Brigitte Coopmans Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Een reus raakt door een relatie met een knappe vrouw verzeild in een dorp in Patagonië met merkwaardige bewoners.

When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, A Life in Exile, it never occurs to him that his father, a distinguished professor of rhetoric, will write a devastating review in a national newspaper. The subject seems inoffensive enough: the life of a German Jewish woman (a close family friend) who arrived in Colombia shortly before the Second World War. So why does his father attack him so viciously? Do the pages of his book unwittingly hide some dangerous secret? As Gabriel sets out to discover what lies behind his father's anger, he finds himself undertaking an examination of the duplicity, guilt and obsession at the heart of Colombian society in World War II, when the introduction of blacklists of German immigrants corrupted and destroyed many lives. Half a century later, in a gripping narrative that unpacks like a set of Russian dolls, one treacherous act perpetrated in those dark days returns with a vengeance, leading the reader towards a literal, moral and metaphorical cliff edge. With a tightly honed plot, deftly crafted situations, and a cast of complex and varied characters, The Informers is a fascinating novel of callous betrayal, complicit secrecy and the long quest for redemption in a secular, cynical world. It heralds the arrival of a major literary talent.(front flap)

THE ATHENIAN MURDERS is a brilliant, very entertaining and absolutely original literary mystery, revolving round two intertwined riddles. In classical Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher suspects that this wasn't an accident and asks Herakles, known as the 'Decipherer of Enigmas', to investigate the death and ultimately a dark, irrational and subversive cult. The second plot unfolds in parallel through the footnotes of the translator of the text. As he proceeds with his work, he becomes increasingly convinced that the original author has hidden a second meaning, which can be brought to light by interpreting certain repeated words and images. As the main plot and also the translation of the manuscript advances, there are certain sinister coincidences, and it seems that the text is addressing him personally and in an increasingly menacing manner... THE ATHENIAN MURDERS constitutes a highly compelling, entertaining and intelligent game about the different ways we can see and read reality, about our refusal to take things 'as they are' and our need to interpret hidden meanings into everyday life.

Bloemlezing van verhalen over Cuba.

Cile, 1832: Eliza viene abbandonata ancora neonata sulla soglia di casa dei fratelli inglesi Jeremy, John e Rose Sommers, che si sono trasferiti a Valparaíso. L'eccentrica Rose insiste perché la piccola cilena venga adottata ed entri a far parte della famiglia. Eliza vive tra due mondi: le viene impartita un'educazione rigidamente anglosassone, nella speranza di un futuro sereno coronato da un buon matrimonio, e al contempo le vengono fatte conoscere dalla cuoca di casa, Mama Freisa, la vitalità, la magia e la carnalità del suo popolo. Si innamora perdutamente di un giovane idealista che lavora per Jeremy, Joaquín Andieta, il quale nel 1848, alla notizia che in California sono stati scoperti favolosi giacimenti d'oro, decide di salpare in cerca di fortuna. Eliza si mette sulle sue tracce e, assieme al medico cinese Tao Chi'en, si imbarca alla volta di San Francisco. Passa così da un'America all'altra, dove andrà alla ricerca dell'amato, tra dolore, sofferenza, speranza, fra avventurieri e banditi assetati di giustizia, sfidando sogni e sentimenti. La figlia della fortuna è la storia di molte passioni, amorose e politiche, per la terra, il mare, l'oro, per la libertà e la gioia d'esistere.