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Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown, north Dublin. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke has a brother called Francis, but Paddy calls him Sinbad and...

Siamo sul suo letto, ci baciamo. In sottofondo una canzone che le ho scritto. Lei è sopra e mi guarda. Che dolore nel ricordo di quello sguardo, l'avevo quasi rimosso completamente. Mi stava abbandonando come io avevo fatto con lei, non c'era più nulla che io potessi fare per riprendere la sua fiducia. Colleziono mancanze, tra queste, la sua è quella più preziosa che ho nei miei ricordi.

Per Pirandello l'immaginazione è una delle due vie di fuga dalle "trappole" della vita (famiglia e lavoro). Il signor Belluca è un contabile mansueto e preciso, ma giorno inizia a comportarsi in modo insolito, al punto tale che i colleghi e il capoufficio, credendolo pazzo, insistono perché sia ricoverato in un ospedale psichiatrico. Neppure i dottori che lo hanno in cura riescono a comprendere il significato della frase che egli continua ostinatamente a ripetere: "il treno ha fischiato".

Winner of the Booker Prize – Roddy Doyle’s witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing world It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. His best...

A tea party at an Oxford college. Earnest undergraduates in floral dresses clink cups, discussing essay-crises, punting, summer balls. But to one student, they are grotesquely transformed: she is sitting among ominous armadillos with scaly shells, buzzing with black flies. Then, the laughter comes. As she is engulfed by mirthless hysterics, the Principal has no choice but to send her away.

Howard Kapostash has not spoken in thirty years. The small repertory of gestures and simple sounds that he uses to communicate lead most people to assume he is disturbed. No one understands that Howard is still the same man he was before his tragic injury. But when he agrees to help an old...

La paternidad, la infidelidad, la muerte, la incapacidad para comunicar los propios sentimientos, la irrupción súbita del amor, la fascinación por el otro, la arquitectura del deseo, el miedo a la felicidad, los temas centrales que hacen temblar las vidas de los protagonistas de estas excelentes nouvelles son, en realidad, los temas de cualquier vida, pero Barba tiene la maestría de resolverlos aquí con la extraña iluminación «intervenida» con la que se resuelven en la vida real.

Caro lettore (o cara lettrice, ancora meglio), per favore, ho bisogno della tua attenzione. Fidati, ti divertirai. Comincio con una domanda: che cosa accadrebbe se un giorno tu entrassi in una libreria e comprassi un libro scritto apposta per esaudire una richiesta? Te lo chiedo perché è esattamente quello che fa il protagonista della storia che hai fra le mani. La storia di Giovanni e di un libro scritto perché tu, lettore (o lettrice, sempre meglio), possa portarlo a passeggio e farti notare dalla persona a cui è indirizzato. Una donna.

In 1920s inner city Dublin Tenements, Ivy Rose Murphy struggles to survive in the harsh poverty-stricken environment she was born into. She is trying to adapt to her new role as a married woman. There are those jealous of the improvements she has managed to make in her life. To Ivy it seems everyone wants a piece of her. Ivy's friends gather around to offer support, but somehow Ivy is the one who gives hope to them.

Through hard work and determination, Ivy Rose Murphy has come up in the world. She still begs for discards from the homes of the wealthy which lie only a stone’s throw from The Lane, the poverty-ridden tenements where she lives. She repairs and sells these discards in Dublin market. With her talent for needlework and a team of neighbourhood helpers, she has also begun to supply an upmarket shop in Grafton Street with beautifully dressed dolls. Then Ivy’s wealthy friend Ann Marie Gannon, with her beloved camera, spends a day at the airport photographing planes.

Ivy Rose Murphy dreams of a better future. For years she has set out daily from the tenements known as The Lane to beg for discards from the homes of the wealthy. Her fortune takes a turn for the better, but there are eyes on Ivy, and she is vulnerable as she carries her earnings through the dark winter streets. Jem Ryan, who owns the local livery, longs to make Ivy his wife, but she is reluctant to give up her fierce independence. Then a sudden astonishing event turns Ivy's world upside down.

Una de las novelas más modernas de Hamsun, que es por otra parte, su última obra y la cuarta del premio Nobel noruego que publicamos en Nórdica. Abel, único hijo de un farero y una madre alcohólica,va creciendo en un remoto pueblo noruego. Aunque lleva una vida...

Roberto e Riccardo si conoscono da ragazzini, nel 1975. È una domenica nebbiosa di novembre, durante la festa per l'uccisione del maiale, il giorno memorabile in cui la loro amicizia comincia: ed entrambi, casualmente, fanno un incontro che molti anni dopo si rivelerà la premonizione di un destino. Ma se la radice affonda in quegli anni Settanta ancora cupi, metallici, il tronco robusto e doloroso di questa vicenda è negli anni Ottanta che si sviluppa, fiorisce e, in una parabola fatalmente rapida, avvizzisce.

"I live in a coastal town in the deep south of the Mekong Delta. During the war this was IV Corps, which saw many savage fights. Although the battles might have long been forgotten, some places cannot forget." Thus begins the harrowing yet poignant story of a North Vietnamese communist defector who spends 10 years in a far-flung reform prison after the war, and now, in 1987, a free man again, finds work as caretaker at a roadside inn in the U Minh region. One day new guests arrive at the inn: an elderly American woman and her daughter, an 18-year-old adopted Vietnamese girl....

Ha Jin displays his impressive storytelling gifts in this richly textured examination of contemporary China in 1989. Professor Yang, a respected literature scholar, suffers a stroke and is confined to a hospital bed. Now Jian Wan, Yang’s brightest student and future son-in-law, must suspend his rigorous studies to care for his mentor. Jian dutifully keeps watch as Yang begins raving madly, often pleading with unseen tormentors. Has Yang lost his grip on sanity, or is he no longer capable of hiding deeply buried, painful secrets?

From the universally admired, National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Waiting—a timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country, as he works to find his way in the United States At the end of a U.S. tour with his state-supported choir, popular singer Yao...

From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea, and a lone journalist’s dogged quest for truth in the Internet age. New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a...

Tre giovani donne partono per un viaggio: lasciano la città per capire chi sono e per dimenticare, almeno per un po', amori, delusioni e problemi familiari. Quando la vecchia auto le tradisce, si ritrovano in un piccolo borgo al confine tra Umbria e Marche. Per fortuna incontrano Viola che le ospiterà per la notte e che permetterà loro, durante una cena ristoratrice, di ascoltare i racconti dei tanti amici che in quella casa in mezzo ai boschi passano abitualmente per una chiacchiera e un amaro.

पाच राज्यांतल्या विधानसभा निवडणुकांनी सध्या देशभरातल्या मीडियाचं लक्ष वेधून घेतलंय. या काळात घडलेली एक...

A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbors' garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. A landlord decides to raise the rent, and his tenants hatch a plan to kill him at a team-building retreat. In 10 captivating, unnerving stories, Flowers of Mold presents a range of ordinary individuals who have found themselves left behind by an increasingly urbanized and fragmented world.