“If we defend ourselves against you, and you against us, our classroom becomes a battlefield. The stronger side will win, but school will be over.”In an all-boys high school in Naples, what was meant to be a simple prank turns into all-out war, requiring some unforgettable wisdom from a beloved classics professor. It’s 1967, and a wooden panel unscrewed from a professor’s desk becomes an emblem of rebellion just one year before students all over Europe launch their own revolt. Will the boys’ stubborn “solidarity” win out, or will someone squeal on the culprits, so as not to be punished as well? Number of character: 21.369.
Just after World War II, a young orphan living in Naples comes under the protection of Don Gaetano, the superintendent of an apartment building. He is a generous man and is very attached to the boy, telling him about the war and the liberation of the city by the Neapolitans. He teaches him to play cards, shows him how to do odd jobs for the tenants, and even initiates him into the world of sex by sending him one evening to a widow who lives in the building. But Don Gaetano possesses another gift as well: he knows how to read people's thoughts and guesses correctly that his young friend is haunted by the image of a girl he noticed by chance behind a window during a soccer match. Years later, when the girl returns, the orphan will need Don Gaetano's help more than ever.
The unnamed narrator of this slim, alluring novel recalls a summer spent at age sixteen on an idyllic Italian island off the coast of Naples in the 1950s, where he spends his days with Nicola, a local fisherman. The narrator falls in love with Caia, who shares with him that she’s Jewish, saved by Italian soldiers from the Nazis, who killed the rest of her Yugoslav family. The boy demands answers about the war from the adults around him, but is rebuffed by everyone but Nicola, who tells him of Italy’s complicity with the Nazis. His passion for Caia and his ardent patriotism lead him to a flamboyant, cataclysmic act of destruction that brings his tale to an end.
The unnamed narrator of this slim, alluring novel recalls a summer spent at age sixteen on an idyllic Italian island off the coast of Naples in the 1950s, where he spends his days with Nicola, a local fisherman. The narrator falls in love with Caia, who shares with him that she’s Jewish, saved by Italian soldiers from the Nazis, who killed the rest of her Yugoslav family. The boy demands answers about the war from the adults around him, but is rebuffed by everyone but Nicola, who tells him of Italy’s complicity with the Nazis. His passion for Caia and his ardent patriotism lead him to a flamboyant, cataclysmic act of destruction that brings his tale to an end.
Happiness - was it right to name it without knowing it? It sounded shameless in my mouth, like when someone shows off about knowing a celebrity and just uses their first name, saying Marcello when they really mean Mastroianni ...' A young orphan boy grows up in Naples, playing football, roaming the city's streets and hidden places. The older boys call him 'monkey' because he can climb anywhere. He is alone, apart from Don Gaetano, the apartment caretaker, who feeds him, teaches him to play scopa, and tells him stories about women, history and the dark secrets of Naples' past. Then one day the boy sees a young girl standing at a window. It is an encounter that will haunt his life for years and, eventually, shape his destiny. Lyrical and exuberant, told with the simplicity of a fairy tale and the intensity of a memory, The Day Before Happiness is the story of friendship, a city and what makes us who we are.
From Argentina to Italy, the intense, metaphysical and poetic story of a gardener in love, by Italy's most prominent writer. "A man's life lasts as long as three horses. You have already buried the first." Somewhere along the coastline of Italy, a man passes his days in solitude and silence, tending a garden and reading books of travel and adventure. Through these simple routines he seeks to quiet the painful memories of the past: a life on the run from Argentina's Dirty War; a young bride 'disappeared' by the military; a terrifying escape through the wilds of Patagonia. Yet everywhere he turns, new life is pulsing, ready to awaken his senses, like the force that drives his fruit trees into bloom. People and events from the past and present migrate into patterns assigned by a metaphysical geometry. A woman of the world re-introduces him to love. An African day laborer teaches him the meaning of gratitude. In this intense narrative, every acute observation, every nuance, becomes a means of salvation. Using a language that is both gripping and contemplative, Three Horses is an unforgettable tale. Praise for The Sea of Memory: "Poetic . . . charged with anger and desire." -The New York Times Book Review "Alluring . . . shimmeringly lyrical." -Publishers Weekly
This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open. He lives in Montedidio—God’s Mountain—a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples. He brings a paycheck home every Saturday from Mast’Errico’s carpentry workshop where he sweeps the floor. He is on his way to becoming a man—his boy’s voice is abandoning him. His wooden boomerang is neither toy nor tool, but something in between. Then there is Maria, the thirteen-year-old girl who lives above him and, like so many girls, is wiser than he. She carries the burden of a secret life herself. She’ll speak to him for the first time this summer. There is also his friendship with a cobbler named Rafaniello, a Jewish refugee who has escaped the horrors of the Holocaust, who has no idea how long he’s been on this earth, and who is said to sprout wings for a blessed few. It is 1963, a young man’s summer of discovery. A time for a boy with innocent hands and a pure heart to look beyond the ordinary in everyday things to see the far-reaching landscape, and all of its possibilities, from a rooftop terrace on God’s Mountain.
They won’t take me alive. They’ve captured thousands of us, but I’m not about to give up, like some leaf in autumn.”An old war criminal lives with his daughter, a girl who is torn between revulsion and sense of duty. He thinks he is only to blame for his defeat. She does not want to know what his charges are because she thinks her father's crime can't be reduced to a circumstance, got a moment in history. Together attend an event prescribed by the Jewish Kabbalah, an event where the word end is the same as the word revenge. The excuse will be some pages, challenged by a stranger at an inn.
One morning, high in the Dolomite mountains, two hikers are some distance apart. The path in places is narrow and perilous. One man falls to his death. The other sounds the alarm. But these men are not strangers. Members of the same revolutionary group forty years earlier, the first had betrayed the second, who must now hold his own against a young magistrate intent upon having him tried for murder. Was their meeting an improbable encounter, or an impossible coincidence? Impossible is a brilliant hymn to the lure of the mountains, an engrossing illumination of political brotherhood, and also the subtlest of detective stories.
““With a single push of her heels, she slips away from my side. The star-encrusted sky surrounds her, outlining her body in light. Beauty in all its purity going out to sea, immune to the lures of future lives. Not even a wave goodbye, like a serpent shedding its skin.”” A young girl who was rescued by dolphins grows up an orphan on a Greek island. Her name is Irene, and by day she lives on land, while at night she unites with her true family in the sea. She is also pregnant, despite being only fourteen years old, and she entrusts her extraordinary story to an itinerant visitor. Number of characters: 73.094
Matteo has a new heart. A woman’s heart. And with another woman who is also recovering from open heart surgery, he sets about trying to recover his old life by scaling one of the most foreboding peaks in the Dolomites.
Dans ces pages, je réunis des histoires extrêmes de parents et d’enfants. J’en suis à moitié étranger : n’étant pas père, je suis resté nécessairement fils. ' Autour de ce sujet très personnel de la filiation, devenu avec le temps un motif récurrent de son œuvre littéraire, Erri De Luca compose un thème et des variations pleins de finesse. On y croise de jeunes vagabonds napolitains, la fille d’un nazi en cavale, la jeunesse révoltée de Mai 68 ou encore le directeur d’un orphelinat de Varsovie. Erri De Luca mêle dans ces récits l’intime à l’universel, et pose un regard riche et même poétique sur les rapports entre parents et enfants.
“I am, and I will remain, even if convicted, a witness to sabotage. Namely: to the hampering, obstructing, and impeding of the freedom to dissent.” Renowned Italian author Erri De Luca takes on the controversial plans for a high-speed train line between Lyons and Turin and finds himself also defending free speech.
Zoom si fa Box per i suoi cinque anni: un unico eBook che contiene quindici fra i migliori eBook pubblicati dal marchio digitale Feltrinelli! Romanzi, pamphlet, poesie, manuali e ricettari: un gustoso e ricco menu di letture da regalare e regalarsi. A un prezzo davvero straordinario. “Best of Zoom” contiene: - Frate Zitto, di Stefano Benni - I Purissimi, di David Bidussa - La donna nel lago, di Raymond Chandler - Nemmeno sapevo d'esser poeta, di Marina Cvetaeva - Il turno di notte lo fanno le stelle, di Erri De Luca - Bambole gemelle, di Marina Di Guardo - La miracolosa stranezza di essere vivi, di Paolo Di Paolo - Tutti sono nessuno, di Sergio Donato - Storia dell'anima, di Umberto Galimberti - Louie l'Infallibile, di Lisa Halliday - Tre storie di Stephen Daedalus, di James Joyce - L'altra faccia della faccia, di Karl Ove Knausgard - La vera prova è la vita, di Osho - Nient'altro che parole, di Annalisa Teodorani - Le piramidi stanno a guardare, di Banana Yoshimoto Le buone letture non ti bastano mai, vuoi avere sempre sottomano i libri del tuo autore preferito e non ti spaventano le pagine di un Classico neanche a migliaia? Scopri il catalogo ZoomBox: cofanetti digitali dei tuoi libri preferiti a un prezzo vantaggioso. Solo digitali, solo convenienti, solo di qualità.
Swiss figurative sculptor Zaric (1961-2017) drew on mythology and the aesthetics of antiquity to make sculptures of hybrid man-animal creatures, such as a human-sized rabbit in a two-piece suit or a female nude with the head of an ox. Body-to-Body documents works created throughout Zaric's career.
This book presents François-Marie Banier's portraits of Parisian construction workers sleeping or at rest in their places of work. Caught in moments of dreaming and escape from their labor, Banier's subjects blend into the soft grey atmosphere of his pictures and seem, if but for a moment, to have escaped the harsher facts of reality. These are candid and tender portraits which continue Banier's practice of photographing strangers he meets throughout Paris. In his words: "To photograph workers asleep on the very ground of their construction site was, once again, to follow the paradoxical lines of being, a solitude embodied in movie heroes who change faces, roles, centuries and sometimes genders, in each of their naps.
Avec Etranger résident, La maison rouge poursuit son cycle d'expositions consacré aux collections privées. C'est au tour de Marin Karmitz de dévoiler, pour la première fois, un ensemble important de sa collection, soit plus de 300 oeuvres présentée du 15 octobre 2017 au 21 janvier 2018. Cette collection, patiemment assemblée depuis une trentaine d'années, est la dernière réalisation de cet homme plus connu pour les films qu'il a produits et les salles de cinéma MK2 dont il est le fondateur. Marin Karmitz est un enfant de ce siècle, lui-même victime des déracinements engendrés par la Shoah et par le partage de l'Europe en deux blocs. Ses engagements marquent l'esprit de sa collection, dont les oeuvres s'articulent comme s'il s'agissait d'un scénario. A travers différents médiums, cette collection, dominée par le noir et blanc, où la figure humaine est très présente, se montre résolument personnelle et exigeante.
Just after World War II, a young orphan living in Naples comes under the protection of Don Gaetano, the superintendent of an apartment building. He is a generous man and is very attached to the boy, telling him about the war and the liberation of the city by the Neapolitans. He teaches him to play cards, shows him how to do odd jobs for the tenants, and even initiates him into the world of sex by sending him one evening to a widow who lives in the building. But Don Gaetano possesses another gift as well: he knows how to read people’s thoughts and guesses correctly that his young friend is haunted by the image of a girl he noticed by chance behind a window during a soccer match. Years later, when the girl returns, the orphan will need Don Gaetano’s help more than ever.
The unnamed narrator of this slim, alluring novel recalls a summer spent at age sixteen on an idyllic Italian island off the coast of Naples in the 1950s, where he spends his days with Nicola, a local fisherman. The narrator falls in love with Caia, who shares with him that she’s Jewish, saved by Italian soldiers from the Nazis, who killed the rest of her Yugoslav family. The boy demands answers about the war from the adults around him, but is rebuffed by everyone but Nicola, who tells him of Italy’s complicity with the Nazis. His passion for Caia and his ardent patriotism lead him to a flamboyant, cataclysmic act of destruction that brings his tale to an end.
From Argentina to Italy, the intense, metaphysical and poetic story of a gardener in love, by Italy's most prominent writer. "A man's life lasts as long as three horses. You have already buried the first." Somewhere along the coastline of Italy, a man passes his days in solitude and silence, tending a garden and reading books of travel and adventure. Through these simple routines he seeks to quiet the painful memories of the past: a life on the run from Argentina's Dirty War; a young bride 'disappeared' by the military; a terrifying escape through the wilds of Patagonia. Yet everywhere he turns, new life is pulsing, ready to awaken his senses, like the force that drives his fruit trees into bloom. People and events from the past and present migrate into patterns assigned by a metaphysical geometry. A woman of the world re-introduces him to love. An African day laborer teaches him the meaning of gratitude. In this intense narrative, every acute observation, every nuance, becomes a means of salvation. Using a language that is both gripping and contemplative, Three Horses is an unforgettable tale. Praise for The Sea of Memory: "Poetic . . . charged with anger and desire." -The New York Times Book Review "Alluring . . . shimmeringly lyrical." -Publishers Weekly
One morning, high in the Dolomite mountains, two hikers are some distance apart. The path in places is narrow and perilous. One man falls to his death. The other sounds the alarm. But these men are not strangers. Members of the same revolutionary group forty years earlier, the first had betrayed the second, who must now hold his own against a young magistrate intent upon having him tried for murder. Was their meeting an improbable encounter, or an impossible coincidence? Impossible is a brilliant hymn to the lure of the mountains, an engrossing illumination of political brotherhood, and also the subtlest of detective stories.
This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open. He lives in Montedidio—God’s Mountain—a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples. He brings a paycheck home every Saturday from Mast’Errico’s carpentry workshop where he sweeps the floor. He is on his way to becoming a man—his boy’s voice is abandoning him. His wooden boomerang is neither toy nor tool, but something in between. Then there is Maria, the thirteen-year-old girl who lives above him and, like so many girls, is wiser than he. She carries the burden of a secret life herself. She’ll speak to him for the first time this summer. There is also his friendship with a cobbler named Rafaniello, a Jewish refugee who has escaped the horrors of the Holocaust, who has no idea how long he’s been on this earth, and who is said to sprout wings for a blessed few. It is 1963, a young man’s summer of discovery. A time for a boy with innocent hands and a pure heart to look beyond the ordinary in everyday things to see the far-reaching landscape, and all of its possibilities, from a rooftop terrace on God’s Mountain.
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