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EL ÁTICO DE LAS ORTIGAS PROHIBIDAS
David Crespo "Izumi"
Daniel, un aspirante a escritor en eterna búsqueda de la inspiración —bajo la crítica mirada de su padre—, conoce a Andrea, una aspirante a actriz de aguda inteligencia y marcado carácter, de la que se enamora al instante. Siendo correspondido, tarda poco en mudarse a su maravilloso apartamento de paseo de Gracia, que como todo Edén, incluye su manzana prohibida: bajo ningún concepto...
CIÒ CHE NEL SILENZIO NON TACE
Martina Merletti
August 1944, Le Nuove Prigioni (New Jale) in Turin. A young nun takes the baby of a prisoner in transit through Birkenau, puts him to sleep with a cloth soaked in wine and slips him into the dirty laundry trolley. You know, the laundry is not the business of the Germans, and most of the time the trolleys go in and out of the walls without being searched. More than fifty years later Aila, who...
LA DONNA DEGLI ALBERI
Lorenzo Marone
La donna è sola, inquieta, in fuga: non vuole più restare dove non c’è amore. Ha lasciato la città, nella quale tutto è frenetico e in vendita, ed è tornata nella vecchia baita dell’infanzia, sul Monte. Qui vive senza passato, aspetta che la neve seppellisca i ricordi e segue il ritmo della natura.
C’è un inverno da attraversare, il freddo da combattere, la solitudine da farsi...
L'INIZIO DI OGNI COSA
Luca Ammirati
Tommaso is a Literature teacher with a passion for the incipit of novels because they take him on roads in lives that are not his. After a violent discussion with his partner Irene, he decides to take advantage of her absence for a business trip and a bridge to school to go to Bussana Vecchia for a few days, the village near Sanremo destroyed by a violent earthquake in 1887 and repopulated at the...
TRE INUTILI COSE
Maria Rosaria Selo
Può una donna, madre e suocera, tenere in scacco il destino di tre intere famiglie con il solo potere della cattiveria?
Severina Balestrieri è una donna spietata, autorevole e autoritaria, disposta a tutto pur di mantenere intatta la propria felicità.
Sullo sfondo di una Napoli che precede il secondo conflitto mondiale, passando dal fermento del dopoguerra e fino agli anni ottanta, Maria...
LA FORMULA SEGRETA
Sara Rattaro
Quanti secondi impiega l'acqua di un lavandino tappato per allagare una scuola? Prima di una verifica di Matematica, Matteo tenta questo singolare esperimento, che gli costerà una convocazione in presidenza con i genitori. Come suo padre, professore di Fisica all'università, Matteo è appassionato di scienza. Ma non ha ancora scoperto il teorema che possa far tornare insieme mamma e papà. A...
RICORDAMI NELL'ACQUA
Eloisa Donadelli
Suo padre Dino scelse per lei un nome im- portante, Neve, che parlasse dell’acqua nella forma da lui più amata. L’acqua che, nel bene e nel male, aveva accompagnato la loro vita: limpida e dissetante, come quella di montagna, calda ed eterea, come quel vapore che avvolgeva le pozze termali, per le quali il suo paese natio, Aquasalus, era conosciuto.
È l’ultima settimana di ottobre e Neve...
LA GIUSTA DISTANZA
Sara Rattaro
Two distant points can also be very close. The plane is complete: a dense web of stories and destinies casually united and aligned. Among them there is a man who took that flight to put distance between himself and his life: perhaps to flee, perhaps to understand. Suddenly, the signal to fasten your seat belts, a tremor that shakes the whole plane, and the tangible sensation of falling. While the...
CAFFÈ VOLTAIRE
Laura Campiglio
There is only one life. But sometimes you get two.
After turning thirty-five, Anna Naldini has the feeling of finding herself on the wrong side of thirty: the one in which the hangover becomes hard to dispose of, but above all the one in which from the projects it's time to move on to the budgets. But there is worse. On his birthday he lost the most important of the eight precarious...
TUTTO SARÀ PERFETTO
Lorenzo Marone
Two days could be endless
The forty-years-old single and deeply immature photographer Andrea has to take care of his father Libero for a weekend. As a matter of fact, his sister Marina has to travel to the North of Italy with her husband and their two kids to visit his ill father-in-law.
After a thousand endorsements, the family leaves and Andrea starts off a terrible weekend in the company...
SE I PESCI GUARDASSERO LE STELLE
Luca Ammirati
Samuele is thirty and he has been collecting failures his whole life. He is a dreamer by profession, unlucky with relationships, always concerned not to be up to the standards. He would like to become a creative advertiser even though his projects are duly rejected. That is why he is a precarious and underpaid reporter during the day, while at night he is in charge of the little Astronomical...
FOCARA DI SANGUE
Carmelo Greco
Brucia.
Le fascine bruciano.
Gli arbusti, bruciano.
La focara, cantando, tutto brucia.
Lo sanno bene Mirko, Mauro, Sergi, Rizzelli e Nitto. Sono tutti lì, ai piedi del falò, in attesa che la pira prenda fuoco in onore di Sant’Antonio Abate.
È il mese di gennaio e a Tumoli, nel cuore dello Jentu, tutti aspettano l’accensione della focara, una moderna torre di Babele che, invece di...
LA COMPAGNIA DELLE ILLUSIONI
Enrico Ianniello
His codename is ‘o Mollusco, the Mollusk.
It is extremely important to have a codename if you want to be part of the Company of Illusions. A mellifluous and elusive name, just like the truth behind fiction.
After an acting career poor of satisfactions - the only vaguely important role was the nosey housekeeper Raffaele of the soap opera Tutti a Casa Baselice! - the fifty-year-old Antonio...
CHI HA BISOGNO DI TE
Elisabetta Bucciarelli
There are several ways of falling in love and just as many of ending a relationship. There are men willing to wait, fathers who are looking for the right words to raise their children and then there’s Meri, a young woman with a special gift. Next to her a mother who teaches her how to deal with feelings through Queen’s songs. Meri keeps receiving anonymous handmade notes and while she is...
CONFESSIONI AUDACI DI UN BALLERINO DI LISCIO
Paola Cereda
Along the shores of Adriatic Sea, where the great river Po takes the shape of a silent and enchanting Delta, you can feel the summer heat, the distant murmur of the sea, the eternal dampness, you can hear the liquidity of the air, of the sounds, and even of the souls. But - and that’s he magic touch of Cereda’s novel - you can hear a music, a music that comes, closer and closer, from a...
MAGARI DOMANI RESTO
Lorenzo Marone
The brilliant new novel by one of the most powerful Italian authors, published in February 2017.
Luce, a young woman thirty years old, Neapolitan, lives in the Spanish quarters (a Naples neighborhood infiltrated by the Camorra), but she is an honest young fighter, a bit revolutionary, feminist; a strong female character. She is a lawyer, always in jeans, boots and short hair cut in male style....
EL JARDÍN DE SONOKO
David Crespo "Izumi"
A work with the deepness and delicacy of Miyazaki's Spirited away or Ende's Momo. And between Alessandro Baricco Silk and Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind.
Japan today. Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. A strange piano with a special sound, an impossible love, an evil woman and a garden blooming in an attic's terrace, all of them have met to try to destroy the thin red thread, the thread of fate, which...
LA TRISTEZZA HA IL SONNO LEGGERO
Lorenzo Marone
SADNESS SLEEPS LIGHTLY
A powerful novel on the extended-opened family of our societies and the influence we receive in our lives from the people who live close to us, shaping our character and assigning us a role. At least until the day when we realize that if we do not want to live a life that is not ours, we must rebel, even to those who love us.
Err Gargiulo, 40, has two fathers, a mother...
LA RESISTENZA DEL MASCHIO
Elisabetta Bucciarelli
THE MALE RESISTANCE
The man is a successful adult, married to a beautiful woman. He doesn't want children, doesn't like to depend on anyone or anything, he is not interested in sex as itself and in each circumstance of his life, he looks for measure and proportions.
One night, coming back from work, he assists to a car accident. A woman crashes against a lamp post, risking her own life. Her...
UN TERREMOTO A BORGO PROPIZIO
Loredana Limone
AN EARTHQUAKE AT HAPPY TOWN
Borgo Propizio sky is a lapis lazuli mosaic and life goes on scene under it. But life, you know, is made of both beautiful and awful things.
A bad day a violent earthquake destroys a large part of the historical centre, throwing into desperation people who so much love their village.
Mayor Felice Rondinella feels disaster like his own personal failure, and...
LA VITA PRODIGIOSA DI ISIDORO SIFFLOTIN
Enrico Ianniello
Isidoro Siffotin was born in the small house of Mattinella, a tiny village in the South of Italy. He develops a miraculous skill inherited from his father Quirino (the cross-eyed communist poet inventor of words) and from Stella, his mother, a pasta-maker who prepares curtains of tagliatelle and bears a secret. Which special gift is this? Isidoro doesn't speak. Well, he could speak, but he...
COME UN CHIODO NEL MURO
Tony Laudadio
Translation Right shared with Bompiani.
Giustino Salvato is a successful criminal lawyer with an enormous problem of anger control which explodes in violent incidents and sudden flares up. Passionately fond of literature and motorbike, full of obsessions and obscure sides, he does an illegal service for some companies, his clients: he acts as an intermediary for the payment of protection...
SE CHIEDI AL VENTO DI RESTARE
Paola Cereda
A magical Mediterranean novel by Italian author Paola Cereda, reminiscent of THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS by Isabel Allende and L’ISOLA DI ARTURO by Elsa Morante.
Set on a nameless Italian island in the mid-20th century, L’ANNUNCIATA evokes a forgotten world, where the islanders live a traditional life, undisturbed by events on the mainland. They walk barefoot, symbolising their special...
E LE STELLE NON STANNO A GUARDARE
Loredana Limone
Too many are the facts reshuffling the every-day life of Borgo Propizio and his several inhabitants, such as the evergreen Aunt Letizia, busy to carry on her diary shop together with Belinda, the not-so-sweet but loved niece; Mariolina and Marietta, the two sisters always quarreling and making peace; the roughly refined Ruggero; the Carabinieri Marshall Bartolomeo Saltalamacchia…
Headed from...
UN USO QUALUNQUE DI TE
Sara Rattaro
Viola, Carlo and Luce are a quiet middle-class family, or at least apparently. Luce is 17-year-old and as such is full of energy and completely projected towards the future.Viola is a distracted mother and wife, full of doubts about her present life and with too many regrets. Carlo, instead, is a caring husband and the core of the family.
One late spring night, almost at dawn, Viola receives...
SULLA SEDIA SBAGLIATA
Sara Rattaro
Andrea è accusato di aver ucciso Barbara, la fidanzata, in preda a un raptus e sotto l’effetto di stupefacenti. Valeria ha saputo dal giornale che il ragazzo che ama è accusato di aver strangolato la madre. Una donna ha visto uscire di casa la figlia e non sa che sarà per l’ultima volta, mentre Zoe sogna l’”uomo dal naso perfetto” e attende il trapianto… Vicende che si intrecciano...
DESPUÉS Y ANTES DE DIOS
Octavio Escobar Giraldo
Premio Novela Corta Ciudad de Barbastro
La topografía, las circunstancias de su fundación, los prejuicios determinan cada ciudad de provincia, también sus pecados, piadosamente ocultos.
Manizales está a más de dos mil metros de altura sobre el nivel del mar, en medio de las montañas cafeteras colombianas. Hija de las migraciones y las guerras civiles del siglo XIX, el lugar común...
MEMORIAS DE UN HOMBRE FELIZ
Darío Jaramillo
He vivido en un tiempo y un lugar en los que todo el mundo se exime sin recato de cumplir la ley, no solo el hampón. Cualquiera –por ejemplo, un tecnócrata rico y aficionado a la relojería–, llegado el momento, llegada la necesidad, encontrará razones para considerar que la ley no se le aplica y procederá en consecuencia.
Me gustaría un lector cómplice del texto y de la historia....
EL ESTUPOR Y LA MARAVILLA
Pablo d'Ors
"Alois Vogel is the guard in an imaginary Expressionist Museum in Koblenz. Over the years, he has watched over its halls and corridors. It is there that he has learnt to observe the paintings and everything that surrounds them, and to notice even the most trivial detail by paying just the slightest attention.
Based on this simplest of plots, Pablo d’Ors constructs "an epopoeia of trivialities...