Se Venezia muore
10 best books like Se Venezia muore (Salvatore Settis): Invisible Cities, La bella estate, Embroideries, Chicken with Plums, More Tales of the City, Comme un roman, More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons, The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0156453800 |
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So...
| Author | Cesare Pavese |
| ISBN | 8806314017 |
"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come matte, e tutto era bello, specialmente di notte, che tornando stanche morte speravano ancora che succedesse qualcosa, che scoppiasse un incendio, che in casa nascesse un bambino, o magari venisse giorno...
| Author | Marjane Satrapi |
| ISBN | 0375714677 |
From the best–selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for...
| Author | Marjane Satrapi |
| ISBN | 0375424156 |
In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar has been broken. But no matter what tar he tries, none of them sound right. Brokenhearted, Nasser Ali Khan decides that life is no longer worth living. He takes to his bed, renouncing...
A surreal sequel to the first volume of the series, More Tales of the City heightens the stakes of the original: mystery, romance, and drama now feature even more prominently in the intertwining storylines of the residents of 28 Barbary Lane. Maupin established his characters' personalities and their...
First line: "You can't make someone read. Just as you can't make them fall in love or dream..." First U.S. edition of an eloquent defense of (among other things) the right to dip, skip and flip reading choices---available for many years in the UK, due out on this side of the Pond in November (but there are...
More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
| Author | Laurie Colwin |
| ISBN | 0060955317 |
More Home Cooking, like its predecessor, Home Cooking, is an expression of Laurie Colwin's lifelong passion for cuisine. In this delightful mix of recipes, advice, and anecdotes, she writes about often overlooked food items such as beets, pears, black beans, and chutney. With down-to-earth charm...
A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
| Author | Ben Folds |
| ISBN | 1984817272 |
Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as "Brick," "You Don't Know Me," "Rockin' the Suburbs," and "The Luckiest," and is the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. But Folds will be the first to tell you he's an unconventional icon, more normcore...
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 Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity – Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy – through seven cities and over a thousand years. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Cordoba...
| Author | Alberto Madrigal |
| ISBN | 8865431857 |
A Real Job
An interesting real life story about how the author leaves his country, Spain, and moves to Berlin in order to pursue his desire to be a graphic artist and produce his own book. He gives up his job and all that is familiar in Spain and moves to Germany even though he doesn't speak the language....
The Festival of Insignificance
| Author | Milan Kundera |
| ISBN | 0062356895 |
From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an unexpected and enchanting novel—the culmination of his life's work.
Casting light on the most serious of problems, and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated...
