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At the Wolf's Table
The international bestseller based on a haunting true story that raises provocative questions about complicity, guilt, and survival. They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf’s Lair. “Wolf” was his nickname. As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up in his belly. A legion of hunters was out looking for him, and to get him in their grips they would gladly slay me as well. Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer’s parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking she’ll find refuge there...
The Women at Hitler’s Table
‘Written with intelligence and nuance’ The Times ‘A disturbing, powerful and beautifully written novel based on shockingly real events’ Christy Lefteri, author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo ‘A thought-provoking read’ My Weekly ‘Unputdownable’ The Herald
Trust Management
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Trust Management, iTrust 2004, held in Oxford, UK, in March/April 2004. The 21 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. Besides technical topics in distributed and open systems, issues from law, social sciences, business, and philosophy are addressed in order to develop a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the issues and challenges in the area of trust management in dynamic open systems.
Nameless Serenade
The ninth Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery is “noir with a heart, haunting and beautiful . . . A literary thriller of exceptional quality” (NB Magazine). Years ago, Vinnie Sannino left Naples on a ship bound for America, where he found fame and fortune as a boxer. But his gilded life in the new world came to an abrupt end when, during a fight, with a heavy punch to the head of his opponent, Vinnie killed a man in the ring. Now, Vinnie’s back in Italy, pining for the woman he left behind. Cettina, however, is now a married woman. She was, at least, until her husband was recently found dead, killed by a single blow to the head. For Commissario Ricciardi, one of the most faceted c...
Finding Dorothy
Discover the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum’s intrepid wife, Maud, in this richly imagined novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion and The Perfect Horse. “A breathtaking read that will transport you over the rainbow and into the heart of one of America’s most enduring fairy tales.”—Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband’s masterpiece for the screen, Maud Gage Baum, now in her seventies, sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank’...
Il corpo docile
Agli occhi di una giovane donna, disarmata e fortissima, si rivela il cuore di tenebra nascosto dentro ogni innocenza, ogni amore. Con la storia di Milena, nata in carcere, Rosella Postorino ha scritto il romanzo struggente di una segregazione.
The Secret Keeper
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.
The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
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Gli impudenti
Mentre quasi tutte le opere di Marguerite Duras sono state tradotte in italiano, il romanzo d’esordio, Gli impudenti, ha rappresento finora una vistosa eccezione. In queste pagine si notano le avvisaglie della sua prosa audace e vitale e del suo stile inconfondibile, sapiente miscela di finzione e memoir. Jacques, il fratello maggiore di Maud, la protagonista del romanzo, rimane vedovo. La madre, madame Grand-Taneran, decide dunque di trasferirsi con i figli nella loro residenza a Uderan, nel Sud-ovest della Francia, nella speranza che possa giovare al figlio in lutto. Ma Jacques sembra avere in mente tutt’altro. Così come ha sempre fatto a Parigi, anche in campagna assume con autorità il ruolo patriarcale. Perseguita la sorella Maud, plagia il fratello Henri e manipola la madre, sempre pronta a legittimare le sue ignobili azioni. Maud assiste impotente alle angherie di Jacques che, insieme alla madre, progetta di farla sposare a un uomo che non ama per difendere i suoi meschini interessi. Il romanzo d’esordio di Marguerite Duras, finora inedito in italiano. “Un libro-crisalide, pieno di sorprese.” Libération
