November 11, 2024 10:39 pm

WRITERS

THE CAIRO TRILOGY: Romance, by Naguib Mahfouz

THE CAIRO TRILOGY Three novels’ Arabic titles (Bayn al-Qasrayn, Qasr al-Shawq and Al-Sukkariyya), follows the life of the Cairene patriarch. From 1919, arriving in 1944, you can read about that life’s microcosm, where you can see the development of society, with the influence on the role of women. Reading, you can discover that the social progress will be the result …

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MAN TIGER: Romance, by Eka Kurniawan

MAN TIGER A thousand voices of Indonesia, in a novel. Modernity and ancestral beliefs, in the darkness of a family, in a small town. A murder, wrapped from abuse and magic, and the life of Margio, a human being from the liminal existential dimension. Also a white tiger, gets inside the pages of the novel, and in the life of …

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CHEHELSALEGHI / A FORTY YEARS: Romance, by Nahid Tabatabai

CHEHELSALEGHI / A FORTY YEARS Forty years. Iranian women, seen through the eyes of the writer. Reading the novel you will not find chador blacks, and even jealous men, but the female, the age of forty years, in Tehran. Observe women educated and combative, mothers and wives, in the charm of a beauty no longer age. You will also discover …

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OLEANDER GIRL: Romance, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

OLEANDER GIRL Reading this novel, you will know Karobi, a serious girl and stubborn, who grew up with his grandparents. On the threshold of her wedding, she decides to get to know its origins, in the United States. A month’s time, a private investigator, the relationship with her boyfriend that it cracks. As often happens, the meeting with an investigator’s …

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SKY, WIND AND STARS: Novel, by Yun Dong-ju

SKY, WIND AND STARS His imprisonment and eventual death in 1945 in a Japanese prison lend great poignancy to his work. His poems sing of his love for his people, his compassion for the poor and destitute, and his hopes for freedom and independence. Yun Dong-ju was a poet of the utmost purity, beauty, and sincerity. “Wishing not to have …

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SHANGHAI GIRLS: Novel, by Lisa See

SHANGHAI GIRLS Fate, The Luck and Destiny, these are the three sections which make up the story of the writer. Reading the novel, you will discover the life of two women, and the pages are full of their memories, memories of a distant time, those of Shanghai in the Thirties. You’ll discover a city where ancient traditions were not forgotten, …

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AFTER DARK: Novel, by Haruki Murakami

AFTER DARK Imagine you’re in Tokyo, imagine walking in the streets of a neighborhood that begins to live the arrival of the night. Imagine the insignia of bars and night clubs, on until dawn. Fine. Inside that darkness, it is interwoven the story of some people, involved in a case of violence. Imagine a hotel, where a prostitute was beaten …

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS: Romance, by Emily Bronte

WUTHERING HEIGHTS This woman wrote a single novel, but Wuthering Heights offers you thousands of food for thought, in each of its pages. The suggestion, reading this novel, is to imagine it as a thoughtful and careful reflection on all facets of humanity. No, you will not read a love story any, but the interweaving of love inside the rooms …

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THE DREAM OF THE HORSE: Collection of poems, Maria Teresa Santalucia Scibona

PALIO Vigil in the haze of the night, the heart of Barbaresco suspended. It invokes, in the off hours of sleep, the privilege of fate imponderable. On tuff crumbly, the incessant ritual recurs. They hate the bad quarters, and the dream of victory contention, with violent excitement. The proud spirit of the horse, it yearns in vain for the last …

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WITH EYES CLOSED: Romance, by Federigo Tozzi

WITH EYES CLOSED By reading this book you will know Peter Risoli, a man who has normal eyesight anatomical, but that is not able to see the inner world of Ghisola, the woman he loves. Between the pages, you’ll discover a place where the woman lives – Poggio ai Meli, near Siena – near his house. In those ancestral houses, …

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