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“A nail-biting narrative, setting stark human dilemmas against a lush, exotic backdrop.”— People “Extraordinary. . . . Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it’s satisfying.” — Boston Globe From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, a...

Ne "I Miserabili" Victor Hugo narra con assoluta sensibilità ed estrema modernità la solitudine dell'uomo, il contrasto tra ceti sociali, ma anche la redenzione attraverso la rivolta e l'amore. Il romanzo, dal ritmo incalzante, magistrale e irripetibile per l'autenticità delle emozioni e per la complessità della trama narrativa, viene qui tradotto ad alta voce da un unico narratore, Moro Silo, che con la sua più che trentennale esperienza di lettore, riesce a cogliere l'enorme quantità di significati presenti nel libro nel massimo rispetto dello stile unico e originale dell'autore, del suo contesto storico-culturale e filologico.

Only four years after publishing his fable Animal Farm, a biting satire of Joseph Stalin’s horrific regime of terror, George Orwell turned his attention to the future. But his next book was to be no satire, no fable. What emerged from Orwell’s pen in 1949 was the most grimly dystopian novel ever written: 1984.

After two decades under President Dennison’s theocratic rule, the United States has become a surveillance state where elections are staged, dissent is criminalized, and women’s bodies are controlled by the government. Lily Osbourne survives by staying silent until a routine airport scan reveals the impossible—she’s pregnant despite her use of long-term contraception. Her fetus is assigned a Social Security number by the Republic before she even has a chance to process its existence.

As war rages between fundamentalist Freemen and the Dirty, practitioners of outlawed magic, nine-year-old Rabbit and her siblings have no idea how to ensure their culture’s survival. They have nine shards of the Woodfeast, a relic with unknown power, and a host of uncertain allies: Jane, a Dirty woman known to the Freemen as their apostate son; the Warrior, a beast formed from wolves; and Hyena, a storm razing the country and insisting that Rabbit must commit murder to be truly free.

Über Nacht verändern sich die Straßen von Wolnopol: Dünen wehen über die Promenade, künstlich anmutende Wirbelstürme reißen Schneisen durch die ukrainische Küstenstadt. Inmitten dieses Chaos macht Maksym Karriere – als Dealer von synthetischen Drogen. Sein Großvater Bohdan, der den Gulag überstanden hat, bringt ihm Schach bei und zitiert Puschkin. Seine Mutter Nadia, Herzchirurgin des Städtischen Klinikums, traut weder Staat noch Menschen. Doch während die Stadt im Sand zu verschwinden droht, gerät auch die Familie ins Wanken.

Um romance hilário, ousado e diferente de tudo o que já se viu. Parece invenção, mas é (quase) tudo nossa história. Numa pátria chamada Plazil, Bráulio Garrazazuis Bestianelli elegeu-se presidente. Neste misto de ficção histórica e pornochanchada política, acompanhamos desde a infância do protagonista até a instauração de uma ditadura autoproclamada, em episódios que certamente soarão familiar ao leitor.

Versión ePub. Presenta el contexto histórico de la ONU, la Liga de las Naciones que la precedió, la postura republicana a largo plazo en contra de ella y la de los demócratas a favor. Una lectura imprescindible en la cuarta era con Donald Trump al mando. El título fue traducido parcial o...

Josia Ephram Trent is a scientist who, like most, dislikes the new US President. When the misguided actions of the Chief Executive create a chain reaction that kills someone close to him, Trent plans vengeance, in the only way he can.

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In Machiavelli Nation, Steven Hannum presents a chilling vision of a society engineered for control—where governments, corporations, and media function as interlocking mechanisms designed to extract obedience, labor, and wealth from the many for the benefit of the few.

From a maverick of 20th century fiction, a domestic drama set on the cusp of Brazil’s abolition of slavery. Released just two months before his death in 1908, Memorial de Ayres was Machado de Assis’s final novel. Written in the form of a diary, it follows the day-to-day happenings of a...

The second instalment in the monumental BOMB LIGHT series – a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic weapons. From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon...

Brought to you by Penguin. John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food. But John's...

1969: Albert Speer, l'architetto star del regime, ministro dell'armamento e gerarca prediletto di Hitler, pubblica le sue memorie. Grazie a questa rivisitazione del suo passato (a partire dalle monumentali, megalomani messe in scena ideate per i congressi e le adunate naziste fino agli ultimi convulsi, terribili giorni della caduta del Reich) porta a compimento l'ultima delle sue metamorfosi.

"Il 29 febbraio saranno trent'anni. Ti aspettiamo." Non ha bisogno di altri dettagli, Carlo, una vita da inviato speciale in zone di guerra, per capire a cosa si riferisca il messaggio appena ricevuto. Gli anniversari tondi segnano un punto, favoriscono ricordi, chiamano bilanci. Ma soprattutto costringono a vedere chi eravamo, e chi siamo diventati proprio perché abbiamo vissuto certe cose. Per Carlo, i 1425 giorni dell'assedio a Sarajevo, culmine del conflitto nei Balcani che ha sgretolato la ex Jugoslavia, sono stati un crocevia emotivo senza paragoni, un intreccio di paure.

Newly arrived in America, Yana spends her days in a series of dead-end service jobs and her nights meeting other immigrants. Working as a doctor in Sofia, Yana's beautiful mother Lily believes she has escaped the dark horrors of her childhood, until she finds herself trapped once more in a violent marriage. And Lily's own mother, Eva, is slowly losing herself in the embroidery of her memories.

Brought to you by Penguin. Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the...

Truth, fairness, and humanity are among the very few principles of journalism. The code of ethics is a must for every journalist to follow. Shikha is one such journalist with the biggest dreams and aspirations. At the early age of thirty, she is offered a live interview with the home minister of...

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