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Joshua Ferris

The Unnamed

<p>Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Despite long hours at the office, he remains passionate about his work, and his partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm means that the work he does is important. And, even as his daughter Becka retreats behind her guitar, her dreadlocks and her puppy fat, he offers her every one of a father's honest lies about her being the most beautiful girl in the world.</p><p>He loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking.</p><p>THE UNNAMED is a dazzling novel about a marriage and a family and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. It is the heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.</p><

Joshua Ferris

Then We Came to the End

<p>For anyone who has ever worked in an office, hating everything and everyone in it, yet fell apart when it was time to leave — this book is for you. Heartbreaking, yet hysterically funny, is the definitive novel about the contemporary American workplace.</p><p>With an irresistibly casual writing style, Ferris makes readers a part of his fictional advertising agency from the moment we open the book. Through numerous impromptu conversations, colleagues come alive. We learn that Larry and Amber have had an affair, and that Amber is pregnant. We know that Chris Yop is panicking because he exchanged his office chair without permission, and that Joe Pope is universally despised because he got promoted and now everyone has to listen to him. No one likes Karen Woo because she's always trying to seem smarter than everyone else. And the head boss, Lynn, has cancer, but she doesn't want anyone to know. We understand that the agency is in trouble, and that the unstable Tom Mota is being laid off. We realize that anyone could be next. And we're dying to know what's going to happen.</p><p>By the time readers finish the book, they'll swear that Ferris has spent time in their own offices. And they'll thank him for capturing so knowingly what makes it so horrible, and what makes it our own.</p><

L P Davies

Psicospettro

La Pattuglia Dellalba

Don Winslow

Ex poliziotto, ora investigatore privato, Boone Daniels non chiede molto alla vita: gli basta uscire all'alba con la sua tavola da surf insieme alla sua inseparabile pattuglia di amici, e avere sempre sotto mano una tortilla da riempire di carne, pesce, uova, quel che capita. Quando lo studio legale per il quale lavora gli chiede di rintracciare una spogliarellista, testimone chiave in un caso di truffa a un'assicurazione, Boone ha un solo scopo: risolvere il caso entro quarantott'ore al massimo, e comunque prima che su Pacific Beach si abbatta la piú grande mareggiata degli ultimi anni. Ma a San Diego, la città del sole e dei surfisti, niente è mai semplice come sembra, e il Messico è sempre troppo vicino: basta poco davvero perché un'indagine di poco conto si trasformi in una discesa all'inferno, che costringerà Boone a fare i conti una volta per tutte con il suo passato.<

Joshua Ferris

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

<p>Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist not quite willing to let go of God.</p><p>Then someone begins to impersonate Paul online, and he watches in horror as a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account are created in his name. What begins as an outrageous violation of his privacy soon becomes something more soul-frightening: the possibility that the online "Paul" might be a better version of the real thing. As Paul's quest to learn why his identity has been stolen deepens, he is forced to confront his troubled past and his uncertain future in a life disturbingly split between the real and the virtual.</p><p>At once laugh-out-loud funny about the absurdities of the modern world, and indelibly profound about the eternal questions of the meaning of life, love and truth, is a deeply moving and constantly surprising tour de force.</p><

Le Due Facce Dellinnocente

Elie Wiesel

Aminatta Forna

The Hired Man

<p>The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, The Hired Man is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders.</p><p>Aminatta Forna has established herself as one of our most perceptive and uncompromising chroniclers of war and the way it reverberates, sometimes imperceptibly, in the daily lives of those touched by it. With The Hired Man, she has delivered a tale of a Croatian village after the War of Independence, and a family of newcomers who expose its secrets.</p><p>Duro is off on a morning’s hunt when he sees something one rarely does in Gost: a strange car. Later that day, he overhears its occupants, a British woman, Laura, and her two children, who have taken up residence in a house Duro knows well. He offers his assistance getting their water working again, and soon he is at the house every day, helping get it ready as their summer cottage, and serving as Laura’s trusted confidant.</p><p>But the other residents of Gost are not as pleased to have the interlopers, and as Duro and Laura’s daughter Grace uncover and begin to restore a mosaic in the front that has been plastered over, Duro must be increasingly creative to shield the family from the town’s hostility, and his own past with the house’s former occupants. As the inhabitants of Gost go about their days, working, striving to better themselves and their town, and arguing, the town’s volatile truths whisper ever louder.</p><p>A masterpiece of storytelling haunted by lost love and a restrained menace, this novel recalls Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee and Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje. The Hired Man confirms Aminatta Forna as one of our most important writers.</p><

Len Deighton

L'ultima partita

Siamo in una grigia Berlino quando era dolorosamente divisa dal tragico muro. Bernard Samson è proprio a terra: ha subito un duplice atroce tradimento da parte dell'affascinante moglie Fiona - agente segreto come lui - che è passata ai russi lasciandolo con due figli piccoli e una reputazione compromessa. Anche il suo diretto superiore (amico - nemico da sempre) è in cattive acque perché sospettato di doppio gioco. Solo un colpo magistrale può capovolgere la situazione e salvare Bernard Samson. Una spy - story scritta da un maestro del genere.<

Lynn Flewelling

The Bone Doll's Twin

The Tamír Triad

<p>For three centuries a divine prophecy and a line of warrior queens protected Skala. But the people grew complacent and Erius, a usurper king, claimed his young half sister’s throne.</p><p>Now plague and drought stalk the land, war with Skala’s ancient rival Plenimar drains the country’s lifeblood, and to be born female into the royal line has become a death sentence as the king fights to ensure the succession of his only heir, a son. For King Erius the greatest threat comes from his own line—and from Illior’s faithful, who spread the Oracle’s words to a doubting populace.</p><p>As noblewomen young and old perish mysteriously, the king’s nephew—his sister’s only child—grows toward manhood. But unbeknownst to the king or the boy, strange, haunted Tobin is the princess’s daughter, given male form by a dark magic to protect her until she can claim her rightful destiny.</p><p>Only Tobin’s noble father, two wizards of Illior, and an outlawed forest witch know the truth. Only they can protect young Tobin from a king’s wrath, a mother’s madness, and the terrifying rage of her brother’s demon spirit, determined to avenge his brutal murder...</p><

Lynn Flewelling

Hidden Warrior

The Tamír Triad

<p>As the orphaned nephew of the king, trusted companion to his cousin, and second heir to the throne of Skala, Prince Tobin’s future is clear. But not as clear as the spring in which a hill witch shows him his true face—and his secret destiny...</p><p>Now Tobin carries a burden he cannot share with even his closest friend, Ki, his squire. He is to rule—not as he is but as he was born: a woman. Given the shape of a boy by dark magic, Tobin is the last hope of the people of Illior--those who desperately seek a return to the old ways, when Skala was ruled by a line of warrior queens. They still believe that only a woman can lift the war, famine, and pestilence that have run rampant through the land since the king usurped his half sister’s throne. It is these outlaw wizards and witches who protect Tobin--and it is for them that Tobin must accept his fate.</p><p>With the unsuspecting yet fiercely loyal Ki at his side, Tobin must turn traitor against the only blood ties he has left. He must lift the masks of Skala’s rulers to show their true colors—before he can reveal the power of the woman within himself.</p><

Len Deighton

Solo quando rido

C’erano una volta ... un nobile slavo che mise due volte all’asta la Torre Eiffel, un tedesco che dette in affitto il Colosseo a un turista americano, un capitano della Raf che cedette un aeroporto britannico ai sudafricani, un polacco che vendette alcune navi da guerra statunitensi ancorate nel porto di Napoli...<br/>C’erano una volta grandi, epici truffatori (ed è a loro che questo libro ricchissimo di suspense comica è dedicato): ma oggi? In questo mondo disincantato e cinico c’è ancora spazio per la nobile arte della truffa?<

Lynn Flewelling

The Oracle's Queen

The Tamír Triad

The gripping conclusion to the major new fantasy trilogy of necromancy and bone-chilling magic. Long ago Skala was ruled only by Queens, in accordance with prophecy. King Erius, fearing that the prophecy might be evoked as a means to dethrone him, had most of his female relatives assassinated. When his sister fell pregnant with twins, two of Skala’s wizards were warned by the oracle and took steps to conceal the girl who survived her twin brother at birth. Now Prince Tobin has been revealed as Princess Tamir, the true heir to the throne—and Skala has never been more in need of a true Queen. But at the age of fifteen Tamir is deeply confused by the new identity that has been thrust upon her, and feels betrayed by the wizards who tricked her and all her friends. Her demonic twin still haunts her, but now that the spell concealing her identity has been broken, the bond between them is severed. Brother is no longer under Tamir’s control, and he is bent on vengeance for the sins committed against him. Meanwhile Erius’s son Korin, Tamir’s beloved cousin, has claimed the throne and declared her a traitor. But as the country slides into civil war the people begin to acclaim Tamir as their saviour. Tamir strives to avoid conflict, but Korin’s weakness and Tamir’s honour will lead them to the ultimate clash of wills.<

Lessing Doris

Gatti molto speciali

Nella vita di Doris Lessing i gatti hanno sempre avuto un ruolo molto importante. Ci ha sempre convissuto, ha imparato presto a conoscerli. Il primo gatto risale ai tempi della Persia, quando aveva tre anni. Poi da bambina, in Africa, dove ne era letteralmente circondata: i selvatici, che andavano tenuti lontani da quelli di casa, e i domestici, che a loro volta subivano il richiamo della natura. Da allora una lunga confidenza ha unito la scrittrice ai felini, in un rapportarsi sempre intenso, felice in certi casi, drammatico in altri. A Londra ha avuto animali più cittadini, ormai adeguatisi alla vita umana e abituati a relazionarsi con i padroni. E qui i sentimenti si fanno ancora più profondi e complessi. In particolare con i due con cui vive, uno grigio e l'altro nero, dalle psicologie così diverse tra loro. Di molti dei gatti conosciuti Lessing descrive carattere, temperamento, gusti e, con la stessa lucidità con cui ha analizzato se stessa e la società umana nei suoi libri, qui ha saputo guardare al mondo felino, alle qualità che lo fanno insieme simile e dissimile al nostro. In un libro che svela l'autentico, complicato, particolare, in fin dei conti impenetrabile per noi, linguaggio dei gatti.<

Rubem Fonseca

Crimes of August

<p>Rubem Fonseca’s Crimes of August offers the first serious literary treatment of the cataclysmic events of August 1954, arguably the most turbulent month in Brazilian history.</p><p>A rich novel, both culturally and historically, Crimes of August tells two stories simultaneously. The first is private, involving the well-delineated character of Alberto Mattos, a police officer. The other is public, focusing on events that begin with the attempted assassination of Carlos Lacerda, a demagogic journalist and political enemy of President Getúlio Vargas, and culminate in Vargas’s suicide on August 24,1954. Throughout this suspenseful novel, deceptively couched as a thriller, Fonseca interweaves fact and fiction in a complex, provocative plot. At the same time, he re-creates the atmosphere of the 1950s, when Rio de Janeiro was Brazil’s capital and the nexus of political intrigue and corruption.</p><p>Mattos is assigned to solve the brutal murder of a wealthy entrepreneur in the aftermath of what appears to be a homosexual liaison. An educated and introspective man, and one of the few in his precinct not on the take from the “bankers” of the illegal lottery, Mattos suffers from alienation and a bleeding ulcer. His investigation puts him on a dangerous collision course with the conspiracy to depose Vargas, the novel’s other narrative thread. The two overlap at several points, coming to their tragic end with the aged politician’s suicide and Mattos’s downfall.</p><

Luca Dandrea

La sostanza del male

<div><p>Un triplice, crudele omicidio rimasto irrisolto. Una scia di violenza e di morte che perseguita gli abitanti di Siebenhoch, una tranquilla, isolata comunità tra le montagne dell'Alto Adige. Un forestiero con la sua famiglia, sempre più invischiato nella vicenda. Al centro di tutto il Bletterbach, una gigantesca gola nei cui fossili si può leggere l'intera storia del mondo. È come se in quel luogo si fosse risvegliato qualcosa di spaventoso che si credeva scomparso, antico come la Terra stessa. </p> <p>«Werner si lasciò sfuggire un verso di scherno. - Nessuno è mai uscito dalle grotte del Bletterbach. Laggiú c'è l'inferno». </p> <p>Jeremiah Salinger è un giovane autore televisivo newyorkese che, insieme alla moglie Annelise, si è trasferito per un periodo a Siebenhoch, il piccolo centro del Sud Tirolo dove lei è cresciuta. Con loro c'è la precoce figlia Clara, di cinque anni. Affascinato dalla montagna e dalla gente che vi abita, Salinger comincia a realizzare un factual sul soccorso alpino, ma nel corso delle riprese viene coinvolto in un pauroso incidente. Mentre cerca in ogni modo di dimenticare la sua esperienza traumatica, viene a sapere per caso di un fatto sanguinoso risalente a molti anni prima: il massacro di tre giovani avvenuto durante un'escursione nella gola del Bletterbach. Il delitto non ha un colpevole, e in paese nessuno vuole parlarne: forse perché il solo pensarci potrebbe risuscitarne l'orrore, o forse perché sono in tanti ad avere qualcosa da nascondere. Nonostante l'ostilità crescente che lo circonda, e l'opposizione di Annelise, Salinger si mette a scavare nel passato, penetrando sempre piú a fondo nella vicenda. Fino a scoprire l'imprevedibile, terrificante verità.</p> <p>**</p></div><

Ron L Figgins

Communications Failure

Luca Doninelli

Le cose semplici

Maraini Dacia

Maraini Dacia - 2009 - Storie di cani per una bambina

<p class="description">CANI CHE ADORANO I GELATI, CANI ABBANDONATI IN UN CASSONETTO, CANI INNAMORATI DEI LORO PADRONI...MA ANCHE CAVALLI, LONTRE E MISTERIOSI UCCELLI, TESTIMONI DELL’INTENSO LEGAME FRA UOMINI E ANIMALI.</p><

Karin Fossum

Eva's Eye

Inspector Konrad Sejer

<p>Eva Magnus is a struggling artist and the divorced mother of a seven-year-old child, Emma. One afternoon she and Emma are walking by the river when an unknown man's body floats to the surface of the icy water. She tells her daughter to wait patiently while she calls the police, but when she reaches the phone box Eva dials another number altogether.</p><p>When the police discover the body, it doesn't take long for Inspector Sejer and his team to determine that the man, Egil, died in a violent attack. But Egil has been missing for months and the trail to his killer has gone cold. It's as puzzling as another unsolved case on Sejer's desk: the murder of a prostitute who was found dead just three days before Egil went missing.</p><p>Sejer sets to work piecing together the fragments of these two impossible cases; soon enough he realizes that they might not be as separate as they had seemed. Gripping and thought-provoking, Eva's Eye is Karin Fossum's first novel featuring the iconic Inspector Sejer.</p><

Karen Joy Fowler

Black Glass

Carry Nation is on the loose again, breaking up discos, smashing topless bars, radicalizing women as she preaches clean living to men more intent on booze and babes. As for Mrs. Gulliver, her patience with her long-voyaging Lemuel is wearing thin: money is short and the kids can't even remember what their dad looks like. And what of Tonto, the ever-faithful companion, turning forty without so much as a birthday phone call from that masked man? In fifteen short fictions, Karen Joy Fowler turns accepted norms inside out and fairy tales upside down, pushing us to reconsider all our unquestioned verities and proving once more that she is among our most subversive writers of fiction. Filled with imaginative virtuosity, replete with wicked insights and cunning conceits, Black Glass delivers everything readers have come to expect of her fiction.<

Maraini Dacia

Dolce per sè

Vera ha cinquant'anni e compone il suo romanzo epistolare destinando le sue lettere a Flavia, la nipote bambina di Edoardo, il giovane violinista a cui è sentimentalmente legata. Scrive per sette anni, dal 1988 al 1995, anche quando la storia d'amore con Edoardo finisce, mantenendosi tuttavia sul filo di un'amicizia e, mentre si rivolge a Vera, è come se lasciasse riaffiorare la bambina che lei stessa è stata. È un leopardiano "dolce rimembrar" dove al ricordo amoroso dello zio Edoardo si intrecciano le molte altre storie che compongono un mosaico esistenziale: così agli appuntamenti concertistici si affiancano viaggi professionali, le fragili "mitologie familiari" si alternano ai divertiti giochi gergali degli innamorati.<

Michael Francis Flynn

On the Razor’s Edge

Spiral Arm

The secret war among the Shadows of the Name is escalating, and there are hints that it is not so secret as the Shadows had thought. The scarred man, Donovan buigh, half honored guest and half prisoner, is carried deeper into the Confederation, all the way to Holy Terra herself, to help plan the rebel assault on the Secret City. If he does not soon remember the key information locked inside his fractured mind, his rebel friends may resort to torture to pull it from his subconscious.Meanwhile, Bridget ban has organized a posse—a pack of Hounds—to go in pursuit of her kidnapped daughter, despite knowing that Ravn Olafsdottr kidnapped the harper precisely to lure Bridget ban in her wake. The Hound, the harper, and the scarred man wind deeper into a web of deceit and treachery certain of only one thing: nothing, absolutely nothing, is what it seems to be.<

Marcello Dòmini

Di guerra e di noi

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Carolyn Forche

Blue Hour

<p>" is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth,' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems in the book, especially 'Nocturne' and 'Blue Hour,' are lyric recoveries of the act of remembering, though the objects of memory seem to us vivid and irretrievable, the rage to summon and cling at once fierce and distracted.</p><p>"The voice we hear in is a voice both very young and very old. It belongs to someone who has seen everything and who strives imperfectly, desperately, to be equal to what she has seen. The hunger to know is matched here by a desire to be new, totally without cynicism, open to the shocks of experience as if perpetually for the first time, though unillusioned, wise beyond any possible taint of a false or assumed innocence."</p><p>— Robert Boyers</p><

Dario Fo

My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More)

<p>An extraordinary coming-of-age memoir by the Nobel-Prize-winning playwright.</p><p>In a series of colorful vignettes, Fo draws us into a remarkable early life filled with characters and anecdotes that would become the inspiration for his own creative genius.</p><

Marco Damilano

Democristiani immaginari

Marco Damilano

Eutanasia di un potere. Storia politica d'Italia da Tangentopoli alla Seconda Repubblica

Raccontare la caduta della Prima Repubblica significa svelare perch&eacute; la Seconda &egrave; nata e vissuta cos&igrave; male. La resistenza del vecchio a finire e la difficolt&agrave; del nuovo a nascere. Nel 1992-93, sotto la spinta degli avvenimenti, Tangentopoli appare una rivoluzione. La fine della Repubblica dei partiti, nata con la Costituzione del 1948, degenerata e affondata nella paralisi e nella corruzione. Un potere che sembrava eterno entra all&#39;improvviso in agonia e cade in modo drammatico, tra arresti, cappi sventolati in Parlamento, attentati sanguinosi. Un crollo senza paragoni nelle democrazie occidentali che nei decenni successivi trova due narrazioni contrapposte. La prima recita: c&#39;era un sistema che ben governava, un colpo di Stato architettato da forze oscure tramite le inchieste dei pm lo ha ferito a morte... La seconda replica: c&#39;era un regime corrotto, arriva un pool di giudici buoni con un pm venuto dalle campagne a spazzarlo via... Oggi, a vent&#39;anni dall&#39;inizio di Mani Pulite, &egrave; possibile finalmente uscire dalle aule di tribunale e provare per la prima volta a scrivere la storia politica di quella classe dirigente e della sua rovina. Ripercorrere le scelte dei protagonisti dell&#39;epoca: Craxi, Andreotti, Forlani, Cossiga, Agnelli, Gardini. Le voci dei testimoni, da Antonio Di Pietro a Carlo De Benedetti. I giornali, le trasmissioni, i film, la satira, le canzoni che accompagnarono la rivolta. Gli eroi, i barbari, i suicidi, i gattopardi. Per capire perch&eacute; la rivoluzione giudiziaria non sia stata accompagnata da un vero cambiamento politico, istituzionale, morale. E perch&eacute; abbia lasciato il posto all&#39;avvento di Silvio Berlusconi. Un racconto necessario, oggi che si apre una stagione completamente nuova.<

Rubem Fonseca

Winning the Game and Other Stories

In these seventeen stories by one of Brazil's foremost living authors, Fonseca introduces readers--with unsurpassed candor and keenness of observation--to a kaleidoscopic, often disturbing world. A hunchback sets his lascivious sights on seducing a beautiful woman. A wealthy businessman hires a ghost writer, with unexpected results. A family of modern-day urban cannibals celebrates a bizarre rite of passage. A man roams the nocturnal streets of Rio de Janeiro in search of meaning. A male ex-police reporter writes an advice column under a female pseudonym. A prosperous entrepreneur picks up a beautiful girl in his Mercedes only to discover his costly mistake. A loser elaborates a lethal plan to become, in his mind, a winner.<

Marco Damilano

Il Partito Di Dio. La Nuova Galassia Dei Cattolici Italiani

Marco Damilano

La Repubblica del selfie: Dalla Meglio Gioventù a Matteo Renzi

<p class="description">La scalata all’Italia di Matteo Renzi è stata raccontata dal suo protagonista come una guerra lampo dalle cadenze napoleoniche, un cambiamento di stagione epocale, contro nemici di ogni tipo. In realtà è stata una resa senza condizioni. Senza opporre resistenza, partiti, industriali, intellettuali si sono consegnati al giovane conquistatore: una bandiera bianca collettiva, la dissoluzione della rete di alleanze ed equilibri su cui si reggeva la Repubblica italiana. Quella Repubblica nata settant’anni fa con i ragazzi scesi dalle montagne per sedersi al tavolo della Costituente. Erano i padri della democrazia, i buoni maestri che tenevano insieme cattolici e comunisti, radicali e liberali, e intanto costruivano autostrade e conficcavano milioni di antenne sui tetti delle case. Ma poi i padri invecchiarono e arrivarono i figli, la meglio gioventù della tv a colori e dell’aria di piombo. Una menzogna. L’inizio del vuoto. Un vuoto durato quarant’anni. In quel vuoto è nata e cresciuta la nuova razza padrona, che ha il volto di Matteo Renzi e si presenta senza passato, avida di presente, proiettata al futuro. Detesta il fardello della memoria, rifiuta la responsabilità dei decenni precedenti: noi non c’eravamo, ripete. Invece va inserita in una storia. In quella che arriva da lontano, nel lunghissimo processo che attraversa gli ultimi anni Settanta, gli Ottanta e Novanta fino a Tangentopoli. E in quella piЭ recente, il crack di una classe dirigente provocato dalla crisi economica e da un divorzio irreparabile tra cittadini e politica. “Una lunga caduta, come nei sogni. Il risveglio tocca ai figli. Nel vuoto si sono mossi, in mezzo al vuoto hanno conquistato il potere, puntando sul vuoto rischiano di perdere. O di invecchiare precocemente.”</p><

Elena Ferrante

My Brilliant Friend

The Neapolitan Novels aka My Brilliant Friend

<p>A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship.</p><p>The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her protagonists, the unforgettable Elena and Lila.</p><p>Ferrante is the author of three previous works of critically acclaimed fiction: , and . With this novel, the first in a trilogy, she proves herself to be one of Italy’s great storytellers. She has given her readers a masterfully plotted page-turner, abundant and generous in its narrative details and characterizations, that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight her many fans and win new readers to her fiction.</p><

Elena Ferrante

The Story of a New Name

The Neapolitan Novels aka My Brilliant Friend

The second book, following 2012’s acclaimed , featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the sometimes cruel price that this passage exacts.<

Marco Damilano

Processo al Nuovo

<p class="description">Il Nuovo ha consumato se stesso perché senza progetto. Con il passato, ha buttato via anche il futuro. I suoi paladini si sono rivelati clamorosamente inadeguati alle sfide, hanno deluso chi voleva cambiare e tradito chi ci aveva creduto. Eppure di una nuova politica l'Italia ha bisogno. Grandi riforme, palingenesi giudiziarie, rivoluzioni liberali, rivolte in Rete, rottamazioni, referendum epocali. Per decenni l'Italia ha inseguito il mito del nuovo inizio. Il Nuovo ha modellato tutte le identità politiche: la sinistra, la destra, il centro. È comparso negli anni Ottanta, si è espresso in tutta la sua potenza all'alba degli anni Novanta, dopo lo scatto felino della storia provocato dalla caduta del muro nel cuore dell'Europa. Ed è diventato senso comune con la Seconda Repubblica: il restyling dei nomi e dei simboli, i modernizzatori contro i conservatori, gli innovatori contro i nostalgici. Nuovo si è presentato il Cavaliere dell'eterno presente. Nuovi i tecnici come Mario Monti. Nuovissimi i cittadini scelti dalla Rete nel Movimento 5 Stelle. E ancor più nuovo il renzismo della rottamazione dove tutto doveva apparire mai visto, mai udito, senza precedenti. Il Nuovo è stato la via italiana al governo e alla politica. Ora sembra smarrito, per incapacità di elaborazione, fragilità culturale, inconsistenza progettuale. Ma nessuna restaurazione del passato è possibile. E l'Italia ha bisogno di una nuova politica, per uscire da questo limbo senza riforme e senza partiti, senza destra e senza sinistra, senza vecchio e senza nuovo. Serve un Nuovo che sia ricostruzione, rigenerazione.</p><

Elena Ferrante

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

The Neapolitan Novels aka My Brilliant Friend

<p>Since the publication of , the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors-Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few-and critics-James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship.</p><p>In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts of her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have attempted are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seem them living a life of mystery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to see each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.</p><

Marco Di Domenico

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Margaret Doody

Aristotele e la giustizia poetica

È la primavera dell'anno 332 a.C. Le truppe di Alessandro sono alle prese con la conquista della Persia, e il grande condottiero si è impadronito di un enorme tesoro in argento a Persepoli. Prima della sua marcia vittoriosa all'interno dei territori persiani, Alessandro ha distrutto grandi città sulla costa dell'Asia Minore, e il mondo mediterraneo è inquieto, sconvolto dalla guerra, percorso in lungo e in largo da esuli e da prigionieri ridotti in schiavitù. D'altra parte, però, ci si attendono nuove, immense ricchezze. Durante la Notte dei Fantasmi, alla fine dell'Antesteria, la Festa dei Fiori che si celebra in Atene a febbraio, misteriose apparizioni culminano nel rapimento di un'ereditiera. Aristotele e Stefanos si recano in missione a Delfi, per cercare di ritrovare la fanciulla scomparsa. Ma nel loro cammino s'imbattono in festeggiamenti, fuggiaschi, strani enigmi e cadaveri. Il caso dell'ereditiera scomparsa si rivela più complicato di quanto sembrasse in un primo tempo. Alla fine, l'enigma può essere risolto unicamente da Aristotele, e soltanto con l'aiuto dell'Oracolo di Delfi<

Elena Ferrante

The Days of Abandonment

<p>"She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."-</p><p>"Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing."-</p><p>"Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of exceptional and bold strength."-</p><p>"Severe and rigorously unsentimental, packed full of passages written with dizzying intensity at a rare and acute pitch. Ferrante is at her best when her writing holds tight to those nagging, niggling obsessions that make up our mental landscapes."-</p><p>A national bestseller for almost an entire year, shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published. It is the gripping story of a woman's descent into devastating emptiness after being abandoned by her husband with two young children to care for. When she finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment, she is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal.</p><

Elena Ferrante

The Lost Daughter

<p>"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of </p><p>From the author of , is Elena Ferrante's most compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood yet. Leda, a middle-aged divorce, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial occurrence. Ferrante's language is as finely tuned and intense as ever, and she treats her theme with a fierce, candid tenacity.</p><

Margaret Leslie Davis

La Bibbia scomparsa

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