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The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World ***** There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris - their lives all curiously touched by the epic of Gilgamesh. ***** 'Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature' Ian McEwan 'Shafak makes a new home for us in words' Colum McCann 'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi

Young Arturo grows up in near-isolation on the island of Procida in the Bay of Naples. His mother died in childbirth and his wayward father, who left him as a child in the care of a servant on the island, returns only sporadically. Cut off from the island community, Arturo exists almost entirely in solitude: he roams the island with his beloved dog, sails in his boat and reads tales of virtuous heroes and adventurers whom he imagines resemble his father. The boy's world is upended when his father arrives from Naples with his new wife Nunziata, who at sixteen is only a few years older than Arturo. Their presence shatters his childhood idyll, awakening passionate feelings and drawing the family towards painful conflict

The book has garnered attention from the New York Times Book Review, indicating its significance in contemporary literature. It explores complex themes and features well-developed characters, drawing readers into a compelling narrative. The author's unique voice and perspective offer fresh insights, making it a noteworthy addition to the literary landscape. The work promises to engage audiences with its thought-provoking content and emotional depth.

A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars. We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother, mired in a desperate solitude after her father's untimely death. In addition to colleagues at work, where she never quite feels at ease, she has girl friends, guy friends, and him, a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change. This is the first novel she has written in Italian and translated into English. It brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement.

Marzo 1946. Su una lussuosa Aprilia con autista, Mrs. Giulia Masca fa ritorno a Borgo di Dentro: quarantasei anni prima, sola, incinta e senza soldi, aveva detto addio alle campagne piemontesi imbarcandosi su un piroscafo alla volta di New York. Nella filanda che l'ha vista operaia bambina il tempo dei geloni alle mani e delle guerre con i padroni si era compiuto e in mezzo alla folla di Manhattan, tra i grattacieli e il profumo di hot dog, per Giulia era iniziata una nuova vita: un marito titolare di un alimentari nel cuore di Little Italy, un figlio, un piccolo impero commerciale. L'America le aveva regalato il riscatto che aveva sempre sognato. Ma il passato la tormenta. Che ne è stato di sua madre Assunta? Dell'amica Anita Leone e della sua vivace famiglia di mezzadri? Che fine ha fatto Pietro Ferro, il fidanzato che Giulia ha abbandonato senza una parola di spiegazione quasi mezzo secolo prima? Mentre lei era lontana, le colline intorno al Borgo di Dentro e i suoi abitanti sono stati protagonisti di due guerre mondiali, dell'avvento del fascismo e della lotta per la liberazione. Di battaglie, di amori e di speranze. Quando Giulia torna in Italia, non può che guardare quei luoghi e quei volti con altri occhi se vuole chiudere i conti con il passato.

In het mysterieuze Almayer, een afgelegen herberg aan zee, komt een bonte verzameling mensen bijeen, ieder met zijn of haar eigen verleden en angsten. Ze zijn allemaal op zoek. Er is de vijftienjarige Elisewin, die lijdt aan overgevoeligheid en bang is voor alles en iedereen. En er is professor Bartleboom, die onderzoek doet naar het begin en einde van dingen. De excentrieke kunstenaar Plasson doopt zijn penseel in oceaanwater om een portret van de zee te schilderen. En de beeldschone madame Deverià is door haar man gestuurd om te genezen van haar overspel. Als deze mensen elkaar ontmoeten, komen ook hun lotsbestemmingen samen als in een vooropgezet plan. Bovenal is er de zee zelf: de werkelijke hoofdpersoon en het geheimzinnige middelpunt van de verschillende verhalen. Oceaan van een zee is speels, provocatief en stemt tot nadenken, een bijzonder originele en wijze roman.

The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present. Astray offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.

Hodváb je poetický príbeh o nenaplnenej láske. Dej sa odohráva vo Francúzsku a exotickom Japonsku devätnásteho storočia. Hrdina Hervé Joncour sa živí neobyčajným remeslom – pre potreby pestovateľov prenáša z ďalekých krajín do Francúzska larvy hodvábnika. Pri jednej z ciest do neznámych končín Japonska zažije očarenie, ktoré ho poznamená na celý život...

Fiorenzo, Mirko en Tiziana: drie levens die elkaar kruisen op een onwaarschijnlijke, desolate plek in de wereld: Muglione, in het Toscaanse binnenland, een streek van werkeloosheid en stilstaande wateren. Het is de plek waar Fiorenzo al jong zijn moeder verloor, waar Tiziana naar terugkeert vanuit Berlijn en waar Mirko voorbestemd lijkt voor een grote fietstoekomst.

"A generational saga about a family of boxers living in Sicily--from World War II through the Mafia attacks in the nineties--chasing the national heavyweight title"-- Provided by publisher