21 Document (s)

"Ho iniziato queste pagine da un ritratto di Marc Chagall che raffigura suo padre a grandezza naturale, uno a uno. Lo fece a memoria e a distanza. Tra genitori e figli si apre la frattura di spazio e di tempo. Si allontanano anche abitando sotto lo stesso tetto. Qui passa tra loro la relazione tra due capi della stessa corda. In matematica esiste una complicata Teoria dei nodi. In narrativa esiste tra genitori e figli l'innumerevole narrativa dei nodi. La più conosciuta, estrema, lega e slega Isacco e Abramo su una cima deserta e desolata. Da figlio ho praticato lo scioglimento brusco, alla maniera di Alessandro con il nodo di Gordio. Lo apri con un colpo di spada, che non è la soluzione dell'enigma, ma la sua negazione. Da figlio ho creduto di poter ignorare il vincolo, fare come se i miei fossero degli adottivi occasionali. È stata presunzione da pagare successivamente con il debito a vita. Si attraversa un'età di rinnegamento degli affetti. Perfino il protagonista dei Vangeli non volle riconoscere in pubblico sua madre. La sua missione comportava l'azzeramento della vita precedente. Negli atti di libertà presi e tenuti dalla mia generazione politica c'era l'impronta inevitabile dell'ingratitudine. Nelle tempeste affettive, dentro un bicchiere d'acqua o nell'oceano, non si diventa più grandi né minori di chi ci ha preceduto. Ci si trova alla fine in un ritratto a grandezza naturale." (l'autore)

Über das Gelingen und Scheitern der Liebe, über Vertrauen und Verrat, über bedrohliche und bewältigte Erinnerungen und darüber, wie im falschen Leben oft das richtige liegt und im richtigen das falsche. Geschichten von Menschen in verschiedenen Lebensphasen und ihren Hoffnungen und Verstrickungen. "Liebe und mache, was du willst" ist kein Rezept für ein gutes Ende, aber eine Antwort, wenn andere Antworten versagen.

Mauro ha solo tredici anni e un'attrezzatura a dir poco inadeguata quando per la prima volta arrampica sul monte Duranno, ne ha diciotto quando apre la sua prima via sul monte Palazza, in Val Zemola. Il suo allenamento? La vita di montagna - in cui tutto è salita, dalla raccolta della frutta alle spedizioni per far legna - e i racconti degli alpinisti, in osteria. Spronato dall'audacia della giovinezza e dal talento, Mauro per decenni è in cordata con i più grandi. È tra i più assidui frequentatori del gruppo del Nuovo Mattino, che negli anni Settanta cambia il modo di vivere l'arrampicata in Italia.

Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade, for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos. What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, while all the while fostering his son's desperate campaign to help save this one.

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach. But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan. At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to- Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever. In spite of it all- Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.

Hanno appena dieci anni Dario, Giovanni, Giuseppe e Rino, ma formano già il quartetto di calciatori più affiatato del quartiere, alla periferia nord di Napoli. Le rincorse al mitico pallone Super Santos screziano d'arancio la monotonia dei caseggiati, i suoni del gioco spezzano il ritmo di giorni sempre uguali, tra pusher e caporioni che stabiliscono le regole violente e insindacabili di una realtà che non offre alternative. Per i ragazzini il calcio è una boccata d'aria pura, una speranza incastonata nei loro giovani cuori. Cosi, quando il boss locale gli offre del denaro - oltre a una fornitura illimitata di palloni nuovi - per giocare nella piazza di spaccio, a loro sembra di sognare. In cambio, dovranno soltanto urlare forte ogni volta che si avvicina una volante della polizia. Non gli ci vorrà molto per rendersi conto che la camorra ha usato proprio il calcio per piegarli alle sue logiche. Ma nei lunghi pomeriggi di sfide "all'americana", ginocchia scorticate, sudore e fiato rotto, i quattro amici hanno imparato la libertà. Sarà difficile dimenticarla. Anche dieci anni più tardi, quando la vita li metterà di fronte alla necessità di ripescare quel ricordo, all'urgenza di riassaporarlo per non dover rinunciare definitivamente alla loro umanità. Partendo da fatti di cronaca e da uno dei suoi primi racconti editi, Roberto Saviano dà vita in queste pagine a un romanzo intimo e struggente, che è al tempo stesso celebrazione letteraria del calcio di strada e dolente apologo su quel passaggio feroce dall'innocenza all'età adulta che tocca a chiunque nasca in una terra ferita. Un romanzo che ci restituisce il sapore dell'infanzia e la certezza che il cuore puro non è quello di chi non sbaglia, non si sporca le mani, semmai quello di chi con gesti quotidiani trova il coraggio di cambiare le cose.

Livius Reimer macht sich auf den Weg von München nach Berlin, um seine Ehe zu retten. Als sein Flug gestrichen wird, muss er sich den einzig noch verfügbaren Mietwagen mit einer jungen Frau teilen, um die er sonst einen großen Bogen gemacht hätte. Zu schräg, zu laut, zu ungewöhnlich - mit ihrer unkonventionellen Sicht auf die Welt überfordert Lea von Armin Livius von der ersten Sekunde an. Bereits kurz nach der Abfahrt lässt Livius sich auf ein ungewöhnliches Gedankenexperiment von Lea ein – und weiß nicht, dass damit nicht nur ihr Roadtrip einen völlig neuen Verlauf nimmt, sondern sein ganzes Leben!

Josef und Maria Moosbrugger leben mit ihren Kindern am Rand eines Bergdorfes. Sie sind die Abseitigen, die Armen, die Bagage. Es ist die Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs und Josef wird zur Armee eingezogen. Die Zeit, in der Maria und die Kinder allein zurückbleiben und abhängig werden vom Schutz des Bürgermeisters. Die Zeit, in der Georg aus Hannover in die Gegend kommt, der nicht nur hochdeutsch spricht und wunderschön ist, sondern eines Tages auch an die Tür der Bagage klopft. Und es ist die Zeit, in der Maria schwanger wird mit Grete, dem Kind der Familie, mit dem Josef nie ein Wort sprechen wird: der Mutter der Autorin. Mit großer Wucht erzählt Monika Helfer die Geschichte ihrer eigenen Herkunft.

CE LIVRE CAPTE L'HISTOIRE AVEC JUSTESSE..GUERRE :1939/1945

Un titre léger et lumineux qui annonce une histoire d'amour drôle ou grinçante, tendre ou grave, fascinante et inoubliable, composée par un écrivain de vingt-six ans. C'est un conte de l'époque du jazz et de la science-fiction, à la fois comique et poignant, heureux et tragique, féerique et déchirant. Dans cette ouvre d'une modernité insolente, livre culte depuis plus de cinquante ans, Duke Ellington croise le dessin animé, Sartre devient une marionnette burlesque, la mort prend la forme d'un nénuphar, le cauchemar va jusqu'au bout du désespoir. Mais seules deux choses demeurent éternelles et triomphantes : le bonheur ineffable de l'amour absolu et la musique des Noirs américains.

»Lügen über meine Mutter« ist zweierlei zugleich: die Erzählung einer Kindheit im Hunsrück der 1980er, die immer stärker beherrscht wird von der fixen Idee des Vaters, das Übergewicht seiner Frau wäre verantwortlich für alles, was ihm versagt bleibt: die Beförderung, der soziale Aufstieg, die Anerkennung in der Dorfgemeinschaft. Und es ist eine Befragung des Geschehens aus der heutigen Perspektive: Was ist damals wirklich passiert? Was wurde verheimlicht, worüber wurde gelogen? Und was sagt uns das alles über den größeren Zusammenhang: die Gesellschaft, die ständig auf uns einwirkt, ob wir wollen oder nicht?

Schonungslos und eindrücklich lässt Daniela Dröscher ihr kindliches Alter Ego die Jahre, in denen sich dieses »Kammerspiel namens Familie« abspielte, noch einmal durchleben. Ihr gelingt ein ebenso berührender wie kluger Roman über subtile Gewalt, aber auch über Verantwortung und Fürsorge. Vor allem aber ist dies ein tragik-komisches Buch über eine starke Frau, die nicht aufhört, für die Selbstbestimmung über ihr Leben zu kämpfen.

Watch as Anne Elliot reunites with Frederick Wentworth, whose proposal she rejected eight years ago for fear of compromising herself by marrying a young officer at the beginning of his career, poor and with an uncertain future.

In France, Mattie feels twenty again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Dusseldorf train. The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about-and told by-single women who have put the past behind them but are still looking for their anchor in the present. The stories include bitter-sweet accounts of the freedoms of postwar life, foreign travel, the rekindling of old friendships and the search for new ones. They speak of cosmopolitan, self-confident, well-heeled characters, in an era just before the birth of feminism, conventional in their expectations of men, always just a step away from displacement and alienation. Set variously in Paris, Kalisz, Samarkand, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Erfurt, Singapore and London, these stories, from a much-admired veteran writer, offer a teasing mix of realism and fantasy, wish-fulfilment and regret. Some of these stories have appeared in translation in overseas annuals and collections.

Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings. But when her older sister dies on the eve of marriage to Alfonso d'Este, ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father to accept on her behalf.Having barely left girlhood, Lucrezia must now make her way in a troubled court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate her appears before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble?As Lucrezia sits in uncomfortable finery for the painting which is to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear. In the court's eyes, she has one duty: to provide the heir who will shore up the future of the Ferrarese dynasty. Until then, for all of her rank and nobility, her future hangs entirely in the balance.

The new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the multi-award-winning writer Megan Abbott'A book you will not be able to forget' MARK BILLINGHAM'Dark and mesmerising' HARRIET TYCE'This is Megan Abbott working at the absolute height of her talent' ATTICA LOCKEWith their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents' death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student. The three have perfected a dance that keeps the studio thriving.But when a suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker-a season of competition, anxiety, and exhilaration-an interloper arrives and threatens their delicate balance.'There's no one who captures the atmosphere of a tight-knit hothouse world, in all its feverish beauty and brutality, quite like Megan Abbott' TANA FRENCH'The Turnout takes you so far into the world of a small ballet school that you feel the characters' aches and pains in your joints, your feet and, most dangerous of all, your heart' Laura Lippman'a twisting, turning story of revenge and redemption' STYLIST

Atlanta is blanketed with snow just before Christmas, but the warmth of young love just might melt the ice in this novel of interwoven narratives, Black joy, and cozy, sparkling romance--by the same unbeatable team of authors who wrote the New York Times bestseller Blackout! As the city grinds to a halt, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic apology of her life. But will they be able to make it happen, in spite of the storm? No one is prepared for this whiteout. But then, we can't always prepare for the magical moments that change everything.