Deze serie duikt in de diepten van de menselijke ziel en onderzoekt de complexiteit van het bestaan door verschillende tijdperken en personages heen. Het biedt boeiende verhalen die aanzetten tot nadenken over de essentie van het mens-zijn. Elk deel is een literaire parel die lezers meesleept in een emotionele en diepgaande vertelervaring. De collectie biedt niet alleen verlichting, maar ook ruimte voor introspectie en begrip.
Four teenage boys become obsessed with the beautiful, mysterious and promiscuous Andre, who, after trying to commit suicide, forces these devout Catholic boys to question everything they know about devotion, desire and sin. Original.
After declaring he will no longer write novels, Mr. Gwyn creates profound character portraits for clients until he disappears leaving behind only the portraits and a short note to his assistant.
Dvě postavy, tři povídky, jedna neobvyklá časová rovina. V knize Třikrát za svítání mají dva protagonisté možnost třikrát se setkat, vždy v klíčovém momentě života, jenž neplyne pouze od narození ke smrti. Jejich setkání je vždy jedinečné, první i poslední. Další křehká a podmanivá kniha Alessandra Baricca.
From international bestselling author, Alessandro Baricco, comes a scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman's ingress into a fantastically strange family. The hand of the young woman in question has been promised to the scion of a noble family. She is to make her preparations for marriage at the family's villa, where the inhabitants never seem to sleep. The atmosphere turns surreal as the days pass and her presence on the family estate begins to make itself felt on her future in-laws. In this erotically charged and magical novel, Alessandro Baricco portrays a cast of mysterious characters who exist outside of the rules of causation as he tells a story, an adult fable, about fate and the difficult job of confronting the Other and creating an Us.