Book in Italian
2023 Einaudi
There was a sport that was played in the concentration camps, boxing. The Führer liked it, the Nazi guards who bet on the matches liked it, the kapos who forced the prisoners to fight at night in improvised rings liked it. I came back for you tells the story of someone who sank into that hell and came out clinging to a memory.
«In that tired and unfortunate season that had already harvested, in which the leaves fell one by one from the vines, Cono thought back to the kiss with Serenella when they were crouched under the vines. But something inside him prevented him from letting himself be broken, the order was stuck in his head not to forget, to keep in mind Benedetta's tears, his mother's desperate eyes, his father's screams, his tired face. Serenella. For all of them he would have resisted, and for her one day he would have returned."
The Bible in Italian
2023 Einaudi
The Book of books, in a great translation for believers and lay people. The Bible is always available for infinite reading, and not only for the interpretations which are always many, as evidenced by all the very copious literature of biblical commentaries, but infinite because it becomes different starting from whoever reads it, (Enzo Bianchi). The Einaudi edition of the Bible is characterized above all by its non-confessional translation, the result of the work of a team of philologists and exegetes among the most authoritative in the world, profound experts in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. A translation that aims to make the biblical text accessible to today's reader, but without homogenizing its linguistic, cultural and theological asperities.
Book in Italian
2023 Pienogiorno Bookshop
I love you, you are important to me, I count on you: friendship, affection, consideration, attention, care, are imperious desires that unite us and for which the heart is innately thirsty. We all need to love and be loved. In everyone's experience, sharing goodness halves sorrow and amplifies joy. The commandment of love that Jesus left us calls us precisely to this: to love others, and authentically for ourselves, as a way to make our lives full, rich, satisfying. Love is the greatest gift we have received, and the greatest we can give. It brings us closer, makes us similar, creates equality, breaks down walls and distances. It is not a sugary fantasy, a soap opera always with violins in the background, but an extremely concrete, sometimes risky experience. A demanding path, which nevertheless leads to a certain goal: that of a fulfilled life. Love is the door to joy and the cure for the loneliness and anxieties that everyday experience can reserve. "I love you" is Pope Francis' manifesto on what is, in all its forms, the crucial theme of our existence and of his teaching: love. In these pages his words - and also those of the books and films he loved most - explore every aspect and trace a path for our hearts, sowing infinite and contagious seeds of self-realization, justice, happiness. With the most beloved songs by García Márquez, Dante Alighieri, Dostoevsky, Ungaretti, Balzac, Tolkien, Merini, Romero, Pasternak, San Francesco, Manzoni, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Borges and many others. Published in collaboration with Libreria Editrice Vaticana, "I love you" is the manifesto for shared joy.
Book in Italian
2014 Rizzoli BUR
"A man" is the novel of the life of Alekos Panagulis, who in 1968 was sentenced to death in the Greece of the colonels for the attack on Georgios Papadopulos, the soldier at the head of the regime. Segregated for five years in a prison where he underwent the most atrocious tortures, he was briefly returned to freedom, experienced exile, returned to his homeland when the dictatorship crumbled, was elected deputy in Parliament and in vain tried to demonstrate that the same men of the deposed Council continue to occupy positions of power. He lost his life in a mysterious car accident in 1976. Oriana Fallaci met Panagulis in 1973 when, pardoned by a pardon he had not asked for but which the whole world was demanding for him, he was released from prison. The two fall in love with a deep, complicit, combative love. She joins him and shares a never-paying struggle. "The rebellious poet, the solitary hero, is an individual without followers: he does not drag the masses into the streets, he does not provoke revolutions. But he prepares them. Even if he does not do anything immediate or practical, even if he expresses himself through bravado or follies, even if he is rejected and offended, he moves the waters of the pond that is silent, cracks the dams of the conformism that holds back, disturbs the power that oppresses." (Preface by Domenico Procacci)
Book in Italian
2014 Rizzoli BUR
With "Anger and Pride" (2001), Oriana Fallaci breaks a silence that lasted ten years, from the publication of "Insciallah", an epic novel about the Western peace mission in Beirut torn apart by the clash between Christians and Muslims and by feuds with Israel . Ten years in which Fallaci chose to live secluded in her New York home, as if in exile, to fight cancer. But she never stops working on the narrative text dedicated to her family, the one she calls "my-child", published posthumously in 2008, "A hat full of cherries". September 11th requires her to return furiously to the typewriter to give voice to those ideas that she has always cultivated in interviews, in reportages, in novels, but which she then "imprisoned inside her heart and inside her brain" saying to herself "so much -people-don't-want-to-listen." The result is an article in the "Corriere della Sera" of 29 September 2001, a sermon she calls herself, welcomed with enormous fanfare in Italy and abroad. It comes out in book form in the original and complete version, preceded by a preface in which Fallaci tackles the issue of Islamic terrorism at its roots and talks about herself, her isolation, her rigorous and ruthless choices. The response is explosive, the controversy ferocious. While critics are divided, the support of readers, all over the world, is unanimous in the face of the passion that animates these pages. Preface by Ferruccio De Bortoli.
Book in Italian
2009 Rizzoli
The book is the tragic monologue of a woman who is expecting a child, looking at motherhood not as a duty but as a personal and responsible choice. A woman whose name or face or age or address is known: the only reference given to imagine her is that she lives in our time, alone, independent and working. The monologue begins the moment she realizes she is pregnant and asks herself the anguished question: is wanting a child enough to force him into life? Will he like being born? In an attempt to get an answer, the woman explains to the child what the realities are to be endured by entering a world where survival is violence, freedom a dream, love a word with an unclear meaning. With a preface by Lucia Annunziata.
Book in Italian
Sellerio publisher Palermo
The first three investigations of the most famous commissioner in Italy who, according to research published in the new Yearbook of the Dante Alighieri Society, is, together with Renzo and Lucia and Pinocchio, the most representative character of the Italian literary imagination.
Book in Italian
2016 Einaudi
Sent to replace some corrupt policemen, the new investigators of Pizzofalcone's team must immediately face a delicate case: the murder of a notary's wife. The investigations are entrusted to the enigmatic inspector Lojacono, fresh from the success in the hunt for a murderer, known as the Crocodile, who for days plunged the city into terror; Helping him is the bizarre chosen agent Aragon. As the two move between seafront apartments and nautical clubs, their colleagues Romano and Di Nardo try to discover why a young, beautiful girl never leaves home, and the old Pisanelli pursues his obsession with a series of suspicious suicides.
Book in Italian
Mondadori
On a quiet Parisian night, in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, the elderly curator Saunière is fatally wounded by a mysterious robber, forced to flee without his prey. With his last strength the art historian writes some numbers, a few words and a name: Robert Langdon, famous symbology scholar. It will be he who understands that with his dark message Saunière forced him to play centuries later, and at the risk of his own life, against the genius of Leonardo da Vinci himself. The discovery is shocking: the great Renaissance painter protected a destructive secret code. With the enigmas hidden in his paintings, with his ingenious devices and with the frightening strength of a secret sect that for centuries has always attempted to transform the history of humanity. Who was Leonardo really? What were the Templars hiding? Which key gives access to the secret of the Holy Grail?
Book in Italian
2022 Neri Pozza The gray door, the bricks the color of toasted hazelnuts, the tree-lined and silent street in London, the well-frequented neighborhood: a perfect home for Marisa, illustrator of children's books, the remedy for everything in her life that asks to be repaired . As is Jake, of course, as comforting as a warm stone in the palm of your hand. Of course, when the lady from the real estate agency opened the window onto the garden, a bird flew in. A black and white magpie, which slammed into the walls before darting out, shattering a vase. For Marisa, however, that sudden appearance produced only a slight hint of discomfort. No ominous sign can cloud her dream of living with Jake and starting a family with him. In the following months spent in that house, life unfolds, for the young illustrator, like a true romantic comedy in which a simple look from Jake is enough for her to understand that that man, so little demonstrative in his gestures and words, , is the person to share the rest of his days with. Until one morning Kate arrives, the tenant destined to occupy the room upstairs, since there is never enough money. Brunette and casual - the exact opposite of Marisa in appearance -, thirty-six year old film critic, Kate immediately makes the common space of the house her own, abandons her shoes at the entrance, sneaks into every corner, leaves her toothbrush next to their instead of in the bathroom upstairs, he asks insensitive questions about their desire to have a child, he casts insistent glances at Jake. His intrusiveness gradually becomes unbearable for Marisa. Jake tries to reassure her, but not even the news of the long-awaited pregnancy can distract Marisa from the unpleasant feeling of having an ungrateful guest in the house. Something is wrong with Kate: that woman has some dark plan and won't stop until she realizes it. After the success of The Party , Elizabeth Day returns with a psychological novel that has achieved great critical and public acclaim in England. A work that speaks of desired motherhood, of dysfunctional relationships, of the irreparable damage of pain, of the reality that takes the form of obsession. With two narrative voices competing for the scene in a game of perspectives with a surprising ending.
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Mondadori classics
The Orient Express, the legendary train of international spies and adventurers, occupies an important place in the imagination of literature enthusiasts. The credit goes to this book. In what is probably the most famous of his exploits, Hercule Poirot, having boarded a first-class carriage departing from Istanbul and headed for Calais, is forced to deal with a brutal crime: while the train is blocked by snow in the Balkans , someone among the passengers stabs to death Mr. Ratchett, a rich and unbearable American citizen. The killer must hide among the travellers, but none of them seem to have a motive. At least in appearance... Published in 1934, "Murder on the Orient Express" is considered by many to be Agatha Christie's masterpiece, and is certainly one of the best known and most read detective stories in the world.
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Pickwick
The King's absolute masterpiece. A classic that terrified entire generations.
In Derry, a small town in Maine, autumn announced itself with torrential rain. For a child like George Denbrough, well covered by his yellow raincoat, the greatest fun is following the paper boat that his older brother Bill built for him. But the rain is heavy and George risks losing his toy, which in fact slips into a drain along the sidewalk. Trying to recover it is the child's last gesture: a scary creature disguised as a clown tears off his arm, killing him. To fight It, the mysterious monster that takes the shape of our worst fears, remain Bill and the group of friends with whom he founded the Losers' Club, seven kids capable of imagining a world without monsters. But It is an implacable enemy, and to defeat it the boys must face tough trials and risk their own lives. And if the following summer, which finds them young adults, seems like the one of It's defeat, the Losers know they have to make a promise: whatever happens, they will return to Derry to fight again. It , considered a cornerstone of American literature, is a novel about children who become adults and adults who must go back to being children, facing their fears in the only way possible: united by an unshakable friendship.
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2008 Salani Matilde learned to read at three years old, and by four she had already devoured all the books in the public library. Therefore, when she starts attending first grade, she is so bored that her intelligence has to come out of her somewhere: so it comes out of her eyes. Matilde's eyes become incandescent and a magical power is released from them that will defeat the wicked headmistress Spezzindue, who, to punish the students, enjoys locking them in a cupboard full of nails, the Strozzatoio, or uses them to train in Olympic hammer throw, twirling the girls by their braids and throwing them far away. Intelligence and culture - the author seems to say - are the only weapons that a weak person can use against stupidity, arrogance and wickedness. Reading age: from 7 years.
Book in Italian
2016 Salani
Who are the real witches? Not those of fairy tales, always disheveled and riding a broom, but very elegant ladies, perhaps your acquaintances. They always wear white gloves, scratch their heads frequently, take off their pointy shoes under the table, and have blue teeth... all to hide their claws, bald heads, square feet, and blueberry-blue saliva: the hallmarks of real witches. Now that you know this, you can avoid being transformed into mice, but only if you keep your eyes wide open. Reality is not always what it seems... Reading age: from 10 years.
Book in Italian
2023 Salani
A new challenge appears on the horizon. This time Lyon will have to face it with an extra difficulty: he will be alone on the battlefield. Anna and her closest friends, in fact, seem to have disappeared into thin air. And just when our hero begins to think that they have abandoned him, he makes an alarming discovery to say the least: someone has kidnapped them and turned them into gigantic statues. If he wants to awaken them, Lyon must prepare to explore dangerous dungeons and fight against ruthless monsters. Only in this way will he be able to hope to free them from the clutches of a devious enemy who lurks in the shadows and is ready for any deception to destroy the WGF. As if that wasn't enough, in an attempt to save his friends and discover the true identity of his opponent, Lyon unleashes the wrath of four powerful deities who guard the place where the team members have been imprisoned. But when the fate of the adventure takes a turn for the worse, the true heroes demonstrate all their value. Will it be enough for them to be able to hug each other again?
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2023 Tunué
Pera, Ely and Kenny find themselves embroiled in a strange tournament, where there is no shortage of adventure. Why run away? All you have to do is participate and win with jokes!
Book in Italian with German text on the front
Bompiani publisher
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is one of those few thinkers who share time with their philosophy, so much so that after him we can only speak of a post-Kantian philosophy, even if it were an anti-Kantian thought. And in particular the "Critique of Pure Reason" is one of those works without which not only would we not understand the entire story of modern philosophy, but we would lack a decisive key to introduce us to the problems and vocabulary of philosophical debate from the nineteenth century until to our days. In this work Kant states that the only possible metaphysics is that of experience, and that in turn experience is guided by the strictly "a priori" forms of the intellect, that is, of a pure thinking "I".
Book in Italian
2021 Pickwick
Having just arrived in New York to try to mend her relationship with her father, Selene finds herself living in a dizzying villa with him, his new partner and her three children. The eldest is Neil, a charming, enigmatic boy who is perpetually fighting against a dark past that gives him no respite. Like a moth drawn to the light, Selene feels drawn to Neil. In a crescendo of eros and passion, the girl therefore proves willing to do anything to scratch the glass prison in which he has locked himself up to protect himself from the world. But Neil is not willing to be understood by anyone, not even Selene. As much as he is attracted to her, he doesn't want to bond with her. Especially when Player 2511 appears in his life, a deranged man seeking revenge who has targeted him and his family. With his puzzles, his threats and his attacks, the ruthless stranger drags Neil into a perverse and dangerous game, which he tries to win with no holds barred. At the mercy of Player 2511, will Neil manage not to lose everything, including Selene?
Book in Italian
2022 Salani
Vanessa, a college sophomore, has a visceral love for books and rain and an unbreakable bond with her best friends. Scarred by her parents' difficult divorce, she found comfort in Travis, apparently the good boy that all mothers - including hers - would like next to their daughters. With him she hopes to be able to build a happiness that she has been missing for too long now. After two years, however, that love also seems to have cracked and only rubble remains in Vanessa's heart. At least until the moment when, in class, he meets a new classmate for the first time, with a body covered in tattoos and two green eyes in which it is all too easy to get lost. Thomas is an explosive mixture of charm and arrogance, victim and executioner with a tormented past. He and Vanessa, so different from each other and yet ultimately so similar, fit together like pieces of a puzzle, giving life to a tormented relationship, made up of moments of passion and glimpses of tenderness, furious arguments and reconciliations. But Vanessa wants more, she dreams of true, romantic and all-encompassing love, the one told in the novels that she never tires of rereading. Thomas, on the other hand, shuns any connection, a perpetual tangle of thorns stirs in his chest. Yet, if understanding each other is difficult, separating is impossible.
Book in Italian
2010 Mondadori
Percy Jackson, accustomed to the worst bullies and with a record of being expelled from six schools in six years, is an expert at getting into trouble. But when the math teacher turns into a Fury to kill him and monsters and gods seem to burst into his life from mythology books, serious trouble begins! Fleeing from danger, Percy will reach Camp Half-Blood, a special training camp, where he will make two surprising discoveries: the father he thought was lost is none other than Poseidon, the god of the sea, who fathered him with a mortal woman of him a demigod, but, above all, Percy is suspected of having stolen Zeus' Thunderbolt. And he has only ten days to bring her back to Olympus, before a war drags the world into chaos. Percy has no choice: he will have to go down to the Underworld with the satyr Grover and Athena's daughter, Annabeth, to find the real thief. But the Oracle's prophecy looms: a friend will betray him, and his gesture could give rise to a threat more powerful than the gods.
2023 Mondadori
In an increasingly interconnected world, where distances are canceled out by a click and virtual meeting places are replacing real ones, even mafias are learning to adapt: exploiting the potential of technology, they enter the digital space as if it were a new territory of conquest.
Book in Italian
2017 BUR Rizzoli
The world, for Rossella Dragna, has always had the confines of the tiny island where she lives together with her sister Tella and her powerful, cruel father. If he endured these years of forced exile it was thanks to the dream of participating in Caraval, a mysterious yet legendary traveling show in which the public actively participates; Unfortunately, the imminent, arranged marriage into which her father is forcing her also means giving up that possibility of escape. And instead Rossella receives the much desired invitation, and with the help of a mysterious sailor, together with Tella she escapes from the island and her destiny... As soon as they arrive in Caraval, however, Tella is kidnapped by Legend, the director of the show that no one has ever met: Rossella quickly discovers that the edition of Caraval that is about to begin revolves around her sister, and that finding her is the ultimate aim of the game, not only hers, but that of all the lucky participants. What happens in Caraval are just tricks and illusions, that's what Rossella has always heard. Yet, dream and waking begin to merge and denying the magic becomes impossible. But whether it's fact or fiction doesn't matter: Rossella has five nights to find Tella again, and in the meantime she must avoid triggering a dangerous domino effect that would lead her to lose Tella forever...
Book in Italian
Oscar Mondadori
The action takes place in a near future world (the year 1984) in which power is concentrated in three immense superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. At the top of political power in Oceania is Big Brother, omniscient and infallible, whom no one has seen in person but of whom large posters are visible everywhere. The Ministry of Truth, in which the main character, Smith, works, has the task of censoring books and newspapers not in line with official policy, altering history and reducing the expressive possibilities of the language. Although he is monitored by cameras, Smith begins to lead a "subversive" existence. Written in 1949, the book is considered one of the most lucid representations of totalitarianism.
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Mondadori
Santiago Nasar will die. The Vicario brothers have already sharpened their knives in Faustino Santos' shop. Everyone in town knows it, except Santiago. And the announced death surprises him in front of his house, in the brightness of a splendid tropical morning. Why wasn't the crime prevented? Some did nothing to avert it, others tried to act, but an incredible mix of setbacks and unexpected events allowed and even favored the will of destiny. A grandiose allegory about the absurdity of life.
