Claudia Valeria Letizia Libros

"Cuando recuerdo mi infancia, me pregunto cómo pude sobrevivir siquiera. Fue una infancia desgraciada, se entiende: las infancias felices no merecen que les prestemos atención. La infancia desgraciada irlandesa es peor que la infancia desgraciada corriente, y la infancia desgraciada irlandesa católica es peor todavía."Así comienzan las memorias luminosas de Frank McCourt, que nació en Brooklyn en la época de la Depresión, hijo de padres recién llegados de Irlanda como inmigrantes, y se crió en los suburbios de Limerick, Irlanda. La madre de Frank, Ángela, no tiene dinero para dar de comer a sus hijos porque el padre de Frank, Malachy, rara vez trabaja, y cuando trabaja se bebe el sueldo.Las cenizas de Ángela está empapado en todas sus páginas del asombroso humor y compasión de Frank McCourt. Es sorprendente que el autor haya vivido para contarlo. Que haya podido crear, a partir de esa miseria y esa pobreza, una obra maestra impecable es pura y simplemente milagroso.Una obra extraordinaria en todos los sentidos. McCourt recupera mágicamente el amor, la dignidad y el humor de una infancia marcada por el hambre, la muerte y el dolor.

A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own.For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps, and deserts of the sub-Sahara. Now the earth is scorched by drought, and the mutilated bodies of family and friends lie scattered on the ground, shot down by ivory hunters. Nothing-not the once familiar terrain, or the age-old rhythms of life, or even memory itself-seems reliable anymore. Yet a slim prophecy of hope is passed on from water hole to water hole: the sacred white bone of legend will point the elephants toward the Safe Place. And so begins a quest through Africa's vast and perilous plains-until at last the survivors face a decisive trial of loyalty and courage.In The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy performs a feat of imagination virtually unparalleled in modern fiction. Plunged into an alien landscape, we orient ourselves in elephant time, elephant space, elephant consciousness and begin to feel, as Gowdy puts it, what it would be like to be that big and gentle, to be that imperiled, and to have that prodigious memory.

"L’altro mio problema era che mi stavo innamorando di Gretchen, la mia amica del cuore, che secondo tutti quanti (pensavo io) era una cicciona. Stavamo cantando in quel catorcio della sua macchina e alla fine del pezzo – White Riot dei Clash – mi resi conto dal modo in cui le guardavo la bocca corrugata che faceva un sorriso e gli occhi ammiccanti, complici, che eravamo molto più che amici, almeno per me". Brian, diciasettenne di Chicago, ama i videogiochi, la musica metal e la sua amica Gretchen, un’attaccabrighe con i capelli tinti di rosa, cicciona e sboccata. Nel frattempo Gretchen ama i Ramones e i Clash e il delinquente razzista Tony Degan di ventisei anni. Inoltre è famosa per picchiare le altre ragazze, come quando aveva rotto un braccio a Amy Schaffer a una festa di Halloween: "Gretchen s’era vestita da Kennedy post-attentato col completo nero, il sangue e i buchi delle pallottole, e Amy Schaffer aveva stralunato gli occhi e aveva detto: Mamma mia, sembri proprio un uomo e allora Gretchen si era girata, l’aveva presa per un braccio e gliel’aveva storto forte dietro la schiena”. Un romanzo violento, tenero e divertente che ha conquistato l’America.

Spiritualist and extortionist Patrick Seton is coming up for trial. He's been accused of forgery, and suddenly West London's bachelors are all in a tizzy. Described by Evelyn Waugh as the 'cleverest and most elegant of all Mrs Spark's clever and elegant books', The Bachelors is a biting comedy of English manners.This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime. All are being published by Polygon in hardback Centenary Editions between November 2017 and September 2018.