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"Assalto a un tempo devastato" e vile è il audiolibro cult di Giuseppe Genna, l’opera che, al momento della sua prima pubblicazione, fece gridare alla nascita di una voce potente e originalissima della letteratura italiana. Questo piccolo classico contemporaneo torna ora in una nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata. Utilizzando le forme del racconto, del saggio, del reportage, Genna esplora il cuore delle città in cui viviamo e di un paese intero, componendo un vertiginoso mosaico del nostro tempo.

Uscito nel 1976, "Un borghese piccolo piccolo" racconta la crudele, sanguinosa vicenda di Giovanni Vivaldi, impiegato di un ministero romano che, nell'Italia spietata del boom economico, tenta di farsi largo nel mondo tra sotterfugi e piccole furbizie, ed è pronto a tutto pur di garantire al figlio quel benessere che lui ha potuto solo sfiorare.

Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel is set in the Motor City during the hot summer of 1967. Its characters are thrust into tumultuous episodes of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, anti-war demonstrations, rock and roll at the Grande Ballroom, drugs, anarchism, the White Panther Party, Wilhelm Reich, and a bomb plot that an editor of the Metro Times wrote, provides “a people’s history and radical folklore of Detroit”. The setting is seven weeks in a critical year that demanded ethical choices by all involved, ones which mirror today’s crises.

Flying to war torn Vietnam, Patch Kincaid and Ray Meinkewitz are part of a secret plan, Operation Bluebird Rescue, to extricate Commander Phineas Beauregard from an American prison near Saigon and question Winkamp, an important player in the death of President Kennedy. An extensive riot ensues as Patch’s flying skills are challenged as Patch, Phinney, and Meinkewitz attempt to flee the country and top CIA operative Baker Finch.

"Il carcere", pubblicato nel 1948 con "La casa in collina" sotto il titolo comune "Prima che il gallo canti", è una storia di privata solitudine. Pavese racconta in terza persona l'esperienza autobiografica della condanna al soggiorno obbligato a Brancaleone Calabro per aver cercato di proteggere la donna amata, militante del PCI. La vita al confino, l'apprendistato di un intellettuale coinvolto, quasi suo malgrado, nella politica, la scoperta di un'altra Italia da parte di un settentrionale.

Boris Pahor, scrittore sloveno e cittadino italiano, non si colloca nel panorama letterario europeo come autore di un solo libro; altri capolavori segnano il suo percorso creativo che ruota in prevalenza intorno al destino della gente slovena nel Novecento e alle suggestioni di una città elusiva e ammaliatrice come Trieste. La prima di queste opere è la raccolta di racconti Il rogo nel porto, che non solo lievita ai livelli più alti della grande letteratura europea ma prelude a quasi tutta la restante produzione dell’autore quanto a temi e motivi ispiratori.

Hvorfor bedøver vi hunde og katte ved kastrering, men ikke grise? Hvorfor er det okay at spise køer, men ikke hunde? Hvorfor befrier vi elefanter fra et liv i cirkus, men hænger levende kyllinger op på slagterkroge. Det er nogle af de spørgsmål romanens hovedperson, Lava, stiller sig selv og sine omgivelser. Sammen med sin gode ven Valdemar forsøger hun at råbe det danske samfund op, men sandheden er som bekendt ilde hørt, og det er nemmere at lukke øjne og ører end at ændre vaner.

In the weeks before the election of Donald Trump, Niran, a young, liberal, Iraqi Muslim immigrant, struggles to find her footing in a neighborhood of well-to-do, conservative Iraqi Christians. Inspired by her idol Enheduanna, the first recorded writer in history and famed priestess of Ancient Mesopotamia, Niran navigates societal challenges, fights against cultural stereotypes, and most of all, aims to make her voice heard by all around her. With a desire to study, work, and love, Niran rediscovers her purpose in life.

It’s two decades in the future, and a Christian college student named Ace Hartwick has just destroyed his neighbor’s so-called “wife”—actually a sexbot named Sally—in a trash compactor. Soon, Ace will be on trial for murder. Unfortunately for Ace, everyone despises his kind of “radical” Christianity, and, in the fragile America of the future, all the juries are fixed.

The last great 19th-century Russian novelist brings his symbolism together with realism, to blend real and fictional people together in the Russian revolutionary period of 1905 that laid the seeds for the 1917 dark Soviet period that Bely anticipates, set in the Paris of Russia, St Petersburg. An intriguing fantasy mixed with reality, dark and bright colors, with a dose of romanticism.

En spänningsladdad politisk deckare skriven av före detta partiledaren Jonas Sjöstedt. En spansk EU-parlamentariker och en kvinnlig tjänsteman hittas mördade i en lägenhet i Bryssel. När polisen kommer till mordplatsen möts de av scen som påminner om en slaktplats. Parlamentarikern har torterats och mördats genom garrottering – en fruktad spansk avrättningsmetod som inte använts sedan Francos tid vid makten.

In 1920s Leicester, Lewis Eliot must escape the drudgery of a council clerk's office and his provincial lower class background to begin his decades-long rise to power. As the years pass, and Lewis progresses to successful London lawyer, to Cambridge don, to wartime service in Whitehall, to senior civil servant and finally retirement, he faces in his own life and the lives of those around him collapsing marriages, terrible illness, the politics of academia, Nazism, nuclear weapons, the price of power and the ever-present realities of war.

Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the disgraced former Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, is in mourning—not only for her husband, but the loss of their shared dream to transform the penal colony into a bright new world. Over the course of one long sleepless night on the windswept isle of Mull, she remembers her life in that wild and strange country; a revolution of ideas as dramatic as any in history; and her dangerous alliance with the brilliant, mercurial Francis Greenway, the colony's maverick architect.

Pertinente historia de superación humana que trata un tema candente y actual: los campos de refugiados. En ella seguiremos a Elena, una diplomática española que se embarca en un viaje al África Subsahariana en una misión para las Naciones Unidas. Allí le esperan el hambre, la guerra, la enfermedad y la muerte, pero también el motivo secreto de su viaje: el hombre al que ama.

Na, klar ist das nur ein verrückter Zufall, dass sie beide David heißen: David aus Hamburg, elfte Klasse in einer Gesamtschule und wegen einmal Sitzenbleiben schon 18 – und David aus Kampala, der Hauptstadt Ugandas, der erst 16 ist, aber weiß, dass er weg muss. Um jeden Preis. Überhaupt kein Zufall ist, wie sie einander finden: im Internet, wo David aus Kampala auf Planet Romeo durchklickt zu David in Hamburg, weil in seinem Profil etwas steht, das in Kampala zu sieben Jahren Gefängnis führen kann: "Ich unterstütze die Rechte sexueller Minderheiten in Afrika!"

Tot comença amb un robatori d’uns papers del Monestir de Sant Cugat mentre a Matadepera s’està debatent sobre el procés sobiranista, a primera vista que podrien tenir en comú els afers de l’Església amb la política?, potser molt o potser res, però i si afegim un descendent del Compte Borrell, un milionari recalcitrant amb set de diners i poder, un retrat força cru sobre les altes esferes de la societat catalana, i si a més hi afegim embolics de faldilles, assassinats i segrestos.

Al humilde cabo Juan Castro le importa más encontrar a su mula preferida que ganar la guerra. Por eso sale tras ella y, poco después de atravesar la línea de frente, se ve envuelto en un episodio tan peligroso como hilarante que, contra su voluntad, lo va a convertir en un héroe de guerra. La mula es una atrevida desmitificación de la guerra civil. Un personaje pícaro y tierno para desmitificar la guerra.

In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elísabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her carefully controlled life. Elísabet's work is the lynchpin of her existence in the city; her friends and social life centre around the Special Unit. But recently Elísabet has found herself taking long solitary walks near the lake. One day, she sees two creatures emerging from the water, half-human, half-swan. She follows them through tangles of thickets into a strange new reality.

Beautiful, educated Svetlana Petrova defied her stifling aristocratic family to join a revolution promising freedom. Now, released after years of imprisonment, she discovers her socialist party vying for power against the dictatorial Bolsheviks and her beloved uncle, a champion of her cause, was murdered by a mysterious assassin named Orlova. Her signature? Blinding her victims before she kills them. Svetlana resolves to avenge his death by destroying this vicious opponent, even as she longs to reunite with the daughter she has not seen in years.

Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil war tears through her home, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence. Desperate to act, Sashi accepts K’s invitation to work as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers, who, following years of state discrimination and violence, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority.