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Set in early 20th-century India, Nirmala tells the poignant story of a teenage girl forced into a marriage with a much older widower after her family’s financial collapse. As Nirmala adjusts to her new reality, her dignity and resilience are tested by jealousy, suspicion, and the deep emotional divides within her household.

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.

The heartfelt poetry and essays in Cradled by Skeletons impart an argument that all be welcomed, as all are worthy. At once intimate, poignant, and raw, the entries of Cuban American poet, essayist, and activist Marta Miranda-Straub s Cradled by Skeletons reflect how she lives, loves, and creates at the intersections of queerness, feminism, and of being an American immigrant of color.

Das Buch erzählt die Lebensgeschichte von Theo Sattler. Er wächst als Sohn eines Hunsrückbauern in Morbach auf. Als er vierzehn Jahre alt ist, wandert die Familie nach Amerika aus. Der Vater hat den ältesten Sohn Paul vorausgeschickt, dem sie nach New-York folgen. Nach einer langen und beschwerlichen Reise, auf der die Mutter verstirbt kommen Vater und Sohn in Amerika an. Von Paul fehlt jede Spur und die beiden durchleben eine schwere Anfangszeit. Die harte Arbeit im Hafen kostet auch dem Vater das Leben. Nun muss sich Theo allein in New York durchschlagen.

Esta novela de la narradora española Marisa D'Santos, de larga radicación en México, se desarrolla totalmente en una localidad de provincia, en España. El ámbito general de la guerra en España de los años 30 y la posterior dictadura franquista envuelven el destino de cada personaje en una especie de fatalismo que nos hace pensar en los extremos pasionales —vida, amor y muerte— de la tragedia clásica. El ámbito pueblerino se presenta con tal fidelidad a la propia invención de la autora, que adquiere valores plásticos, sonoros, sensoriales, táctiles, etc., en verdad incanjeables.

Giuseppe Pontiggia racconta in questo libro che cosa sono la società italiana e l'esistenza individuale per chi le vive e le osserva in prima persona. Il risultato è un'esperienza letteraria sconcertante che mobilita i registri dell'ironia e della satira, ma lascia anche spazio alla partecipazione emotiva e al coinvolgimento solidale.

Il folklore giapponese è ricco di creature spaventose: apparizioni inquietanti, demoni, creature metà animali e metà donne, mutaforma... Ma tutti questi esseri hanno una caratteristica in comune, radicata nella sensibilità del Giappone: non appartengono a una dimensione "altra", condividono il nostro stesso "spazio di realtà". Un elemento, questo, che Lafcadio Hearn riesce a trasmettere appieno, e non a caso le sue selezioni di racconti dal folklore nipponico sono considerate ancora oggi un ponte tra Occidente e Oriente.

Il pittore Klingsor, a soli quarantadue anni, avverte che la sua intensa e luminosa esistenza non potrà durare a lungo, gravata da una vita troppo piena e appassionata. Questa sarà la sua ultima estate. Si immerge nel piacere e nell'agonia della pittura, trovando gioia e ossessione nella creazione artistica. Le sue giornate finali sono accompagnate dall'autenticità dell'amicizia, da un nuovo e delicato amore, e dalla bellezza di una natura che non teme l'abbandono. Con un animo irrequieto, Klingsor vive con veemenza, slancio e impazienza, cercando di trarre ogni istante vivido dalla vita.

In Knulp (1915) la descrizione della provincia sveva e del mondo artigianale diventa lo sfondo sul quale ai clichés della vita borghese si contrappone la figura del «viandante», capace - secondo Claudio Magris - di ridestare nei borghesi la «nostalgia delle lontananze». Questi stessi temi verranno approfonditi in Klein e Wagner e L'ultima estate di Klingsor, scritti dopo l'incontro di Hesse con la psicoanalisi.

Nel 1978 la guerra è finita, ma il Vietnam non ha ancora trovato pace. Anh e i suoi fratelli sono costretti a scappare, unendosi alla schiera delle centinaia di migliaia di quelli che saranno in seguito definiti boat people, e lasciandosi tutto alle spalle: la casa, gli odori della cucina materna, le voci dei piú piccoli. Il mare che dovrebbe portarli in salvo si trasforma in una linea di confine tra speranza e tragedia. Quando finalmente arrivano a Hong Kong, sono soli.

Mira Salvi has the perfect life—a job she loves, a fiancé everyone adores, and the secure future she’s always imagined for herself. Really, she hasn’t a thing to complain about, not even when she has to go on her engagement trip to New York alone. While playing tourist in the city, Mira chances upon a lost ring, and her social media post to locate its owner goes viral. With everyone trying to claim the ring, only one person seems to want to find its owner as badly as Mira does: journalist Krish Hale.

When Greer MacAlister's despised husband dies, she and her young daughter Fen find themselves in a remote whisky smuggling community in the heart of the Highlands. Here, illicit whisky making is a means of survival in a Scotland under occupation by the British, decades after the disastrous Battle of Culloden. The villagers are suspicious of the widow, but when Greer tricks excise officers away from their illegal stills with a courageous and daring act, they warm to her.

Long Fang is stranded in a foreign world where proper cultivation has been replaced by annoying blue screens. He is confused and alone...but not for long. Completely ignoring the System, he forms a wholesome sect of followers to spread cultivation across the wild world. Blue screens do not take kindly to rejection, however, and Long Fang’s stubbornness soon finds him pitted against increasingly dangerous foes.

Renowned for his wit, style and sophistication, Noël Coward was one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century. His plays, set in the glittering world of high society in which he lived, are much admired and have remained in the popular theatre repertoire to this day. This collection brings together the very best radio adaptation

Random House presents the audiobook edition of There There by Tommy Orange. Jacquie Red Feather and her sister, Opal, grew up together, relying on each other during their unsettled childhood. As adults they were driven apart, but Jacquie is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. That’s why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle's death. Edwin is looking for his true father. Opal came to watch her boy, Orvil, dance. All of them are connected by bonds they may not yet understand.

In this collection of all new poems, Whitney Hanson explores the progression of a life through the lens of music. We each begin with a simple note, but as life progresses, we're led to the next note, and the next - all of which combine to form the melody of a song and the cadence of a life. As life becomes more complicated and complex, we find that loss, grief, and heartache can muffle our music, making the world go silent. But as Whitney's poems show, all of these rests and pauses in the music are part of the magnificent composition of life.

"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write "a mighty book about a mighty theme" and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting. Woven into the story of the last journey of The Pequod is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history, and a mass of information about whaling through the ages.

Finnegans Wake is the greatest challenge in 20th-century literature. Who is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker? And what did he get up to in Phoenix Park? And what did Anna Livia Plurabelle have to say about it? In the rich nighttime and the language of dreams, here are history, anecdote, myth, folk tale and, above all, a wondrous sense of humor, colored by a clear sense of humanity. In this exceptional reading by the Irish actor Barry McGovern, with Marcella Riordan, the world of the Wake is more accessible than ever before.

Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he was three years old, has always been shrouded in mystery—he has never been told how or where it took place and has only a distant memory of his mother. But he knows that the fate of his grandfather's brother, Einar, is somehow bound up with this mystery. One day, a coffin is delivered for his grandfather long before his death—a meticulous, beautiful piece of craftsmanship. Perhaps Einar is not dead after all.

When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.