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Nel maggio 2021 Nathacha Appanah apprende dell'omicidio della giovane Chahinez Daoud, avvenuto a Mérignac, nei pressi di Bordeaux. La morte di Chahinez risveglia in Appanah un dolore che viene da lontano: la perdita della cugina Emma, brutalmente assassinata dal marito a Mauritius nel 2000. È una storia che l'autrice non ha mai raccontato, a cui ha evitato di pensare a lungo. Una storia che adesso bisogna scrivere.

Islande. À la mort de sa meilleure amie, tuée par son compagnon, Katla se lance un défi inédit: organiser une grève des femmes dans le monde entier, pour dénoncer les violences et les inégalités. Japon. Michiko, jeune salariée enceinte, est harcelée par son patron. Salvador. Ana María, ouvrière à l'usine, se bat pour sa fille, condamnée à trente ans de prison pour suspicion d'avortement. Sénégal. Hawa, urgentiste, tente de sauver une enfant quand le trauma de son passé ressurgit. Katla, Michiko, Ana María et Hawa ne se connaissent pas, mais toutes décident de dire non.

«Non avevo mai pensato tanto in vita mia a cosa succedeva sotto la mia pelle.» Che quella allo specchio fosse un'immagine ingannevole, che sotto la pelle fossero in atto processi misteriosi e ineluttabili, Raffaella Romagnolo lo ha scoperto a ventisette anni. E ci sono voluti quasi tre decenni dalla diagnosi di sclerosi multipla perché decidesse di raccontare ciò che a lungo è rimasto chiuso in un faldone di cartoncino rosso, l'archivio personale della sua storia clinica.

Ein herzbewegender Roman mit autobiographischen Zügen. Gegen den Rat ihrer Mutter heiratet Margarete und zieht mit Georg auf den Hof seiner Eltern. Es weiß zu diesem Zeitpunkt niemand, dass sie schwanger ist. An einem heißen Sommertag, beim Heu wenden, setzen plötzlich ihre Wehen ein. In einer rasanten und abenteuerlichen Fahrt auf einem klapprigen Leiterwagen kutschiert Georg sie nach Hause. Kurze Zeit später bringt sie ein gesundes Mädchen zur Welt, das ein Junge werden sollte. Dorina ist klein, viel zu klein. In schlaflosen Nächten kämpfen Mama und Oma um ihr Überleben.

Nadie sale ileso de una madre. "Mamá miró hacia un lado y hacia otro hasta encontrarme y empezó a olfatearme. —Andás con ganas de cobrar, vos, me parece. —No —le dije yo, con cara de vos andás con ganas de pegar, me parece. No necesitó más, ni una discusión ni un grito. Avanzó...

From the day he was crowned, Henry V was determined to prove the legitimacy of his house. His father's usurpation weighed heavily on his mind, and he needed a grand gesture to capture the respect of his own countrymen and the rest of Europe. What better way than to follow in his great-grandfather Edward III's footsteps, and recover the territory lost in France over the previous fifty years? Better yet, why not go for the crown? Poor, deranged Charles VI couldn't manage his own barons.

Rim é uma adolescente um tanto romântica, crescendo em um Marrocos dividido entre o autoritarismo familiar e a promessa de uma educação moderna. Filha dedicada e estudante exemplar, ela arrisca uma leve transgressão. A reação de extrema violência da própria mãe, que a acusa de ter “perdido a honra”, dá início a uma jornada de dor, confronto e descoberta. Obrigada a se submeter a um teste de virgindade, Rim se vê arrancada da infância e de suas ilusões sobre amor e família.

Aspro e dolce racconta l'epopea di Erto e dei suoi abitanti narrata in prima persona da Mauro Corona, protagonista e sciamano. Autobiografia di un uomo, romanzo fatto di avventure, di beffe e di omeriche bevute, questo libro è anche la storia di un intero paese distrutto e rinato, a suo modo, dalla catastrofe. Immancabile sfondo è la natura, madre e matrigna di uomini, animali, piante e rocce.

From the author of The Cassandra (“Quirky, funny, dark,” Margaret Atwood), a historical reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s life and a love letter to storytelling as an act of survival In the early nineteenth century, a boy named Hans lives in poverty in Odense, Denmark, where he and...

From the critically acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty, and truth—and a blazing renovation of the form. The movie star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Her image is everywhere. It has been like that since she was a child...

»Ein herzzereißendes Porträt von Amerikanern, die von der Welt nach 9/11 zum Anderssein verbannt wurden.« Jennifer Egan »Genau der Schriftsteller, den wir brauchen.« Daniel Kehlmann, FAZ »Leidenschaftlich, verstörend, fesselnd.« Salman Rushdie Ayad Akhtars »Homeland Elegien « ist ein...

Ein Aufbegehren gegen die Einsamkeit 1985 nimmt sich eine junge Pianistin in Neubrandenburg das Leben. Dreieinhalb Jahrezehnte später stößt die Schriftstellerin Helene Bukowski auf ihre Geschichte. Behutsam nähert sie sich Christina, sucht in ihrer Biografie nach Rissen und Erschütterungen...

What happens when the life you’ve built perfectly is the one you can no longer live? Sean was good at his job. He knew how to pace a slide deck, read a boardroom, and make a twenty-million-pound renewal sound like a foregone conclusion. But in the middle of a high-stakes meeting in London, the practiced mask of corporate competence finally cracked. In a single moment of uncontrolled laughter, he walked out of his career, left his laptop glowing on the table, and didn't look back.

The frigate Astrea leaves Spain for the Philippines in the late 1770s. Captain Alejandro Malaspina must bring the entering governor and his family to Manila. Lucia, the Governor's daughter is promised to the son of the exiting Governor. Astrea's Second Officer, Carlos is gravely wounded during a storm, and Pedro, Lucia's older brother and a student of medicine in Granada, heals his wounds. Lucia nurses Carlos. They fall in love. In Manila, the Franciscan sisters care for Carlos, and Lucia joins the convent rather than marry the despicable son of the exiting Governor.

Esta novela recrea la fascinante vida de Irene de Atenas, la emperatriz que gobernó Bizancio durante más de veinte años. La historia de una joven de extraordinaria belleza, que pasó de crecer en la miseria a regir el destino del imperio más poderoso de su tiempo. El retrato de alguien que logró atesorar un poder inconcebible para una mujer en el siglo VIII de nuestra era.

Some men love you. Some men ruin you. And some men are the lesson you never forget. Dance with the Devil is an autobiographical fiction novel about a woman rebuilding her life—until she meets Danny, the charming, intense, magnetic man who slips into her world like fate… and slowly begins to dismantle it from the inside out.

Panama, 1991. A broke 21-year-old throws a Hail Mary: the shortest Army contract possible, fleeing divorce and fatherhood. He ends up as MP Investigator "Eagle 12" in the sticky heat post-Operation Just Cause. One brutal weekend in Coco Solo barracks changes everything. Dawn anxiety, party highs, stripper nights, and self-deception collide with harsh reality—a neglected daughter, money demands, inescapable regret. Raw and inspired by true events, Eagle 12 captures the choking isolation of military life: jungle humidity vs. weak AC, fragile hope against relentless duty.

A restrained family novel concerned with pride, class, and the slow unravelling of authority within a once-ordered household. As a marriage falters and relationships subtly realign, ordinary decisions begin to carry unintended consequences. Written with psychological precision, it observes how silence, misjudgment, and the refusal to look closely can quietly reshape a life.

England, 1787. Mary Wollstonecraft is an avowed spinster. At 28, she moves to London to live independently as a writer. With her publication of A Vindication for the Rights of Woman a few short years later, she emerges as a leading figure for women's equality. But when a humiliating faux pas threatens her reputation, Mary travels to Paris to write about the French Revolution, where she unexpectedly falls in love with American adventurer Gilbert Imlay.

Jewish refugee Felix Wolff believes he has found safety in England, but he is arrested and thrown into a British internment camp as a suspected Nazi spy. To clear his name and join the fight against Hitler, he must break free of a system that mistakes him for the very evil he fled. Fresh off his ruthless campaign in Poland, Sicherheitsdienst agent Karl Vogt is sent on a chilling mission: to devise a system for controlling the growing Jewish population within the Reich. His cold efficiency lays the groundwork for a coming horror the world has yet to comprehend.