Lucie van Rooijen Libri

The author recounts her transformative journey in Paris over two decades, starting with minimal resources and evolving into a rich life filled with culinary adventures and cultural experiences. Through vivid storytelling, she shares her love for French cuisine, the friendships forged, and the lessons learned in a city that became her home. The narrative highlights the challenges and joys of adapting to a new culture, ultimately celebrating the beauty of life in Paris.

The second novel to feature Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police. Brunetti confronts the grisly sight of the body of an American soldier in a canal. He becomes suspicious and discovers toxic waste-dumping and a high-level cover-up that extends from the Mafia to the US Army.

I've no history here, and no character: and what I am, is all in what I will be...

A novel that tells a story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement. The story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey—through facts, recollection, and imagination.

After backpacking her way around India, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. And when a beggar at the airport reads her palm and insists that she will one day return - and for love - she gives India, and him, the finger. But eleven years later, his prophecy comes ture. When the love of her life is posted to New Delhi, she leaves her dream job as a radio DJ in Sydney to follow her fiance to the most polluted ciry on earth. It seems like the ultimate sacrifice and it almost kills her - literally. One smoggy night, a sadhu smeared in human ashes curses her and she fall dangerously ill with double pneumonia. She survives, but not before she has faced some serious questions about her own morality and inner void, not to mention unsightly hair loss.--

Dall'autrice del classico "A Little Life" arriva un audace romanzo che abbraccia tre secoli e esplora diverse versioni dell'esperienza americana attraverso temi di amore, famiglia, perdita e la sfuggente promessa di utopia. In un'America alternativa del 1893, New York fa parte degli Stati Liberi, dove gli individui possono amare liberamente. Qui, un giovane erede resiste a un matrimonio combinato, attratto invece da un affascinante ma impoverito insegnante di musica. Avanzando al 1993, a Manhattan, un giovane hawaiano naviga nella vita con il suo ricco partner più anziano, mentre nasconde un passato turbolento e il destino di suo padre in mezzo alla crisi dell'AIDS. Nel 2093, un mondo devastato da pestilenze e totalitarismo vede la nipote di un potente scienziato confrontarsi con l'assenza del nonno e il mistero delle scomparse del marito. Queste narrazioni interconnesse tessono un intricato arazzo di motivi ricorrenti: una townhouse a Greenwich Village, il costo della malattia, il divario tra ricchezza e povertà, e le complessità di razza e famiglia. In definitiva, il romanzo esplora l'esperienza umana, affrontando paura, amore, vergogna e il desiderio di un paradiso terreno, mentre si confronta con la dolorosa realtà che tale paradiso potrebbe non esistere mai. Quest'opera carica di emozioni mette in luce il profondo desiderio di proteggere i propri cari e il dolore che nasce quando non possiamo.

Als in 1982 bij Newfoundland een booreiland zinkt en alle bemanningsleden omkomen, blijft een vrouw achter met drie kinderen.