Silvia Pareschi Libros

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. • “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” —USA Today Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that "shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life" (Los Angeles Times).

«No soy negro, soy hombre.» Elwood Curtis, inspirado por Martin Luther King, sueña con un mundo más justo. Criado por su estricta abuela tras ser abandonado por sus padres, Elwood se destaca como un estudiante prometedor, viendo en la educación su única salida. Sin embargo, su vida da un giro inesperado cuando, debido a un malentendido, es enviado a la Academia Nickel, un reformatorio que promete formar «hombres hechos y derechos» a través de una instrucción física, intelectual y moral. Pronto descubre que este lugar encierra un brutal secreto y una realidad corrupta, ignorada por muchos. Con la ayuda de su amigo Turner, quien cree que la única forma de sobrevivir es imitar la crueldad de sus opresores, Elwood se enfrenta a un dilema. Mientras Turner adopta una postura cínica, Elwood opta por seguir las enseñanzas de King: «Enviadnos a la cárcel, y os querremos igual». La tensión entre el escepticismo y el idealismo de ambos amigos los llevará a tomar decisiones con consecuencias profundas. Inspirada en un caso real de un reformatorio de Florida que devastó vidas durante más de un siglo, esta novela devastadora explora la lucha por la justicia en un contexto marcado por la segregación racial en los años sesenta.

"Crossroads is the first novel in Jonathan Franzen's A Key to All Mythologies. The trilogy tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the 2020s"

The long awaited follow-up to 'When the Emperor was Divine' tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as mail-order brides, nearly a century ago.

La vida nunca ha sido fácil para Oscar Wao, un dominicano dulce, obeso y desastroso que vive con su madre y su hermana en un gueto de Nueva Jersey. Oscar sueña con convertirse en un J.R.R. Tolkien dominicano y, por encima de todo, sueña con encontrar el amor de su vida. Pero puede que nunca alcance sus metas debido a una extraña maldición. Después del éxito internacional de Los boys, Junot Díaz recrea, con humor, la experiencia de los dominicanos en Estados Unidos y la capacidad de perseverar en medio del desengaño amoroso y la pérdida.

Walter y Patty llegaron a Ramsey Hill como jóvenes pioneros de una nueva burguesía urbana: cultos, educados, progresistas, adinerados y simpáticos. Huían de la generación de sus padres y de sus barrios residenciales, de las neurosis y las malas decisiones en las que crecieron. Ramsey Hill era para los Berglund una frontera a colonizar, la posibilidad de renovar el mito de América como tierra de libertad "donde un hijo podía sentirse especial". Sin embargo, olvidaron que "nada perturba esta sensación tanto como la presencia de otros seres humanos que se sienten especiales". Tras algunos años, descubrimos que Joey, su hijo de dieciséis años, se ha ido a vivir con su novia a casa de los odiados vecinos, Patty pasa demasiado tiempo con Richard Katz, amigo de la infancia de su marido y músico de rock, mientras que Walter, el tímido y amable defensor del reciclaje y la comida de bajo impacto, es etiquetado por los periódicos como "arrogante, tiránico y éticamente comprometido". En los años 2000, la libertad se ha convertido en un campo de batalla en el que se enfrentan tanto el debate público como las vidas de las familias.

Da anni quest'opera rimane nel canone delle letture scolastiche. Descrive le lotte di un pescatore con la sua preda e insegna al lettore moderno molto sulla lotta e sul significato delle parole: vincere e perdere...

Snow Falling on Cedars meets The Shipping News in this enthralling literary crime novel set in post World War II Long Island. In the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island's windswept coast, generations have followed the same calling as their forefathers, fishing the dangerous Atlantic waters. Little has changed in the three centuries since white settlers drove the Montaukett Indians from the land. But for Conrad Labarde, a second-generation Basque immigrant recently returned from the Second World War, and his fellow fisherman Rollo Kemp, this stability is shattered when a beautiful New York socialite turns up dead in their nets. On the face of it, her death was accidental, but deputy police chief Tom Hollis -- an incomer from New York -- is convinced the truth lies in the intricate histories and family secrets of Amagansett's inhabitants. Meanwhile the enigmatic Labarde is pursuing his own investigation. In unravelling the mystery, this haunting and evocative novel captures a community whose way of life is disappearing, its demise hastened by war in Europe and the incursions of wealthy city dwellers in search of a playground.

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS

The author presents his 1996 work, "The Harper's Essay," offering additional writings that consider a central theme of the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the increasing persistence of loneliness in postmodern American.

The lives of Skip Sands, a spy-in-training engaged in psychological operations against the Vietcong, and brothers Bill and James Houston, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war, intertwine in a novel of America during the Vietnam War

Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.

"In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years--the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love."--

Il nuovo e attesissimo libro di Amy Hempel, una delle voci più celebri e originali della narrativa di oggi, si apre con un proverbio arabo: "Quando il pericolo si avvicina, cantagli una canzone". Queste quindici storie raffinate rivelano la parte più umana e vivace della leggendaria scrittrice, che ci presenta figure solitarie e alla deriva in cerca di una connessione. Le loro brevi vicende affrontano le nostre paure e i nostri desideri, costringendoci a compatirli. I personaggi di Amy Hempel, immediatamente vividi e memorabili, hanno cuori danneggiati e sono perseguitati dal dolore. Lottano per perdonare se stessi e gli altri. Ne La chicane l'incontro di una donna con un attore francese suscita un diluvio di ricordi legati a una zia suicida, incapace di trovare stabilità in amore e nella vita. In Un rifugio con tutti i servizi una volontaria di un ricovero per cani si prende cura con devozione degli animali da sopprimere. In Greed una moglie respinta esamina la relazione di suo marito con una donna affascinante e anziana. E in Cloudland, la storia più lunga della raccolta, una donna rimugina sulla scelta fatta da adolescente di rinunciare al suo bambino. Seducenti e inquietanti, tenere e cupamente divertenti, queste storie sono piene di rivelazioni inattese, narrate con lo stile singolare e inimitabile di Amy Hempel.

Heather, The Totality is superb. It gripped me at once. There was no question of turning away at any point. Weiner conveys the sense that beyond the brilliantly chosen details there was a wealth of similarly truthful social and psychological perception unstated. Then there was the ice-cold mercilessness, of a kind that reminded me (oddly, I suppose, but there it was) of Evelyn Waugh. This novel is something special PHILIP PULLMAN

Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn’t know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut. As his stretch limousine moves across town, his world begins to fall apart. But more worrying than the loss of his fortune is the realization that his life may be under threat. ‘A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture’ Sunday Times ‘One of America’s smartest and most disturbing writers’ The Times

Follows three friends - and their overlapping social and family circles - through their day-to-day lives, their perceived struggles and successes and their search for meaning. This work also presents a portrait of a particular place at a particular moment, and an illustration of how the events of a single day can change everything for ever.