Silvia Morawetz Libri

Ein junger Forscher wird von zwei Auftragskillern in den Tod gehetzt. Er hinterlässt nichts, außer einem Umschlag - adressiert an Max Gordon. Darin steckt ein Brief in der Knotenschrift der alten Maya-Völker. Max ist klar, dass der Tote ihm auf diese Weise etwas Hochbrisantes mitteilen wollte. Um die geheime Botschaft zu entschlüsseln, muss er sich in die Tiefen des zentralamerikanischen Dschungels wagen. Dort lauern nicht nur wilde Bestien auf ihn.

Hanka ha capelli ramati e occhi verdi. Il giorno in cui arriva a Auschwitz-Birkenau con i genitori e il fratello, a lei tocca in sorte la corsia di sinistra e sopravvive. Hanka è ebrea, ha 15 anni, ma finge di essere diciottenne e ariana. Ora si chiama Bambola ed è una delle prostitute più giovani del bordello Nr. 232 Ost sul fronte orientale. Sulla pancia porta tatuata la parola Feldhure, puttana da campo. Inizia così il lungo calvario di Hanka che combatte il freddo e la fame, la paura e la vergogna, sostenuta dal desiderio indomito di sopravvivere, costi quel che costi, e da una fiducia che non verrà mai meno. Lustig è uno dei più importanti esponenti della letteratura ceca, un protagonista del Novecento. Nei suoi occhi verdi è un romanzo straordinario - tradotto in numerose lingue - che porta il lettore nel mondo di Hanka, lo fa combattere con lei, partecipe di un profondo senso della speranza e della trascendenza.

Every so often a new writer appears who is wiser than her years would suggest, whose flesh-and-blood characters embody more experience than a young writer could possibly know. Sana Krasikov is one of those writers. Her first published story appeared in the New Yorker, her second in The Atlantic Monthly’s fiction issue. One More Year is her debut collection, made up of stories of people who hold out hope, despite the odds, that life will be kind to them.The characters who populate Krasikov’s stories are mostly women–some are new to America; some still live in the former Soviet Union, in Georgia or Russia; and some have returned to Russia to find a country they barely recognize and people they no longer understand. Mothers leave children behind; children abandon their parents. Almost all of them look to love to repair their lives, and when love isn’t really there, they attempt to make do with relationships that substitute for love.Like Jhumpa Lahiri and ZZ Packer, two writers whose fully-realized characters drive their fiction, Sana Krasikov is an exhilarating talent whose first collection puts her on the map with today's most talented young authors.

Professor Harry Butler is obsessed with the Mind/Body problem. Unfortunately this is not the least of his problems. Harry's wife has turned his study into a sufi shrine where she sits cross-legged and chants for hours on end, 'I am not the body'. And Harry doesn't know it yet but the Drug Squad has taken up residence in his kitchen so as to observe the movements of his neighbours and their visitors. Among these visitors, photographed by the Drug Quad, is one of his oldest friends. And living next door is a woman Harry may have had an encounter with in Singapore. The university is no escape from these complications on the domestic front: Harry's relationship with a student is causing concern among the Philosophy Department Women's Collective. Some of his colleagues also suspect him of going astray academically. The story takes place in Auckland New Zealand. But who is telling the story? Why is he in Europe? Why does he keep moving from one city to another, and why does he seem to require the presence of a certain Uta Haverstrom in order to write it?

In the swinging culture of sixties' London, Canadian Mortimer Griffin is a beleaguered editor adrift in a sea of hypocrisy and deceit. Alone in a world where nobody shares his values but everyone wants the same things, Mortimer must navigate the currents of these changing times. Richler's eccentric cast of characters include the gorgeous Polly, who conducts her life as though it were a movie, complete with censor-type cuts at all the climactic moments; Rachel Coleman, slinky Black Panther of the boudoir; Star Maker, the narcissistic Hollywood tycoon who has discovered the secret of eternal life; and a precocious group of school children with a taste for the teachings of the Marquis de Sade. "Cocksure" is a savagely funny satire on television, movies, and the entertainment industry.""This is Mordecai Richler at his most caustic and wicked best. "From the Hardcover edition."

Il classico bestseller del New York Times racconta il viaggio di una giovane donna nel lavoro, nell'amore e nella vita. Generosa e acuta, La guida delle ragazze alla caccia e alla pesca segue il percorso di Jane Rosenal mentre intraprende un'escursione personale e vivace attraverso il terreno pericoloso del sesso, dell'amore, delle relazioni e delle insidie del mondo del lavoro. Presto Jane viene travolta da un uomo più grande e si ritrova in un vortice di feste, case di campagna e regole fatte per essere infrante, ma si rende conto che è un mondo in cui le scommesse sono troppo alte per sentirsi a proprio agio. Con un tocco comico indimenticabile, Bank esplora abilmente questioni universali, offre una nuova prospettiva sul ballo della conquista e cattura con perfetta intonazione l'esperienza di diventare una giovane donna.