The Planets

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,...

Author	David Foster Wallace
ISBN	0316921173

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.

Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment...

Author	Dubravka Ugrešić
ISBN	1564782980

In this collection of acerbic essays, Ugresic dissects the nature of the contemporary book industry, which she argues is so infected with the need to create and promote literature that will appeal to the masses — literally to everyone — that if Thomas Mann were writing nowadays, his books wouldn't...

Author

Maria Gerhardt

Transfervindue er en utopisk fremstilling af Nordsjælland som et stort luksuriøst hospice. Alle går i hvidt. New age-nonner dyrker medicinsk cannabis på stranden. Internet og musik er forbudt, til gengæld kan man vinterbade med overlægen. Indimellem er der ætsende tilbageblik til livet...

Author	Raymond Queneau
ISBN	1564783979

Pierrot Mon Ami, is considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau's finest achievements, it's a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man's initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation. From his short-lived job at a Paris amusement park where he helps to raise women's...