Eva Palkovičová Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

"Gaspar is in danger. Only six-years-old, he is frightened he may have inherited the same strange abilities as his father, Juan; a powerful medium who can open locked doors, commune with the dead, and possess the ancient forces of the Darkness. Now father and son are in flight, hunted by the Order, a group of wealthy acolytes who seek to harness the Darkness, no matter the cost. Among them, Gaspar's grandmother, whose twisted desires have already driven her to commit unspeakable acts. Nothing will stop the Order, nothing is beyond them. Surrounded by horrors, can Gaspar and Juan break free? Spanning the brutal years of Argentina's military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a haunting, thrilling novel of broken families, cursed land, inheritance, power, and the terrible sacrifices a father will make to help his son escape his destiny."-- Publisher description

Writer Sibylle Berg has the eye of an entomologist: Under her gaze, humanity falls into a taxonomy of wretched characters, full of dramas and impossible dreams--though she always manages to carry them through their travails with a dose of empathy and a sense of humor. In this novella, previously unpublished in English, Berg boldly relates the lives of two children growing up in East Germany. They communicate through the things that were not said, the projects that came to nothing, their loneliness, boredom and confinement. The story allows for positive endings, but is no average coming of age narrative. Berg was born in Weimar in 1962, and though she currently lives in Zurich, she is still heralded as one of Germany's most provocative writers. This beautifully produced, small-edition volume includes illustrations by Swiss artist, Andro Wekua and American Rita Ackermann.

Nel 1955 il giornale colombiano "El Espectator" pubblicò a puntate il resoconto del naufragio di un marinaio, Luis Alejandro Velasco. A raccogliere le parole del naufrago, un ventisettenne cronista alle prime armi destinato a diventare famoso, Gabriel García Márquez. Ripubblicato in volume nel 1970, il Racconto di un naufrago lascia ampio spazio alla voce stessa di Velasco: è lui che ci narra di come, un giorno dopo l'altro, sia approdato sulla sua zattera bianca a quelle acque in cui i naufraghi perdono la nozione dello spazio e del tempo, a quei cieli in cui si smarriscono anche i gabbiani; le sue paure primordiali, i fantasmi che si agitano nella notte così scura da non vedere il palmo della propria mano, l'inaspettata salvezza. Ma è il romanziere e l'uomo di impegno civile García Márquez ad andare oltre la cronaca, indagando sui retroscena dei fatti e sulle responsabilità del governo colombiano, fino a trasformare un piccolo episodio in un pezzo di storia del suo paese.

Na pozadí príbehu veľkej lásky zobrazuje život v Chile po vojenskom prevrate. Román je dielom o večne živej láske, ktorá je schopná najťažších skúšok, plným lyrizmu, ale zároveň je obrazom hrôzy vyjadreným sugestívnym jazykom.

Rasová nenávisť poznačí aj prvý vášnivý cit lásky mladého belocha zo vznešenej havanskej spoločnosti Joaquína a krásnej, síce bielej, no predsa len kvadrónky Carmely, nemanželskej dcéry španielskeho belocha a mulatky done Justy.