«If Cats Disappeared from the World». A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life.
Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s […]
«On the come up»: You’ll never silence me and you’ll never kill my dream. Just recognize when you say brilliant that you’re also saying Bri.
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least make it out of her neighborhood one day. As the daughter of an underground rap […]
«The Kite Runner»: Hosseini is a truly gifted teller of tales. He’s not afraid to pull every string in your heart to make it sing.
“It may be unfair. But what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.»
Amir is the son of a wealthy Kabul […]
«The Indian in the Cupboard»: Great book for kids and fun to read again as an adult.
At first, Omri is unimpressed with the plastic Indian toy he is given for his birthday. But when he puts it in his old cupboard and turns the key, something extraordinary happens that will change Omri’s life for ever.
For Little […]
«The Mill on the Floss». A delight, and a marvel of insight into the consciousness of a small child. ‘If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?’
Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom. And she is desperate to win the approval of her parents. But her passionate, […]
«Clock Dance» : Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing.
Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. When she was eleven and her mother disappeared. Being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa […]
«Normal People». In this world of people openly portraying their lives on social media, is this story really the way many people are? Insecure, forlorn, and in misery?
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. […]
«La perfezione non è di questo mondo.» Ti strappa un sorriso, ti invoglia a girare pagina. E pian piano i protagonisti trovano spazio dentro di te.
Torino, tra le Molinette e il Valentino.
Adriano, professore ottantaduenne che ha appena perso la moglie, ha un segreto di cui si vergogna un po’. Aa quando Giulietta non c’è più, […]
«Machines like me» by Ian McEwan. A story that mix up the novel on artificial intelligences with a dystopia built on a historical novel.
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will […]
«Killing Commendatore»: The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84
In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a […]
