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 […]
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 […]
Xerrada en anglès a càrrec de Vivien Greatorex.
«Llegir una novel·la de Penelope Fitzgerald és com pujar un cotxe lluent, i que a meitat del camí algú tiri el volant per la finestra» Sebastian Faulks
El dimecres 24 de maig a les 19.30 hores, Vivien Greatorex, professora de llengua anglesa al Servei de Llengües Modernes de la […]
The Child, the new book by the bestsellin author Fiona Barton!
As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it’s a story that deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but she can only pose a […]
Into the water, the new novel by Paula Hawkins!
A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters. But their deaths disturb the river and its […]
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 […]
