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1. Tim O’Brien

The Things They Carried

The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

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Inseguendo Cacciato

Cacciato è un soldato americano di stanza in Vietnam. C'è la guerra, ma Cacciato sogna Parigi. Gli hanno detto che dalla giungla dell'Indocina ai bistrot della Ville Lumière sono solo ottomilaseicento miglia, si possono fare a piedi. E così un giorno Cacciato, stanco di quella marcia guerra, posa il fucile e parte alla volta della Francia. E il suo plotone dietro di lui, in un viaggio donchisciottesco, alla ricerca del disertore... Tra il sogno e la durissima realtà, Inseguendo Cacciato è un romanzo originalissimo, premiato con il National Book Award; un classico della letteratura pacifista che, nella sua atmosfera a tratti psichedelica, cattura come poche altre opere quell'assurda miscela di orrore e allucinazione che è stata la guerra del Vietnam. Ma non è solo uno dei più lucidi e intelligenti atti d'accusa contro la stupidità e la solitudine dei conflitti; è anche un grande racconto sulle forze che muovono l'uomo: la paura e il coraggio, la disperazione e la folle determinazione nell'inseguire i propri sogni. Come ha scritto il 'New York Times', 'definire Inseguendo Cacciato un romanzo sul Vietnam è come definire Moby Dick un romanzo sulle balene'.

1. Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

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America Fantastica

“O’Brien’s first novel in two decades was well worth the wait. . . . In the age of ‘mythomania,’ O’Brien takes aim at the lies that power this country, and how and why they sustain us. America Fantastica peers straight into the dark heart of the American psyche, and it's unafraid of the comedy and tragedy staring back.” — Esquire, Best Books of the Fall An American Master returns: the author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery sparks “a satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit” (Kirkus, starred review) At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California. “How much is on hand, would you say?” he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.” “You’re robbing me?” He revealed a Temptation .38 Special. The teller, a diminutive redhead named Angie Bing, collected eighty-one thousand dollars. Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag. “I’m sorry about this,” he said, “but I’ll have to ask you to take a ride with me.” So begins the adventure of Boyd Halverson—star journalist turned notorious online disinformation troll turned JCPenney manager—and his irrepressible hostage, Angie Bing. Haunted by his past and weary of his present, Boyd has one goal before the authorities catch up with him: settle a score with the man who destroyed his life. By Monday the pair reach Mexico; by winter, they are in a lakefront mansion in Minnesota. On their trail are hitmen, jealous lovers, ex-cons, an heiress, a billionaire shipping tycoon, a three-tour veteran of Iraq, and the ghosts of Boyd’s past. Everyone, it seems, except the police. In the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, America Fantastica delivers a biting, witty, and entertaining story about the causes and costs of outlandish fantasy, while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters. And at the heart of the novel, amid a teeming cast of characters, readers will delight in the tug-of-war between two memorable and iconic human beings—the exuberant savior-of-souls Angie Bing and the penitent but compulsive liar Boyd Halverson. Just as Tim O’Brien’s modern classic, The Things They Carried, so brilliantly reflected the unromantic truth of war, America Fantastica puts a mirror to a nation and a time that has become dangerously unmoored from truth and greedy for delusion.

1. Tim O’Brien

Northern Lights

The acclaimed novel from the award-winning author of ‘If I Die in a Combat Zone’, ‘Going After Cacciato’ and ‘In the Lake of the Woods’.