in the uncanny ...

Selfie sticks with demonic powers. Cold calls from the dead. And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real. Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments from John Lanchester, the Booker-nominated author of The Wall and Capital.

Nominiert für den Booker PrizeGroßbritannien ist von einer hohen Mauer umgeben. Joseph Kavanagh gehört zu jener Gruppe von jungen Menschen, die sie gegen Eindringlinge verteidigt. Der Preis für ein mögliches Versagen ist hoch: Schaffen es Eindringlinge ins Land, werden die verantwortlichen Verteidiger dem Meer - und somit dem sicheren Tod - übergeben. Das Leben auf der Mauer verlangt Kavanagh einiges ab, doch seine Einheit wird zu seiner Famil...

In this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around its coastline-the Wall. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls trapped amid the rising seas outside. A blend of the most compelling issues of our time-climate change, increasing fear, widening divisions-The Wall is a suspenseful story of love, trust, a...

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Kavanagh longs for some kind of event as he wiles away his time patrolling the wall, even if this event would call for him to have to fight for his life. Takes place in a strange, broken and yet recognisable world.