Storie di libri perduti

Author	João Guimarães Rosa
ISBN	8520912095

A estilização das peculiaridades das falas sertanejas, sempre recorrente na obra de Guimarães Rosa, atinge seu auge neste consagrado romance. Rosa reinventa a língua e eleva o sertão ao contexto da literatura universal, compondo o cenário de uma narrativa lírica e épica, uma lição de...

Author	William Fiennes
ISBN	0330375792

The concept is wonderful: Fiennes, inspired by Gallico's "The Snow Goose" and a life changing illness, sets out to follow the migration of the Snow Goose (chen caerulescens) from wintering grounds in south central Texas to its breeding home on Baffin Island. It's a planes, trains, and automobiles...

Author	Ferrett Steinmetz
ISBN	0857667173

Life sucks and then you die...

In the near future, the elderly have moved online and now live within the computer network. But that doesn't stop them interfering in the lives of the living, whose sole real purpose now is to maintain the vast servers which support digital Heaven. For one orphan...

Author	Mike Mignola
ISBN	1883313007

So this is an adaptation of a film based on a book. So this is kind of a weird book.

While I enjoyed the 1992 film (questionable accents from some actors aside), it's not one that I'd necessarily want to see adapted into a comic, it was only Mike Mignola's art that got this on my list. Of course the guy...

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Sophie Goldstein

In this graphic novel, science fiction meets psychosexual drama when four women try to bring “civilization” to the natives of a remote planet on the fringes of the known universe. Something dark is growing in Mopu. The only question is whether the danger that will undo the women’s delicate camaraderie...