«Come hai potuto sgattaiolare via in quel modo, senza dirmi niente? Era stato quello a ferirla. Senza dirmi niente.» A volte il silenzio nasconde dolori impossibili da esprimere a parole, come quello …
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and anci…
Vuonna 1741 luonnontieteilijä ja teologi Georg Wilhelm Steller seilaa kapteeni Vitus Beringin retkikunnan mukana suurelle pohjoiselle tutkimusretkelle, jonka tarkoituksena on etsiä meritie Aasiasta Am…
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory…
"Nothing quite like this has ever been published before," proclaimed The Guardian about the Neapolitan novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a wor…
A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.
«Ero solo, in una casetta in Bretagna, davanti al computer,» ha raccontato una volta Emmanuel Carrère «e a mano a mano che procedevo nella storia ero sempre più terrorizzato». All’inizio, infatti, il …
