Forget passive simpering princesses and damsels in distress – the heroines of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls are famed for their real-life achievements.
New bedtime reading for a generation that will shape the future.
We need some new fairy tale endings. What if the princess didn’t marry Prince Charming but instead went on to be an […]
Rien ne s’oppose à la nuit: le roman qui intrigue, hypnotise, bouleverse. Il interroge, aussi.
Ma famille incarne ce que la joie a de plus bruyant, de plus spectaculaire, l’écho inlassable des morts, et le retentissement du désastre. Aujourd’hui je sais aussi qu’elle illustre, comme tant d’autres familles, le pouvoir de destruction du verbe, et celui du silence
C’est […]
An intelligent, beautiful and healing read: «Homegoing» by Yaa Gyasi at Linguae Bookshop in Girona.
“Homegoing”—the title is taken from an old African-American belief that death allowed an enslaved person’s spirit to travel back to Africa. It is rooted, like the Bible, in original sin.
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred […]
The dazzling new novel from bestselling, award-winning author Maggie O’Fareel. «This must be the place» crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage.
Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father […]
Dear Life, d’Alice Munro, guanyadora del Premi Nobel de Literatura al any 2013.
She has got a peerless ability to give us the essence of life in brief but spacious and timeless stories. Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped, the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate.
Munro’s clarity […]
Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore de Luigi Pirandello, guanyador del Premi Nobel de Literatura al any 1934.
Su un palcoscenico una compagnia di attori prova la commedia ‘Il giuoco delle parti’.
Irrompono sei individui, un Padre, una Madre, il Figlio, la Figliastra, il Giovinetto e la Bambina. Sono personaggi rifiutati dallo scrittore che li ha concepiti. Essi […]
«The Grapes of Wrath», escrit per John Steinbeck, guanyador del Premi Nobel de Literatura al any 1962.
It was first published in 1939, the Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles of the 1930s. It tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads. They are driven from their homestead and forced to […]
«L’Étranger», escrit per Albert Camus, guanyador del Premi Nobel per la Literatura al any 1957.
Condamné à mort, Meursault. Sur une plage algérienne, il a tué un Arabe. À cause du soleil, dira-t-il, parce qu’il faisait chaud. On n’en tirera rien d’autre. Rien ne le fera plus réagir : ni l’annonce de sa condamnation, ni la mort […]
«The Golden Notebook» de Doris Lessing, guanyadora del Premi Nobel per la literatura al any 2007.
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. The black cover one is the review of the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her […]
The couple next door by Shari Lapena: the Sunday Times bestseller and the most talked-about thriller of the year.
Your neighbour told you that she didn’t want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she just couldn’t stand her crying. Your husband said it would be fine. After all, you only live next door. […]
