Laura Pignatti Libros

«12 de junio de 1942. Espero poder confiártelo todo como aún no lo he podido hacer con nadie, y espero que seas para mí un gran apoyo.» Tras la invasión de Holanda, la familia Frank se ocultó de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Anne tenía sus oficinas. Allí permaneció recluida desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que sus miembros fueron detenidos y enviados a campos de concentración. En ese lugar y en las más precarias condiciones, Anne, una niña de trece años, escribió su estremecedor Diario: un testimonio único sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias de la propia Anne y sus acompañantes. El presente volumen recoge este estremecedor relato bella y delicadamente para volcarlo a la novela gráfica. Una nueva oportunidad de acercarse a una historia que ya forma parte de todos nosotros. «La riqueza, la fama, todo se puede perder, pero la dicha en el corazón a lo sumo puede velarse, y siempre, mientras vivas, volverá a hacerte feliz.»

A collection of short stories by the author of "The Silence in the Garden", "Nights at the Alexandra", "Juliet's Story", "Fools of Fortune", "Two Lives" and "The Old Boys".

Long before she was born, Dominika first appeared to her mother in a dream, so when she came to be, she was welcomed with eager expectation and much love. Though her arrival was auspicious, as the child of recognized dissidents associated with the failed Prague Spring uprising, Dominika's life would be far from charmed. Her mother was disowned by her parents, who were members of the Party elite. Her father was an inventor whose politics resulted in his working as a taxi driver, but who nevertheless remained an unrepentant optimist. Rounding out the family-colorful, even by local standards-were a beautiful, voluptuous teenage sister with many male admirers and an enormous St. Bernard who was a famous Czech TV star. In a village on the outskirts of Prague, full of gossipy neighbors, state informants, friendly old "grandmothers," and small-town prejudices, Dominika grows up a self-possessed child, whose openness and curiosity often lead her, and her family, into trouble. Yet the love, pride, and quirky ingenuity that bind them together will guarantee their survival-and ultimately their happiness-through the best and worst of times. The Twelve Little Cakes is equal parts testimony to the struggles of a bygone era and a love letter to a joy-filled childhood that no external forces could dim.

“Faccia bello è un bulldog realmente esistito, e abbiamo voluto annotare alcune delle sue avventure e disavventure. Io ho avuto la fortuna di essere suo compagno e custode. La magia della storia è autentica e si è manifestata spontaneamente al convergere dei nostri due mondi.”

Dit is de kroniek van de Pecks, een uiterst eigenzinnige en wonderbaarlijk ouderwetse familie in Baltimore, en het verhaal van de Pecks, die de verschillende familieleden door goed vier generaties heen, ondanks al hun merkwaardige eigenaardigheden, als onmiskenbare Pecks verbindt. Toch valt af en toe een Peck ten prooi aan de verleidingen van de wereld en wijkt af. Zo verdwijnt Caleb, een dromerige jongeman, in 1912 plotseling spoorloos en maakt hij zich, onder de betovering van de eerste klanken van de blues, op naar New Orleans. Bijna 50 jaar moeten verstrijken voordat iemand serieus naar hem op zoek gaat, maar de inspanningen van zijn halfbroer Daniel, een inmiddels zeer bejaarde man, om Caleb - en daarmee een stuk van zijn eigen kindertijd - terug te vinden, zijn des te intenser. Samen met zijn kleindochter Justine, een charmante en liefhebbende vrouw met een hoed, reist de oude man kriskras door de Verenigde Staten op zoek naar Caleb. Justine's bijzondere gaven blijken daarbij van groot nut: ze kan de toekomst uit kaarten lezen, sluit iedereen in haar hart en heeft op de een of andere manier de gave om de chaos bij elkaar te houden.

Impressies van een Nederlandse journaliste van Vietnam.

Per puro caso è la storia di una quarantenne, Delia Grinstead, una donna sposata con tre figli ormai quasi grandi, che all’improvviso – semplicemente allontanandosi da una spiaggia – si lascia alle spalle il matrimonio e la famiglia per costruirsi una nuova vita in una cittadina non molto distante da Baltimora. Tutto avviene apparentemente per caso, eppure nulla è veramente casuale. Cosa ha spinto Delia a compiere un gesto in cui, forse, ogni donna può riconoscere un proprio desiderio? È la sensazione di essere diventata inutile? Il ricordo di un uomo incontrato al supermercato? Il piacere della fuga? O, semplicemente, il senso di insoddisfazione e di limitatezza che pare inevitabilmente connesso alla vita famigliare? Mirabile ritratto di matrimonio, Per puro caso è, probabilmente, il più intenso, struggente e insieme divertito romanzo della Tyler, come sempre straordinariamente sensibile ai dettagli di cui è fatta la sostanza della vita quotidiana, e capace di offrirci una disamina tra spiritosa e impaurita del destino che ciascuno porta dentro di sé, già scritto.

By the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Breathing Lessons", this is the tale of Jeremy Pauling, a 38-year-old bachelor who has never left home. The death of his mother leaves him in charge of a ramshackle boarding house and the arrival of a female lodger brings him a challenge he can't handle.

Ambientada en Manhattan, Ceguera asesina relata la terrible lucha que debe librar la doctora Laurie Montgomery al enfrentarse a una conspiración terrorífica. Una serie de jóvenes ejecutivos muere a causa de sobredosis de cocaína. Al intentar hacer la autopsia a los cadáveres e investigar las muertes, la joven forense encuentra una inexplicable oposición por parte de sus superiores, de la policía y de los propios familiares de las víctimas. Pero Laurie está dispuesta a llegar al fondo de la estremecedora pesadilla que se teje en un distinguido hospital neoyorquino. Ceguera asesina confirma la gran capacidad de Cook a la hora de mezclar medicina e intriga.

A medical thriller set in the thrilling and dangerous brave new world of reproductive technologies. Dr Marissa Blumenthal has suspicions about what is really going on behind the walls of the clinic where she is receiving fertilization treatment. By the author of Coma and Fever .

A darkly hilarious tale of a model family's disintegration. Professor Siem Sigerius - maths genius, jazz lover, judo champion, Renaissance man. When Aaron meets his girlfriend Joni's family for the first time, her multitalented father could hardly be a more intimidating figure, but somehow the underachieving photographer manages to bluff his way to a friendship with the paterfamilias. With his feet under the table at the beautiful Sigerius farmhouse, Aaron feels part of the family. A perfect family. Until, that is, things start to go wrong in a very big way. A cataclysmic explosion in a firework factory, the advent of internet pornography, the reappearance of a forgotten murderer and a jet-black wig-all play a role in the spectacular fragmentation of the Sigerius clan...and of Aaron's fragile psyche.

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple-young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in the Polish neighbourhood of Baltimore, he was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervor, they were hastily wed. But they never should have married. Pauline, impulsive and impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious, and judgmental, proceeds deliberately. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. A 17-year-old daughter disappears, and some years later this fractious pair is forced to rescue her little boy, named Pagan, from drug-infested San Francisco, to take him home and raise him. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counterculture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayered apparel of later years, Anne Tyler captures the evocative nuances of everyday life during these decades with such telling precision that every page brings smiles of recognition. Throughout, as each of the competing voices bears witness, we are drawn ever more deeply into the complex entanglements of family life in this marvelous, multifaceted novel-one of Anne Tyler's finest.

Bombay. Años sesenta. Tras la trágica muerte de su madre, Pinky Mittal, una niña de trece años, vive al cuidado de su abuela Maji, verdadera cabeza de familia de los Mittal. A pesar del amor de su abuela, Pinky no consigue superar cierto sentimiento de abandono y soledad. No obstante, ama como nada en el mundo la casa de frondoso jardín tropical donde vive y su plantación de mangos, y el aroma de sándalo y comino frito que allí se respira. Y también ama a Nimish, un hermoso joven del que le gustaría recibir todas las atenciones posibles. Cuando una noche Pinky sorprende a Nimish con su mejor amiga, cree morir. Pinky llora desconsoladamente mientras un extraño tintineo y rumor de agua atrae su atención hacia la puerta del baño. Una puerta misteriosa que Maji cierra con llave todas las noches, y que le tiene terminantemente prohibido tocar a los niños... Traducida a varios idiomas, la novela debú de Shilpa Agarwal narra una historia profundamente evocadora y maravillosamente subyugante donde el mundo real se encuentra con el mundo espiritual en un relato cargado de magia.

A lovable loser tries to get his life in order. He is Barnaby Gaitlin, 30, the black sheep of a rich Baltimore family, ex-juvenile delinquent who specialized in housebreaking for kicks. He works for Rent-a-Back, moving furniture for old people, and dreams of having a future

Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don't have to be a perfect match to work. "Anne Tyler is a magical writer." LOS ANGELES TIMES From the Paperback edition.

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize “It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red’s father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red’s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their anchor. Brimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler’s work, A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. It is a novel to cherish.

In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill--a loveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness and routine--where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God. Behind a facade of false piety, there are sins and secrets in this place that could crush a vibrant young woman's passionate spirit. And here Ellen must find the straight to endure, change, and grow in the all-pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves.

In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is forced to come out of his long, comfortable silence. Then there is ten-year-old Simon, who is suddenly without a baby sister -- and without understanding why she's gone. Those closest to this shattered family must learn to comfort them -- and confront their own private shadows of hidden grief. If time cannot draw them out of the dark, then love may be their only hope....

Una donna non più giovane cerca marito in una sala da ballo.Un ragazzo che ha appena perso il padre ne scopre i segreti in un albergo di Dublino.Un giovanotto di campagna sposa la ragazza dei suoi sogni in seguito a una misteriosa gravidanza.Tre storie irlandesi animate da una malinconica tensione, mentre la vita scorre in queste esistenze all'apparenza ordinarie.