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Results for 'hernan diaz'
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Ply
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Trust turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in the American imaginationCenturies from now, at the dawn of a historical epoch filled with both uncertainty and promise, an orphan is adrift in a city on the brink of a great transformation. The state has been dismantled, and humans are reinventing social bonds and learning new ways to coexist with nature. Following a childhood defined by loss, survival, and found family, the orphan grows up to become a “pincher,” someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market. It’s a high-risk life, one that brings her into a rich art and music scene where she powers underground concerts. It also leads her to a colossal scientific invention that could change the very fabric of reality.After rewriting America’s past with his two previous novels, Hernan Diaz defies expectations with his third and gives us a breathtaking glimpse into the future. A major achievement from a major contemporary writer, Ply questions the place of technology in the American experiment with a plot that grabs both heart and mind. It is a novel of ideas built from a story of people. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply poignantly charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.
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White Houses
In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape the rest of their lives. Told by the indomitable Hick, White Houses is the story of Eleanor and Hick's hidden love, and of Hick's unlikely journey from her dirt-poor childhood to the centre of privilege and power. Filled with fascinating back-room politics, the secrets and scandals of the era, and exploring the potency of enduring love, it is an imaginative tour-de-force from a writer of extraordinary and exuberant talent.
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Lucky Us
Unsettling, lavish with detail, daringly told... An unusual novel, rich and strange, often exhilarating. Its powerful images stay with you
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Away
A tender, funny and wise novel
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The Radiance
A NEW YORK TIMES NOVEL EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IN 2026 • A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 “Simply put, a work of genius.” —Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and an investigation in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet—a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture—"bordering at times on the ineffable" (Mary Gaitskill).When a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is caught between revelation and madness as an uncanny pull toward a brilliant campus colleague ensnares him in a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement, the exposure of a family secret, and the mystery surrounding the narrator’s accident—both the violence and its aftermath. Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, The Radiance is of our American moment and beyond it—asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.
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Ein klarer Tag
Eine einsame Shetlandinsel. Zwei Männer aus unterschiedlichen Welten. Eine zerbrechliche Freundschaft. Dies ist eines der Bücher, die man unmöglich vergisst.Es ist ein kalter Sommertag 1843, als John Ferguson nach einer stürmischen Überfahrt die kleine, karge Insel im Nordmeer erreicht. Für einen Monat ist der verarmte Pfarrer von der schottischen Freikirche hierhergeschickt worden, um Ivar, den letzten verbliebenen Bewohner, von der Insel wegzuschaffen. Im Auftrag des Gutsbesitzers soll er den großen, stillen Mann samt seinen wenigen Habseligkeiten mit dem nächsten Schiff nach Aberdeen bringen, von seinem Zuhause verjagen. So wie all die Schafbauern in den Highlands, die im Zuge der 'Clearances' bereits alles verloren haben. Trotz moralischer Bedenken hat der idealistische Ferguson diesen Auftrag angenommen. Seine Frau Mary indes befürchtet, dass ihr Mann nicht von dieser Reise zurückkehren könnte. Zu naiv, zu weltfremd, zu gutgläubig ist er. Und tatsächlich stürzt Ferguson schon kurz nach seiner Ankunft von einer Klippe und verletzt sich schwer. Er ist dem Mann ausgeliefert, den er von dem Eiland vertreiben soll. Und dessen Güte Fergusons Gewissen vor eine schwierige Entscheidung stellt.
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May Our Joy Endure
Sharp, provocative... Embeds ever-timely themes - greed, hypocrisy, privilege - in a narrative that blends satire and lyricism, whimsy and voyeurism... You won't be able to look away
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Beartooth
This taut, compelling novel explores the great outdoors-and a realm of moral uncertainty... A ferociously gripping book
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Trust
Dopo l'uscita di un romanzo mendace e offensivo sulla sua vita, Andrew Bevel, diventato milionario speculando sul crollo del '29, assume la giovane figlia di un anarchico italiano, Ida Partenza, perché lo aiuti a scrivere un'autobiografia che racconti la verità sui suoi successi e sulla sua defunta moglie, Mildred. Ma nella figura della donna c'è qualcosa che Ida non riesce a inquadrare e, quando Bevel muore improvvisamente, è costretta a lasciare il lavoro incompiuto. Solo trent'anni dopo, grazie agli archivi della Fondazione Bevel, troverà il diario di Mildred, prezioso tassello mancante dell'enigma. Quattro testi, quattro generi letterari, quattro voci, quattro punti di vista: un raffinato gioco di specchi per ricostruire le scelte di un leggendario uomo d'affari e la figura polimorfa della donna che è stata l'artefice misconosciuta della sua fortuna. 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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Trust
New York, anni cinquanta. Dopo la pubblicazione di un romanzo mendace e offensivo sulla sua vita, il ricchissimo finanziere Andrew Bevel, diventato milionario dopo alcune speculazioni seguite al crollo in Borsa del ¿29, assume la giovane Ida Partenza, figlia di un anarchico italiano, perché lo aiuti a scrivere un¿autobiografia in grado di raccontare finalmente la verità sui suoi successi e sulla sua defunta moglie, Mildred. Ida intuisce presto che nemmeno dalla sua penna, strettamente controllata dal committente, uscirà il ritratto fedele di una donna complessa la cui reale personalità continua a sfuggirle, e la morte improvvisa di Bevel la costringe infine a lasciare incompleto il lavoro. Soltanto trent¿anni dopo ha la possibilità di accedere agli archivi della Fondazione Bevel, dove trova finalmente il diario di Mildred, prezioso tassello mancante all¿enigma che ha lasciato nella sua vita un¿impronta indelebile. Quattro testi, quattro generi letterari, quattro voci, quattro punti di vista compongono un raffinato gioco di specchi in cui dietro le scelte di un leggendario uomo d¿affari americano si intravede la figura polimorfa e affascinante di una moglie, artefice misconosciuta della sua fortuna.
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Maestros y escuelas en la Salamanca contemporánea
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The Volcano Daughters
Set in 20th-century El Salvador, The Volcano Daughters is a powerful novel about sisterhood, art, and a community of women who refuse to be silenced.
€ 13,95