Silvia Rota Sperti Książki

A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan

Numer jeden w kategorii Autobiografia według użytkowników Goodreads. Książka, która pokonała głośne "Becoming" Michelle Obamy, uznana przez Billa Gatesa za jedną z pięciu najlepszych książek 2018 roku. Autorka, Tara Westover, w swoich wspomnieniach opowiada magiczną historię, ukazującą, ile poświęceń wymagała jej droga do edukacji. Dla wielu z nas edukacja jest czymś oczywistym, ale Westover przypomina, jak wiele wysiłku wymagało osiągnięcie tego, co ma dzisiaj. Urodzona w mormońskiej rodzinie w Idaho, pierwszy raz przekroczyła próg szkoły w wieku siedemnastu lat, a publiczna edukacja budziła w jej ojcu, fanatycznie religijnym, sceptycyzm. W obliczu przemocy w rodzinie nie było nikogo, kto mógłby interweniować. Przełomowym momentem okazał się sukces jednego z braci w college’u, co zainspirowało Tarę do podjęcia nauki. Jej pragnienie wiedzy zaprowadziło ją na Harvard i Cambridge, gdzie zaczęła się zastanawiać, czy nie oddaliła się zbyt daleko od domu. Niezwykła, inspirująca opowieść, która zyskuje uznanie jako jedna z najlepszych książek roku według wielu renomowanych publikacji.

In this compelling exploration, the author delves into the rise of the global elite through the lens of Delhi, capturing the city's dramatic transformation. The narrative reflects the tumultuous changes following India's economic liberalization, where slums were replaced by shopping malls and luxury apartments, creating an environment of stark inequality. Amid this upheaval, fortunes were amassed, and the city pulsated with ambition and unrest, marked by violent crimes and a palpable tension. Drawing inspiration from V.S. Naipaul's personal journeys, the author presents a vivid portrayal of Delhi through diverse encounters with its inhabitants—billionaires, bureaucrats, drug dealers, and slum dwellers. Each interaction reveals the complexities of life in a city undergoing rapid capitalist transformation, echoing the experiences of a generation reminiscent of Gilded Age New York. Intertwining over a century of history with personal reflections, the narrative offers a literary portrait of one of the fastest-growing cities of the twenty-first century. This dark yet insightful depiction not only illuminates Delhi's unique story but also provides a lens through which to understand our shared global future.

One night, Shelley and her mum's fragile peace is shattered when Shelley wakes to hear a creak on the stairs - someone has broken into the house. In the shocking, chilling events that follow, Shelley's world is turned on its head, as the women find themselves tested as never before.

Imagine losing the most important ten years of your life …Alice is twenty-nine. She adores sleep, chocolate, and her ramshackle new house. She’s newly engaged to the wonderful Nick and is pregnant with her first baby.There’s just one problem.All that was ten years ago …Alice has slipped in a step aerobics class, hit her head and lost a decade. Now she’s a grown-up, bossy mother of three in the middle of a nasty divorce and her beloved sister Elisabeth isn’t speaking to her. This is her life but not as she knows it.Clearly Alice has made some terrible mistakes.Just how much can happen in a decade?Can she ever get back to the woman she used to be?

Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko's next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step. When the body turns up and is identified, Detective Kusanagi draws the case and Yasuko comes under suspicion. Kusanagi is unable to find any obvious holes in Yasuko's manufactured alibi and yet is still sure that there's something wrong. Kusanagi brings in Dr. Manabu Yukawa, a physicist and college friend who frequently consults with the police. Yukawa, known to the police by the nickname Professor Galileo, went to college with Ishigami. After meeting up with him again, Yukawa is convinced that Ishigami had something to do with the murder. What ensues is a high level battle of wits, as Ishigami tries to protect Yasuko by outmaneuvering and outthinking Yukawa, who faces his most clever and determined opponent yet.

Renowned for his Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Written by a Kerouac scholar, this work supplements a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haiku, from various sources.

Yoshitaka, who was about to leave his marriage and his wife, is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. His wife, Ayane, is the logical suspect--except that she was hundreds of miles away when he was murdered. The lead detective, Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi, is immediately smitten with her and refuses to believe that she could have had anything to do with the crime. His assistant, Kaoru Utsumi, however, is convinced Ayane is guilty. While Utsumi's instincts tell her one thing, the facts of the case are another matter. So she does what her boss has done for years when stymied--she calls upon Professor Manabu Yukawa. But even the brilliant mind of Dr. Yukawa has trouble with this one, and he must somehow find a way to solve an impossible murder and capture a very real, very deadly murderer

Author(s): Anna Funder ISBN: 9780143567516 Binding: Paperback Published: 2012-04-02 When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless; her lover, the greate playwright Ernst Toller; her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London. Here they take awe-inspiring risks in order to continue their work in secret. But England is not the safe-haven they think it is, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart. Some seventy years later, Ruth is living out her days is Sydney, making an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past, and a part of history that has all but been forgotten.

Nei racconti del "Libro della giungla" troviamo l'India con la sua natura prorompente, la sua natura simbolo, i suoi animali antropomorfizzati. E, soprattutto, troviamo quello che per Kipling è il fondamento del suo credo morale, ovvero la legge, intesa non come legge della giungla del "vinca il più forte", ma come un sistema di valori assai pratico e non misterioso, a cui ogni uomo, come ogni animale, deve sottostare. Mowgli non può diventare un uomo se prima non apprende la legge della giungla. Un individuo non può dirsi tale se non risponde, liberamente e nei limiti di quello che è il suo ruolo, a un sistema di valori riassumibili a grandi linee con coraggio, generosità, fedeltà, onore, obbedienza, rispetto per gli anziani... È questo il fulcro dei racconti favolistici della raccolta, e qui sta gran parte del fascino che ne ha fatto uno dei libri più amati dai ragazzi, nonché il manifesto dello scoutismo. A tutto ciò si unisca una prosa suggestiva, intervallata da quelle "ballate" che per T.S. Eliot erano il vero pregio di Kipling, e il risultato è un testo originale nella forma, godibilissimo nello stile e deciso nell'impronta morale che intende lasciare.

He's the man everyone's talking about. He's taken on gun freaks, stupid white men and corporate crooks. Now Michael Moore is on a new mission: to get us of our behinds and kicking out the corrupt political elites who rule our lives.

Tutte le sere, dopo il tramonto, Viola si addentra nel bosco dietro casa. La grave malattia di cui soffre le impedisce di esporsi anche al minimo raggio di sole. Così, quando i suoi compagni sono impegnati con la scuola, lei dorme o sta in casa a suonare, e quando loro vanno a dormire, lei passeggia libera tra gli alberi del suo bosco, in compagnia del buio e di tutti gli animali che lo popolano. Una sera, però, sul sentiero sterrato da cui non passa anima viva, scorge un’auto: un ragazzo tira fuori un corpo pesante dal bagagliaio e lo trascina sul sedile di guida, prima di dare fuoco alla macchina. Poi seppellisce qualcosa nel terreno vicino. Sei alberi dal ciglio della strada: per Viola è facilissimo ritrovare il punto in cui quel tizio ha scavato la buca… e dare inizio alla sua personale, pericolosa indagine. Che cosa ci fanno tanti soldi sepolti nel bosco? E quel ragazzo è forse un assassino? Tornerà a cercarla?

Dal "paradiso scandinavo", civilissimo e per molti versi ancora sconosciuto, arrivano molti dei fermenti culturali più originali e interessanti dei nostri tempi, dalla musica, al cinema, al design. Ma chi sono i giovani che abitano questi paesi dove la luce nordica dipinge paesaggi rarefatti e quasi lunari? Dove le austere capitali si dividono tra ricercatezza high-tech e musica techno, tra un sentito attaccamento alle proprie radici e una grande spinta verso il futuro? Per scoprirlo questa antologia di racconti accompagna i lettori in un viaggio ideale attraverso Danimarca, Svezia e Norvegia, tre nazioni che, per ragioni storiche, culturali e linguistiche, hanno sempre costituito un'entità compatta e quasi mitica.