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Angelo Morino

    Del Amor y otros demonios
    Liefde in tijden van cholera
    Ontvoeringsbericht
    Liefde en schaduw
    Distant Star
    Strange Pilgrims
    • Strange Pilgrims

      • 208bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      This collection features twelve extraordinary stories by a Nobel Prize-winning author, renowned for his classic works. Set in contemporary Europe, the narratives explore the unique and remarkable experiences of Latin Americans abroad. An ailing Caribbean ex-President finds an unlikely friendship with an ambitious ambulance driver and his strong-willed wife in Geneva. Margarito Duarte travels from the Colombian Andes to Rome with a cello-shaped box to present to the Pope. In Vienna, a woman known as Frau Frieda supports herself by sharing her dreams with wealthy families. A Mexican performer, stranded in Barcelona due to a car breakdown, ends up in an asylum. A vacationing family in Tuscany encounters a ghost at a Renaissance castle owned by a famous Venezuelan writer. Maria dos Prazeres, a former lady of the night in Barcelona, dreams of death and begins planning her funeral. A widow in a Saint Francis habit sails from Argentina to meet the Pope, while a beautiful Caribbean boy descends into madness in Spain. A German governess wreaks havoc on her charges’ summer, leading to her own downfall. Billy Sanchez takes his pregnant wife to a Paris hospital, never to see her again. In this mesmerizing collection, the author invites readers into enchanting worlds, leaving them spellbound.

      Strange Pilgrims
      4,1
    • Distant Star

      • 176bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider's dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation amongst his old poetry friends. číst celé

      Distant Star
      4,0
    • Liefde en schaduw

      • 295bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      Een vrouwelijke en een mannelijke journalist in een dictatoriaal geregeerd Zuidamerikaans land ontdekken een illegaal massagraf voor ʺvermistenʺ.

      Liefde en schaduw
      3,9
    • Ontvoeringsbericht

      • 323bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      Als twee journalistes na een drukke werkdag worden klemgereden, denken ze aan een roofoverval. Maar als hun chauffeur wordt doodgeschoten en de twee vrouwen in gereedstaande auto's worden geduwd, beseffen ze dat ze het slachtoffer zijn van een ontvoering. Begin jaren negentig werd de Colombiaanse samenleving geteisterd door een reeks ontvoeringen. De in het nauw gedreven drugsbaron Pablo Escobar probeerde met zijn terreurdaden de regering onder druk te zetten om daarmee zo gunstig mogelijke voorwaarden af te dwingen voor zijn overgave. Ontvoeringsbericht laat zien wat de invloed van deze gebeurtenissen is op het leven van de slachtoffers en hun familie en op de stabiliteit van een land als geheel.

      Ontvoeringsbericht
      3,9
    • Liefde in tijden van cholera

      Roman

      • 525bladzijden
      • 19 uur lezen

      Liefde in tijden van cholera is het onvergetelijke liefdesverhaal van Florentino Ariza en Fermina. Op ongeëvenaarde wijze worden grote thema's als liefde, dood, ouderdom, noodlot en begeerte samengebracht in een mild en menselijk universum.

      Liefde in tijden van cholera
      3,9
    • Del Amor y otros demonios

      • 198bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      Set in the lush, coastal tropics of 18-century colonial Colombia, this is the story of Sierva Maria and the priest Cayetano Delaura, whose chaste love affair leads to their destruction.

      Del Amor y otros demonios
      3,9
    • In this Nobel Prize-winning novel, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the vibrant life of young Marito in 1960s Lima, Peru. His world shifts with the arrival of his older aunt Julia, sparking a secret romance, and the eccentric scriptwriter Pedro Camacho, whose wild soap operas captivate the city. A masterful blend of humor and chaos.

      Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter
      3,8
    • 'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin' Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a sensual and hypnotic journey through the mind of a man discovering love for the first time after a lifetime filled with hundreds of different women. The nights spent sleeping side-by-side with his 'Delgadina' fill his soul with an unexpected longing. He feels her presence when she is not there. The now passionate meditations of his newspaper columns are bound up in love and received by a rapturous, growing readership, and in his imagination - as real for him as memories - he sees them together as they might have been. This is a story of one man's reassessment of his life as he awakens to the transformative power of love.

      Memories of my melancholy whores
      3,6
    • Da un'antica tomba nel convento delle clarisse emerge una lunghissima chioma rossa. Da questo evento ha origine il romanzo, ambientato in una Cartagena de Indias perduta in un oscuro passato coloniale. Una bellissima bambina, un medico negromante e un giovane esorcista posseduto dal mal d'amore sono protagonisti di una passione innaturale e distruttiva. García Márquez dà vita a pagine di struggente poesia e di emozionato pudore e conduce il lettore in un universo capace di travolgere i sensi e i sentimenti in nome di una passione erotica che diventa malattia, metafora della letteratura e della vita.

      Oscar Moderni - 22: Dell'amore e di altri demoni