Titoli in Romanzo di formazione

An honest story about recovery and coping with both past and present, framed by the meteoric rise and fall of the band Nirvana and the wide-reaching scope of the #metoo movement, Nirvana is Here explores issues of identity, race, sex, and family with both poignancy and unexpected humor. Deftly told intertwining stories with rich, real characters are reminiscent of the sensuality and haunting nostalgia of Andre Aciman's Call Me By Your Name blended with the raw emotion of Kurt Cobain's lyrics.

A passionate and page-turning saga with an unsolved murder that consumes three lives over several decades in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Told through these three voices The Orphans of Race Point is a novel of suspense, betrayal, and the different ways we find transcendence and meaning in our lives. But most of all, it is a gorgeous and unforgettable love story.

Pip is an orphan, brought up in a village on the Essex marshes by his disagreeable sister and her husband Joe Gargery, the kind-hearted village blacksmith. Life is harsh and Pip has few prospects until he receives from an anonymous benefactor the chance of escaping the forge for a more promising life in London. But his expectations are fraught with difficulties as he is haunted by figures from his past such as the escaped convict Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her proud, beautiful ward, Estella.

The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their 20s, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile Elena continues her journey of self-discovery.

La guerra ha lasciato la piccola città sulla collina, il frastuono è passato e anche se le notizie dal fronte ormai lontano ne portano ancora l'eco, l'insopprimibile soffio della vita riemerge dalla terra, torna a percorrere con le sue antiche superstizioni e leggende i borghi, le chiese, le grandi stanze in penombra delle vecchie ville. Nascono nuovi amori, tornano rancori mai dimenticati.

Freakishly smart. That’s the unwelcome box Ru Evans is put into for life. After all, she taught herself Euclidean geometry at age seven, has an eidetic memory, and is about to enter college at thirteen years old. Boarding at a house near campus 150 miles from home, Ru meets seventeen-year-old Gabriel, an outsider himself who, like Ru, has trouble making friends—until they form a fast sibling-like bond. Finding a relatable someone in the world to talk to is a first for both of them.

Una familia hace un viaje de mudanza a un pueblo de trabajadores en las afueras de la ciudad. Un niño, el hijo, comprende con asombro que el mundo que conoce, se acaba en ese mismo sitio donde surgirá uno nuevo. El punto límite para esa transición entre lo conocido y lo ignorado, o lo real y...

Ben has just returned from a war waged against a nameless enemy. To avoid being nabbed by police and forced to work in a factory, he’ll need to find a wife. But to do that, he must wear a bachelor’s suit—and the tailor won’t make one for him.

"Eugenio, quali sono i tuoi panni?" chiese Cristiàn. "Sono un commesso, un esperto di moda, uno che sta cercando di sopravvivere al trattamento di Clelia." "Stop, attenzione: tu potrai essere esperto di moda, anche se l'autoreferenzialità è il secondo male del mondo, dopo l'inesperienza. Ma non sei un commesso! Sai che cosa ci vuole per essere un commesso?" "Saperne di moda." "Altro errore. Tu non hai sbagliato perché hai detto "bucherellato" invece di "traforato", o hai chiesto la taglia alla cliente. O, meglio, non solo per questo.

"Todo parecía ir bien, pero Blanca sabía que nada iba bien en realidad". Una novela generacional, fresca y mordaz. Una mañana de 1993, la vida de Blanca se rompe cuando su padre le anuncia que su madre no regresará. A partir de entonces, Blanca teme que pueda tener un don insólito: la capacidad de obrar milagros, aunque el primero sea provocar la muerte de una niña que se burla de su situación familiar.

Korea's brightest literary star sets this complex and nuanced coming-of-age story against the backdrop of Korea's industrial sweatshops of the 1970s and takes on the extreme exploitation, oppression, and urbanization that helped catapult Korea's economy out of the ashes of war. But it was girls like Shin's heroine who formed the bottom of Seoul's rapidly changing social hierarchy, forgotten and ignored.

Primavera 1950. A San Felice Maggiore, un piccolo paese nel cuore del Matese, nascono, a tre mesi di distanza l'una dall'altra, due bambine: Michela, orfana di madre, è riservata, taciturna, solitaria; Annamaria invece è il sole, amichevole con tutti e piena di vita. Michela ed Annamaria diventano grandi insieme, condividendo ogni momento importante dell'età dell'adolescenza, dai giochi ai rapporti con i ragazzi. Fino al giorno in cui Michela sparisce nel nulla.

Il protagonista di "Inseguendo Gauguin" - il "ragazzo", e non ha altro nome incontra casualmente una ragazza e la Grande Occasione. Perderà istantaneamente questa e quella, e nel giro di quattrocento pagine mozzafiato se la caverà alla grande, diventerà adulto e rapace, si vendicherà dei cattivoni (ci sono sei tipi diversi di cattivoni, in questo romanzo), e porterà a casa un'Occasione ancora più Grande e una ragazza molto più bella e cazzuta della prima.

Il romanzo narra la storia di Pablo, un giovanotto piccolo-borghese che trascorre tutto il suo tempo dietro il banco di un negozio dove si vendono tabacchi e alla sera suona la chitarra con gli amici. Pablo però si sente solo soprattutto dopo che l'amico Amelio ha avuto un grave incidente con la moto insieme a Linda, la sua ragazza, e non può più muovere le gambe.

When the Croatian War of Independence breaks out in her hometown of Vukovar in the summer of 1991, she is nine years old, nestled within the embrace of family with her father, mother, and older brother. She is sent on a seaside vacation to be far from the hostilities. Meanwhile, her father has disappeared while fighting with the Croatian forces. By the time she returns at summer's end, everything has changed.

Blue Echohawk doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know her real name or when she was born. Abandoned at two and raised by a drifter, she didn't attend school until she was ten years old. At nineteen, when most kids her age are attending college or moving on with life, she is just a senior in high school. With no mother, no father, no faith, and no future, Blue Echohawk is a difficult student, to say the least.

After a horrific incident, Swayze finds herself trapped between two lives. Patchy memories and fear for her own safety thrust her into a gut-wrenching journey to uncover the truth. Will she let her dreams slip away to seek retribution and find the missing pieces to a puzzle that existed a lifetime ago?

Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling thirty years after it first appeared.

Mein Name ist Noah. Ich bin erst siebzehn, doch ich habe bereits alles verloren – mein Zuhause, meine Familie, meine Freunde. Den Glauben an eine Zukunft hat Noah längst verloren, als plötzlich zwei Fremde auftauchen. Sie suchen einen Weg nach England. Doch die Insel gilt bereits seit Jahren als durchseucht, niemand wagt sich freiwillig dorthin. Was wollen die beiden Fremden dort und weshalb brauchen sie ausgerechnet Noahs Hilfe?

Au grand jour, Noé vit avec son père, agriculteur qui peine à faire vivre sa ferme laitière. À la nuit tombée, Noé vit avec son temps. Silencieux à la campagne, il se répand sur la toile. Invisible à la lumière, il brille dans le Darknet. Noé dans le réel, JeSuis315, dans le virtuel. Mais la frontière entre les deux se brouille quand des événements étranges viennent perturber son quotidien, si bien que le jour et la nuit semblent se confondre.