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    Een feuilleton
    Everyman
    A Far Country
    The Plot Against America
    The lowland
    Le fenici tascabili: Una nuova terra
    • The lowland

      • 406pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in childhood and yet, as the years pass - as U.S tanks roll into Vietnam and riots sweep across India - their brotherly bond can do nothing to forestall the tragedy that will upend their lives. Udayan - charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty. He will give everything, risk all, for what he believes, and in doing so will transform the futures of those dearest to him.

      The lowland2013
      4,0
    • Le fenici tascabili: Una nuova terra

      • 369pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      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.

      Le fenici tascabili: Una nuova terra2008
      4,1
    • A Far Country

      • 276pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      The stunning new audio from the author of The Piano Tuner

      A Far Country2007
      3,5
    • Everyman

      • 192pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral and “our most accomplished novelist” (The New Yorker) turns his attention to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes. The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.

      Everyman2006
      3,6
    • The Plot Against America

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, negotiating an accord with Adolf Hitler and accepting his conquest of Europe and anti-Semitic policies.

      The Plot Against America2004
      3,8
    • Zegen de maan

      roman

      • 218pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      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.

      Zegen de maan1999
    • Een feuilleton

      Een jaar uit het leven van de 'happy few'

      • 251pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Satirische roman over de bewoners van een exclusieve buitenwijk van San Francisco, die allerlei geestelijke alternatieven tegenover hun materiële welvaart trachten te stellen.

      Een feuilleton1983