Leaving the Atocha Station: Luminously original, like a comet from the future! by Ben Lerner.
Nothing is more American than running away to Europe, avoiding your countryfolk, pretending not to be American. Our narrator really hates the would-be expatriate intellectuals «who, when they spoke Spanish, exaggerated the peninsular lisp». And hates them mostly – as will […]
Togliamo il disturbo: saggio sulla libertà di non studiare di Paola Mastrocola
Ditemi se devo ancora insegnare queste cose o no. Forse, se i ragazzi non sanno più l’italiano, vuol dire che la scuola non ha più ritenuto che fosse il caso di insegnare l’italiano. Forse tutti in Italia (o meglio, in Europa) hanno deciso questo. […]
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 […]
“En attendant Bojangles» : Un petit bijou de désespoir caché au coeur d’un écrin d’amour
On ne choisit pas sa famille mais le petit garçon de cette histoire en possède une vraiment particulière! Une mère fantasque et extravagante. Un père qui lui donne autant de prénoms qu’elle possède de personnages. Un oiseau exotique sauvé en Afrique et […]
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 […]
Discover the Elmer’s world at Linguae Bookshop in Girona!
«Who is 18 but still a delightful toddler? Elmer, the big-hearted patchwork elephant, first appeared in 1989 but is still a firm favourite with the pre-school generation.»
Elmer and the other elephants are waiting for the storm to end so they can see the beautiful, colorful rainbow. But […]
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 […]
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 Sea, The Sea», was Iris Murdoch’s 19th novel. It was also her fourth to make the Booker shortlist.
Naturally, the fact that Murdoch was so often nominated and only triumphant later in her career has been the cause of plenty of speculation. But it’s easy to understand why she so often fell at the last […]
