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Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and reoffending sex offenders. The two men forge a tentative partnership. But when the Professor's past resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world, the balance in the two men's relationship shifts. Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and choose what course of action to take when faced with a new kind of moral decision.

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Durante décadas, Leonard Fife se ha labrado una prestigiosa reputación como autor de documentales en Canadá, adonde huyó a finales de los años sesenta como desertor y prófugo tras negarse a combatir en Vietnam. Esa es al menos la versión oficial, la que desde siempre conocen sus admiradores, para quienes el cineasta es un referente moral irreprochable. Ahora, a sus setenta y ocho años, gravemente enfermo, aturdido por la medicación y ante la inminencia de la muerte, Fife acepta la propuesta de responder a una entrevista para un documental centrado en su figura a modo de homenaje dirigido por un antiguo discípulo. Inesperadamente, la entrevista tomará la forma de una larga y desgarradora confesión íntima. Porque Fife necesita, antes del fundido en negro final, sincerarse ante Emma ?su esposa, su compañera durante los últimos cuarenta años? y contarle todo aquello que sería incapaz de decir sin una cámara de por medio: la verdad de cómo se convirtió en el hombre que ella cree que es.

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What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past?In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. Including stories by Russell Banks, Ethan Canin, Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace, Denis Johnson, Claire Keegan, Andrea Lee, Daniel Lyons, Lewis Robinson, Lynda Sexson, Paul Theroux, William Trevor and Haruki Murakami, this anthology captures a range of emotions evoked by advancing age and the passing of time, from events fondly recalled to the impact of appalling tragedy.Previously published in a Japanese translation by Haruki Murakami, this English edition contains a specially written introduction.

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