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A modern classic that inaugurates one of the most brilliant and unclassifiable cycles of European literature in recent decades: the Giochi dell'eternità trilogy. The Beginnings is the big bang of Antonio Moresco's narrative universe, a modern classic that established him as one of the great contemporary writers in the Italian language and that has earned him deserved comparisons with authors of the stature of Joyce, Proust and Cartarescu. In a...

Gustav Von Aschenbach, a famous German writer, arrives in Venice at a mature stage of his life seeking to renew lost inspiration. From the quiet beach next to his hotel, he spends hours admiring the charm of young Tadzio, a Polish teenager who leads him into an internal struggle between desire and the forbidden that will make him renounce everything, including himself. Death in Venice is a subtle representation of the decadence of a Europe bes...

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Until now it had been included in the volume Years of War. Vasili Grossman wrote three novels about World War II, each of which offers a different vision of what a war novel can be, and all of them extraordinary. Stalingrad and Life and Fate are united by a set of common characters, but Stalingrad is not only a moving and exciting story of the desperate defense of the city and the turning of the tide of the war, but also a monument to the memo...

An unexpected event tarnishes the routine of Saint-Louis: an influential lawyer in the city has died in an accident on the A-35. Inspector Gorski, in charge of the investigation, will have to deal not only with his Strasbourg counterpart, but also with a young amateur willing to compete with him: Raymond Barthelme, teenage son of the deceased. Meanwhile, his private life falters and the inspector searches, despite himself, for answers and refu...

A poor and desperate fisherman travels the kingdom in search of an honest man who will agree to be the godfather of his newborn son. He rejects God (too unfair), rejects the Devil (too cruel), and is about to give up when a shadowy figure approaches him on horseback along the road. It is Death. Perfect! She is honest, fair and very powerful. The perfect godmother, unless... you dare to disobey her.

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The year is 1911 when Keyle, a Jewish prostitute, meets the love of her life, Yarme, an ex-convict. The young couple dreams of escaping the misery of the Warsaw ghetto, where they live under the constant threat of pogroms, so when Max, an old acquaintance, offers them to participate in his lucrative business in South America, they don't hesitate for a moment. But Max is also attracted to Yarme, and a fateful love triangle ensues that will haun...

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Cosima, a novel published posthumously, is Grazia Deledda's most personal work. Suggestive landscapes of her native Sardinia, fable and legend settings, show characters locked in the monotonous existence of a small provincial capital, in which everything appears regulated by iron customary laws. Almost since she was a child, little Grazia-Cósima will rebel against these unwritten laws, sensing that such restrictions collide head-on with her de...

Fear and violence are not enough for any dictator to govern: these strategies may be essential to achieve power and even to maintain it for a time, but they are not usually effective in the long term. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support, since only a tyrant whose government is capable of inspiring idolatry in the people will be able to perpetuate himself. In Dictators, Frank Dikötter examin...

She was a neglected child, an unreliable mother, a sex worker, a drug user―and then, like so many, a nameless victim of a violent crime. But first she was a human being, a full, complicated person, and she insists that we know her fully as she tells her story from beyond the grave. We witness her short life, the harrowing murder that ended it, and her grief over the loved ones she has left behind. We see her parents struggle with guilt and los...

On a day like any other in contemporary Colombia, a child is born with the supreme gift of immortality. In the middle of a story that can be read almost without breathing, his life will take a thousand turns: he is snatched from his mother's arms, raised by nuns and priests, he will live in orphanages, with clans of gang members, thugs, drug dealers and shamans, always in search for the meaning of life and an explanation of its divine gift. Ha...

Award-winning and international best-selling novel by Laird Koenig. Thirteen-year-old Rynn is a gifted prodigy who lives in a big old house with her reclusive father...all alone. Or does she? When Rynn's nosy landlady and a lecherous neighbor begin to suspect that this little girl is hiding a dark and dangerous secret, Rynn is determined to preserve her isolated existence at any cost - and stop those vicious rumors dead in their tracks! The Li...

A fun reflection on ambition, adulthood and the complexities of today's world. Tracy Flick is the hard-working assistant principal of a public high school in a quiet, small New Jersey town. At forty years old, she leads a peaceful life and, although her ambition is less than in her youth, when the opportunity arises to become the next director of the center, Tracy is clear: the time has come to show what she is capable of. But things get compl...

Jeanette lives in Miami and struggles with addiction. The daughter of a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history, a story that her mother, Carmen, does not want to tell her. That is why she makes the sudden decision to take in the daughter of her neighbor detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service. Carmen, for her part, is still struggling with the trauma of leaving Cuba behind, as she processe...

Welcome to El Temido, the pirate ship of the fierce captain Bad Beard. His crew is used to meeting all kinds of creatures on the seven seas. But now they are about to meet the most terrifying of all, and their lives will change forever.

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as an older woman. Utterly courageous, uproariously funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, I Feel Bad About My Neck is a scrumptious, irresistible treat of a book, full of truths, laugh out loud...

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