Ficción moderna y contemporanea

Norman Mailer deu ser l'escriptor viu nord-americà amb la carrera més brillant, diversa i controvertida. Al llarg de més de sis dècades, Mailer ha parlat de qüestions tan diverses com la II Guerra Mundial i l'Antic Egipte, de la marxa cap al Pentàgon i la Marilyn Monroe, de Henry Miller, Mohammad Ali i Jesucrist. Ara, a El castell del bosc, la seva obra més important en més d'una dècada, Mailer ens ofereix el que potser és el seu màxim esforç literari: explorar el mal en Adolf Hitler. El narrador, un misteriós home de les SS que aviat es descobrirà com un ésser fora del normal, ens retrata el jove Hitler des del naixement, així com els seus pares i germans, i ens n'explica detalls de la infantesa i adolescència. Poblada de personatges inoblidables, El castell del bosc conté un punt de vista gens convencional sobre la lluita entre el bé i el mal que existeix en cada un de nosaltres.

Poques vegades s'ha donat en català un llibre tant pletòric com aquest, en el qual un estil vigorós, una plenitud narrativa i conceptual, dibuixen l'extraordinari panorama èpic de les civilitzacions mediterrànies, des de la prehistòria fin

L'evolució dels fets en si, i les acrobàcies formals del text, permeten descabdellar una perspectiva, molt fresca i original, sobre el sentit de l'existència dels éssers humans, com a individus i com a col·lectiu. I l'objectiu final de tot plegat és provocar una «revolució íntima» en l'ànima de cada lector per canviar els valors i les relacions de les persones, provocar un seguit de transformacions sociopolítiques inajornables i, en un sol traç, salvar el món. En el fons, La novel·la de les ànimes és un apèndix històric elemental per a «infants que vulguin ser humans adults genuïns», i una font d'idea viva pels «adults amb l'ànima genuïna dels infants».

Honor in the Blood, s. h. montgomery's second novel, is packed with murder, obsession, love, and ambition as the saga of the Savios and the Callahans continues. The Savio sons live on the edge, becoming more involved in the Chicago Outfit, while Michael Callahan courts disaster when he reunites with Ireland Coogan. Vito Savio and his nemesis, Meghan Callahan, are once again in conflict, this time over grandson, Kane, son of Francesca and Fin. Before Kane can even talk they are vying to mold him in the direction they want him to go----Vito's life of crime or that of Meghan's Druidism. Torn between the grandparents he loves, living in a household of dissension, and growing up on the streets of Chicago, Kane struggles. Will he choose to side with one of his grandparents, or will there be another choice that he's forced to make?

London. Madrid. Bogot?. Each offers only a harsh reality to these young protestors: the defeat of all their ideals. However far a burnt-out political activist can run, the world only poses new threats and dangers, and not a glimmer of another future. Or does it? In Colombia an awkward friendship grows between a man from London and a woman from Madrid. As they meet those around the world who have also confronted global power, a new hope begins to emerge, a hope that does not rely on waiting for others to act, but on taking action themselves. Now if they can only defeat their personal demons, they might really be able to change the world...?

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In the 1930's the Minister of Everything brought forth an airline to connect the vastness of the cold country north of the Great Lakes. This is the story of her life. It is also, of course, the story of her people, without whom she could not exist. She begins as a young pioneer, adapts to the war effort and then to the peace and the arrival of jets. She longs for independence and becomes a player in the business world. At the end of the book she is an old lady declining in an asylum, her dignity stripped away.



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Una historia de amor ilimitado y atemporal que se entreteje con el festejo taurino y la ceremonia de la muerte. Una gran novela de ambientación rural.

The islands are home to an eclectic mix of ex-pats, escaping a troubled former life. For Captain Jolly, refugee from an acrimonious divorce, the good life looks set to come to an abrupt end - the Do Over, his 38-foot sailing Catamaran, lies scuttled amongst mangroves, threatened like the island itself by a violent tropical storm. Can this tropical idyll and its inhabitants survive the trial that lies ahead?? Captain Jolly?s Do Over is an irreverent Rum-Diaries style romp with some interesting insights into the human condition.

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When they murdered his family, they forgot about him. Home after an almost 7 year bid, Meechi has one thing on his mind and one thing only.....REVENGE.?Home after a 6 year bid, JT is ready to take the crown that his brother is about to pass on to him. But when it comes to the streets, you can't take the throne without first proving that you can hold it down.The street code demands that what goes around always finds its way back around, and Karma has an amazing way of knowing just who to see. KILLA KARMA....What Goes Around