Titoli in Vita in città

"Read by multiple narrators, the audiobook highlights the novel’s multiple perspectives. The use of accents helps ground the listeners in each character while helping build the tension between players." — Booklist “Isuri Wijesundara, Lipica Shah, and Vikas Adam perform the story’s...

Regarded as one of the most important works in American literature and among the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, The Great Gatsby is the quintessential portrait of Jazz Age America, depicting not only the wild parties, romance, love, and the intense and often unfulfilled desire for wealth and status, but also the immorality, loneliness, disappointment and corruption of The Roaring Twenties.

Über 600.000 verkaufte Exemplare in Südkorea: Der Kultroman endlich auf Deutsch! Der Überraschungserfolg aus Südkorea! Eine ergreifende Geschichte darüber, wie Liebe, Freundschaft und der Mut, sich anderen zu öffnen, ein Leben für immer verändern können. Der Junge Yunjae ist ein Außenseiter. Eine angeborene Erkrankung macht es ihm schwer, Gefühle wie Angst, Freude oder Wut zu empfinden. Als er von einem Tag auf den anderen auf sich allein gestellt ist, wächst er über sich hinaus, schließt überraschend Freundschaft und weckt Kräfte in sich, die er nie für möglich gehalten hätte ...

Bloomsbury presents Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, read by Rosa Escoda. **AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 PICK WOMAN & HOME NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH iPaper TOP FICTION PICK 'An absolutely charming novel that all bookworms will adore'...

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is...

Julianne hasst Überraschungen. Ihr Leben ist durchgeplant, jeder Tag bis ins kleinste Detail organisiert. Als ihr launischer Vater Jean nach einem Hausbrand bei ihr einzieht, gerät ihre perfekte Struktur aus dem Takt. Jean, der schon immer ein Freigeist war, bringt seine Rente mit Teleshopping durch, hört laut Hardrock im Wohnzimmer und legt sich mit den Nachbarn an.Doch hinter seinem exzentrischen Verhalten scheint mehr zu stecken. Julianne, die das Chaos nicht mehr ignorieren kann, spürt eine lähmende Sorge in ihrem Magen – die Diagnose Alzheimer steht wie ein Schatten zwischen ihnen.

"When you're not getting any, sex is EVERYWHERE. I've also developed a paranoia that people can sense that Josh and I haven't had sex for 180 nights. There are prison sentences shorter than this." I haven't had sex for 180 days. Josh and I have been together for 10 happy years, so it's only...

To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense sermons and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster. Soon enough Irene Pollock is shocked to learn that her small son Bertie harbours a highly unsuitable ambition; and Angus finds himself facing a large Glaswegian gangster.

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Random House presents the audiobook edition of Dead Men's Trousers by Irvine Welsh, read by Tam Dean Burn. Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless...

“An exhilaratingly weird and funny Japanese novel about a long-term convenience store employee. Unsettling and totally unpredictable—my copy is now heavily underlined.” —Sally Rooney, The Guardian Selling over a million copies in Japan and named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker...

Journalistin Hazel soll den maskierten Mann ausfindig machen und interviewen, der auf einem Foto aus dem exklusiven Phoenix-Club zu sehen ist. Nichts leichter als das - es handelt sich schließlich um ihren neuen Mitbewohner Kieran Black. Doch auch wenn Hazel schon seit Langem geheime Fantasien hegt, scheitert sie immer wieder an ihrer Schüchternheit und würde lieber im Erdboden versinken, als Kieran zu dem Club und seiner Mitgliedschaft dort zu befragen. Kieran Black sieht keinen Sinn in festen Beziehungen.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of All the Good Things by Clare Fisher, read by Emily Atack. Twenty-one year old Beth is in prison. The thing she did is so bad she doesn't deserve ever to feel good again. But her counsellor, Erika, won't give up on her. She asks...

Futura ha vent'anni, parla poco e osserva molto, affacciandosi al mondo da dietro i suoi occhi viola e verdi. Conserva le emozioni ben schedate in un archivio, nell'armadio di fianco al letto. Le ha messe in ordine alfabetico, ma solo per il gusto di aprirle a caso. Intrappolata in una relazione insana, si logora e crogiola nel dolore, vittima di una dipendenza affettiva dalla quale sembra non vedere né volere vie di scampo. Come si può desiderare l'amore se non si sa riconoscerlo?

Chi vive a Taranto è stanco di sentir parlare di Ilva, tanto nulla cambierà mai. Mezzo secolo fa la fabbrica ha strappato la città di pescatori alla povertà assicurando lavoro e benessere, e anche oggi la città di uomini pensa di non poter fare a meno della città di acciaio. Così, tutto diventa normale: la polvere nera si spazza via, il divieto di giocare nei parchi appare come una cautela eccessiva, i morti si seppelliscono. Si va avanti. È in questa Taranto malata e impotente che, nell'estate del 2009, fa ritorno Daniela Spera, dopo alcuni anni trascorsi a Parigi.

Obra de ritmo vertiginoso, cuyos temas principales son, en palabras de la autora, «el silencio, el arte y Juan Rulfo». Autor: Fernanda Trias Narrador: Ana...

In his first novel, the best-selling true crime author and star of ID's hit series Dark Minds takes you into the world of a sadistic serial killer.

Who is Vernon Subutex? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is struggling. With his savings gone, his unemployment benefit cut and the friend who had been covering his rent suddenly dead, Vernon Subutex finds himself down and out on the Paris streets. He has one final card up his sleeve. 

Bloomsbury presents Cheesecake by Mark Kurlanksy, read by Nathan Agin From New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky, a delectable novel following one Manhattan block as an ancient cheesecake recipe—and a conniving landlord—change the Upper West Side forever. West 86th Street knows...

Con una trama tenue y la superposición de diálogos tan desbordantes como precisos, apenas once horas en la vida de seis personajes le bastaron a Fogwill para explorar, en esta novela publicada originalmente en 1998, una de las crisis más emblemáticas y contradictorias de la Argentina.

Oyeyemi treats you to a kaleidoscopic weekend in Prague, as dazzling as it is effortlessly unique. Get lost in the story like you would an unfamiliar city and let it reward you with moments of philosophical clarity, wheelbarrow rides, raw emotion and raw onions. This novel is a holiday, an adventure, a marvel and a guide. It is a story about the lies behind the lies we tell and a city as a living thing, sustained by the lives of its inhabitants. Suffused with warmth and joy, Parasol Against the Axe is a love letter to Prague, and to the art of storytelling.