Amicizia
10 best books like Amicizia (Hermann Hesse): The Moon and the Bonfire, Travels with Herodotus, Crawl Space, Letter to His Father, The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly, The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, Il porto proibito, Una cosa divertente che non farò mai più, Mio fratello rincorre i dinosauri, The Daydreamer
| Author | Cesare Pavese |
| ISBN | 0720611199 |
Anguila, the narrator, is a successful businessman lured home from California to the Piedmontese village where he was fostered by peasants. After 20 years, so much has changed. Slowly, with the power of memory, he is able to piece together the past, and relate it to what he finds left in the present. He...
| Author | Ryszard Kapuściński |
| ISBN | 1400043387 |
From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain.
Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming...
| Author | Jesse Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1927668417 |
In the basement, through the appliances and past the veil that separates realities, lies a rainbow-hued world where a group of kids have found retreat from their suburban mundanity with a coterie of iridescent creatures. But in the fraught realm of adolescence, can friendship survive the appeal of...
| Author | Franz Kafka |
| ISBN | 0805204261 |
I have felt very uncomfortable reading this letter. And the thought that I--together with a very large number of people-- have read something which was not intended for us, as well as the knowledge that the original addressee never read it, contributed further to my uneasiness.
Franz...
The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
| Author | Luis Sepúlveda |
| ISBN | 0439401879 |
A cat. A seagull. An impossible task.
A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL... is finally out in paperback!
Her wings burdened by an oil slick, a seagull struggles to the nearest port to lay her final egg. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba...
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
| Author | Luis Sepúlveda |
| ISBN | 0156002728 |
Briefly: This compelling and efficient novella grabs readers and quickly embeds them within the life of an aging Ecuadoran whose first, and only love, has died after a brief and unproductive marriage, leaving the much younger Antonio José Bolívar Proaño procreatively unaccomplished, as well...
| Author | Teresa Radice |
| ISBN | 8865432993 |
Nell'estate del 1807, una nave della marina di Sua Maestà recupera al largo del Siam un giovane naufrago, Abel, che di sé ricorda soltanto il nome. Diventa ben presto amico del primo ufficiale, facente funzioni di capitano perché il comandante della nave è, a quanto pare, scappato dopo essersi...
Una cosa divertente che non farò mai più
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
| ISBN | 8887765561 |
Un capolavoro di comicità e virtuosismo stilistico con cui i lettori italiani hanno conosciuto il genio letterario di David Foster Wallace. Commissionatogli inizialmente come articolo per la prestigiosa rivista Harper's, questo reportage narrativo da una crociera extralusso ai Caraibi - iniziato...
Mio fratello rincorre i dinosauri
| Author | Giacomo Mazzariol |
| ISBN | 8806229524 |
Mi chiamo Giacomo Mazzariol, ho diciotto anni. Vivo in una cittadina del Veneto con i miei genitori, le mie sorelle Chiara e Alice e mio fratello Giovanni. Io sono il secondogenito, Giovanni è il più piccolo; ci togliamo sei anni. Ci sono alcune cose che dovete sapere, di Giovanni. Lui è uno che, se...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0099470713 |
Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating - only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swap bodies with the family cat and his...
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