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رواية "واحد، ولا أحد، ومائة ألف " التي يصفها "بيراندِلُّلو" نفسه، في رسالةٍ من رسائل سيرته الذَّاتيَّة، فيقول: "النَّصُّ الأكثر مرارةً من أيِّ نصٍّ آخر، السَّاخرُ أعمقَ ما تكون السُّخرية من تحلُّلِ الحياةِ نفسِها" هو عملَه الرِّوائيَّ الوحيد والأخير. وهو الذي سينظر إليه كثيرٌ من الدَّارسين والمفكِّرين لاحقاً على أنَّه تكثيفٌ لكلِّ الأفكار واختصارٌ لكلِّ العوالم التي أراد "بيراندِلُّلو" التَّعبيرَ عنها في الرِّوايةِ والقصَّةِ والمسرح.

With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most accomplished and deeply felt work. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette.

Prue Sarn es una joven a la que todos rechazan por tener labio leporino. Así las cosas, las Parcas pronostican que nunca conocerá el amor. Sin embargo, es fuerte y poseedora de una gran belleza interior. La superstición hace que muchos la rechacen y la acusen de ser una bruja, pero la dulzura de su espíritu hace que se enfrente a todo eso para superarlo. Su hermano, que también se enfrenta al mundo, lo hace por motivos muy distintos; está harto de ser pobre y lo que quiere es hacer dinero. Su ambición es tan fuerte que casi resulta lujuriosa.

1943. Alice Fafard, vingt ans, étudie à l’École normale pour devenir enseignante. Elle suit avec un mélange de résignation et de désenchantement une voie déjà toute tracée. Son Brevet obtenu, elle cherche un poste dans une école de la région, en attendant de trouver un prétendant en cette époque où les hommes de son âge se font rares. Pourtant, derrière ses airs tranquilles se cache une grande passionnée de mathématiques, un domaine dans lequel elle excelle. Plus que tout, Alice veut vivre pleinement, goûter à la liberté au-delà des limites imposées aux femmes.

UNA STORIA PER RISENTIRE LA LEGGEREZZA DEI MIGLIORI ANNI DELLA NOSTRA VITA. PER IMPARARE A VOLARE E NON VIVERE SEMPRE CON I PIEDI PER TERRA. Alice e Viola sono gemelle identiche. Viola si è affacciata per prima al mondo, Alice l’ha seguita da vicino stringendole forte la caviglia. A unirle, un legame che loro soltanto sono in grado di comprendere e una promessa che si sono scambiate da piccole, intrecciando i mignoli: "Non ti mentirò mai". Per tutti, sono indistinguibili: hanno gli stessi amici, frequentano gli stessi posti, hanno le stesse abitudini e gli stessi sogni.

Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo, Set My Heart On Fire tells the story of Izumi in her turbulent twenties. Through a series of disarmingly frank vignettes, author Izumi Suzuki presents an unforgettable portrait of a young woman encountering missteps and miscommunication, good music and unreliable men, powerful drugs and disorientating meds. Izumi usually keeps her relationships short but complicated, until she meets Jun.

È possibile inseguire il proprio sogno senza perdere la parte più autentica di sé stessi? Sfuggire a un destino già scritto senza che questo finisca per bruciarci? Francesco cresce nella periferia di Milano, figlio di meridionali e con il sogno di scrivere: un ragazzo ai margini di un paese ai margini. O almeno questa è la sua sensazione per dieci mesi l’anno, finché non arriva l’estate e lui torna con i genitori in Basilicata, dove la vita sembra più autentica.

Set during Lebanon’s civil war, We Walked On immerses listeners in the landscape of war, weaving political unrest into everyday life. With Rita, a fourteen-year-old girl, and Hisham, her thirty-year-old Arabic teacher, Chehade has created two richly drawn characters who counter violence with the redemptive power of books and human connection and find authentic hope in untenable circumstances. We Walked On is a timely novel about what it’s like to live in a war zone, how war corrupts our moral sense, and how to survive and endure in an unjust world.

This coming-of-age novel explores themes including religious skepticism, socialism, ennui, English society, sexual relationships, and metaphysics, as George searches for an ideal to which he can devote his life. Like all Wells’s novels, Tono-Bungay abounds with social critique.

Ein bewegender Roman über Hoffnung, Angst und die Frage, was Familie wirklich bedeutet – von Bestsellerautorin Catherine Ryan Hyde. Die Geschichte eines kleinen Jungen, der erst wieder lernen muss, was Vertrauen bedeutet. Die Welt ist voller Gefahren. Das hat sein Vater Remy erklärt, als er mit ihm in die Wildnis gezogen ist. Aber dann stirbt Remys Vater und der Achtjährige muss sich allein durchschlagen. Als er in eine Pflegefamilie kommt, fürchtet er sich vor allem und jedem, vor seinen Pflegegeschwistern nicht weniger als vor den beiden großen Hunden.

America, anni Venti. Jordan Baker cresce negli ambienti più raffinati. Non le manca nulla: denaro, istruzione, la stoffa per il golf e inviti alle feste più esclusive dell'Età del Jazz. Queer e asiatica è in realtà guardata dall'alta società come poco più che un'attrazione esotica, e non può accedere a ciò che conta davvero. Ma il mondo è pieno di meraviglie: patti diabolici, illusioni sfolgoranti, fantasmi perduti e il potere arcano degli elementi. Jordan deve solo imparare a usarli.

Young flippert zwischen Bude, Hörsaal und den Betten seiner letzten Tinder-Matches hin und her. Er studiert in Seoul, zusammen mit Jaehee, seiner BFF und Mitbewohnerin, zieht er durch die glitzernden Bars und queeren Clubs der Stadt. Mit noch einem Glas Soju in der Hand und eisgekühlten Marlboro Reds zwischen den Lippen beschwören sie die Euphorie, jede Nacht. Gegen die Ängste, gegen die Liebe, gegen die Ansprüche der Familie und die Not mit dem Geld. Doch als auch Jaehee endlich ankommen will, bleibt Young allein zurück im Partymodus.

A daughter and mother: two women miles, years, and dreams apart. One defies traditions and expectations. The other conforms to them, even in a new land. Their emotional distance grows while the daughter, now a wife and mother herself, comes to better understand the woman she’s become and why, as she ruminates on inherited trauma, the need to forgive, and the lengths she’ll go to free herself from the past.

எந்த ஒரு நாட்டிலிருந்து இங்கு வந்திருந்தாலும், நம்முடைய மொழி, கலாச்சரம், பண்பாட்டினைப் பின்பற்றி வாழ முயற்சி செய்து , ஒரு வைராகியத்துடன் வாழ்ந்து காட்டி.

After her parents moved her and her brother to America, Preeti Desai never meant to tear her family apart. All she did was fall in love with a white Christian carnivore instead of a conventional Indian boy. Years later, with her parents not speaking to her and her controversial relationship in tatters, all Preeti has left is her career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. But when Preeti receives word of a terrible accident in the city where she was born, she returns to India, where she’ll have to face her estranged parents...and the complicated past they left behind.

واحدة من الروايات المثيرة للجدل حيث تحكي عن التجربة التي يمرّ بها الخارج عن الجماعة الدينية بعد أن يهجر التيار وكيف يمرّ بسنوات من الضياع والتيه قبل أن يتمكن من استرداد حياته مرةً أخرى، عن طريق قصّة "يوسف" الطفل الذي يسكن في "جحر السبع" وهو الاسم القديم لإحدى القرى القريبة من منطقة الجيزة والتي كانت معقلًا لنموّ حزب الإخوان المسلمين زمنًا طويلًا.

"منى" فتاةٌ عادية تمثِّل شريحة كبيرة من الفتيات في المجتمع فقد نشأت في بيتٍ عادي لوالدٍ ينشغل طوال النهار في عمله وطوال الليل مع أصدقاءه وأمٍّ بشخصيةٍ ضعيفة ومهزوزة تنطلق على فمها كلمة "حاضر" طوال اليوم ولم تجرؤ مرةً على قول "لا" في وجه أحد.

ماذا لو أخبرك أحد أصدقائك بأنّه وجد طريقة ستجعلك تنجح في أي مقابلة عمل دون أن تدرس حرفًا واحدًا أو تحضّر نفسك لها، دون أن تعرف اسم الشركة حتى وماذا تعمل !!

Travesti este un studiu de caz despre un copil hermafrodit, dar şi o explorare a întunecatei sexualităţi adolescentine. Mai presus de orice, însă, acest mic roman, care m-a obsedat şi m-a chinuit mai mult decât orice altă carte a mea, e anabasis-ul meu, drumul meu ascuns şi întortochiat către centrul adânc îngropat al fiinţei mele. Travesti este şi portalul către Orbitor. Trilogia mea n-ar fi putut exista fără exerciţiul de sinceritate aproape sinucigaşă de aici. Nu e uşor să afli cine eşti, nici să te priveşti în ochi după ce ai aflat.

It’s not that ElizabethAnn doesn’t want to live in the postmodern police state of No Oaks, where acrid refuse bins punctuate well-swept plasti-lawns and endless rows of ticky tacky. She simply doesn’t realize her hot-rod driving grandma has groomed her to break the space-time continuum and dive headlong into a forested dystopia called Bumblegreen, which she must single-handedly save from a sweeping blight.