Jordi Fibla Libri

Mr Noon is a sardonic tale about the amorous adventures of Gilbert Noon, a young schoolmaster in Lawrence's home county of Nottinghamshire who gets entangled with a girl, loses his job, and decides to leave the country to escape the narrow provincial middle-class morality. It was first known as a long story posthumously published in A Modern Lover (1934) and collected in the volume called Phoenix II (1968). Lawrence in fact wrote a long continuation of the novel, but the manuscript disappeared for many years. The Cambridge edition brought the two parts together for the first time. It is like a sequel to Sons and Lovers, but much more straightforwardly autobiographical. The publication of the complete work added a new work of major importance to the canon of a great writer, and was widely hailed as a major literary event.

Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.

Roth's "Nemesis" is the story of a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children.

Il protagonista della nostra storia di lavoro fa il postino, mette in comunicazione tutti gli altri ma accanto a sé non ha nessuno. La sua unica compagnia è un gatto, Cavolo, con cui divide un piccolo appartamento. I giorni passano pigri e tutti uguali, fin quando quello che sembrava un fastidioso mal di testa si trasforma nell’annuncio di una malattia incurabile. Come passare la settimana che gli resta da vivere? Riesce a stento a compilare la lista delle dieci cose da provare prima di morire... Non resta nulla da fare, se non disperarsi: ma ecco che ci mette lo zampino il Diavolo in persona. E come ogni diavolo che si rispetti, anche quello della nostra storia propone un patto. Un giorno di più di vita in cambio di qualcosa… Con la delicatezza di Sepúlveda e il gusto per il fantastico di Murakami, Kawamura Genki ha scritto una fiaba moderna per ricordarci quali sono le cose davvero importanti.

David, white-haired & over 60, is a TV culture critic & lecturer at a New York college. He meets Consuela, a 24-year-old student, daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who puts his life into erotic disorder & haunts him for the next eight years.