Ladies Almanack
10 best books like Ladies Almanack (Djuna Barnes): Lessico famigliare, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, Frankissstein: A Love Story, Malone Dies, Women of the Left Bank, Humanimal: A Project for Future Children, Spring and All, Lectura fácil, Vernon Subutex, 2, چنين گذشت بر من
Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
ISBN | 8806151681 |
Lessico famigliare è la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge a Torino fra gli anni Trenta e Cinquanta. Natalia, l'ultima dei cinque figli Levi, è la voce narrante. Con assoluto rispetto della verità, e, per certi versi, mantenendo l'incanto della fanciullezza,...
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Author | Emma Donoghue |
ISBN | 0064407721 |
Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with...
Frankissstein: A Love Story
Author | Jeanette Winterson |
ISBN | 1473563259 |
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...
Author | Samuel Beckett |
ISBN | 0802151175 |
Written and published in French in 1951, and in Samuel Beckett’s English translation in 1956, Malone Dies is the second of his immediate post-war novels, written during what Beckett later referred to as ‘the siege in the room’.
‘Malone’, writes Malone, ‘is what I am called now.’...
Author | Shari Benstock |
ISBN | 0292790406 |
Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's...
Author | Bhanu Kapil |
ISBN | 0932716709 |
Poetry. Cross-Genre. Asian American Studies. In this new prose document, Bhanu Kapil follows a film crew to the Bengal jungle to re-encounter the true account of two girls found living with wolves in 1921. Taking as its source text the diary of the missionary who strove to rehabilitate these orphans...
Author | William Carlos Williams |
Valérie Rouzeau, translator.
Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination — a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams’s...
Son cuatro: Nati, Patri, Marga y Àngels. Son parientas, tienen diversos grados de lo que la Administración y la medicina consideran «discapacidad intelectual» y comparten un piso tutelado. Han pasado buena parte de sus vidas en RUDIS y CRUDIS (residencias urbanas y rurales para personas con...
I'm officially addicted to the Subutex series - this stuff just speaks to me. Short recap: After Vernon had to close his record store and lost his old friend and benefactor, rock star Alex Bleach, to a drug overdose, he ended up homeless in the streets of Paris. But as he is in possession of the last video...
Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
ISBN | 9649210644 |
E' la storia di un amore disperato e geloso, rivissuto a ritroso da una moglie assassina. E' una confessione di dolorosa chiarezza che racconta un matrimonio di solitudine dove una donna, schiacciata da un diffuso senso d'inferiorità, sopporta per anni la stramba relazione extraconiugale del marito....