Stefano Massini Boeken

The novel in verse that inspired the sensational West End and Off-Broadway play, The Lehman Trilogy is the story of a family and a company that changed the world.

"How many times have words not been enough? How many complex feelings don't have a corresponding noun that properly describes them in the dictionary? How many times has a language left us like an archer without arrows in the labyrinth of our emotions? Award winning author Stefano Massini found himself feeling this way too often. With great surprise, he began to feel that the ancient rules of language were not a flowing palette of colors he could use to paint all things, but instead a limiting force robbing him of the freedom of expression. So, he returned to the wondrous mechanism that has fed our dictionaries from time immemorial. If a word was missing, he created one. Every chapter mentions a new word that comes from a story about a real person, from Louis XIV to an American gangster. The result is a flowing, beautifully-illustrated collection of linguistic origin stories wrought from the mind of an internationally renowned storytelling icon. In doing so, Massini effectively liberates the human capacity for using language creatively, and for embracing storytelling to fine tune our way of being in the world. If the language in the dictionary doesn't feel adequate to deal with reality here and now, he inspires readers to create new words that ring true"--

'Manuscripts don't burn' This ribald, carnivalesque satire - featuring the Devil, true love and a gun-toting cat - was written in the darkest days of the Soviet Union and became an underground sensation. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

Massini inventa le vite di undici donne straordinarie, ognuna con le proprie peculiarità, sogni e paure. Con una narrazione che alterna leggerezza, ironia e commozione, il lettore viene immerso nella storia di un gruppo di pioniere che sfida il predominio maschile nel calcio. Nel 1917, mentre i loro familiari sono al fronte, le operaie della Doyle & Walker Munizioni di Sheffield iniziano a giocare a calcio nel cortile della fabbrica, trovando un pallone abbandonato. Iniziano a divertirsi, si assegnano ruoli e affinano la tecnica, attirando l'attenzione del padrone, che le invita a disputare una vera partita. Questo segna l'inizio di una stagione d'oro per il calcio femminile, che guadagna popolarità in assenza dei campionati maschili. Tuttavia, le istituzioni calcistiche maschili, una volta terminata la guerra, tenteranno di riportare le donne al loro posto. Ispirandosi a eventi reali, Massini racconta le storie di queste undici donne, portando alla luce le loro sfide e conquiste in un'epoca di cambiamenti e lotte per l'uguaglianza.