Stefano Viviani Libros

Roma, siglo I a.C. Ambición, traiciones e intrigas políticas marcan la apasionante lucha por el poder entre Cicerón, el cónsul, y su príncipe opositor, un joven líder populista llamado Julio César. Segunda entrega de la gran «Trilogía de Cicerón» de Robert Harris. Año 63 a.C. Cicerón ha sido nombrado cónsul de Roma, el cargo más alto de la República, tras una ascensión turbulenta hasta la cima del poder que le ha granjeado los peores enemigos. Así, su política se ve condicionada por las intrigas y conspiraciones a su alrededor, que convierten la capital del Imperio en un verdadero laberinto de poder. En semejante escenario, Cicerón debe enfrentarse a Julio César, un joven líder que busca el favor del vulgo, y a Catilina, un personaje sibilino, conspirador y maquiavélico. Son años de disputas, complots y ambiciones desmedidas que marcarán el rumbo de Roma e inscribirán el nombre de sus protagonistas en la Historia. Una novela brillante que ilumina una época de conjuras e intrigas políticas que supondrán el declive de la República romana. Conspiración recrea de forma magistral la vida de Cicerón, uno de los personajes más fascinantes de la antigua Roma, y consagra a Robert Harris como una de las figuras más destacadas de la ficción histórica.

Rutherfurd homenajea a la ciudad más grande de Estados Unidos en una saga rica, fascinante, que muestra su extraordinaria habilidad para combinar la investigación histórica impecable y su estilo narrativo. Describe trastornos culturales, sociales y políti

Written by a mountaineer who in 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, drifted cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. It tells how moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. It tells the story of that promise and its outcome.

His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend - a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold. Together with his partner, an investment banker, Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that tracks human emotions, enabling it to predict movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But then in the early hours of the morning, while he lies asleep with his wife, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of their lakeside house. So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing desperation, to discover who is trying to destroy him. His quest forces him to confront the deepest questions of what it is to be human. By the time night falls over Geneva, the financial markets will be in turmoil and Hoffmann's world - and ours - transformed forever.

Come si fa a diventare buoni? E soprattutto, che cosa significa essere buoni? Katie Karr non se l'è mai chiesto: una donna che ha scelto di diventare medico per aiutare gli altri e che ha cresciuto i figli ai valori morali più profondi non ha nemmeno bisogno di chiederselo. Finché quella donna non tradisce il marito. E allora il marito, David, decide di dare una svolta alla sua vita. Abbandona le arguzie sarcastiche con le quali non risparmiava nessuno, nemmeno la moglie e i figli, e rinuncia a versare veleno su tutto e tutti nella rubrica che firmava regolarmente su un quotidiano locale; insomma smette diessere "l'uomo più arrabbiato di Holloway" per diventare buono. Ma buono sul serio, facendo perdere a Katie ogni punto di riferimento.

According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions. Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel, a No. 1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland, offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?