Bollettino delle Novità ADULTI – Aprile 2014 Letteratura

Bollettino delle Novità ADULTI – Aprile 2014
Letteratura
The circle : a novel, Dave Eggers, Hamish Hamilton, London, 2013.
Collocazione: INT-EN 813.5 DAV Inventario: 9558
When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful
internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a
lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users'
personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal
operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of
transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange
encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the
Circle becomes increasingly public …
The Last Word, Hanif Kureishi, Faber & Faber, London, 2014.
Collocazione: INT-EN 823.9 KUR Inventario: 9579
Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in
England - but now, in his early 70s, his reputation is fading, sales have
dried up, and his new wife has expensive taste. Harry, a young writer, is
commissioned to write a biography to revitalise both Mamoon's career
and his bank balance. Harry greatly admires Mamoon's work and wants
to uncover the truth of the artist's life. Harry's publisher seeks a more
naked truth, a salacious tale of sex and scandal that will generate
headlines. Meanwhile Mamoon himself is mining a different vein of truth
altogether. Harry and Mamoon find themselves in a battle of wills, but
which of them will have the last word?
MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood, Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, New
York, 2013.
Collocazione: INT-EN 813.5 ATW Inventario: 9566
The final entry in Atwood's brilliant MaddAddam trilogy roils with
spectacular and furious satire. The novel begins where Oryx and Crake
and The Year of the Flood end, just after most of the human species has
been eradicated by a man-made plague. The early books explore a
world of terrifying corporate tyranny, horrifying brutality, and the
relentless rape of women and the planet. In Oryx and Crake, the
pandemic leaves wounded protagonist Jimmy to watch over the
Crakers, a humanoid species bioengineered to replace humankind by
the man responsible for unleashing the plague. In The Year of the
Flood, MaddAddamites wield science to terrorize corporate villains while
God's Gardeners use prayer and devotion to the Earth to prepare for the
approaching cataclysm.
Norwegian wood, Haruki Murakami, Vintage, London, 2003.
Collocazione: INT-EN 895.6 MUR Inventario: 9567
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his
first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is
transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift
in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into
his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles, Katherine Pancol, Penguin Books,
London, 2013.
Collocazione: INT-EN 843.9 PAN Inventario: 9586
In Pancol’s riveting novel, an enormous best-seller in France, Josephine
Cortes abruptly realizes she needs to get a grip on her unraveling life
when her husband leaves her to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his
mistress. Left to raise two daughters—one sweet and loving, the other
haughty and disdainful of her frumpy mother—on the barely-there salary
of a researcher who specializes in the twelfth century, Jo hesitantly
ponders her life and purpose. Despite the shock of the disintegration of
her 16-year marriage, she still falls back on her lifelong habit of being
the whipping girl for everyone else, from her coldly perfectionist mother,
Henriette, to her selfish, sophisticated sister, Iris. She even agrees to a
wild scheme to pen a twelfth-century romance that will funnel the money
to her shrunken coffers but carry Iris’ name on the cover. The story
really takes off when the novel becomes a surprise hit, which opens up
entirely new complications for everyone involved.
Ripper, Isabel Allende, Fourth Estate, London, 2014
Collocazione: INT-EN 868,9 ALL Inventario: 9575
For Amanda Martín and her friends, Ripper was all just a game. But
when security guard Ed Staton is found dead in the middle of a school
gym, the murder presents a mystery that baffles the San Francisco
police, not least Amanda’s father, Deputy Chief Martín. Amanda goes
online, offering ‘The Case of the Misplaced Baseball Bat’ to her fellow
sleuths as a challenge to their real-life wits. And so begins a most
dangerous obsession. The murders begin to mount up but the Ripper
players, free from any moral and legal restraints, are free to pursue any
line of enquiry. As their unique power of intuition lead them ever closer
to the truth, the case becomes all too personal when Amanda’s mother
suddenly vanishes. Could her disappearance be linked to the serial
killer? And will Amanda and her online accomplices solve the mystery
before it’s too late?
The second deadly sin, Asa Larsson, MacLehose Press, London,
2014.
Collocazione: INT-EN 839.7 LAR Inventario: 9568
Dawn breaks in a forest in northern Sweden. Villagers gather to
dispatch a rampaging bear. When the beast is brought to ground they
are horrified to find the remains of a human hand inside its stomach. In
nearby Kiruna a woman is found murdered in her bed, her body a
patchwork of vicious wounds, the word WHORE scrawled across the
wall. Her grandson Marcus, already an orphan, is nowhere to be seen.
Grasping for clues, Rebecka Martinsson begins to delve into the victim's
tragic family history. But with doubts over her mental health still
lingering, she is ousted from the case by an arrogant and ambitious
young prosecutor. Before long a chance lead draws Martinsson back
into the thick of the action and her legendary courage is put to the test
once more.
The october list, Jeffery Deaver, Hodder & Stoughton, London,
2013
Collocazione: INT-EN 813.5 DEA Inventario: 9562
You wait, desperately, for news of your daughter. At last, the door
opens. But it is not the negotiators, or the FBI. It is her kidnapper.
And he has a gun . . .
Two days ago, life was normal.
How did it end like this?
Every crime scene begins at the end. To know what happened, you
must work backwards, piecing together the events that came before.
The ultimate thriller writer, Jeffery Deaver puts your brain - and your
nerves - to the ultimate test with THE OCTOBER LIST, in a masterful
mystery that unfolds from the end back to the beginning with many a
breath-taking twist along the way.
Mirage, Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul, Penguin Books, London,
2013.
Collocazione: INT-EN 813.5 CUS Inventario: 9563
Mirage is the new heart-in-the-mouth adventure thriller in the Oregon
Files from Clive Cussler. October 1943. A US Navy warship vanishes at
sea off the coast of Philadelphia. Its disappearance was rumoured to
have been a result of a classified military experiment into the effects of
electromagnetic radiation. The story has long since been considered a
hoax. But Juan Cabrillo and his colleagues aboard the top-secret spy
ship Oregon aren't convinced. Now, a powerful new weapon is for sale one linked to genius inventor Nikola Telsa, who was working with the
Navy when he died in 1943. Was he responsible for the original
Philadelphia experiment? Are his notes in the hands of his enemies?
Sycamore row, John Grisham, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2013.
Collocazione: INT-FR 843.9 TOU Inventario: 9479
For almost a quarter of a century, John Grisham's A Time to Kill has
captivated readers with its raw exploration of race, retribution, and
justice. Now, its hero, Jake Brigance, returns to the courtroom in a
dramatic showdown as Ford County again confronts its tortured history.
Filled with the intrigue, suspense and plot twists that are the hallmarks
of the world's favourite storyteller, SYCAMORE ROW is the thrilling
story of the elusive search for justice in a small American town.
Dust, Patricia Cornwell, Little Brown, London, 2013.
Collocazione: INT-EN 813.5 COR Inventario: 9578
After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief
Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an
unsettling call drives her straight back to work. The body of a young
woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, draped
in an unusual cloth and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the
killer's first strike. A preliminary examination reveals that the body is
covered in a fine dust that under ultra-violet light fluoresces blood-red,
emerald-green and sapphire-blue, and physical evidence links this to
another series of disturbing homicides in Washington, DC. As she
pieces together the fragments of evidence, Scarpetta discovers that the
cases connect, yet also seem to conflict, drawing herself and her team
deeper into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology,
organised crime, and shocking corruption at the highest level.
Philomena : a mother, her son and a fifty-year search, Martin
Sixsmith, Pan Books, London, 2013.
Collocazione: INT-EN 823.9 SIX Inventario: 9570
When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee
was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after
as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the
Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to
America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising never
to attempt to see her child again, she nonetheless spent the next fifty
years secretly searching for him, unaware that he was searching for her
from across the Atlantic.
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, Alexander McCall Smith,
Abacus, London, 2013
Collocazione: INT-EN 828.9 MCC Inventario: 9582
As Botswana awaits the familiar blessing of the rains and the
resumption of the eternal cycle, seismic upheaval is taking place at the
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Not only is Mr J. L. B. Matekoni
attempting to reform himself into a modern husband, but after her
marriage to Phuti Radiphuti, Mma Ramotswe's challenging but
irreplaceable associate Mma Makutsi has joyful news. With the arrival of
an heir to the Double Comfort furniture empire and Mma Makutsi busy
with motherhood, Mma Ramotswe must tackle tea-making and detective
work alone. Well-known troublemaker Violet Sephotho may or not be
behind a smear campaign against the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon,
and a dispute over the will of a local dignitary points to a shocking family
secret. But the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is resilient and
adaptable, and change brings salutary lessons: that our enemies are
not always obvious, that a snake under the bed may be an ally, and that
a mother's love conquers all.
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Penguin Books,
London, 2012.
Collocazione: INT-EN 823.8 BUR Inventario: 9577
After the death of her parents, Mary is brought back from India as a
forlorn and unwanted child, to live in her uncle's great lonely house on
the moors. Then one day she discovers the key to a secret garden and,
like magic, her life begins to brighten in so many ways.
La nostalgie heureuse, Amélie Nothomb, Albin Michel, Paris, 2013.
Collocazione: INT-FR 843.9 NOT Inventario: 9571
En avril 2012, Amélie Nothomb retourne au Japon à l'invitation de la
chaîne télé France 5, qui désire y tourner un documentaire sur la
populaire auteure de Hygiène de l'assassin. «J'ai accepté uniquement
parce que c'était Laureline [Amanieux, scénariste et coréalisatrice] qui
était à l'origine de ce projet, c'est une amie et une des rares personnes
sur Terre en qui j'ai une confiance ab-so-lue, en béton armé.»
Stupeur et tremblements, Amelie Nothomb, Albin Michel, Paris,
1999.
Collocazione: INT-FR 843.9 NOT Inventario: 9572
Stupeur et Tremblements est le récit rétrospectif d'une expérience
d'aliénation vécue par Amélie Nothomb au sein d'une entreprise
japonaise. L'auteur a choisi de traiter cet épisode romanesque sur un
mode humoristique, parfois ironique amenant ainsi le lecteur à rire
d'événements pourtant traumatiques. Comment l'individu peut-il réagir
au processus d'humiliation mené par un groupe ? Comment gérer la
violence et la folie de l'Autre ? Comment leur résister avec les mots ?
Autant de questions que les élèves pourront approfondir, tout en
réfléchissant aux différents modes de l'expression de soi (récit,
monologues intérieurs, dialogues argumentatifs) et au travail du style.
Le voyage d'hiver, Amelie Nothomb, Albin Michel, Paris, 2011.
Collocazione: INT-FR 843.9 NOT Inventario: 9573
Zoïle est tombé éperdument amoureux de la douce Astrolabe, mais la
jeune femme consacre tout son temps à Aliénor, une romancière
géniale quoique légèrement attardée. Par dépit, il décide de détourner
un avion et de l’envoyer percuter la tour Eiffel. A moins que…
Automobile club d'Égypte, Alaa El Aswany, Actes Sud, Arles, 2014.
Collocazione: INT-FR 892.7 AVE
Inventario: 9569
En cette fin des années 1940, sous les pales des ventilateurs de
l'Automobile Club du Caire, l'Egypte des pachas et des monarques flirte
avec aristocrates et diplomates de tout poil, pour peu qu'ils soient
européens. Régulièrement, Sa Majesté le roi honore de son éminente
présence la table de poker. Extravagance, magnificence et décadence
qui s'arrêtent aux portes des salons lambrissés. Dans les communs,
une armada de serveurs et d'employés venus de Haute-Egypte et de
Nubie s'escriment à satisfaire les exigences de l'inflexible El-Kwo, le
chambellan du roi. L'esclave du monarque est aussi le chef suprême
des employés de tous les palais royaux, qui régente dans ses moindres
détails leur misérable existence et se délecte à professer l'art de la
soumission.
Un balcon sur l'Algérois, Nimrod, Actes Sud, Arles, 2013.
Collocazione: INT-FR 848.9 BEN
Inventario: 9557
Ce livre est le roman d'une fulgurance amoureuse entre un étudiant
tchadien et sa directrice de mémoire, une universitaire française libérée,
renommée et très habituée à choisir ses hommes, quitte à les conquérir.
Dans le Paris des années soixante-dix entre la Sorbonne,
Montparnasse et le boulevard Saint-Germain, le jeune lettré devient
donc l'amant d'une femme à qui rien ne peut être refusé. Ivre de cette
échappée sensuelle dans une ville habitée d'élégance, il va pourtant
devoir mettre fin à l'aventure, savoir se libérer au prix d'une douleur
infinie de l'étreinte de cette Belle des Lettres issue de la grande
bourgeoisie et coutumière du pouvoir.
Marguerite Duras, Le Magazine littéraire, Paris, 2013.
Collocazione: INT-FR 843.9 DUR Inventario: 9548
Marguerite Duras est l’écrivaine française de la seconde moitié du XXe
siècle la plus lue et la plus traduite dans le monde. Elle s’est
transformée en mythe mais aussi, alors que les biographies se
multiplient à son sujet, en personnage de fiction. Une attention toute
particulière est accordée à ses archives et à ses possibles inédits et elle
a fait son entrée dans la Pléiade en 2011.
La mécanique du coeur, Mathias Malzieu, Flammarion, Paris, 2014.
Collocazione: INT-FR 843.9 MAL Inventario: 9580
Edimbourg, 1874 : le jour le plus froid du monde. Lorsque Jack naît, son
cœur gelé se brise immédiatement. La sage-femme le remplace par
une horloge et le sauve. Depuis lors, il doit prendre soin d'en remonter
chaque matin le mécanisme. Mais gare aux passions ! Le regard de
braise d'une petite chanteuse andalouse va mettre le cœur de Jack à
rude épreuve...
Sigmaringen, Pierre Assouline, Gallimard, Paris, 2014.
Collocazione: INT-FR 843.9 ASS Inventario: 9584
En septembre 1944, un petit coin d'Allemagne nommé Sigmaringen,
épargné jusque-là par les horreurs de la guerre, voit débarquer, du jour
au lendemain, la part la plus sombre de la France : le gouvernement de
Vichy, avec en tête le maréchal Pétain et le président Laval, leurs
ministres, une troupe de miliciens et deux mille civils français qui ont
suivi le mouvement, parmi lesquels un certain Céline. Pour les accueillir
Hitler a mis à leur disposition le château des princes de Hohenzollern,
maîtres des lieux depuis des siècles. Tout repose désormais sur Julius
Stein, le majordome général de l'illustre lignée. Depuis les coulisses où
il oeuvre sans un bruit, sans un geste déplacé, il écoute, voit, sait tout.
Tandis que les Alliés se rapprochent inexorablement du Danube et que
l'étau se resserre, Sigmaringen s'organise en petite France.
S'abandoner à vivre, Sylvain Tesson, Gallimard, Paris, 2014
Collocazione: INT-FR 843.9 TES Inventario: 9583
Devant les coups du sort il n'y a pas trente choix possibles. Soit on lutte,
on se démène et l'on fait comme la guêpe dans un verre de vin. Soit on
s'abandonne à vivre. C'est le choix des héros de ces nouvelles. Ils sont
marins, amants, guerriers, artistes, pervers ou voyageurs, ils vivent à
Paris, Zermatt ou Riga, en Afghanistan, en Yakoutie, au Sahara. Et ils
auraient mieux fait de rester au lit.
.
L'ablation, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Gallimard, Paris, 2014
Collocazione: INT-FR 848.9 BEN Inventario: 9585
«Témoins vigilants, observateurs attentifs, il arrive parfois que les
romanciers se voient confier des vies pour les raconter dans leurs
livres. Ils font alors fonction d'écrivain public. C'est ce qui m'est arrivé il
y a deux ans lorsqu'un ami, qui avait été opéré de la prostate, m'a
demandé d'écrire l'histoire de son ablation.»
Doctor Sueño, Stephen King, Plaza & Janés, Barcelona, 2013.
Collocazione: INT- ES 813.5. KIN Inventario: 9565
Ahora Danny Torrance, aquel niño aterrorizado del Hotel Overlook, es
un adulto alcohólico atormentado por los fantasmas de su infancia. Un
día se siente atraído por una ciudad de New Hampshire, donde
encontrará trabajo en una residencia de ancianos y donde se apuntará
a las reuniones de Alcohólicos Anónimos. En ese lugar le llega la visión
de Abra Stone, una niña que necesita su ayuda. La persigue una tribu
de seres paranormales que vive del resplandor de los niños especiales.
Parecen personas mayores y totalmente normales que viajan por el
país en sus autocaravanas, pero su misión es capturar, torturar y
consumir a estos niños. Se alimentan de ellos para vivir y el resplandor
de Abra tiene tanta fuerza que les podría mantener vivos durante
mucho tiempo.
Danny sabe que sin su ayuda Abra nunca conseguiría escaparse de
ellos; juntos emprenderán una lucha épica, una batalla sangrienta entre
el Bien y el Mal, para intentar salvarla a ella y a los demás niños que
sacrifican.
El juego de Ripper, Isabel Allende, Plaza & Janés, Barcelona, 2014.
Collocazione: INT- ES 868.9 ALL Inventario: 9564
«"Mi madre todavía está viva, pero la matará el Viernes Santo a
medianoche", le advirtió Amanda Martín al inspector jefe y éste no lo
puso en duda, porque la chica había dado pruebas de saber más que él
y todos sus colegas del Departamento de Homicidios. La mujer estaba
cautiva en algún punto de los dieciocho mil kilómetros cuadrados de la
bahía de San Francisco, tenían pocas horas para encontrarla con vida y
él no sabía por dónde empezar a buscarla.»
Paris no se acaba nunca : tan feliz que ni me enteraba, Enrique
Vila-Matas, Seix Barral, Barcelona, 2013.
Collocazione: INT-ES 863.6 VIL Inventario: 9576
Una revisión irónica de los días de aprendizaje literario del narrador en
el París de los años setenta. Fundiendo magistralmente autobiografía,
ficción y ensayo, nos va contando la aventura en la que se adentró
cuando redactó su primer libro en una buhardilla de París cuya atípica
casera era nada menos que Marguerite Duras. Y también se nos cuenta
cómo el narrador quiso imitar literalmente la vida del joven Hemingway
tal como éste relata en París era una fiesta. Después del resonante
éxito de El mal de Montano, el autor consigue en esta nueva novela
una armoniosa y logradísima síntesis de las muchas facetas de su
singular narrativa.
Imitación de Guatemala, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Alfaguara, Madrid,
2013.
Collocazione: INT-ES 868.9 REY Inventario: 9581
Rodrigo Rey Rosa nos adentra en un universo que hoy trasciende las
fronteras de Guatemala, pues, en palabras del autor, «todo el mundo es
un lugar violento». En estas cuatro novelas policiacas escritas entre
1995 y el 2006, Que me maten si..., El cojo bueno, Piedras encantadas
y Caballeriza, demuestra además su magistral manejo del suspense.
Las matanzas de indígenas en las montañas y el tráfico de niños, el
recuerdo de un secuestro, el atropello de un niño por un conductor que
se da a la fuga y la quema de un establo durante una fiesta ecuestre
son sólo el punto de partida de estas cuatro historias, «tetralogía
narrativa» que marca un hito en la literatura latinoamericana
contemporánea.
Saggistica
Ataturk : an intellectual biography, M. Şukru Hanioglu, Princeton
University Press, New Jersey, 2013.
Collocazione: INT-SG 956.1 HAN Inventario: 9559
When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923,
he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where
nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Atatürk
created around himself--would reign supreme as the new religion. This
book provides the first in-depth look at the intellectual life of the Turkish
Republic's founder. In doing so, it frames him within the historical context of
the turbulent age in which he lived, and explores the uneasy transition from
the late Ottoman imperial order to the modern Turkish state through his life
and ideas.
The last refuge : Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and the battle for Arabia,
Gregory D. Johnsen, Oneworld, London, 2013.
Collocazione: INT-SG 303.6 JOH Inventario: 9561
On 23 February 2006, 23 men escaped from a political prison to a
mosque in Sanaʼa, the capital of Yemen. Two years later, they were
joined by a dozen men released from Guantanamo Bay. These are the
core of the new al-Qaeda, regrouping in the far reaches of Yemen and
eager to wage war against the West and hijack the Arab Spring.
Unrivalled Yemen expert Gregory Johnsen offers the first account of alQaedaʼs explosive growth in the country – a combustion of civil war,
Afghan refugees, and Muhammedʼs teachings. Based on years of onthe-ground interviews and research, he delivers a stunning and
essential investigation of the true state of the Middle East.
Foreign intervention in Africa : from the Cold War to the war on
terror, Elizabeth Schmidt, Cambridge University press, Cambridge,
2013.
Collocazione: INT-SG 960.3 SCH Inventario: 9560
Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military
interventions in Africa during the periods of decolonization (1956-1975)
and the Cold War (1945-1991), as well as during the periods of state
collapse (1991-2001) and the "global war on terror" (2001-2010). In the
first two periods, the most significant intervention was extra-continental.
The United States, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and the former
colonial powers entangled themselves in countless African conflicts.
During the period of state collapse, the most consequential interventions
were intra-continental.
Personaggi italiani, erzählt von Massimo Marano ; Übersetzt von
Rita Seuss, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, München, 2011.
Collocazione: INT-SG BILINGUE DEU Inventario: 9549
Achtzehn Personen, achtzehn biografische Skizzen von Menschen, die
auf dem Territorium des heutigen Italien gelebt und gewirkt haben,
ausgehend vom alten Rom bis in die Gegenwart. Frauen und Männer,
die ihr Leben der Politik, der Kunst oder der Wissenschaft gewidmet,
das Abenteuer gesucht oder sich der Entdeckerlust verschrieben
haben.Die Namen sind geläufig, die Personen haben Schlüsselrollen in
der Geschichte Italiens gespielt, und doch gibt es auch weniger
bekannte Seiten an ihnen, ein wenig seltsame vielleicht, bisweilen auch
geheimnisumwoben. Mit leichter Feder und Lust am Erzählen ist es
Massimo Marano gelungen, bedeutende Persönlichkeiten der
italienischen Geschichte auch Lesern mit (noch) geringen
Sprachkenntnissen bildhaft vor Augen zu stellen.
Fioretti della Toscana, ausgewahlt und übersetzt von Ina-Maria
Martens und Emma Viale-Stein, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag,
München, 2012.
Collocazione: INT-SG BILINGUE DEU Inventario: 9550
Die Deutschen, die eine Toskana-Leidenschaft haben, wissen, dass es eine
riesige Toskana-Literatur gibt. Viele kennen manches davon, manche viel.
Aber nur wenige so viel, dass man sie nicht noch überraschen könnte. Alle
- Anfänger, Fortgeschrittene und Kenner - werden sich freuen, in diesem
Buch Bekanntes und Unbekanntes, Klassisches und Modernes,
Eingängiges und Anspruchsvolles in italienisch-deutschem Paralleldruck
vorzufinden: Erzählendes und Chronistisches, Feuilletons und Briefe,
Gedichte und volkstümliche Redensarten. Texte für Könner