Titoli in Romanzo di formazione

A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy - "Zits" - who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity. With powerful, swift prose, Flight follows the troubled teenager as he learns that violence is not the answer.

When Cara stumbles across a stash of old postcards in the attic, their contents make her question everything she thought she knew. The story she pieces together is confusing and unsettling, and appears to have been patched over with lies. But who can tell her the truth? With her father sinking into Alzheimer’s and her brother reluctant to help, it seems Cara will never find the answers to her questions. One thing is clear, though: someone knows more than they’re letting on.

During the long, hot summer of 1900, young Leo Colston is invited to stay for a month at a lordly, aristocratic manor in Norfolk. There he falls in love with his friend's older sister, who commissions him to ferry secret messages to the local farmer, her lover. His naiveté sustains their affair until ultimately leading to an event that will change their lives irrevocably.

After 10 years in London, working in a stressful City firm, Liv O’Neill returns home to Sandycove, a picturesque seaside village, just outside Dublin to care for her mother after a fall. Whilst Liv reconnects with friends and family, she is amazed by Sandycove’s thriving community spirit with its artisan shops, delis and cafes - it’s not quite the place she left behind. As village life begins to creep under her skin, Liv is forced to confront the things that drove her away. Can Liv balance her past, present and future and find her own happy place?

Stephanie doesn’t believe in fate, true love, or living happily ever after. She’s content enough being married to Matt. But then she meets Jamie, who understands her more than anyone else ever has. Jamie’s married to his childhood sweetheart and believes in everything Stephanie doesn’t. He’s happy with Helen. So why does he have such a strong connection with Stephanie? When Stephanie and Jamie meet one fateful weekend in 2006, it sparks a tumultuous relationship that spans over a decade. The day they meet changes everything....

En La suma de los días, Isabel Allende narra con franqueza la historia de su vida y la de su peculiar familia en California, en una casa abierta, llena de gente y de personajes literarios, y protegida por un espíritu; hijas perdidas, nietos y libros que nacen, éxitos y dolores, un viaje al mundo de las adicciones y otros a lugares remotos del mundo en busca de inspiración, junto a divorcios, encuentros, amores, separaciones, crisis de pareja y reconciliaciones.

""In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning."" - F. Scott Fitzgerald A coming-of-age novel—a heady union of Before Sunrise and Beautiful Ruins—about a father and his teenage son who are forced to spend two sleepless nights exploring the city of Marseilles...

In Tutte le nostre maledizioni, Tamara Tenenbaum, scrittrice e filosofa femminista argentina, autrice de La fine dell’amore, racconta la vita di una ragazza nata e cresciuta nella comunità ebreo-ortodossa a Buenos Aires e da essa più o meno fuoriuscita. Dipinge piccole storie, vite riassunte in tre, quattro righe, mentre va avanti o ristagna quella della protagonista: una bambina, poi ragazza, poi adulta, che prova a pensare da sé. Persino la morte del padre, ucciso in un attentato, è elaborata con poche, precise parole, anch’esse lontane dai percorsi canonici del lutto.

Addio, amore! di Matilde Serao è un romanzo pubblicato nel 1896 che esplora le vicende sentimentali di una giovane donna, Dina. La protagonista, attraverso una serie di lettere, racconta la fine del suo amore per Alberto, un uomo che non è all'altezza dei suoi ideali romantici. Serao, con il suo stile fluido e introspezione psicologica, dipinge un quadro vivido delle emozioni e delle disillusioni amorose. Il romanzo riflette sulla fragilità dei sentimenti e sulla forza necessaria per superare la fine di un amore, offrendo uno spaccato autentico della società e delle dinamiche di genere del tempo.

Pennello, Lollo, Puddu e Grifo, compagni di classe, sono quattro ragazzi come tanti, senza aspirazioni o interessi particolari, alla ricerca del minimo sforzo scolastico, del divertimento e, sia pure con risultati estremamente modesti, delle ragazze. Le vicende convergono, sul finire dell'anno scolastico, verso una spiaggia del litorale romano, dove i quattro ragazzi si ritrovano dopo l'esame di maturità.

Cléo weiß schon früh, dass sie den fürchterlich durchschnittlichen Verhältnissen, in denen sie aufwächst, entkommen will. Spätestens als sie bei einer banalen Modenschau von einer Mitschülerin ausgestochen wird, reift in ihr die Erkenntnis, dass sie sich rächen muss. Unerbittlich arbeitet Cléo jahrelang an ihrem Timbre, ihren Lyrics, ihrem Charisma, überhaupt an ihrer Außenwirkung bis ins winzigste Detail. Immer obsessiver verfolgt sie ihr einziges Ziel, geht dabei immer strenger mit sich selbst ins Gericht.

Meet Orlando: a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, poet, lover, adventurer—and, after a transformational sleep, a woman. Spanning over 300 years of British history, Orlando bends the rules of time, gender, and narrative as its protagonist navigates shifting societies, identities, and expectations, all while seeking something elusive: the truth of the self. Playful, profound, and radically ahead of its time, Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel is part love letter, part satire, and part meditation on the fluid nature of existence.

A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouac’s classic novel that defined a generation Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open...

Ci sono luoghi da cui sembra impossibile uscire, posti che ti stringono come una gabbia, tra strade che tornano sempre su se stesse e segreti che affondano fra le crepe dell'asfalto. Max lo sa bene. Lo vive tutti i giorni sulla propria pelle da che il padre, di punto in bianco, ha deciso di abbandonare lui e la mamma. Poi anche Rachele è scomparsa nel nulla, e tutto è diventato più cupo e soffocante. Per fortuna ci sono Cosma lo Zingaro, Tobia e Guido, il suo branco, gli amici di sempre, e le loro nottate di fumo e nostalgia alla Fabbrica abbandonata.

Adelaida Falcón, una maestra caraqueña, fallece tras una larga enfermedad. Su hija Adelaida, de treinta y ocho años, no tiene a nadie y vive en una ciudad donde la violencia marca el ritmo diario de la existencia. Poco tiempo después del entierro, encuentra su casa tomada por un grupo de mujeres a las órdenes de la Mariscala. Llama a la puerta de su vecina sin hallar respuesta: Aurora Peralta, a quien todos llaman «la hija de la española», ha muerto. En la mesa del salón, una carta le comunica la concesión del pasaporte español: un salvoconducto para huir del infierno.

Als er vierzehn ist, verliebt sich Hannes Prager in das Mädchen Polina. Um ihr seine Liebe zu zeigen, komponiert der wundersam begabte Junge eine Melodie, die Polinas ganzes Wesen und Wünschen umfasst. Kurz danach stirbt Hannes’ Mutter bei einem Unfall, mit ihr stirbt seine Musik, und Polina verschwindet aus seinem Leben. Nach Jahren, in denen er nichts als Leere fühlt, erkennt Hannes: Er muss Polina wiederfinden. Doch das Einzige, womit er sie erreichen kann, ist ihre Melodie.

""Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know.""—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times-bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry From the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping story about love, bravery, and what it means to...

Dies ist kein Kriminalroman. Hier geht es nicht um Verbrechen. Nein, hier wird warm und stimmungsvoll beschrieben, wie zwei Menschen einander helfen. Kommissar Waporetzki hat es einsam. Seine Wache ist abgelegen, fern aller Menschen und jeder Kriminalität. Er hat es so gewählt. Nichts hat er zu tun und sein Arbeitsort ist wunderschön. Er liebt es, allein zu sein. Aber es wird ein Einbruch gemeldet, der keiner ist. Der Kommissar ist mit einer Teenagerin konfrontiert, ganz zart, ganz harmlos. Sie schwimmt in Hilflosigkeit und er sieht sie. Er sieht sie und die Gewalt.

This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me. Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He does not have friends—the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his...