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There were mythic sports figures before him -- Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio -- but when Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene from his native Louisville in the 1950s, he broke the mold. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself. As Muhammad Ali, he would become the most recognized face on the planet. This unforgettable story of his rise and self-creation, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, places Ali in a heritage of great American originals. Cassius Clay grew up in the Jim Crow South and came of athletic age when boxers were at the mercy of the mob. From the start, Clay rebelled against everything and everyone who would keep him and his people down. He refused the old stereotypes and refused the glad hand of the mob. And, to the confusion and fury of white sportswriters, who were far more comfortable with the self-effacing Joe Louis, Clay came forward as a rebel, insistent on his political views, on his new religion, and, eventually, on a new name. His rebellion nearly cost him the chance to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. "King of the World" features some of the pivotal figures of the 1960s -- Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, John F. Kennedy -- and its pivotal events: the civil rights movement, political assassinations, the war in Vietnam.

Da Boston a New York, da Londra a Roma, dall'India alla Thailandia: scenari diversi per raccontare storie di esilio e di perdita, di amore, di maternità e di conflitti famigliari. Al centro, le gioie e i drammi quotidiani di giovani immigrati di origine indiana, le loro vite divise tra due paesi e due culture. Vite come quella di Ruma, giovane madre trasferitasi a Seattle con il figlio e subito alle prese con un segreto sconvolgente custodito dal suo stesso padre; o come quelle di Hema e Kaushik, una ragazza e un ragazzo le cui esistenze rincorrendosi tracciano un percorso condiviso che dall'infanzia li porterà fino alla maturità. Otto racconti di malinconica bellezza in cui Jhumpa Lahiri delinea, con profonda sensibilità e maturità stilistica, incontri e scontri di padri e madri, fratelli e sorelle, amici e amanti.

Nati a quindici mesi di distanza in un sobborgo di Calcutta durante l'indipendenza indiana, i fratelli Subhash e Udayan, pur somigliando, sono opposti. Subhash, silenzioso e riflessivo, cerca di compiacere i genitori, mentre Udayan, ribelle ed esuberante, mette alla prova il loro affetto. Negli anni Sessanta, Udayan si unisce a un movimento maoista contro le ingiustizie subite dai contadini, consapevole dei rischi, mentre Subhash preferisce allontanarsi e trasferirsi negli Stati Uniti. I loro percorsi divergono: Subhash intraprende una carriera accademica tranquilla nel Rhode Island, mentre Udayan, contravvenendo alle tradizioni, sposa per amore Gauri, una studentessa di filosofia attratta dal suo carisma. La tragedia colpisce quando Subhash scopre cosa è accaduto a Udayan. Sentendosi in dovere di tornare a Calcutta, si prende cura della famiglia, in particolare di Gauri, che porta in grembo una bambina. Gauri diventa simbolo del legame tra i due fratelli e assume un ruolo centrale in una storia di sentimenti complessi, abbandoni e ritorni. Questo romanzo esplora la complessità dei sentimenti, capaci di lacerare e provocare conflitti, ma anche di ricomporli, con Gauri come figura emblematicamente rappresentativa.

When The Renowned Aviation Hero And Rabid Isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh Defeated Franklin Roosevelt By A Landslide In The 1940 Presidential Election, Fear Invaded Every Jewish Household In America. Not Only Had Lindbergh Publicly Blamed The Jews For Pushing America Toward A Pointless War With Nazi Germany, But Upon Taking Office As The Thirty-Third President Of The United States, He Negotiated A Cordial 'Understanding' With Adolf Hitler. What Then Followed In America Is The Historical Setting For This Startling New Book By Pulitzer Prize-Winner Philip Roth, Who Recounts What It Was Like For His Newark Family - And For A Million Such Families All Over The Country - During The Menacing Years Of The Lindbergh Presidency, When American Citizens Who Happened To Be Jews Had Every Reason To Expect The Worst.

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There is no more decorated American writer living today than Philip Roth, the New York Times best-selling author of American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, and numerous other distinctions. The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm 34! Worry about oblivion when you're 75." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. And as his health worsens, he is the envious brother of a much fitter man. A masterful portrait of one man's inner struggles, Everyman is a brilliant showcase for one of the world's most distinguished novelists.

From Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, a stirring and explosive debut novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.

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Na zijn dood zwerft een joodse man door zijn vroegere omgeving en gaat samen met talloze andere doden uit een massagraf in Polen op zoek naar de eeuwige rust.