Liz Berry Libri

Una squallida strada con le case tutte uguali, in un quartiere popolare di Londra: è qui che vive Mel, diciassette anni e una situazione familiare difficilissima e apparentemente senza speranza. Ma ecco che, quando le cose sembrano volgere al peggio, qualcosa cambia. Accolta e aiutata, lei bianca, da una simpatica famiglia nera, Mel riuscirà coraggiosamente a conquistarsi il diritto di vivere come vuole, ad avere una casa sua, e anche, in modo del tutto imprevisto, a trovare l'amore. Un romanzo allo stesso tempo drammatico e divertente, che dai sobborghi londinesi ci porta nel fantastico, folle mondo dei concerti rock.

'Home's not a place, you must believe this,but one who names you and means beloved.'In 1908, Eliza Showell, twelve years old and newly orphaned, boards a ship that will carry her from the slums of the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia. She will never return to Britain or see her family again. She is a Home Child, one of thousands of British children sent to Canada to work as indentured farm labourers and domestic servants.In luminous and tender poems, Eliza's world unfolds, a place where ordinary things are transfigured into treasures - a red ribbon, the feel of a foal's mane, the sound of her name on someone's lips. With nothing to call her own, the wild beauty of Cape Breton is the only solace Eliza has - until another Home Child, a boy, comes to the farm and changes everything.Inspired by the true story of Liz Berry's great aunt, this spellbinding novel in verse is an exquisite portrait of a girl far from home.

Die Poesie lebt – doch die ungeheure Vielfalt der Dichter aller Sprachen, aller Länder von Albanien bis Zypern ist nahezu unbekannt. So ist es höchste Zeit für eine neue, aufregende Bestandaufnahme: Nach den legendären Vorgängern „Museum der modernen Poesie“ von Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1960) und „Atlas der neuen Poesie“ von Joachim Sartorius (1995) machen sich Jan Wagner und Federico Italiano auf eine faszinierende Reise. Die „Grand Tour“ durch die junge Lyrik Europas gibt poetischen Proviant für Jahre: Unbekanntes, Überraschendes und Unerhörtes - in Original und Übersetzung. Eine Entdeckungsreise für wache Geister.