Analyzes the most important people, places, and concepts of the early Renaissance period, whose explosion of creativity was to spread throughout Europe in the 16th century. In this book, important facts are called out in the margins of each entry, and key elements are pointed out on each illustration.
Nadia e Saeed cercano di mantenere vivo il loro amore fragile mentre la guerra civile devasta il loro mondo. Si narra di misteriose porte che conducono verso una nuova speranza. Mohsin Hamid crea un romanzo tenero e spietato, capace di dare un senso a tempi di disorientamento con la potenza visionaria della grande letteratura. In una città affollata di rifugiati, Saeed, timido e goffo, incontra Nadia in un’aula scolastica, ma ci mette tempo per parlarle. La guerra, che distrugge la loro città, accelera il loro avvicinamento, e tra i conflitti, scoprono di essere innamorati. Mentre la morte sembra l'unico orizzonte, si diffonde la voce di porte misteriose che, a rischio della vita, possono trasportarli in un altro luogo. Inizia così il loro viaggio per sopravvivere in un mondo che li vuole morti, mantenendo la loro umanità e il loro legame. Hamid riesce a mostrare il quadro globale dei cambiamenti attuali, mentre si concentra sulle delicate vite degli individui, raccontando la fragile tenerezza di un amore giovane. Con una narrazione che ricorda i classici dell'Ottocento, Hamid affronta l'universale della Storia attraverso le esperienze personali, creando un'opera sconvolgente che dà senso a questi tempi confusi.
For Pip, swimming is a necessity. With a hopeless mother, a drug-addled sister and a best friend more interested in her own love-life than in friendship, swimming provides a welcome escape. Swimming is a novel about growing up, about talent, and about having what it takes to survive.
Seven years ago, Vivek 'Vicky' Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal. The police search each and every guest. Six of them are discovered with guns in their possession and are taken in for questioning.' 'In this elaborate murder mystery we join Arun Advani, India's best-known investigative journalist, as the lives of these six suspects unravel before our eyes: a corrupt bureaucrat; an American tourist; a stone-age tribesman; a Bollywood sex symbol; a mobile phone thief; and an ambitious politician. Each is equally likely to have pulled the trigger.' 'Both a page turner and a richly textured tale of human frailties and emotions, Vikas Swarup's eagerly awaited second offering is astutely plotted, with a panoramic, imaginative sweep.
From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbours, friends, and family will greet them. Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded overturning of the established order that must be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss and unease wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading- a chance at a kind of rebirth - an opportunity to see ourselves, face to face, anew. The Last White Man uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence it allows, a migration of consciousness powerfully enacted by the novel itself.
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