Titoli in Metafisica e visionaria

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers. Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut. As Bill enters the...

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Un livello dopo l’altro, un’esperienza dopo l’altra, Silvano Rei si trasforma. La sua evoluzione non è graduale, ma si compie attraverso momenti violenti di introspezione e di esibizione. Vuole cambiare, vuole stare nel tempo, e cambiare la sua percezione delle cose, e con la percezione delle cose cambiare gli universi, come opere d’arte contemporanea, attraenti, incomunicabili. Rei non resta mai uguale: è necessario mutare per appartenere a un mondo, per comprenderlo e conviverci, anche se per poco. Ogni frame è una performance, e ogni performance è la vita.

Elena si sposta da una parte all’altra del mondo, vaga come mossa da un destino oscuro. L’acqua ha sommerso buona parte delle terre conosciute, gli animali si sono pressoché estinti e tutto lascia presagire la fine della vita sul Pianeta. Ma qualcosa c’è ancora, e tutti gli esseri con cui avrà a che fare nei suoi viaggi hanno qualcosa da raccontare, esperienze che finiranno per intrecciarsi col destino di Elena, che in qualche modo sembra essere legato al destino dell’umanità e degli elementi.

Nyriaana and Juaan are no longer protected by the might of the Hunting Bear Clan. Alone and on the run, they need to choose their allies and enemies wisely if they are to evade the vengeful clutches of their former chief, Eldrax. But with nowhere to hide, can they truly run forever? Tormented by visions of the fabled Last Kamaali, Nyriaana must now decide if she is ready to sacrifice everything in order to fulfil her ultimate destiny. In doing so, she may not only lose those she loves most, but unwittingly awaken ancient powers that will jeopardise the very existence of humanity.

In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one’s own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist traces a global journey from Vancouver to the United States, Caribbean, Paris, and Morocco as a relationship with her lover and travel partner disintegrates and she finds herself on a path toward personal discovery and spiritual fulfillment that leads her deep into the North African landscape.

Three seemingly unrelated events are part of a mosaic created by Satan’s warriors to lure Brady, the young man who talks with angels and who can call on the Light of the Blessed Virgin, to a place where his maddening interference will be destroyed once and for all. But Brady is anointed by God for such a time as this. With his brothers and an ancient line of Hebrew warriors at his side, he again charges boldly into battle, facing Satan’s foulest in Rome, Paris, and a place of unspeakable horror in Calcutta, India, as he comes to the aid of an Albanian nun.

Hannah, a forty-six-year-old author plagued with anxiety, and her partner James, an HR recruiter caught in a headlock of grief over his brother’s death, are as desperate for inner peace as they are clueless about how to find it. But when they embark on a sunny bike ride shortly after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, a split-second decision propels them into different versions of their lives—ones they don’t recognize as their own. With a mental fog obscuring their recent past and who they were, they are forced to dig inside themselves to figure out who they are now.

A young musician in England who has been suffering from depression and a nervous ailment goes on holiday in order to recuperate. While abroad, she meets an Italian artist, Cellini, who gives her a special draught for relaxation. The young woman has divine visions under the influence of the strange potion which she longs to have again. Cellini takes her to a doctor who describes himself as an “electric physician,” and with his help she is able to experience more visions. With each vision she learns more about religion and the destiny of mankind, but it is not enough.

Flock Without Birds comes in two volumes, with neither one first or second—it’s up to the listener to start with the Story or the Book. In the Story, an aging philosopher tells the tale of the Book—a tale of love that spans centuries, continents, and precious texts. Adam, who will one day write the Book, is a young PhD student torn between love and his obsession—coding an algorithm to sift the world’s data and find God, dead or alive. But a series of mysterious paintings lead him on a winding journey from Cambridge through a Faustian bargain to the edge of reason.

Ambientada en un futuro distópico perturbadoramente cercano, Akogare narra la historia de la Federación, un grupo que busca revertir la devastación ecológica y social en curso. La Federación nace a partir de un grupo de universitarios que provienen de diferentes zonas del mundo. Para poder sustraerse al dominio de las grandes corporaciones que fulminan toda intimidad, los protagonistas deberán crear un espacio mental de comunicación telepática llamado Akogare donde intercambiar conocimientos y poder evadirse con su actividad onírica.

Zephrum is a core player in uncovering the mystery of the “purple haze” that has enveloped her closest town, Haversville. Following clues to uncovering the mystery, Zephrum encounters spiritual beings, strange wind phenomena, fairies, moss folk, goblins, a leprechaun, a very wild horse ride, and the very scary man behind the chair. As she gets closer to solving the mystery of the “purple haze”, a variety of hidden talents reveal themselves to her.

"El cuento más hermoso del mundo": Charlie Mears es un joven con fervientes aspiraciones literarias. Un día, conoce a un escritor experimentado con el que entabla amistad. Charlie no tiene demasiado talento literario, sus versos son mediocres y están llenos de tópicos. No obstante, el escritor descubre en él una capacidad sorprendente para explicar emocionantes historias sobre goletas griegas y barcos vikingos.

In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers listeners transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone—runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium, Masih’s characters are diverse in identity and circumstance, defying the burden of erasure by disappearing into or emerging from physical and emotional landscapes.

Dios había muerto: para empezar. Y el romanticismo había muerto. La gallardía había muerto. La poesía, la novela, la pintura, todas habían muerto, y el arte había muerto. El teatro y el cine habían muerto. La literatura había muerto. Muchísimas cosas habían muerto. Sin embargo, otras no habían muerto, de momento. La vida todavía no había muerto. La revolución no había muerto. La igualdad racial no había muerto. El odio no había muerto.

Living deep within the mysterious southern forests, the spiritual Ninkuraaja people are being hunted to the brink of extinction by bloodthirsty raiders known only as Woves. Nobody knows better than a Ninkuraa that a Wove deserves only death.

Apol·lo o Dionís? Saber erudit o veritat vital? Oblit del cos o ex-altació dels instints masculins? Mossèn Miquel, protagonista d'"Entre dues llums", prova de respondre a aquestes preguntes i es mou en una angoixa que l’abocarà a un destí peculiar. El narrador proposa una visió excèntrica del mite de l’immortal i sempre d’actualitat Èdip de Sòfocles, amb la qual el lector s’adonarà dels estralls que pot arribar a provocar un sentiment de culpa portat a l’extrem, condicionat per la figura materna i la poca alternativa que hi ha al fet d’haver nascut.

Gregor té un increïble talent per inventar qualsevol cosa que serà d’utilitat pel futur. Desafortunadament, és menys capaç de guarir els seus assumptes, potser perquè la ciència li interessa més que la seva pròpia vida. Aprofitant aquest desavantatge, d’altres científics li acaben robant tot. Per distreure’s de tot això, Gregor es quedarà amb la companyia dels llampecs i el teatre dels ocells.

Presence, the Play offers a penetrating perspective on the vital role personal presence plays in the essence of life. This timely, captivating novel speaks to a growing hunger for a way of life that’s real and tangible, the opposite of an artificial existence lived in a realm of mediated connectivity.

It’s been a year since Yuki Hirano left home - or more precisely, was booted from it—to study forestry in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. Being a woodsman is not the future he imagined, but his name means “courage,” and Yuki hopes to live up to it. He’s adapting to his job and learning constantly. In between, he records local legends—tales pulsing with life, passion, and wondrous gods. Kamusari has other charms as well. One of them is Nao.