Uto
10 best books like Uto (Andrea De Carlo): The Late Mattia Pascal, Sostiene Pereira, Ocean Sea, Silk, Follow Your Heart, Novecento. Un monologo, Eva Luna, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche, Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue, Il rumore dei tuoi passi
Author | Luigi Pirandello |
ISBN | 1590171152 |
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as...
Author | Antonio Tabucchi |
ISBN | 8433966324 |
Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un mediocre periódico. Pereira tiene un sentido un tanto fúnebre de la cultura y prefiere...
Author | Alessandro Baricco |
ISBN | 0375703950 |
This haunting, suspenseful tale of love and vengeance by the author of the international bestseller Silk surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.
In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and...
Author | Alessandro Baricco |
ISBN | 0375703829 |
When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour leaves his doting wife and his comfortable home in the small town of Lavilledieu and travels across Siberia to the other end of the world, to Japan, to obtain eggs for a fresh breeding of silk worms. It is the...
Author | Susanna Tamaro |
ISBN | 0385316577 |
An international bestseller with tremendous word-of-mouth appeal, "Follow Your Heart" is a bittersweet, heartwarming novel spanning generations and teaching the universal truths about life, love, and what lies within each of us. Originally published in Italy, "Follow Your Heart" won the coveted...
Author | Alessandro Baricco |
ISBN | 8807813025 |
Il Virginian era un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, con il suo carico di miliardari, di emigranti e di gente qualsiasi. Dicono che sul Virginian si esibisse ogni sera un pianista straordinario, dalla tecnica strabiliante, capace di suonare una musica mai...
Author | Isabel Allende |
ISBN | 0553280589 |
Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller—available for the first time in ebook.
Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snake-bitten gardener—born...
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
Author | Erich Fromm |
ISBN | 0826417388 |
To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle...
Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue
Author | Alessandro D'Avenia |
ISBN | 8804595183 |
Leo ha sedici anni: ama le chiacchiere con gli amici, il calcetto, le scorribande in motorino e vive in perfetta simbiosi con il suo iPod. Le ore di scuola sono uno strazio, i professori “una specie protetta che speri si estingua definitivamente”.
Così, quando arriva un nuovo supplente di...
Author | Valentina D'Urbano |
ISBN | 8830431141 |
In un luogo fatto di polvere, dove ogni cosa ha un soprannome, dove il quartiere in cui sono nati e cresciuti è chiamato «la Fortezza», Beatrice e Alfredo sono per tutti «i gemelli». I due però non hanno in comune il sangue, ma qualcosa di più profondo. A legarli è un’amicizia ruvida come l’intonaco...
Author | Alessandro Baricco |
ISBN | 0375725482 |
The author of the international bestseller Silk now delivers a ravishing and wildly inventive novel about friendship, genius and its discontents, and the redemptive power of narrative. Somewhere in America lives a brilliant boy named Gould, an intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize....