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[…] 30 arrenca amb una cita de Stéphane Hessel, referent intel•lectual dels indignats, i això és tota una declaració d’intencions. És un llibre reivindicatiu, que conforma una veu pròpia dels temps q

A la sala d'espera d'un hospital, un infermer escriu cartes misterioses davant la mirada d'una noia reservada i d'un home que insisteix en veure la seva filla. Els tres personatges coincideixen llargues estones i comparteixen l'espai des de perspectives ben diferents. Pero allo que inicialment es una trobada freda i desafortunada s'acaba convertint en una necessitat per als seus protagonistes. Una historia agredolça sobre la necessitat d'estimar i el poder de perdonar.

Cina, anni Sessanta. All'inizio della Rivoluzione Culturale, il giovane Chen Zen lascia Pechino per "educarsi al lavoro" nella Mongolia Interna ed entrare in relazione con le popolazioni locali poco inclini ad assoggettarsi ai principi che informano il nuovo governo cinese. In una terra estrema e affascinante, sullo sfondo delle crescenti tensioni con l'esercito sovietico, Chen Zen entra cosi per la prima volta in contatto con un mondo ancestrale in cui le dimensioni del sacro e del soprannaturale permeano ogni cosa, compresa la quotidiana e delicata relazione con i lupi, i grandi predatori che contendono all'uomo la supremazia in quell'inospitale territorio. A lui, rappresentante del governo cinese e del mondo moderno, si imporranno scelte difficili, talvolta drammatiche, da cui emergera profondamente mutato. Nato dall'esperienza diretta dell'autore, vissuto per undici anni nella Mongolia Interna, il romanzo e frutto di un lavoro di studio trentennale nel quale leggenda, storia e avventura si fondono per dare vita a un'opera intensa e controversa, che scuote dalle fondamenta il nostro modo di giudicare non solo la Cina di oggi, ma la storia stessa dell'umanita. Jiang Rong e lo pseudonimo di un intellettuale dissidente di cinquantotto anni, professore universitario di economia politica a Pechino. Da questo romanzo e tratto l'omonimo film di Jean Jacques Annaud.

"If we know this story, we haven't seen it yet in American fiction, not until now. . . . Deep, heartfelt." --"The New York Times Book Review" "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet." So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, "Everything I Never Told You "is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

Two victims - one dead, one missing. Even the Dead is a visceral, gritty and cinematic thriller from Benjamin Black. Every web has a spider sitting at the centre of it. Pathologist Quirke is back working in the city morgue, watching over Dublin's dead. When a body is found in a burnt-out car, Quirke is called in to verify the apparent suicide of an up-and-coming civil servant. But Quirke can't shake a suspicion of foul play.The only witness has vanished, every trace of her wiped away. Piecing together her disappearance, Quirke finds himself drawn into the shadowy world of Dublin's elite - secret societies and high church politics, corrupt politicians and men with money to lose. When the trail eventually leads to Quirke's own family, the past and present collide. But crimes of the past are supposed to stay hidden, and Quirke has shaken the web.Now he must wait to see what comes running out.'Addiction, morbid sexual obsession, blackmail and murder, as well as prose as crisp as a winter's morning by the Liffey ...Quirke is human enough to swell the hardest of hearts''Quirke is an endearing hero and the Dublin of the 1950s - wet, cold, foggy, sinister - is evoked with harsh realism and nostalgia' The Times. 'A requiem for a cursed city, its inhabitants' inner lives doomed to remain as locked away, unhappy and unknowable as whatever lies buried' Metro.Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, who was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fifteen novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain's most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin. Even the Dead is the seventh book in Benjamin Black's Quirke series.

Aquesta obra es basa en tot el que envolta la vida de CharlesDeering, un magnat americà que arribà un dia a Sitges i sen’enamorà. Aquest fet tingué un fort impacte i provocà unseguit de canvis en la

Shortlisted for the 2014 National Book Awards Observer Thriller of the Month DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY A band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and he threatens the hopeful world every survivor has tried to rebuild. STATION ELEVEN Moving backwards and forwards in time, from the glittering years just before the collapse to the strange and altered world that exists twenty years after, Station Eleven charts the unexpected twists of fate that connect six people: famous actor Arthur Leander; Jeevan - warned about the flu just in time; Arthur's first wife Miranda; Arthur's oldest friend Clark; Kirsten, a young actress with the Travelling Symphony; and the mysterious and self-proclaimed 'prophet'. Thrilling, unique and deeply moving, Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven is a beautiful novel that asks questions about art and fame and about the relationships that sustain us through anything - even the end of the world

En décembre 1999, le narrateur prend conscience que son réveillon " serait probablement raté comme d''habitude. " Il entre dans une agence de voyages. Une jeune fille lui propose diverses destinations. L''une d''elles, pour les Canaries, un archipel au large des cotes africaines, le tente. Ce sera donc Lanzarote, une ile qui promet : hotel 4 etoiles, piscine avec jacuzzi, sauna, hammam, trois courts de tennis, mini-golf, danses typiques, etc. Le " touriste " debarque sur l''ile, devastee au XVIIIe siecle par une eruption volcanique. A part les hotels et un village de vacances, il n''y a que de la lave, une vegetation rare, le ciel et la mer. A l''ecart de toute presence humaine, il explore cette terre desolee, prend des photos de la roche aux couleurs etranges, des murets de pierre. On dirait la planete Mars. Le texte de M. Houellebecq et ses photographies, tres belles, resument la contradiction essentielle de sa demarche : d''une part la derision, de l''autre le lyrisme.

A reissue in new packaging of one of Rosamunde Pilcher''s classic stories.Sitting on a California beach at summer''s end, Jane Marsh thinks back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotland. She remembers not only the heather-covered hills and the lonesome loch, but her grandmother... and, of course, Sinclair. She has secretly dreamed of marrying rakishly handsome Sinclair and settling at Elvie forever. Then an urgent visit from her grandmother''s lawyer becomes the catalyst for her return to Scotland... Where waiting for her is passion, not gentle love, and the chilling realisation that she may be ready to wed the wrong man.

Aquesta Obra Completa -Nova edició, revisada- constitueix un nou projecte d'edició de l'obra estellesiana que conté estudis introductoris, un treball de reorganització cronològica de les obres i d'ed

Anthony Hope''s swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania. When the rival to throne, Black Michael of Strelsau, attempts to seize power by imprisoning Elphberg in the Castle of Zenda, Rassendyll is obliged to impersonate the King to uphold the rightful sovereignty and ensure political stability.Rassendyll endures a trial of strength in his encounters with the notorious Rupert of Hentzau, and a test of a different sort as he grows to love the Princess Flavia. Five times filmed, The Prisioner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Une histoire émouvante et sensible où Christian Signol célèbre la communion de l’homme avec la nature, les sentiments purs, les vérités essentielles – peut-être à jamais oubliées. Aurélien, le vieux

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England, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on the beautiful estate of the Marquess and Marchioness of Penselwood. The beekeepers daughter, she knows her place and what the future holdsthat is until her father dies. Her childhood friend Freddie has recently become her lover, and she is thankful when they are able to marry and take over her fathers duties. But there is another man who she just cant shake from her thoughtsMassachusetts, 1973: Graces daughter Trixie Valentine is in love with an unsuitable young man. Jasper Duncliffe is wild and romantic, and in a band that might hit it big. But when his brother dies and he is called home to England, Jasper promises to come back for Trixie one day, if only she will wait for him. Grace thinks that Trixie is surely abandoned and tries to support her daughter, but Trixie brushes off her mothers advice and comfort. She is confident that Jaspers love for her was real...

Though sometimes classified as a 'problem play' for its mix of turbulent emotional and light-hearted comedy, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is a timeless study of jealousy and desire. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Ernest Schanzer with an introduction by Russ McDonald. 'You may as well Forbid the sea for to obey the moon As or by oath remove or counsel shake The fabric of his folly.' Leontes, the jealous King of Sicily becomes convinced that his wife, Hermione is carrying the child of his best friend Polixenes. Imprisoned and put on trial, the Queen collapses when the King refuses to accept the divine confirmation of her innocence. The child is abandoned to die on the coast of Bohemia. Sixteen years later, Polixenes' son Prince Florizel, incurs his father's wrath by eloping with Perdita, the daughter of a local shepherd. But Perdita's origins are not as humble as they appear...This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to The Winter's Tale, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), many of which are regarded as the most exceptional works of drama ever produced, including Romeo and Juliet (1595), Henry V (1599), Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1606), as well as a collection of 154 sonnets, which number among the most profound and influential love-poetry in English. If you enjoyed The Winter's Tale, you might like Shakespeare's As You Like It, also available in Penguin Shakespeare. "The work of Shakespeare is virtually infinite". (Jorge Luis Borges).

One fateful night. One unthinkable family tragedy. One survivor. This is Alison's story. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and Apple Tree Yard, this stunning psychological thriller follows one woman's search for the truth about her family history. Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get: with no ties and a backroom job, hers is a life lived under the radar. But once Alison was someone else: once she was Esme, a teenager whose bedroom sat at the top of a remote house on a bleak estuary. A girl whose family, if not happy, exactly, was no unhappier than anyone else's - or so she thought. Then one night violence was unleashed in the crooked house, in a nightmare that only Alison survived and from which she's been running ever since. Only when she falls for the charismatic Paul does Alison realise that to have any chance of happiness, she must return to her old life and face a closed community full of dark secrets. As she seeks to uncover the truth of what happened that terrible night, Alison begins to question everything she thought she knew. Is there anyone she can trust?

"Fiendishly addictive". (Guardian). Your best friend isn't who you think she is. You've been friends since university, when you became the people you are today. You don't see each other enough but when you do it's as if you've never been apart. She's one of the family. You would trust her with your life, your children, your husband. And when your daughter is rushed to hospital, you're grateful that she's stepping in at home, looking after things. But your best friend isn't who you think she is. You're about to find out just how wrong you were.

Stefano Benni sfida il racconto di genere e apre la porta dellorrore. Lo fa con ironia, lo fa attingendo al grottesco, lo fa tuffandosi nel comico, lo fa tastando langoscia, lo fa, in omaggio ai suoi maestri, rammentandoci di cosa e fatta la paura. E finisce con il consegnarci una galleria di memorabili mostri.E allora ecco gli adolescenti senza prospettiva o speranza, ecco il Wenge una creatura misteriosa che semina panico e morte , ecco il plutocrate russo che vuole sbarazzarsi di un albero secolare, ecco una Madonna che invece di piangere ride, dolcemente sfrontata, ecco il manager che vuole ridimensionare un museo egizio sfidando una mummia vendicativa.Con meravigliosa destrezza Stefano Benni scende negli anfratti del Male per mettere disordine e promettere il brivido piu cupo e la risata liberatoria. E in entrambi i casi per accendere limmaginazione intorno ai mostri che sono i nostri falsi amici, i nostri veleni, le nostre menzogne.La paura e una grande passione, se e vera deve essere smisurata e crescente. Di paura si deve morire. Il resto sono piccoli turbamenti, spaventi da salotto, schizzi di sangue da pulire con un fazzolettino. Labisso non ha comodi gradini.

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[…] 30 arrenca amb una cita de Stéphane Hessel, referent intel•lectual dels indignats, i això és tota una declaració d’intencions. És un llibre reivindicatiu, que conforma una veu pròpia dels temps q

A la sala d'espera d'un hospital, un infermer escriu cartes misterioses davant la mirada d'una noia reservada i d'un home que insisteix en veure la seva filla. Els tres personatges coincideixen llargues estones i comparteixen l'espai des de perspectives ben diferents. Pero allo que inicialment es una trobada freda i desafortunada s'acaba convertint en una necessitat per als seus protagonistes. Una historia agredolça sobre la necessitat d'estimar i el poder de perdonar.

Cina, anni Sessanta. All'inizio della Rivoluzione Culturale, il giovane Chen Zen lascia Pechino per "educarsi al lavoro" nella Mongolia Interna ed entrare in relazione con le popolazioni locali poco inclini ad assoggettarsi ai principi che informano il nuovo governo cinese. In una terra estrema e affascinante, sullo sfondo delle crescenti tensioni con l'esercito sovietico, Chen Zen entra cosi per la prima volta in contatto con un mondo ancestrale in cui le dimensioni del sacro e del soprannaturale permeano ogni cosa, compresa la quotidiana e delicata relazione con i lupi, i grandi predatori che contendono all'uomo la supremazia in quell'inospitale territorio. A lui, rappresentante del governo cinese e del mondo moderno, si imporranno scelte difficili, talvolta drammatiche, da cui emergera profondamente mutato. Nato dall'esperienza diretta dell'autore, vissuto per undici anni nella Mongolia Interna, il romanzo e frutto di un lavoro di studio trentennale nel quale leggenda, storia e avventura si fondono per dare vita a un'opera intensa e controversa, che scuote dalle fondamenta il nostro modo di giudicare non solo la Cina di oggi, ma la storia stessa dell'umanita. Jiang Rong e lo pseudonimo di un intellettuale dissidente di cinquantotto anni, professore universitario di economia politica a Pechino. Da questo romanzo e tratto l'omonimo film di Jean Jacques Annaud.

"If we know this story, we haven't seen it yet in American fiction, not until now. . . . Deep, heartfelt." --"The New York Times Book Review" "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet." So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, "Everything I Never Told You "is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

Two victims - one dead, one missing. Even the Dead is a visceral, gritty and cinematic thriller from Benjamin Black. Every web has a spider sitting at the centre of it. Pathologist Quirke is back working in the city morgue, watching over Dublin's dead. When a body is found in a burnt-out car, Quirke is called in to verify the apparent suicide of an up-and-coming civil servant. But Quirke can't shake a suspicion of foul play.The only witness has vanished, every trace of her wiped away. Piecing together her disappearance, Quirke finds himself drawn into the shadowy world of Dublin's elite - secret societies and high church politics, corrupt politicians and men with money to lose. When the trail eventually leads to Quirke's own family, the past and present collide. But crimes of the past are supposed to stay hidden, and Quirke has shaken the web.Now he must wait to see what comes running out.'Addiction, morbid sexual obsession, blackmail and murder, as well as prose as crisp as a winter's morning by the Liffey ...Quirke is human enough to swell the hardest of hearts''Quirke is an endearing hero and the Dublin of the 1950s - wet, cold, foggy, sinister - is evoked with harsh realism and nostalgia' The Times. 'A requiem for a cursed city, its inhabitants' inner lives doomed to remain as locked away, unhappy and unknowable as whatever lies buried' Metro.Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, who was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fifteen novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain's most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin. Even the Dead is the seventh book in Benjamin Black's Quirke series.

Aquesta obra es basa en tot el que envolta la vida de CharlesDeering, un magnat americà que arribà un dia a Sitges i sen’enamorà. Aquest fet tingué un fort impacte i provocà unseguit de canvis en la

Shortlisted for the 2014 National Book Awards Observer Thriller of the Month DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY A band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and he threatens the hopeful world every survivor has tried to rebuild. STATION ELEVEN Moving backwards and forwards in time, from the glittering years just before the collapse to the strange and altered world that exists twenty years after, Station Eleven charts the unexpected twists of fate that connect six people: famous actor Arthur Leander; Jeevan - warned about the flu just in time; Arthur's first wife Miranda; Arthur's oldest friend Clark; Kirsten, a young actress with the Travelling Symphony; and the mysterious and self-proclaimed 'prophet'. Thrilling, unique and deeply moving, Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven is a beautiful novel that asks questions about art and fame and about the relationships that sustain us through anything - even the end of the world

En décembre 1999, le narrateur prend conscience que son réveillon " serait probablement raté comme d''habitude. " Il entre dans une agence de voyages. Une jeune fille lui propose diverses destinations. L''une d''elles, pour les Canaries, un archipel au large des cotes africaines, le tente. Ce sera donc Lanzarote, une ile qui promet : hotel 4 etoiles, piscine avec jacuzzi, sauna, hammam, trois courts de tennis, mini-golf, danses typiques, etc. Le " touriste " debarque sur l''ile, devastee au XVIIIe siecle par une eruption volcanique. A part les hotels et un village de vacances, il n''y a que de la lave, une vegetation rare, le ciel et la mer. A l''ecart de toute presence humaine, il explore cette terre desolee, prend des photos de la roche aux couleurs etranges, des murets de pierre. On dirait la planete Mars. Le texte de M. Houellebecq et ses photographies, tres belles, resument la contradiction essentielle de sa demarche : d''une part la derision, de l''autre le lyrisme.

A reissue in new packaging of one of Rosamunde Pilcher''s classic stories.Sitting on a California beach at summer''s end, Jane Marsh thinks back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotland. She remembers not only the heather-covered hills and the lonesome loch, but her grandmother... and, of course, Sinclair. She has secretly dreamed of marrying rakishly handsome Sinclair and settling at Elvie forever. Then an urgent visit from her grandmother''s lawyer becomes the catalyst for her return to Scotland... Where waiting for her is passion, not gentle love, and the chilling realisation that she may be ready to wed the wrong man.

Aquesta Obra Completa -Nova edició, revisada- constitueix un nou projecte d'edició de l'obra estellesiana que conté estudis introductoris, un treball de reorganització cronològica de les obres i d'ed

Anthony Hope''s swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania. When the rival to throne, Black Michael of Strelsau, attempts to seize power by imprisoning Elphberg in the Castle of Zenda, Rassendyll is obliged to impersonate the King to uphold the rightful sovereignty and ensure political stability.Rassendyll endures a trial of strength in his encounters with the notorious Rupert of Hentzau, and a test of a different sort as he grows to love the Princess Flavia. Five times filmed, The Prisioner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Une histoire émouvante et sensible où Christian Signol célèbre la communion de l’homme avec la nature, les sentiments purs, les vérités essentielles – peut-être à jamais oubliées. Aurélien, le vieux

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England, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on the beautiful estate of the Marquess and Marchioness of Penselwood. The beekeepers daughter, she knows her place and what the future holdsthat is until her father dies. Her childhood friend Freddie has recently become her lover, and she is thankful when they are able to marry and take over her fathers duties. But there is another man who she just cant shake from her thoughtsMassachusetts, 1973: Graces daughter Trixie Valentine is in love with an unsuitable young man. Jasper Duncliffe is wild and romantic, and in a band that might hit it big. But when his brother dies and he is called home to England, Jasper promises to come back for Trixie one day, if only she will wait for him. Grace thinks that Trixie is surely abandoned and tries to support her daughter, but Trixie brushes off her mothers advice and comfort. She is confident that Jaspers love for her was real...

Though sometimes classified as a 'problem play' for its mix of turbulent emotional and light-hearted comedy, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is a timeless study of jealousy and desire. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Ernest Schanzer with an introduction by Russ McDonald. 'You may as well Forbid the sea for to obey the moon As or by oath remove or counsel shake The fabric of his folly.' Leontes, the jealous King of Sicily becomes convinced that his wife, Hermione is carrying the child of his best friend Polixenes. Imprisoned and put on trial, the Queen collapses when the King refuses to accept the divine confirmation of her innocence. The child is abandoned to die on the coast of Bohemia. Sixteen years later, Polixenes' son Prince Florizel, incurs his father's wrath by eloping with Perdita, the daughter of a local shepherd. But Perdita's origins are not as humble as they appear...This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to The Winter's Tale, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), many of which are regarded as the most exceptional works of drama ever produced, including Romeo and Juliet (1595), Henry V (1599), Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1606), as well as a collection of 154 sonnets, which number among the most profound and influential love-poetry in English. If you enjoyed The Winter's Tale, you might like Shakespeare's As You Like It, also available in Penguin Shakespeare. "The work of Shakespeare is virtually infinite". (Jorge Luis Borges).

One fateful night. One unthinkable family tragedy. One survivor. This is Alison's story. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and Apple Tree Yard, this stunning psychological thriller follows one woman's search for the truth about her family history. Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get: with no ties and a backroom job, hers is a life lived under the radar. But once Alison was someone else: once she was Esme, a teenager whose bedroom sat at the top of a remote house on a bleak estuary. A girl whose family, if not happy, exactly, was no unhappier than anyone else's - or so she thought. Then one night violence was unleashed in the crooked house, in a nightmare that only Alison survived and from which she's been running ever since. Only when she falls for the charismatic Paul does Alison realise that to have any chance of happiness, she must return to her old life and face a closed community full of dark secrets. As she seeks to uncover the truth of what happened that terrible night, Alison begins to question everything she thought she knew. Is there anyone she can trust?

"Fiendishly addictive". (Guardian). Your best friend isn't who you think she is. You've been friends since university, when you became the people you are today. You don't see each other enough but when you do it's as if you've never been apart. She's one of the family. You would trust her with your life, your children, your husband. And when your daughter is rushed to hospital, you're grateful that she's stepping in at home, looking after things. But your best friend isn't who you think she is. You're about to find out just how wrong you were.

Stefano Benni sfida il racconto di genere e apre la porta dellorrore. Lo fa con ironia, lo fa attingendo al grottesco, lo fa tuffandosi nel comico, lo fa tastando langoscia, lo fa, in omaggio ai suoi maestri, rammentandoci di cosa e fatta la paura. E finisce con il consegnarci una galleria di memorabili mostri.E allora ecco gli adolescenti senza prospettiva o speranza, ecco il Wenge una creatura misteriosa che semina panico e morte , ecco il plutocrate russo che vuole sbarazzarsi di un albero secolare, ecco una Madonna che invece di piangere ride, dolcemente sfrontata, ecco il manager che vuole ridimensionare un museo egizio sfidando una mummia vendicativa.Con meravigliosa destrezza Stefano Benni scende negli anfratti del Male per mettere disordine e promettere il brivido piu cupo e la risata liberatoria. E in entrambi i casi per accendere limmaginazione intorno ai mostri che sono i nostri falsi amici, i nostri veleni, le nostre menzogne.La paura e una grande passione, se e vera deve essere smisurata e crescente. Di paura si deve morire. Il resto sono piccoli turbamenti, spaventi da salotto, schizzi di sangue da pulire con un fazzolettino. Labisso non ha comodi gradini.