Titoli in Narrativa contemporanea

Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work...

Ci sono i Pearl Jam, ci sono anni senza pace in cui il mondo lascia indifferenti, c'è Q, il chitarrista incontrato per caso con cui capirsi è facile e con cui si condivide tutto. E poi c'è un viaggio - insensato e indimenticabile - attraverso l'Europa, muovendosi di notte, tornando a casa per comprare il whisky dove costa meno, per rimettersi in marcia un minuto dopo rifacendo la rotta al contrario, con lo zaino di nuovo pieno di bottiglie, per mille chilometri, e altri mille ancora.

Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor-husband, Guy, move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and only elderly residents. Neighbours Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome them; despite Rosemary's reservations about...

Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori Montagna, who is suffering from an acute identity crisis, wants to know more about her own past, and after doing a DNA test, she discovers that she has a relative she didn't know about. But her newfound family causes a bit of a rift between her and her flatmate, Antonia Collie. Bertie's dream of moving to the promised land – the Dear Green Place – comes crashing down as he learns that he is to move to the far northeast – Peterhead, near Aberdeen, leaving poor Ranald Braveheart Macpherson a little heartbroken and lost.

Ein Flugzeugabsturz - nur ein namenloses Baby überlebt. 1980. In der Vorweihnachtsnacht kommt es im verschneiten Jura zu einem tragischen Unfall: Ein Flugzeugabsturz, den allein ein kleines Baby überlebt. Doch auf der Passagierliste sind zwei Säuglinge vermerkt, beide Mädchen, beide drei Monate alt. Welches der Babys wurde gerettet? In einer Zeit, in der es noch keine DNA-Tests gibt, ist dies kaum mit Sicherheit nachzuweisen.

From Matthew Quick, bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, comes a heartfelt, unconventional and moving novel for readers who love John Green and Annabel Pitcher. Nanette O'Hare is an unassuming teen who has played the role of dutiful daughter, hard-working student, and star athlete...

Quando arriverà il raccolto, in gennaio, sarà troppo tardi. Tutti avranno saputo, quelli che siedono a tavola con lei, parlando della mietitura e della fiera del bestiame. Per ora, Nefer cova in sé il suo segreto, che si espande lento dentro di lei, come un fungo nero che si gonfia fino alla gola. Le si leggerà negli occhi, il suo seme triste che cresce senza pietà? «Sei ridotta pelle e ossa» le dice sua madre. E lei, logorata dalla nausea, ma ancora di più dalla paura e dalla vergogna, si contrae, desiderosa solo di sparire.

Brought to you by Penguin. NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF APPLE TV+ The much anticipated prequel to bestseller Wool that takes us back to the beginnings of the silo. In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is...

Sometimes an offer is just too good to refuse but when reluctant racer Axel Warlow returns to the Isle of Man TT he unleashes a series of events that threaten to change his life forever.

Una giovane donna recentemente balzata alla ribalta per i suoi post virali sui social media viaggia in tutto il mondo per incontrare i suoi fan adoranti. La sua esistenza è ormai un'immersione totale nella navigazione online, nel nuovo linguaggio e negli usi e costumi di quello che lei chiama "il portale". Nemmeno l'incombere di minacce esistenziali di enorme portata (il cambiamento climatico, il dilagare della precarietà economica, l'ascesa di un dittatore senza nome e un'epidemia di solitudine) è in grado di arrestare la valanga di immagini, dettagli e riferimenti che si accumulano.

Una novela conmovedora e inteligente sobre lo que sucede cuando la vida nos arrastra por caminos que no elegimos. Un invernadero emocional donde cada personaje busca la luz, incluso cuando ya no sabe hacia dónde germinar. Juana acaba de cumplir cincuenta años cuando su marido, Connor, la deja...

When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didn't say much. He told my father to be a painter and left it at that . . . ' So begins Niall Williams' magical tale about love and destiny. Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore were made for each other -- but fate doesn't...

Bloomsbury presents TransAtlantic by Colum McCann, read by Geraldine Hughes. SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2013 'It is, simply, perfect' Irish Examiner 'Majestic' Sunday...

Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity...

Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery, but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life in prison.

On any given day, in any given city, countless people are arriving and departing... to visit grandma, to close a business deal, to hook up with a lover, to climb a mountain. Intrepid traveler Luis is trapped in flight delay and has many hours to see and hear and sense his fellow passengers. As he grows more invisible, the kinetic world around him takes on a life of its own.

When Joe Reed was a teenager, he fell so deeply in love with Mary Claude Moore that his parents threatened to send him away. Decades later, he's living a normal life with his wife and their two children; yet in the thirty years since he's last seen Mary Claude, he hasn't stopped thinking of her...

Dr. Booth drives his son, Owen, to Fort Steele Academy, where he hopes his son will thrive in a structured, disciplined environment that mirrors Booth’s own upbringing. But after he drops Owen off at his new school, he’s filled with a deep sense of doubt—about his decision to send his son...

Im Salon der Frau Altenschul trifft sich die jüdische Crème Berlins – eine postume Zusammenkunft, denn sämtliche Gäste wurden von den Nazis ermordet. Die Toten möchten inmitten schöner Dinge den gewaltsamen Tod und das Massengrab vergessen – doch auch die Mörder zieht es an denselben...

Was machen vier schräge Vögel in der Silvesternacht zusammen auf dem Dach eines Londoner Hochhauses? Party? Weit gefehlt! Zufällig wollen sie sich alle gleichzeitig vom Dach stürzen. Doch, dass andere zusehen, macht die Sache nicht leichter. Also erstmal eine Runde plaudern - und sich dann...