Showing results for "The Cure" in Literary Fiction

Lilli ha quarantotto anni, ha appena perso il lavoro ma per fortuna zia Mariangela le ha lasciato un'insperata fonte di reddito. Quale momento migliore per realizzare il sogno inconfessabile di dedicarsi anima e corpo alle cure della casa? Il marito Francesco non si capacita, l'amica Cecilia alza le spalle, la figlia Iris ride, la madre inorridisce, ma Lilli osserva beata se stessa pulire la cucina, ammucchiare spugnette multicolori, inventare definitive sistemazioni di quel mondo a parte e sempre provvisorio che è la dispensa.

When one of Dr. Rafael Neruda's patients commits a vicious murder and then kills himself, the psychiatrist is compelled to discover the root causes of the crime. Delving into his own painful childhood, he embarks on a desperate personal mission to confront the nature of evil itself. Endangering both his personal and professional future, Neruda devises the ultimate test for his cure for evil— a cure that becomes a shocking journey of eroticism, manipulation, and danger.

From the inimitable mind of award-winning author Jesse Ball, a novel about an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced the concept of equality—and the devastating consequences of unmitigated power. The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided...

A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns. When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who...