PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT Seven chapters, connected by an invisible thread, that is a monologue, one between Alexander and his psychoanalyst. By reading, you also find that the temporal levels of the narrative is moved by invisible thread of memory and internal drives. The man who complains – Alexander Portnoy – is any human being, with a personal set of delusions and …
Read More »RAISE THE RED LANTERN: Novel, by Su Tong
What you read, you talk of a China immersed in medieval times of pre-revolutionary social decomposition. Leafing through the pages of the novel, you will discover the young Songlian, a girl who agrees to become the fourth wife and concubine of rich Chen Zuoqian. You must adapt to the rules that the “home” requires wives (the husband has – among …
Read More »A LONG WAY GONE: Memoirs of a boy soldier – Novel, by Ishmael Beah
In “A Long Way Gone”, Beah, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 childsoldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. …
Read More »THREE SECONDS OF HEAVEN: Romance, by Sigitas Parulskis
THREE SECONDS OF HEAVEN Imagine a very short time, three seconds, in fact, your time suspended in the blue, the air that caresses you, waiting for your parachute opens. Robertas is the protagonist of the novel, and in the pages of this novel you find the memories of his military life, but also the love for Mary. Like any dive, …
Read More »SOUL IN LOVE: In prose book, by Alda Merini
SOUL IN LOVE “You do not know: there are birches and night stand their roots, and you never would believe that at night the trees are walking or become dreams. Do you think that in a tree is a violin of love. Do you think a tree sings and laughs. Do you think a tree is in a crevasse and …
Read More »ROMOLA: Romance, by George Eliot
ROMOLA This famous English writer, she loved very much Florence, so much to write a novel from the misleading title (Romola), a historical novel set in Renaissance. By reading, you will know the story of a year that changed the history of the world: The 1492 is the year of the discovery of America, the year he died Lorenzo de …
Read More »THE CITY MARVELS: Romance, Eduardo Mendoza Garriga
THE CITY MARVELS In his novel, the writer paints with words a city and its atmosphere. Everything is set in a time long gone, around the beginning of the twentieth century. Reading you will know the protagonist of this story – Onofrio Bouvila – a boy becomes a man, taking care of his life. What will surprise you, reading, will …
Read More »TIMELESS BOOKS: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
THE ROAD A father and a son, a road to the south, a looming catastrophe. This is what you are starting to read inside this novel. Energy resources and technology are degraded to a minimum. Inside the pages of this book – perhaps – you too will experience a thrill, sharing with the two protagonists foraging and climatic rigidity. The …
Read More »THE PLAGUE: Novel, by Albert Camus
THE PLAGUE The plague, is built like a tragedy in five acts. This novel has sold more than 5 million copies. By reading, you will find that your doctor Rieux discovered the corpse of a rat on his landing, but a few days later, a news agency announces that more than six thousand rats were collected that day. The epidemic …
Read More »FOG: Romance, by Miguel de Unamuno
FOG After a hundred years after its publication, this novel retains its freshness immutable. Flipping through its pages, you can discover the world of all time, full of events large and small, those that surround our lives. Reading the story of Augusto and Eugenia, you travel a controversial lines that speak of love, reeling into the events, situations where the …
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