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Il Polacco, un pianista noto per le sue interpretazioni austere, sviluppa per la più giovane Beatriz un amore lirico e irragionevole. Lei, che ama farsi trasportare dalla musica, è riluttante a farsi trasportare dal lirismo, e si oppone all’idea di diventare una musa, un oggetto del desiderio, la sua Beatrice. Rivelarsi l’uno all’altra è un’arte sottile, destinata forse a rimanere inattingibile, ...

L'infanzia di Gesù è il libro più misterioso e affascinante di J. M. Coetzee. Eppure è anche il racconto più semplice di tutti: quello dell'amore di un «padre» per un «figlio». Un uomo adulto, quasi anziano, e un bambino sbarcano a Novilla. Novilla non è la loro città, lo spagnolo non è la loro lingua: ma come tutti gli abitanti della città, con cui condi...

One of Vanity Fair's "Best Books of the Fall" From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about love and the mutability of human relationships.

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Exacting yet maddeningly unpredictable, J. M. Coetzee's The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, "extravagantly white-haired" Polish pianist who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his Barcelona concert. Although Beatriz, a married woman, is initially unimpressed by Wittold, she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into the world of the journeyman performer. A...

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel Prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of JesusIn Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simón and Bolívar the dog usually watch while his mother Inés now works in a fashion boutique. David stil...

Um einen angeblichen Angriff von Barbaren zu unterbinden, reist der für seine brutalen militärischen Methoden bekannte Colonel Joll (Johnny Depp) an den äußersten Rand des Territoriums. Dort trifft er auf den Magistrat des Außenpostens (Mark Rylance) - dieser muss seine Loyalität gegenüber der Nation unter Beweis stellen.

What, he asks, is the origin of the state and the nature of the relationship between citizen and state? How should the citizen of a modern democracy react to the state's willingness to set aside moral considerations and civil liberties in its war on terror, a war that includes the use of torture?

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For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a st...

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