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Cast Away
'A revelatory meditation on humanity' GUARDIAN'De Tores builds Selkirk's world with detail and patience - it's an impressive imaginative feat' THE TIMES'Beautiful, fascinating, heartbreaking, philosophically engaging - and often very funny' JO HARKINHow big must a man's folly be, that it can cost him the whole of his life? As big as a ship; as big as an island.1704: Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk has been abandoned by his own shipmates on a remote, uninhabited island. With little hope of rescue, and wild goats and cats as his only companions, he is forced to confront not only the urgent challenges of survival, but also the troubled, unsavoury past that has brought him here. What kind of man is deliberately stranded by his crew, to face near-certain death? On the island, he must use his grit, tenacity and ingenuity to survive. As his isolation deepens, Selkirk's experience takes an extraordinary and often blackly comic turn, for the island's consolations prove as unexpected as its trials. The longer he is stranded, the more Selkirk wonders if he will ever escape the island, and in what ways he will be changed if he does. A tale of adventure and endurance, isolation and friendship, despair and hope, this gripping, singular novel asks who we are - and who we become - when everything else is stripped away. In Cast Away, award-winning author Francesca de Tores boldly reimagines the real-life story of Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for the classic novel Robinson Crusoe. The world knows Crusoe's story - yet what unfolds on Selkirk's island is stranger by far . . .
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Saltblood. Sangue salmastro
Cresciuta all'ombra del fratellastro morto di cui è costretta a portare il nome, Mary impara presto a mantenere il segreto rappresentato dal suo corpo. Quando l'Inghilterra entra in guerra, Mary vede nel conflitto una via di fuga da una sorte già segnata, e si arruola nella Royal Navy per conoscere il mondo e assaporare un po' di libertà. L'ineludibile richiamo del mare sancisce il suo destino, e dopo essere stata fanciulla, ragazzo, marinaio, soldato e moglie, Mary potrà diventare chi è forse sempre stata: una pirata, parte della ciurma di Calico Jack Rackham e affiancata dalla temeraria Anne Bonny, di cui è amica e amante. Ispirato alla vera storia di Mary Read, "Saltblood. Sangue salmastro" è ricostruzione storica e romanzo d'avventura, storia d'amore e Bildungsroman che parla dei limiti del corpo, del genere e di quello che siamo e osiamo immaginare di diventare. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Saltblood
'A ravishing picaresque told with fireworks, finesse and gusto' PAUL LYNCH, author of Prophet SongIn a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money.Mary's dual existence will take her to a grand house where she'll serve a French mistress; to the navy where she'll learn who to trust, and how to navigate by the stars; to the army and the battlegrounds of Flanders, following her one true friend; and finding love among the bloodshed and mud. But none of this will stop her yearning for the sea. Drawn back to the water, Mary must reinvent herself yet again, for a woman aboard a ship is a dangerous thing. This time Mary will become something more dangerous than a woman. She will become a pirate. Breathing life into the Golden Age of Piracy, Saltblood is a wild adventure, a treasure trove, weaving an intoxicating tale of gender and survival, passion and loss, journeys and transformation, through the story of Mary Read, one of history's most remarkable figures.
€ 19,50