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Alessandro Baricco constructed a library and selected the fifty best texts read during the decade. A selection of books that came to his hands as recommended by a friend. And that is why the review of each of the texts gathered here is preceded...

The protagonist in this novel searches for a definitive date with the Lady. The white powder. At the end of the night he takes a trip where he encounters disturbing characters, ghosts of dead friends on their way, and memories of the great city...

A literary revelation in the fifties, Kenzaburo Oé was considered the best Japanese novelist of the generation after Yukio Mishima. A Personal Matter is one of his best and most cruel novels, animated by a strange interior violence. It tells of the odyssey of...

Emilio Sánchez lived in Bahrain for two years. When he returned to Spain and finished writing this book, he knew that he could no longer return there because journalists are not welcome in a country that ranks 167th out of 180 in the press...

Winter has arrived, and for the protagonists of this dance it is the time of maturity. Nick Jenkins is now forty years old and has returned to Oxford to write a book on Richard Burton. Pamela Flitton, the fatal, irresistible Pam, who leaves behind...

The dance of the music of time continues and spring and summer are followed by autumn. If the previous volume closed with the war in the making, the three novels that make up this third installment of Anthony Powell's extraordinary narrative fresco are set...

A dance for the music of the time is a monumental literary fresco with more than three hundred characters, whose action takes place between 1914 and 1970, and whose title is inspired by a famous painting by Poussin. It is considered one of the...

The dance of the music of time continues and spring is followed by summer. The three novels that make up the second volume of this great historical fresco on 20th century England are located between 1934 and 1939, with long flashbacks to previous decades....

Between essay and narrative, this book proposes a way of thinking against our fears, which according to Lucretius, clouds the mind and distances us from a good life. Through classical philosophy, it shows how fear exaggerates threats, multiplies sad passions like anger, shame, or...

A Heritage and Its History tells the story of 69-year-old Sir Edwin Challoner and his extended family. Unmarried, and with no direct issue, Challoner’s closest relation, and business associate, is his younger brother, Hamish. When Hamish dies of a heart condition, his son Simon prepares...

What is the price of affection and in what currency do you pay for it? In the end, it is inevitable that we discover that some currencies weigh much more than what we have been given in exchange. This brave novel speaks of our...

A chilling anonymous diary details the looting of Berlin by the Soviets in 1945 and the courageous role of women... To find out what really happened in the final days of World War II, you have to ask the women. That's the perspective of...

Michael Holme is a very talented violinist, whose teacher foresaw a promising career as a performer in his future, and yet who has ended up as the second violin in the Maggiore Quartet, a position as comfortable and without prospects as his life, which...

Madness and horror have both being an obsession in my life, says the author. All the books that I have written talk about nothing but that. I tried to escape. I did a research on my paternal grandfather who, after a tragic life, died...

What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the enemy of memory not time but other memories? How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue, or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? Might...

What does the man who has everything―fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby―want for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his approaching demise, Frédéric tries every possible procedure to ward off...

This book by Norbert Bilbeny philosophically explores the human place in the vast universe and our relationship with it. It reflects on topics such as the infinite, the sublime, extraterrestrial life and its ethical implications. Through existential and emotional questions, the author invites us...

Between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, Michel Houellebecq became the center of two controversies. On the one hand, the philosopher Michel Onfray did an interview with him: in it the author expressed opinions about the Islamization of Europe and the...

Friday, December 13, 2015. Jihadist attacks take place in three different parts of Paris. The most serious is that of the Bataclan Room. The result is more than a hundred dead and almost half a thousand wounded. Years later, for nine months, the trial...

Professor Pierre Aronnax goes to sea in search of an unknown creature that terrifies all sailors. One day, the terrible sea monster hits his boat and throws him into the depths of the waters. But there a big surprise awaits him: the ferocious beast...