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Pier Francesco Paolini

    La via del samurai
    Under the Roofs of Paris
    Esperando un respiro
    The Second Ring of Power
    A Son of the Circus
    La Colina de Watership
    • 2012

      Under the Roofs of Paris

      • 272 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as Opus Pistorum) is that book. Here one finds Miller’s characteristic candor, wit, self-mockery, and celebration of the good life. From Marcelle to Tania, to Alexandra, to Anna, and from the Left Bank to Pigalle, Miller sweeps us up in his odyssey in search of the perfect job, the perfect woman, and the perfect experience.

      Under the Roofs of Paris
    • 2000

      La via del samurai

      • 198 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      "Una straordinaria meditazione sulla morte e un'amara riflessione sulla perdita di tradizioni e valori antichissimi, nel racconto di un grande rappresentante della letteratura contemporanea." [dalla pagina web di Bompiani]

      La via del samurai
    • 1994

      A Son of the Circus

      • 682 páginas
      • 24 horas de lectura
      4,3(292555)Añadir reseña

      "A SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS....GET READY FOR IRVING'S MOST RAUCOUS NOVEL TO DATE." --The Boston Globe "Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture or religion to call his own....The novel may not be 'about' India, but Irving's imagined India, which Daruwalla visits periodically, is a remarkable achievement--a pandemonium of servants and clubmen, dwarf clowns and transvestite whores, missionaries and movie stars. This is a land of energetic colliding egos, of modern media clashing with ancient cultures, of broken sexual boundaries." --New York Newsday "HIS MOST DARING AND MOST VIBRANT NOVEL...The story of circus-as-India is told with gusto and delightful irreverence." --Bharati Mukherjee The Washington Post Book World "Ringmaster Irving introduces act after act, until three (or more) rings are awhirl at a lunatic pace....[He] spills characters from his imagination as agilely as improbable numbers of clowns pile out of a tiny car....His Bombay and his Indian characters are vibrant and convincing." --The Wall Street Journal "IRRESISTIBLE...POWERFUL...Irving's gift for dialogue shines." --Chicago Tribune

      A Son of the Circus
    • 1993

      Divertido e ingenioso relato sobre 4 mujeres negras de clase acomodada que forman una especie de hermandad para sobrellevar sus ajetreadas vidas.

      Esperando un respiro
    • 1990

      The Second Ring of Power

      • 328 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Transformed by Don Juan from a bent, gray-haired old woman into a sensual sorceress whose mission is to test Castaneda, Dona Soledad turns her mysterious and awesome powers against Castaneda in a struggle that nearly consumes him.

      The Second Ring of Power
    • 1988

      Nel magico scenario della verde Irlanda, il giovane Pidge, dopo aver acquistato un vecchio libro malconcio, sitrova a varcare la sottile soglia che separa il mondo reale da quello fantastico. Lo attende un viaggio senza tempo, in compagnia della sua sorellina Brigit, tra streghe e folletti, spiriti maligni e geni benefici, giganti ed animali fantastici. Questo libro narra le gesta due bambini, già citati sopra. La Dea Morrigan sta per tornare nel mondo degli umani, ma per farlo deve entrare in possesso delle pietre con cui Cù Chulainn, il mastino dell' Ulster, la ferì durante una battaglia. I nostri eroi, il cui compito sarà quello si impadronirsi delle pietre e di consegnarle al Dio Daghda,saranno aiutati da druidi, animali parlanti e antichi re irlandesi e vigili urbani in bicicletta. Verranno però ostacolati dai segugi della Dea Morrigan, da orchi deformi e da spiriti maligni.

      La Gaja scienza - 250: La pietra del vecchio pescatore
    • 1987

      Quinto, un joven y apacible conejo, sufre unas visiones aterradoras sobre el futuro de su madriguera. Convertido en líder, Quinto y sus inseparables compañeros deciden abandonar cuanto conocen para fundar otro hogar. El viaje para encontrar un buen asentamiento donde empezar una nueva vida, así como las aventuras ligadas a los instintos de supervivencia de estos conejos, serán el eje de esta inolvidable historia. Nacida originalmente de un improvisado relato que Richard Adams contó a sus sobrinos durante un largo viaje en coche, esta novela, protagonizada exclusivamente por conejos, tiene el tono de una narración épica antigua, pero también encierra una aguda crítica de las relaciones de poder, un alegato ecológico de extraordinaria eficacia y una reflexión profunda y serena acerca de la dureza de la vida. La colina de Watership es un clásico de la literatura contemporánea traducido a más de veinte idiomas, que «mucho antes de Harry Potter cautivó la imaginación del público desde su aparición en 1972 hasta nuestros días y que ha vendido millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo», The Telegraph; «Esta historia bellísimamente escrita e intensamente conmovedora es la obra de una imaginación extraordinaria», Sunday Telegraph. Recuperación de un clásico de Seix Barral.

      La Colina de Watership