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Panza de burro- Andrea Abreu
Daisy Haites
· 2022
Normal People: A Novel
Sally Rooney · 2019
NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan). “[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—The Washington Post ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: People, Slate, The New York Public Library, Harvard Crimson Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship, and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t. WINNER: The British Book Award, The Costa Book Award, The An Post Irish Novel of the Year, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country
Blue Sisters: A Novel
Coco Mellors · 2024
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this unforgettable story of grief, hope, and the complexities of family, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein.<br/><br/>“Sparkling with wit, shot through with longing, Blue Sisters is a beautiful novel, both dazzlingly joyful and achingly sad.”—Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street<br/><br/>The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left the family reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.<br/><br/>But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize that the greatest secrets they’ve been keeping might not have been from one another but from themselves.<br/><br/>Imbued with Coco Mellors’s signature combination of humor and heart, Blue Sisters is a story of what it takes to keep living after loss—and, ultimately, to fall in love with life again.
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors · 2022
The smash National bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist--perfect for readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends. An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple’s impulsive marriage.<br/><br/>Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank’s life is full of all the excesses Cleo’s lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could’ve predicted.<br/><br/>Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it’s Cleo’s best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo’s marriage, or Frank’s financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last.<br/><br/>As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.
El secreto
Donna Tartt · 2023
30 ANIVERSARIO<br/>POR LA AUTORA DE EL JILGUERO, GANADORA DEL PREMIO PULITZER<br/><br/>«La historia del misterioso asesinato que sigue fascinando treinta años después.»<br/>BBC<br/><br/>«Una auténtica maravilla. [...] Contundente, sólida e impecablemente contada.»<br/>The New York Times<br/>«Donna Tartt es una escritora increíblemente buena: profunda, sugerente. Una narradora extraordinaria.»<br/>Stephen King<br/><br/>UNO DE LOS 18 MEJORES LIBROS DE MISTERIO SEGÚN ESQUIRE<br/><br/>La vida no es fácil en un college de Nueva Inglaterra si eres un chico modesto y falto de afecto que llega de California, y Richard Papen lo sabe; por eso agradece que lo admitan en un pequeño grupo de cinco estudiantes capitaneados por un profesor de literatura clásica con mucho carisma y pocos escrúpulos.<br/>Los chicos sueltan comentarios en griego y se ríen de la ingenuidad y la torpeza de los demás, pero bien mirado se pasan el día bebiendo y engullendo pastillas. Hasta que un mal día lo que parecían chiquilladas adquieren una gravedad inesperada.Es entonces cuando Richard y su pandilla descubren qué difícil es vivir sin máscaras y qué fácil es matar sin remordimientos.<br/>El secreto, primera novela de la gran Donna Tartt, se cuenta entre las mejores obras del siglo XX.<br/>«Uno de esos libros nacidos para ser clásicos instantáneos. Una lectura perfecta para estar en el sofá, tapado, con la única necesidad de devorar sus páginas (advertencia: tiene un alto componente adictivo, que su longitud no cause rechazo a los curiosos). [...] Durante sus páginas se puede disfrutar con todo: el misterio, el lujo, amores no correspondidos... El propio college semeja un elemento vivo más. Cualquier enamoradode la estética dark academia (hola, Miércoles Adams) encontrará aquí el santo grial».<br/>Alba Álvarez (autora de Pellejos), Vogue<br/><br/>«Lo recomiendo mucho; es el que siempre regalo a mis amigos.»<br/>Virginia Feito, autora de La señora March<br/>«Una auténtica maravilla. [...] Contundente, sólida e impecablemente contada.»<br/>The New York Times<br/>«Irresistibe y seductor. Un placer culpable.»<br/>The Guardian<br/>«Una novela imposible de abandonar hasta la última página.»<br/>John Grisham<br/>«La voz de Tartt no es como la de sus contemporáneos. Su bello lenguaje, su intrincado argumento y sus fascinantes personajes ya se notan de lejos en su debut.»<br/>Cosmopolitan<br/>«Vestida como un diminuto gentleman andrógino, con zapatos Oxford, chalecos y corbatas y peinada con un bob imperturbable (desde Tom Wolfe, ningún escritor había hecho tan bien lo del autobranding), a Tartt la rodeaba un relato fabuloso, una historia que se ha demostrado no del todo o casi nada cierta que hablaba de gentileza del Sur y dinero viejo. [El secreto] se ha convertido en un libro de culto, muy citado, leído y disfrutado.»<br/>Begoña Gómez Urzaiz, El País<br/>«Como entretenimiento de ritmo feroz, es un éxito magnífico.»<br/>The New York Times<br/>«Una novela descomunal, fascinante e arrolladora.»<br/>Vanity Fair<br/>«Inquietante, convincente y maravilloso. [...] Repleto de referencias literarias, con un estilo elegante y una atmósfera que recuerdan más al siglo XIX que el XX.»<br/>The Time<br/>«El secreto es una auténtica maravilla... Una historia poderosa y planificada paso a paso.»<br/>The New York Times
To Read
Ensayo sobre la ceguera
José Saramago • 1995
Un hombre parado ante un semáforo en rojo se queda ciego súbitamente. Es el primer caso de una «ceguera blanca» que luego se propaga de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos en la ciudad, los ciegos tendrán que enfrentarse a lo más primitivo de la naturaleza humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir a toda costa.<br/><br/>Con esas premisas, José Saramago traza una imagen aterradora y conmovedora de los tiempos de crisis. También, en el cruce de la literatura y la sabiduría, nos exhorta a los lectores a cerrar los ojos y ver más allá de las evidencias. Recuperar la lucidez y rescatar el afecto son dos propuestas fundamentales de una novela que es, además, una reflexión sobre la ética del amor y la solidaridad.
Un Mundo Feliz
Aldous Huxley • 1932
1984
George Orwell • 2021
Edizione originale in lingua inglese, con nota introduttiva in italiano<br/><br/>”Il potere non è un mezzo, è un fine. Non si stabilisce una dittatura nell’intento di salvaguardare una rivoluzione; ma si fa una rivoluzione nell’intento di stabilire una dittatura. Il fine della persecuzione è la persecuzione. Il fine della tortura è la tortura. Il fine del potere è il potere.”<br/><br/>Il romanzo, pubblicato pochi anni dopo la conclusione del secondo conflitto mondiale, è una spietata e profetica riflessione sul potere. È considerato una delle più lucide rappresentazioni del totalitarismo e anche uno dei primi e più importanti esempi di romanzo distopico. L’azione si svolge infatti in un futuro prossimo del mondo (l’anno 1984) in cui il potere si concentra in tre immensi superstati: Oceania (con capitale Londra), Eurasia ed Estasia. Al vertice del potere politico in Oceania c’è il Grande Fratello (“Big Brother”), onnisciente e infallibile, che nessuno ha visto di persona ma di cui ovunque sono visibili grandi manifesti. Il Ministero della Verità, nel quale lavora il protagonista Smith, ha il compito di censurare libri e giornali non in linea con la politica ufficiale, di alterare la storia e di ridurre le possibilità espressive della lingua. Per quanto sia tenuto sotto controllo da telecamere, Smith comincia però a condurre un'esistenza “sovversiva”.<br/><br/>“Big Brother is watching you”: con questo slogan l’autore britannico ha mostrato la propria lungimiranza, ponendo l’accento su uno dei temi più caldi al giorno d’oggi: il controllo del potere sull’opinione pubblica perpetrato mediante i mezzi di comunicazione. Pietra miliare della letteratura inglese, 1984 è uno dei romanzi più conosciuti e forse più controversi del secolo scorso. Un romanzo in grado di smuovere le coscienze e di portare il lettore a riflettere sul passato, sul presente e soprattutto sul futuro.<br/><br/>George Orwell è lo pseudonimo di Eric Arthur Blair, nato in India da una famiglia scozzese nel 1903 e morto a Londra nel 1950. Giornalista culturale, saggista, critico letterario, Orwell è oggi considerato uno dei maggiori autori di lingua inglese del Novecento.<br/><br/>Con nota introduttiva.<br/>Collana Il Disoriente - Luoghi della lettura
Lo que pasa es que te quiero, Gloria Fuertes
La insoportable levedad del ser - Milan Kundera
