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    This Is Pleasure
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    The Book of My Lives
    • The Book of My Lives

      • 214bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen
      4,2(2460)Tarief

      "Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with his casually multi-ethnic group of friends, resentment of his younger sister, and occasional trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father, and a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then there is Chicago -- war breaking out at home and the city fully under siege, the Hemon family fleeing Sarajevo (with their dog) and all they had ever known, applying for asylum, and Hemon himself starting his own family in this new city. And yet this is not really a memoir. Like Hemon's fiction, The Book of My Lives defies convention and expectation. It is a love-song to two different cities; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play soccer -- and not for the exercise. It is a book driven by passions but built on fierce intelligence, devastating experience, and sharp insight. And like the best narratives, it is a book that will leave you a different reader -- a different person, with a new way of looking at the world. For fans of Hemon's fiction, The Book of My Lives is simply indispensable; for the uninitiated, it is the perfect introduction to one of the great writers of our time."--Publisher's description.

      The Book of My Lives
    • La settimana bianca

      • 139bladzijden
      • 5 uur lezen
      3,6(1116)Tarief

      «Ero solo, in una casetta in Bretagna, davanti al computer,» ha raccontato una volta Emmanuel Carrère «e a mano a mano che procedevo nella storia ero sempre più terrorizzato». All’inizio, infatti, il piccolo Nicolas ha tutta l’a­ria di un bambino normale. Anche se allo chalet in cui trascorrerà la settimana bianca ci arriva in macchina, portato dal padre, e non in pullman insieme ai compagni. E anche se, rispetto a loro, appare più chiuso, più fragile, più bisognoso di protezione. Ben presto, poi, scopriamo che le sue notti sono abitate da incubi, che di nascosto dai genitori legge un libro, dal quale è morbosamente attratto, intitolato Storie spaventose, e che, con una sorta di torbido compiacimento, insegue altre storie, partorite dalla sua fosca immaginazione: storie di assassini, di rapimenti, di orfanità. E sentiamo, con vaga ma crescente angoscia, che su di lui incombe un’oscura minaccia – quella che i suoi incubi possano, da un momento al­l’altro, assumere una forma reale, travolgendo ogni possibile difesa, condannandolo a vivere per sempre nell’in­ferno di quei mostri infantili. Questo perturbante, stringatissimo noir è da molti considerato il romanzo più perfetto di Emmanuel Carrère – l’ultimo da lui scritto prima di scegliere una strada diversa dalla narrativa di invenzione.

      La settimana bianca
    • Happy are the Happy

      • 224bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen
      3,5(581)Tarief

      1 novel. 18 people. 18 lives. Infinite combinations: families and friends, colleagues and patients, lovers and mourners... But sometimes a crowd is the loneliest place to be. An award-winning exploration of dreams and disillusionment, love and infidelity from the creator of global theatre sensation Art and God of Carnage.

      Happy are the Happy
    • "This book originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker (newyorker.com) on July 8, 2019"--Copyright page.

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