Rebecca Makkai Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Bodie Kane kehrt als Dozentin an ihr ehemaliges Internat zurück, um sich mit der schmerzhaften Erinnerung an den Mord an ihrer Zimmergenossin Thalia Keith auseinanderzusetzen. Eine Schülerin startet einen Podcast über den Fall, was Bodie in einen Strudel aus Erinnerungen und Internetrecherche zieht, während sie die Wahrheit über den Mörder entdeckt.

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane has chosen to forget her troubled past, including a family tragedy, her unhappy years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the 1995 murder of classmate Thalia Keith. The case, which led to the conviction of the school's athletics coach, Omar Evans, has become a topic of online fascination, but Bodie prefers to leave it behind. However, when invited back to teach a two-week course at The Granby School, she feels compelled to revisit the case and its troubling inconsistencies. Did the rush to convict Omar overlook other potential suspects? As Bodie delves deeper, she begins to question her own memories and connections to the events of 1995, realizing she may not have been the outsider she believed herself to be. This novel is both a captivating mystery and a poignant exploration of one woman's confrontation with her past. Renowned author Rebecca Makkai showcases her talent for reinvention in this compelling narrative, marking her as one of the most significant contemporary American writers.

"A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster"-- Provided by publisher

Presents a collection of wide-ranging, evocative short stories, including several inspired by the author's family history or featuring protagonists whose lives are shaped by irony

Set on an historic estate that once housed an arts colony, Doug, the husband of the estate's heir, desperately needs the colony files to get his stalled academic career back on track. But when he finally gets his hands on them he discovers more than he bargained for. Doug may never learn the house's secrets, but the reader will, as Makkai leads us on a thrilling journey into the past of this eccentric family

Lui: lan Drake, 10 anni, lettore vorace. Gli piace che i libri inizino con un prologo. Lei: Lucy Hull, 26 anni, bibliotecaria per caso in una città di provincia (sezione ragazzi), discendente di rivoluzionari russi emigrati in America. È convinta che i libri possano salvarti la vita. Sarà che entrambi non sanno resistere alla tentazione di sbirciare subito l'ultima riga dei romanzi, ma tra loro si stabilisce una complicità immediata. Per lan, fedelissimo della biblioteca, quegli scaffali sono un rifugio dal controllo opprimente della famiglia, ultrareligiosa. E Lucy gli passa con piacere sotto banco libri "proibiti", come quelli che osano parlare di magia, specialmente se "scritti da quell'Harry Potter". Quando però a lan non basterà più fuggire con la fantasia, si farà rapire davvero. E i due lettori diventeranno protagonisti di una loro personale avventura. In cerca, soprattutto, di se stessi.