Che la festa cominci: l’irresistibile comicità di Niccolò Ammaniti sa cogliere i vizi e le poche virtú della nostra epoca.
Benvenuti al party del secolo. L’Italia fatta a pezzi in una festosa ed esclusiva Apocalisse.
Nel nuovo romanzo di Niccolò Ammaniti gli ultimi Cavalieri dell’Apocalisse fanno riunioni sataniste in una pizzeria di Oriolo Romano. Uno scrittore di […]
The Muse, by Jessie Burton: A picture hides thousand words.
On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in the city since she arrived from Trinidad five years ago, she […]
The Awakening by Kate Chopin: a story of female self-actualization back in the late 19th century.
The Awakening is a novel about a woman’s transformation. From an obedient, traditional wife and mother into a self-realized, sexually liberated and independent woman.
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. […]
La Dernière des Stanfield: Un roman mené de main de maître. Magnifique et addictif!
Loin des histoires d’amour où les sentiments couvent en attendant de pouvoir librement s’exprimer, le dernier roman de Marc Leyv, «La Dernière des Stanfield» est une intrigue familiale plutôt complexe, mais intéressante.
Marc Levy se lance dans la saga familiale
Eleanor-Rigby est une jeune femme […]
New Boy: a modern retelling of Othello set in a suburban schoolyard.
Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, a diplomat’s son, Osei Kokote, knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day. So he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student […]
Men without Women by Murakami : «one of the most influential novelist of his generation».
‘I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.’
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his observation to bear on the lives of […]
L’élégance du hérisson de Muriel Barbery: best-seller completement imprévu. Anatomie d’un roman dans l’air du temps, jouant par la caricature le peuple contre les élites. Bons sentiments assurés.
«L’élégance du hérisson» és la segona novel·la de l’escriptora Muriel Barbery. Va apareixer al 2006 i ràpidament fou l’èxit de la temporada amb gairebé un milió d’exemplars venuts. […]
Summertime by J.M Coetzee: compelling, funny, moving and full of life!
«Summertime» és una novel·la publicada a l’any 2009 per l’autor J.M Coetzee, Premi Nobel de Literatura. És la tercera d’una sèrie de memòries novel·lades per l’autor. Detalla la vida d’un noi des de la perspectiva de cinc persones que l’han conegut.
La novel·la és ambientada a […]
The Summer without Men by Siri Hustvedt: discover one of our favourite summer book!
Mia Fredrickson, the tragicomic poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia’s husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a “pause.” This abrupt […]
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 […]
