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Lost on Me
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024 The 100,000 copy Italian bestseller for fans of Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy 'Deliciously enjoyable' Katherine Heiny 'I adored it' Naoise Dolan 'Hilarious' Roddy Doyle 'Thrillingly original' Monica Ali Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety; a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions; and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations, and a complicated relationship with truth and storytelling ...
The Girl at the Door
A tense, provocative and nuanced novel about a rape accusation in an idyllic commune
La fille à la porte
J’étais dans mon sixième mois quand la fille est venue frapper à la porte. « Vous êtes la femme du professeur ? » m’a-t-elle demandé. « Je dois vous parler. Il m’a violée. »Après avoir quitté un pays en ruines, une jeune femme rejoint une île utopique appelée Miden et tombe amoureuse d’un de ses habitants. Quelques mois plus tard, alors qu’elle est enceinte de son premier enfant et commence à s’habituer à l’étrangeté de Miden, une fille frappe à sa porte pour renverser son monde.Dans une prose à la fois crue et élégante, Veronica Raimo signe un roman incisif sur le couple, le désir et la domination.Veronica Raimo est née à Rome en 1978. Chercheuse et scénariste, elle est spécialisée en cinéma allemand et collabore régulièrement avec des magazines tels que Rolling Stone ou La Repubblica XL. Elle a également traduit en italien des auteurs comme F. Scott Fitzgerald, Octavia Butler, Iain Sinclair ou Vikram Seth. La Fille à la porte est son second roman et le premier traduit en français.
This is Pleasure
'Gets deep under your skin ... Gaitskill is uniquely attuned to the moment.' Sunday Times 'Gaitskill achieves a superb feat. She distils the suffering, anger, reactivity, danger and social recalibration of the #MeToo movement into an extremely potent, intelligent and nuanced account.' Sarah Hall, Guardian 'I don't know why I behaved the way I did, and I kept doing it; he kept doing it. And though I might once have easily brushed it away, suddenly I could not. Nor could I confront him. The conversation moved too quickly.' This is Pleasure is an extraordinary work by one of the world's finest writers, and achieves more in 15,000 words than most full-length novels. Following the unravelling of the life of a male publisher undone by allegations of sexual impropriety and harassment, and the female friend who tries to understand, and explain, his actions, it looks unflinchingly at our present moment and rejects moral certainties to show us that there are many sides to every story. Mary Gaitskill has spent her whole career mining the complexity of human relationships on both an individual and societal scale with wisdom and grace. Here her insights are more piercing and timely than ever.
Family Happiness
“If anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin.” —San Francisco Chronicle At first glance, Polly Solo-Miller Demarest appears to have it all. The only daughter of a distinguished and close-knit family, she marries a handsome lawyer named Henry (just like her father and brother) and has two adorable and well-behaved children, Pete and Dee-Dee. She lives in a comfortable Park Avenue apartment, works three days a week in a rewarding job at the Board of Education, and spends every August in Maine. People regularly tell her, with admiration and envy, that she has life aced. What no one suspects is that this perfect daughter, wife, and mother, ...
The Gaudy
The first in the acclaimed ‘A Staircase in Surrey’ quintet opens in Oxford at the eponymous annual dinner laid on by Fellows. Patullo finds himself embroiled in the problems faced by a Cabinet Minister and also Mogridge - famous for an account of his adventures in South America. But it doesn’t stop there, as Pattullo acquires problems of his own.
Tutte le feste di domani
I coniugi Falsini, che all'inizio degli anni Novanta devono capire come ristrutturare il loro appartamento, dodici anni prima erano soltanto Alberta e Flavio. Lei una studentessa affascinante, povera e testarda, che si sta per laureare, lui un brillante e facoltoso professore di Estetica membro della commissione di laurea. Alberta cela dietro i ricattatori occhi turchini la capacità di mettere in scacco le abitudini della vita, e trasforma la sua discussione in un teatro dell'assurdo con una scena muta volontaria. Sa di prendere un votaccio ma anche di aver sedotto per sempre Flavio, colui che nel giro di un anno si ritroverà a essere suo marito. Così, per incanto o per calcolo, Alberta p...
Magma
‘Profane, funny, and uncomfortably honest' – Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love. He is older and beautiful, a Derrida-quoting intellectual. He is also a serial cheater, gaslighter and narcissist. Lilja will do anything to hold on to him. And so she accepts his deceptions and endures his sexual desires. She rationalizes his toxic behaviour and permits him to cross all her boundaries. In her desperation to be the perfect lover, she finds herself unable to break free from the toxic cycle. And then an unexpected ultimatum: an all-consuming love, or the promise of a life reclaimed. Thora Hjörleifsdóttir explores the darkest corners of relationships, capturing an ugly, hidden nature of love. In an era of growing pornification, she deftly illustrates the failings of our culture in recognizing symptoms of cruelty. In visceral, poetic prose, translated from Icelandic by Meg Matich, Magma depicts the unspooling of a tender-hearted young woman aching to love and be loved. 'Mesmerizing . . . Hjösleifsdóttir dives deep into the fire-rivers of lust, just how much humiliation we’re willing to tolerate in the name of love.' – Oprah Daily
La vita è breve, eccetera
Il nuovo libro dell'autrice di Niente di vero. Durante una scossa di terremoto una donna si trova a letto con un uomo, ma quello non è il suo letto e lui non è il suo fidanzato. Inizia cosí uno di questi undici racconti irriverenti, comici e amari insieme, in cui le relazioni sono piene di spigoli, e le donne, a volte impulsive o semplicemente buffe, traditrici eppure ancora pronte a fidarsi, sono esperte nel lasciarsi ma non nel lasciarsi andare. E soprattutto sanno prendersi molto sul serio o molto in giro, perché in fondo la vita è breve, eccetera. «Non avrebbe mai immaginato che il desiderio di vendetta fosse un sentimento comico». Una scrittrice in crisi cede alle richieste via v...
