Risultati per "Memoriale" in Letteratura e narrativa

Prigioniero in Germania nell'ultima fase della Seconda guerra mondiale, vittima in prigionia di tubercolosi polmonare e tormentato fin dall'infanzia dalla inguaribile malattia della solitudine, quando viene assunto da una grande fabbrica del Nord, Albino Saluggia si illude di poter cambiare vita e finalmente di guarire da tutti i suoi mali. Ma l'ingresso nel mondo del lavoro si rivela per lui ben presto un guaio peggiore della disoccupazione e da questo momento l'esistenza di Saluggia si complica diventando un nodo di inestricabile follia.

Nel Portogallo del primo Settecento dominato da Inquisizione e auto da fé, incrociano i loro destini personaggi opposti e complementari. In questo prodigioso romanzo storico e d'invenzione, utopia e morte, riso e tragedia, affresco corale e struggente vicenda personale, immaginazione sfrenata e spirito critico si coniugano nella voce, ironica e compassionevole assieme, del narratore messo di fronte all'ipocrisia e all'arroganza dei tempi, ma anche ai primi sintomi di un rinnovamento sociale e culturale.

"Casualmente mi guardai allo specchio. La mia faccia stravolta mi parve estremamente ripugnante: pallida, cattiva, vile, con i capelli arruffati. "Va bene così, ne sono contento", pensai, "sono proprio contento di apparirle ripugnante; la cosa mi fa piacere...". Diviso in due parti, la prima è intitolata "Il sottosuolo", la seconda "A proposito della neve bagnata" e pubblicato nel 1864, "Memorie dal sottosuolo" è uno straordinario monologo nel quale il protagonista si scaglia contro gli ideali di una società basata su scienza e ragione.

Arya has time for only one thing: saving lives as a surgeon. She is not interested in a relationship. Her life is already too complicated without adding new problems into the mix. Besides, there are too many other women out there to settle for just one. Patricia wants to be seen as more than a single mother. Her seven-year-old son fills her life, but after leaving behind the toxic relationship with her ex-husband, she's been longing to feel wanted again.

A decade ago, a tragic surgery forever altered the lives of Dr. Jackie Stone and Sarah Taylor. Haunted by the loss of that patient, Dr. Stone has since immersed herself in her work, believing that if she stays busy, she can escape the pain of her past. Sarah Taylor, now a determined intern at Manhattan's prestigious Watson Memorial Hospital, finds herself under the supervision of the very doctor who was present during her brother's ill-fated surgery ten years ago.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, O, the Oprah Magazine, Esquire, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29...

Antonio Scalonesi, affermato mediatore immobiliare e proprietario di una piccola agenzia in una valle discosta dell'alto Ticino (Svizzera), è un uomo benestante, single, al quale la vita sembra avere riservato tutto il meglio possibile. Persona di grande cultura, nutre numerosi e svariati interessi, fra i quali l'arte pittorica e la scultura. Sportivo, in passato e stato pure un ciclista dilettante di buona caratura, vincendo addirittura qualche gara importante.

El polissó Ismael, un orfe que mai va arribar a conèixer al seu pare ni la seva mare, s'embarca en un viatge al costat de l'mariner Gunhar i el metge Enzo. Poc després cauen presoners d'Aben Yusuf, a la ciutat pirata de Tabarka, on descobreixen el SENTIT de la dignitat humana i la Força poderosa de l'amor.

Islamisten wollen die Einweihung einer Gedenkstätte in Washington für ein Attentat auf den US-Präsidenten und ausländische Staatschefs nutzen. Deshalb schickt die CIA Terrorspezialist Mitch Rapp nach Afghanistan. Dort bereiten Milizen von Al-Qaida in einem abgelegenen Grenzdorf den Angriff vor. Doch Rapp kommt zu spät und erfährt die schreckliche Wahrheit: Eine Atombombe befindet sich auf dem Weg in die Vereinigten Staaten.

The New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller about a group of college students encountering supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia—an unforgettable, chilling novel that is “scary and hard to put down. You might be advised not to read it at night” (Stephen King). 1983...

Érase una vez un rey que hizo la promesa de construir un convento en Mafra. Érase una vez la gente que construyó ese convento. Érase una vez un soldado manco y una mujer que tenía poderes. Érase una vez la historia de un amor sin palabras de amor. Érase una vez un cura que quería volar y murió loco.

When the CIA receives word about an upcoming terrorist attack, they immediately look towards their superagent Mitch Rapp to do whatever it takes to protect American lives in this “page-flipping extravaganza” (Publishers Weekly) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn. Just...

Bob Odenkirk is a legend in the comedy-writing world, winning Emmys and acclaim for his work on Saturday Night Live, Mr. Show with Bob and David, and many other seminal television shows. This book, his first, is a spleen-bruisingly funny omnibus that ranges from absurdist monologues ("Martin Luther King Jr.'s Worst Speech Ever") to intentionally bad theater ("Hitler Dinner Party: A Play"), from avant-garde fiction ("Obit for the Creator of Mad Libs").

At 27, Nicole Hunt is a rising star in health and wellness. In a special series for Heart Month, she sets her sights on interviewing some of the nation's most prominent medical professionals, including the reclusive Dr. Ines Torres. Dr. Torres is a 40-year-old distinguished cardiologist with a reputation as steely as the scalpel she wields. Her life revolves entirely around her work, leaving no room for love or leisure. As the effervescent Nicole steps into Dr. Torres's strictly regimented world, sparks fly, and an unexpected connection forms.

A former child prodigy, she has been educated in one of the best medical schools under the supervision of the prestigious Daniela McKenna. At the age of twenty-seven, she moved from Boston to Los Angeles in search of a smaller hospital that would allow her to grow faster as a surgeon. Little did she expect that by a quirk of fate, she would find herself as interim chief of surgery, fighting for the permanent position against much more experienced doctors.

I don't understand why the hospital director has insisted that Siena Collins work in oncology. She is a spoiled brat, unreliable, and causes too much trouble in a department where we must look into the eyes of death every day. To make matters worse, she can't even touch or talk to patients. She is still in medical school and considering quitting altogether.

The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time. They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims...

When the CIA receives word about an upcoming terrorist attack, they immediately look towards their superagent Mitch Rapp to do whatever it takes to protect American lives in this “page-flipping extravaganza” (Publishers Weekly) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn. Just...

David Keenan's cult classic novel, available in audiobook for the first time—read by the author. A Telegraph and Rough Trade Book of the Year, and shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize.

Westminster Abbey has seen much during its long, rich history: the coronations of Kings and Queens, the burials of Prime Ministers. However, it is also a church that remembers the men and women of the arts. Dedicated writers and poets who spoke so eloquently that the nation wished to remember them with plaques upon its walls so that all who travelled here could remember, too. Their works are worth remembering, and here, in these volumes, their wise words speak, too, and for us all. In volume 3 we collect together Edward Lear to William Wordsworth.