«L’amica geniale»: Un romanzo appassionante e coinvolgente.
L’amica geniale comincia seguendo le due protagoniste bambine, e poi adolescenti, tra le quinte di un rione miserabile della periferia napoletana. Tra una folla di personaggi minori accompagnati lungo il loro percorso con attenta assiduità.
L’autrice scava intanto nella natura complessa dell’amicizia tra due bambine, tra due ragazzine, tra due donne. […]
«Girls who Rocked the World». Be inspired and empowered by this fun collection that shows girls really can rock the world!
Get ready to meet some incredible young women who made their mark on the world before turning twenty. And prove that when it comes to having an impact, there’s no such thing as too young! Whether designing famous monuments, fighting […]
«Celle que vous croyez»: Un roman dur, drôle et dérangeant, qui ne laisse personne indifférent, signé par Camille Laurens.
Maître de conférence, divorcée, Claire Millecam, proche de la cinquantaine, a un amant, Jo. Volage. Pour pouvoir le surveiller, elle se crée un faux profil Facebook. Elle devient Claire Antanès, une jeune femme brune de 24 ans, passionnée […]
«The Cows»: an amazing book about choices and being yourself by Dawn O’Porter
Three women. A whole world of judgement.
Tara, Cam and Stella are very different women. Yet in a society that sets the agenda, there’s something about being a woman that ties invisibles bonds between us. When one extraordinary event rockets Tara to online infamy, […]
«A Book of American Martyrs»: the new masterpiece by Joyce Carol Oates
Una novel·la provocativa firmada per Joyce Carol Oates. Relata la història de dues families americanes molt diferents però íntimament vinculades entre elles. Luther Dunphy és un fidel de l’església evangèlica que es creu mogut per la voluntat de Déu quan assassina a un metge […]
«Midwinter Break» by Bernard MacLaverty: an artist with a subtle feel for the ordinary . Outstanding!
En Bernard MacLaverty torna, setze anys després de la seva ultima novel·la. I es torna a imposar com un dels escriptors irlandesos més grans. Una parella de jubilats, Gerry i Stella Gilmore, volen de la seva casa a Escòcia cap […]
«Binocular Vision»: An eye-opening compendium radiant with wisdom, humour (and) mischief by Edith Pearlman
In this sumptuous offering, one of our premier storytellers provides a feast for fiction aficionados. Spanning four decades and three prize-winning collections. These 21 vintage selected stories and 13 scintillating new ones take us around the world. From Jerusalem to Central America, […]
«Exit West»: Shortlisted for The Man Bookfer Prize 2017. Thrilling, urgent and gorgeously written by Mohsin Hamid.
En un país a punt d’esclatar una guerra civil, dos joves es troben. La Nadia, sensual i independent, i en Saeed, educat i de bones maneres. Inicien una història d’amor secreta fins que comença la guerra i es senten […]
«Three Things About Elsie»: A real treasure, poignant and perceptive by Joanna Cannon
There are three things you should know about Elsie.
The first thing is that she’s my best friend.
The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better.
And the third thing… might take a little bit more explaining.
84-year-old Florence has fallen […]
«I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This»: Piercingly honest and uncommonly generous, by Nadja Spiegelman
For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers. Hers, French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly—exerted a force over reality. That was both dazzling and […]
