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Una donna racconta di sé. E della passione bruciante per un uomo più giovane di lei, che finalmente lascia il segno in un’esistenza grigia, imprigionata in un matrimonio deciso a sangue freddo. Descrive nei dettagli i loro incontri, i baci, i più riposti segreti della loro intimità.
[lire la quatrième du livre La volpe meccanica]

Nel giro di ventiquattr’ore un uomo perde il controllo della propria vita: fa un grave errore sul lavoro, gli viene sequestrata la patente, trova l’ufficio sigillato dalla Finanza, scopre che il suo socio è fuggito lasciandolo nei guai, rompe definitivamente con la sua compagna – e nel frattempo sua figlia è scappata da casa.
[lire la quatrième du livre TERRE RARE]

La batalla de Bailén, el primer gran acontecimiento bélico de la guerra de la Independencia española, tuvo lugar el 19 de julio de 1808. Esta novela forma parte de los Episodios Nacionales , escritos por Benito Pérez Galdós.
[lire la quatrième du livre BAILEN]

Nella letteratura di tutti i tempi, da Omero a Virgilio, da Ariosto a Tasso, due figure interpretano variazioni di una stessa danza: si inseguono, si avvicinano, si corteggiano, si tradiscono, si abbandonano. L'eroe, l'uomo responsabile delle vite altrui, chiamato dal destino a compiere grandi imprese, si lascia salvare dalla bellezza, cullandosi nel piacere sottile della stasi.
[lire la quatrième du livre L'eroe e la maga]

It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up – couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-rays of the foot back and forth. The Chinese intend to punish their interfering little ally discreetly.
[lire la quatrième du livre THE CONCERT]

This powerful collection of stories, set in the Northwest among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection went on to become one of the most influential pieces of literary fiction.
[lire la quatrième du livre WHAT WE TALK ABOUT]

Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect.

Hiding out in a shepherd’s cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother and her young son, Knut.

But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut brings essential supplies, [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre MIDNIGHT SUN]

It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten—determined her love will be enough for them both. A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world.
[lire la quatrième du livre My Policeman]

An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his shattered sense of self, he unearths the courage he thought he’d lost forever.
[lire la quatrième du livre Home]

There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. Escape with the nation's favourite spy in the addictive first novel in Ian Fleming's classic series. Le Chiffre is a businessman with expensive tastes, and SMERSH's chief operative in France.

But as his dissolute lifestyle threatens to ruin him, his only hope is to risk his paymasters' money at the card table.
[lire la quatrième du livre James Bond 007 - Casino Royale]

These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, "Errand", in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.
[lire la quatrième du livre Elephant]

Beloved is a dense, complex novel that yields up its secrets one by one. As Morrison takes us deeper into Sethe's history and her memories, the horrifying circumstances of her baby's death start to make terrible sense.
[lire la quatrième du livre Beloved]

With introductions by Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw.

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.
[lire la quatrième du livre Brave New World]

Jonah, Ruth and Joseph are the children of mixed-race parents determined to raise them beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. Yet they cannot be protected from the world forever.

Even as Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, the opera arena remains fixated on his race.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Time of Our Singing]

En Eva Luna, su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su país a través de la memoria y la imaginación.

La cautivadora protagonista de esta historia constituye un nostálgico álter ego de la autora, que se llama a sí misma «ladrona de historias» precisamente porque en las historias radica el secreto de la vida y el mundo.Novela de hondo perfil humano, Eva Luna funde el destino [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Eva Luna]

This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight’ s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.
[lire la quatrième du livre Midnight's Children]

Harry Hole faces a new rising enemy.

‘A page-turner you won't want to put down’ Time Out

Harry knows he shouldn’t get involved.A report of a rare and unusual gun – a type favoured by assassins – being smuggled into the country sparks Detective Harry Hole's interest. Evil is closer to home than he knows.Then a former WW2 Nazi sympathizer is found with his throat cut.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Redbreast]

Discover Angela Carter’s classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling.

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

‘Magnificent set pieces of [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories]