romans etrangers - Bibliothèque municipale de Sceaux

Pour bien commencer l’année, je lis des
ROMANS ETRANGERS
La bibliothèque municipale de Sceaux vous propose de
découvrir ses nouveaux romans en langue étrangère :
anglais, allemand, espagnol, italien et russe. Bonne
lecture !
Allemand
Jurek BECKER. Jakob der Lügner. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1982 – L.ALL. BEC
Das Buch erzählt eine Geschichte aus dem Ghetto während des Krieges. Es
ist nicht eine Geschichte vom Widerstand, sondern von einem Heldentum
ganz anderer Art; eine melancholisch-heitere, leise, eine kunstvolle
komponierte Geschichte ist es, die ohne Phantasie und Menschlichkeit nicht
denkbar wäre und deren Held Jakob ein ßLügner aus Barmherzigkeitß ist.
Wolfgang BORCHERT. Draußen vor der Tür = und ausgewählte
Erzählungen. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2012 – L.ALL. BOR
Das einzige Drama des früh verstorbenen Dichters ist ein verzweifelter
Protestschrei gegen die zerstörerische und verderbnisträchtige Macht des
Krieges. Seine Erzählungen und Prosastücke berichten mit sicher
akzentuierter Ausdruckskraft von den verheerenden Kriegsfolgen im einzelnen
und im gemeinsamen Menschenleben.
Hans FALLADA. Jeder stirbt für sich allein. Berlin: Aufbau, 2012 – L.ALL. FAL
Die literarische Wiederentdeckung des Jahres.“ Der Tagesspiegel Ein
einzigartiges Panorama des Berliner Lebens in der Nazizeit: Hans Falladas
eindringliche Darstellung des Widerstands der kleinen Leute avancierte rund
60 Jahre nach ihrer Entstehung zum überragenden Publikumserfolg in
Deutschland und der Welt. Millionen Leser sind berührt von der Geschichte
des Ehepaars Quangel, das nach dem Kriegstod des Sohnes einen ganz
privaten Weg findet, sich gegen das unmenschliche Regime zur Wehr zu
setzten und so die eigene Seele zu retten.
Charlotte LINK. Das andere Kind. Goldmann, 2010 – L.ALL. LIN
Eine alte Farm, eine einsame Landschaft, ein düsteres Geheimnis aus
vergangener Zeit. Mit tödlichen Folgen für die Gegenwart ...In der
nordenglischen Küstenstadt Scarborough wird eine Studentin erschlagen
aufgefunden. Monatelang tappen die Ermittler im Dunkeln – dann geschieht
ein ähnlicher Mord. Ein Zusammenhang zwischen den beiden Opfern ist nicht
erkennbar. Und so klammert sich die ehrgeizige Polizistin Valerie Almond an
das allzu Offensichtliche: an ein Zerwürfnis in der Familie des zweiten Opfers.
Lange ist ihr der Blick jedoch verstellt für das Gift, das in dieser Familie wirkt,
und dessen Ursprung sie bis weit in die Vergangenheit hinein zurückverfolgen
müsste. Und fast zu lange dauert es, bis Valerie Almond begreift, dass ein
kranker Täter seinen Rachedurst noch nicht gestillt hat …Charlotte Link ist die
erfolgreichste deutsche Autorin der Gegenwart.
Ferdinand von SCHIRACH. Verbrechen. München: Piper, 2012 – L.ALL. SCH
Er hat es in seinem Beruf alltäglich mit Menschen zu tun, die Extremes getan
oder erlebt haben. Das Ungeheuerliche ist bei ihm der Normalfall. Er vertritt
Unschuldige, die mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt geraten, ebenso wie
Schwerstkriminelle. Deren Geschichten erzählt er – lakonisch wie ein
Raymond Carver und gerade deswegen mit unfassbarer Wucht.
Arthur SCHNITZLER. Anatol. Anatols Grössenwahn. Der grüne Kakadu.
Stuttgart: Reclam, 2009 – L.ALL. SCH
Anatol ist der melancholischgenießerische Typus des Fin-de-siècle Wieners,
der ohne das "Gefühl von Zusammenhängen“ lebt. Aus dem von ihm agierten
Gegensatz von Wissen und Sagen, Illusion und Skepsis, Leichtsinn und
Schwermut zieht Schnitzler die dramatischen Spannungen seines
Einakterzyklus. - Anders die Groteske Der grüne Kakadu, die im Paris des
14.Juli 1789 spielt. Während Komödianten in einer Schenke den adligen
Gästen “Verbrechermilieu“ vortäuschen, dringt von der Straße der reale
Umbruch herein. Auch hier letztlich: Schein und Sein.
Martin SUTER. Der Teufel von Mailand. München: Diogenes, 2004
– L.ALL. SUT
Sonias Sinne spielen verrückt: Sie sieht auf einmal Geräusche, schmeckt
Formen oder fühlt Farben. Ein Aufenthalt in den Bergen soll ihr Gemüt
beruhigen, doch das Gegenteil tritt ein: Im Spannungsfeld von archaischer
Bergwelt und urbaner Wellness, bedrohlichem Jahrhundertregen und
moderner Telekommunikation beginnt ihre überreizte Wahrnehmung erst recht
zu blühen - oder gerät die Wirklichkeit aus den Fugen?
Anglais
Russell BANKS. Lost Memory of Skin. London: Clerkenwell, 2012
– L.ANGL. BAN
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must
create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid,
and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is
shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of
anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up
residence in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders.
Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid is in many ways an innocent, trapped
by impulses and foolish choices. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his
own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and
intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on
homelessness and reoffending sex offenders. The two men forge a tentative
partnership. But when the Professor's past resurfaces and threatens to destroy
his carefully constructed world, the balance in the two men's relationship shifts.
Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and
choose what course of action to take when faced with a new kind of moral
decision.
Julian BARNES. The Sense of an Ending. London: Vintage, 2012.
– L.ANGL. BAR
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and
book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in
affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. May be Adrian was a little more serious
than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for
life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm
divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is
imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to
prove. This title is winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011.
William BOYD. Waiting for Sunrise. London: Bloomsbury, 2012 – L.ANGL. BOY
Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to
his first appointment with eminent psychiatrist, Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the
waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his
neurosis when a young woman enters. Lysander is immediately drawn to her
strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty. Her name is Hettie Bull.
Their subsequent affair is both passionate and particularly destructive. Moving
from Vienna to London's West End, from the battlefields of France to hotel
rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey
into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a
plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force.
James LEE BURKE. Feast Day of Fools. New York: Pocket Books, 2011 –
L.ANGL. BUR
Danny Boy Lorca was used to having apocalyptic visions - the beatings he'd
taken in jail and the booze he drank to forget them made sure of that. But what
he saw and heard that night out in the desert was more terrifying than anything
even his battered spirit could have conjured. A man tortured to death. Slowly
and methodically and with inhuman cruelty. When Danny Boy tells his tale to
Sheriff Hackberry Holland, Hack knows something evil has leaked over the
border into his corner of South Texas. What he doesn't realize is that this
brutal slaying is just the beginning of a twisted three-way manhunt that will pit
a psychotic killer seeking release for the souls of his murdered children against
a religious maniac in love with death, and a Russian gangster whose name is
a byword for fear...
Harlan COBEN. Live Wire. Londres: Orion, 2011 – L.ANGL. COB
A beautiful woman walking into Myron Bolitar's office asking for help should
have been a dream come true. Only this woman, Suzze T, is in tears - and
eight months pregnant ...Suzze's rock star husband has disappeared, and she
fears the rumours questioning her baby's paternity have driven him away. For
Myron, questions of fatherhood couldn't hit closer to home. His own father is
clinging precariously to life, and the brother who abandoned the family years
ago has resurfaced - with danger following close behind. Myron is soon forced
to confront deep secrets in Suzze's past, his family's mortality - and his own...
Jonathan COE. The Closed Circle. London: Penguin Books, 2008
– L.ANGL. COE
It's the end of the century and Benjamin Trotter and friends are all grown up.
Life is a ceaseless whirl of jobs, marriages, kids - and self-inflicted angst.
Despite the shiny optimism of Blair's Britain, youthful hopes and dreams feel
betrayed. Is the Government (and by extension Benjamin's MP brother Paul)
to blame? Or are the 'rotters' themselves - only passingly faithful to their
dreams - really at fault? "The Closed Circle" - sequel to "The Rotters' Club" depicts a group of former school friends as older, wiser and disillusioned in
Blair's Britain at the turn of the millennium. It proves that the present can never
truly be disentangled from the past.
Michael CONNELLY. The Drop. New York: Orion, 2012 – L.ANGL. CON
When evidence links a brutal murder in 1989 to a convicted rapist named
Clayton Pell, the case should be water-tight. Pell's DNA was found on the
victim - but he was only eight years old at the time. This not the only mystery
Harry Bosch has to solve. A man jumped - or was pushed - from a window.
The victim's father is Councilman Irving, who's been intent on destroying
Harry's career for years. Now Irving wants Harry to head up the investigation.
Harry uncovers traces of two of the city's deepest secrets: a killer operating for
as many as three decades without being detected, and a conspiracy that goes
back into the dark history of the police department...
Michael CONNELLY. The Reversal. London: Orion, 2010 – L.ANGL. CON
When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to
prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey's a
defence lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like this
would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case
of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death
row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one...Eager for the
publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with Detective
Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it
starts to look like he's been set up. Mickey and Harry are going to have to dig
deep into the past and find the truth about what really happened to the victim
all those years ago.
Don DELILLO. Cosmopolis. London: Picador, 2003 – L.ANGL. DEL
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join
him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twentyfirst-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in
his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual
standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding,
and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups.
Most worryingly, Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target
...An electrifying study in affectlessness, infused with deep cynicism and
measured detachment; a harsh indictment of the life-denying tendencies of
capitalism; as brutal a dissection of the American dream as Wolfe's "Bonfire"
or Ellis' "Psycho", "Cosmopolis" is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.
Ken FOLLETT. Winter of the World. London: Macmillan, 2012 – L.ANGL. FOL
Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to
understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on
Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend and former
British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for
himself the brutal reality of Nazism. He also encounters a group of Germans
resolved to oppose Hitler - but are they willing to go so far as to betray their
country? Such people are closely watched by Volodya, a Russian with a bright
future in Red Army Intelligence. The international clash of military power and
personal beliefs that ensues will sweep over them all as it rages from Cable
Street in London's East End to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, from Spain to
Stalingrad, from Dresden to Hiroshima. At Cambridge Lloyd is irresistibly
drawn to dazzling American socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents
everything his left-wing family despise. But Daisy is more interested in
aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert - amateur pilot, party lover and leading light of the
British Union of Fascists. Back in Berlin, Carla worships golden boy Werner
from afar.
Jonathan FRANZEN. Freedom. London: HarperCollins, 2010 – L.ANGL. FRA
This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and
their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom; about
the beginning and ending of love; teenage lust; the unexpectedness of adult
life; why we compete with our friends; how we betray those closest to us; and
why things almost never work out as they 'should'. It is a story about the
human heart, and what it leads us to do to ourselves and each other.
John GRISHAM. The Litigators. New York: Doubleday, 2011 – L.ANGL. GRI
The partners at Finley & Figg—all two of them—often refer to themselves as “a
boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are,
of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in
search of their big break, ambulance chasers who’ve been in the trenches
much too long making way too little. Their specialties, so to speak, are quickie
divorces and DUIs, with the occasional jackpot of an actual car wreck thrown
in. After twenty plus years together, Oscar Finley and Wally Figg bicker like an
old married couple but somehow continue to scratch out a half-decent living
from their seedy bungalow offices in southwest Chicago.And then change
comes their way. More accurately, it stumbles in. David Zinc, a young but
already burned-out attorney, walks away from his fast-track career at a fancy
downtown firm, goes on a serious bender, and finds himself literally at the
doorstep of our boutique firm. Once David sobers up and comes to grips with
the fact that he’s suddenly unemployed, any job - even one with Finley & Figg
- looks okay to him.
Ernest HEMINGWAY. Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises. London: Vintage Books,
2000 – L.ANGL. HEM
Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful,
with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the
couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of
the Bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake
must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves.
John IRVING. Until I Find You. London: Black swan, 2006 – L.ANGL. IRV
According to his mother, Jack Burns was an actor before he was an actor, but
Jack's most vivid memories of childhood were those moments when he felt
compelled to hold his mother's hand. He wasn't acting then.' Jack Burns'
mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist
named William who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies
her trade in the seaports of the Baltic coast.
But her four-year-old son's errant father can't be found, and soon even Jack's
memories of that perplexing time are called into question. It is only when he
becomes a Hollywood actor in later life that what he has experienced in the
past comes into telling play in his present...
P.D JAMES. Death Comes to Pemberley. London: Faber and Faber, 2012 –
L.ANGL. JAM
The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years.
There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's
beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world
of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve
of the annual autumn ball, as the guests are preparing to retire for the night a
chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland. As it
pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out
screaming that her husband has been murdered. Inspired by a lifelong passion
for the work of Jane Austen, P.D. James masterfully recreates the world of
"Pride and Prejudice", and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a
brilliantly-crafted crime story. "Death Comes to Pemberley" is a distinguished
work of fiction, from one of the best-loved, most- read writers of our time.
Douglas KENNEDY. The Big Picture. London: Abacus, 2003 – L.ANGL. KEN
On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot - Junior
partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of
a Gap catalogue. But along with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting - Ben
hates it. He wants - has always wanted - to be a photographer. When he
discovers his wife is playing outside the ground, the consequences of a
moment of madness force him to question not just the design of his life but the
price of fulfilment. Because finding yourself means nothing when you're
pretending to be someone else. From the picket fences of yuppie New
England to Montana's untouchable splendour, the big picture spans states and
states of mind in a thrilling novel of genuine originality.
Stephen KING. Under the Dome. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2010 –
L.ANGL. KIN
There's a reason why Stephen King is one of the best selling writers in the
world ever. He knows how to write stories that suck you in and are impossible
to put down. The New York Times describes it as a 'relentless tidal pull' and
Stephen King has done it time and time again with stories like The Shawshank
Redemption, Misery, The Green Mile and The Stand. In Under the Dome, he
has produced another riveting masterpiece. The end of every chapter hooks
you into the next, drawing you inside a psychological drama that is so rich, you
don't read it, you live it. It is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine
which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an
invisible force field. No one can get in and no one can get out. The normal
rules of society are suddenly changed and when food, electricity and water run
short, the community begins to crumble. As a new and more sinister social
order develops, Dale Barbara, Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid
citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to
try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late...
Sophie KINSELLA. I've Got Your Number. London: Bantam, 2012
– L.ANGL. KIN
I've lost it. :( The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My
engagement ring. It's been in Magnus' family for three generations. And now,
the very same day his parents are coming, I've lost it. The very same day. Do
not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive!! :) A couple of glasses of bubbly with
the girls at a charity do and Poppy's life has gone into meltdown. Not only has
she lost her engagement ring, but in the panic that followed, she's lost her
phone too. As she paces shakily round the hotel foyer she spots an
abandoned phone in a bin. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number with
the hotel staff. It was meant to be! Except the phone's owner, businessman
Sam Roxton, doesn't agree. He wants his phone back, and doesn't appreciate
Poppy reading all his messages and wading into his personal life. As Poppy
juggles wedding preparations, phone messages and hiding her left hand from
Magnus and his parents, can things get any more tangled ?
Robert KIRKMAN, Jay BONANSINGA. Rise of the Governor. London: Pan
Books, 2011 – L.ANGL. KIR
In a novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce,
attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement,
from execution by the country's corrupt and autocratic leader. Complicating
matters further is Okari's wife, Marissa Brand, with whom Pierce had a
relationship years before that he's never quite forgotten; she, in fact,
persuaded him to take the case in the first place, and it is who she plays a
crucial role in the eventual outcome...
Culminating in a dramatic show trial and a desperate race against time,
Eclipse combines a thrilling narrative with a vivid look at the human cost of the
global lust for oil. 'Every now and then - but a lot more rarely than that implies you come across a thriller so important that it absolutely demands to be read.
This is one' The Times on Exile.
Harper LEE. To Kill a Mockingbird. London: Vintage, 2004 – L.ANGL. LEE
Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to
kill a Mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real
mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white
girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the
irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s
with both compassion and humour. She also creates one of the great heroes
of literature in their father, Atticus, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the
conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy.
Alexander McCALL SMITH. Espresso Tales: The Latest from 44 Scotland
Street. London: Abacus, 2006 – L.ANGL. MAC
In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and
the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the residents of 44 Scotland
Street, with a new set of challenges for each one of them. Bruce, the
intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a
new career as a wine merchant, while his long-suffering flatmate Pat
MacGregor, set up by matchmaking Domenica Macdonald, finds herself
invited to a nudist picnic in Moray Place in the pursuit of true love. Prodigious
six-year-old Bertie Pollock wants a boy's life of fishing and rugby, not yoga and
pink dungarees, and he plots rebellion against his bossy, crusading mother
Irene and his psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn. But when Bertie's longed-for trip to
Glasgow with his ineffectual father Stuart ends with Bertie taking money off
legendary Glasgow hard man Lard O'Connor at cards, it looks as though
Bertie should have been more careful what he wished for. And all the time it
appears that both Irene Pollock and Dr Fairbairn are engaged in a struggle
with dark secrets and unconscious urges of their own.
Ian McEWAN. Sweet Tooth. Paris: Grasset, 2008 – L.ANGL. MAC
Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair
with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being
groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting
economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and
faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund
phase, but the fight goes on, especially in the cultural sphere. Serena, a
compulsive reader of novels, is sent on a 'secret mission' which brings her into
the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his
stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her
undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions,
Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one. McEwan's
mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue,
love, and the invented self.
Henning MANKELL. Faceless Killers. New York: Vintage, 2011
– L.ANGL. MAN
One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he
believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he
discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his
wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence
beyond reason. Wallander's life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his
daughter refuses to speak to him, and even his ageing father barely tolerates
him. He works tirelessly, eats badly, and drinks his nights away in a lonely,
neglected flat. But now Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself
into a battle against time.
George R. R. MARTIN. Song of Ice and Fire. T.1 to T5. London: Harper
Collins, 2011.
A Game of Thrones – L.ANGL. MAR song 1
As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert
bestows on him the office of the Hand. His honour weighs him down at court
where a true man does what he will, not what he must ...and a dead enemy is
a thing of beauty. The old gods have no power in the south, Stark's family is
split and there is treachery at court. Worse, the vengeance-mad heir of the
deposed Dragon King has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities. He
claims the Iron Throne.
A Clash of Kings – L.ANGL. MAR song 2
A Storm of Swords: Part 1: Steel and Snow – L.ANGL. MAR song 3a
A Storm of Swords: Part 2: Blood and Gold – L.ANGL. MAR song 3b
A Feast for Crows – L.ANGL. MAR song 4
A Dance with Dragons: Part 1: Dreams and Dust – L.ANGL. MAR song 5a
A Dance with Dragons: Part 2: after the Feast – L.ANGL. MAR song 5b
Toni MORRISON. A mercy. London : Vintage, 2012 – L.ANGL. MOR
An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds
himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left
him with more than just physical scars. His home - and himself in it - may no
longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy
by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back
to the small Georgia town they come from, which he's hated all his life. As
Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him
questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he thought he
could never possess again.
David NICHOLLS. One Day. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2010
– L.ANGL. NIC
I can imagine you at forty,' she said, a hint of malice in her voice. 'I can picture
it right now.' He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.' 15th July 1988.
Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation.
Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one
day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty
years, two people, ONE DAY.
Ian RANKIN. The Impossible Dead. Londres: Orion, 2012 – L.ANGL. RAN
Malcolm Fox and his team are back, investigating whether fellow cops covered
up for Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct, but
what should be a simple job is soon complicated by a brutal murder and a
weapon that should not even exist. A trail of revelations leads Fox back to
1985, a year of desperate unrest when letter-bombs and poisonous spores
were sent to government offices, and kidnappings and murders were plotted.
But while the body count rises the clock starts ticking, and a dramatic turn of
events sees Fox in mortal danger.
Zadie SMITH. NW. London: Penguin Books, 2012 – L.ANGL. SMI
NW" is Zadie Smith's masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith's brilliant
tragi-comic "NW" follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to
different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their
city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they
each find that the choices they've made, the people they once were and are
now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. A portrait of modern urban life, "NW" is
funny, sad and urgent - as brimming with vitality as the city itself.
Espagnol
Cesar AIRA.. Cómo me hice monja. Barcelona : Debolsillo, 2006 – L.ESP. AIR
Tres novelas breves, que condenan el peculiar mundo del escritor argentino
más significativo de los últimos años. Un libro sobre relaciones extremas,
tratadas con un gran poder de transgresión, y en donde el recuerdo de la
infancia se convierte en un osado, cruel e hilarante relato relevante de crecer.
Eduardo MENDOZA. Riña de gatos. Madrid 1936. Barcelona : Planeta, 2011
– L.ESP. MEN
Un inglés llega a bordo de un tren al Madrid convulso de la primavera de
1936. Deberá autenticar un cuadro desconocido, perteneciente a un amigo de
José Antonio Primo de Rivera, cuyo valor económico puede resultar
determinante para favorecer un cambio político crucial en la Historia de
España. Turbulentos amores con mujeres de distintas clases sociales distraen
al crítico de arte sin darle tiempo a calibrar cómo se van multiplicando sus
perseguidores: policías, diplomáticos, políticos y espías, en una atmósfera de
conspiración y de algarada. Premio planeta 2010.
Arturo PEREZ-REVERTE. El asedio. Espagne : Punto de lectura, 2011 –
L.ESP. PER
«En esta descomunal novela, que no es sólo histórica, negra, psicológica,
confluyen las páginas más importantes de Pérez-Reverte.» El Mundo «Arturo
Pérez-Reverte en plenitud: El asedio tiene fuerza plástica y potencia narrativa.
La fluidez entre ambientes y episodios es perfecta.» El País «La novela más
ambiciosa de Arturo Pérez-Reverte hasta el presente.»
Álvaro POMBO.El temblor del héroe. Barcelona : Destino, 2012 – L.ESP. POM
Román es un profesor universitario jubilado al que invade la nostalgia de los
días luminosos de la pedagogía en que fascinaba a sus alumnos
despertándoles el amor por el saber y ayudándoles a alcanzar una vida más
noble y más alta.
Entre sus antiguos alumnos están Elena y Eugenio, una pareja de médicos a
los que todavía trata y con los que ha establecido complejas relaciones en lo
intelectual y en lo sentimental.Por otra parte, halagado por el interés hacia su
persona que demuestra un joven periodista, Héctor, permite que éste entre en
su vida sin sospechar que el pasado torturado del nuevo personaje le atrapará
en una situación en la que es incapaz de tomar decisiones, de comprometerse
con el drama al que asiste.Con una escritura tensa, vibrante, que deslumbra
tanto por los hallazgos plásticos como por la indagación filosófica, El temblor
del héroe es a la vez un acto de fe en la literatura como territorio donde
plantear los grandes asuntos: la confianza y la traición, la posibilidad de
arrepentimiento, la culpa, la cobardía, el valor, el sentido de la existencia.
Premio Nadal de Novela 2012.
Carlos RUIZ ZAFÓN. El Palacio de la Medianoche. Barcelona : Planeta,
2010 – L.ESP. RUI
Calcuta, 1932: El corazón de las tinieblas. Un tren en llamas atraviesa la
ciudad. Un espectro de fuego siembra el terror en las sombras de la noche.
Pero eso no es más que el principio. En la víspera de cumplir 16 años, Ben,
Sheere y sus amigos deberán enfrentarse al más terrible y mortífero enigma
de la historia de la ciudad de los palacios.
Mario VARGAS LLOSA. El Sueño Del Celta. Espagne : Punto de lectura,
2011 – L.ESP. VAR
La aventura que narra esta novela empieza en el Congo en 1903 y termina en
una cárcel de Londres, una mañana de 1916. Aquí se cuenta la peripecia vital
de un hombre de leyenda: el irlandés Roger Casement. Héroe y villano, traidor
y libertario, moral e inmoral, su figura múltiple se apaga y renace tras su
muerte.Casement fue uno de los primeros europeos en denunciar los horrores
del colonialismo. De sus viajes al Congo Belga y a la Amazonía sudamericana
quedaron dos informes memorables que conmocionaron a la sociedad de su
tiempo. Premio Nobel 2010.
Italien
Silvia AVALLONE. Acciaio. Milano : Rizzoli, 2011 – L.ITAL. AVA
"Pensava soltanto a quello. Riportare la sua vita a quel punto. Nel punto dove
si era interrotta. Si trattava di unire due lembi di terra, due lembi di tempo. In
mezzo c'era il mare. Si metteva i fichi aperti sugli occhi per ricordarsi quel
sapore di dolce e di grumi. Vedeva rosso attraverso quei semi. Cercava il
cuore del suo mondo lasciato". Farid e Jamila fuggono da una guerra che
corre più veloce di loro. Angelina insegna a Vito che ogni patria può essere
terra di tempesta, lei che è stata araba fino a undici anni. Sono due figli, due
madri, due mondi. A guardarlo dalla riva, il mare che li divide è un tappeto
volante, oppure una lastra di cristallo che si richiude sopra le cose. Ma sulla
terra resta l'impronta di ogni passaggio, partenza o ritorno che la scrittura,
come argilla fresca, conserva e restituisce. Un romanzo di promesse e di
abbandoni, forte e luminoso come una favola.
Alessandro BARICCO. Novecento : un monologo. Milano : Feltrinelli, 2012 –
L.ITAL. BAR
“Nell’ultimo romanzo che ho scritto, Mr Gwyn, si accenna, a un certo punto, a
un piccolo libro scritto da un angloindiano, Akash Narayan, e intitolato Tre
volte all’alba. Si tratta naturalmente di un libro immaginario, ma nelle
immaginarie vicende là raccontate esso riveste un ruolo tutt’altro che
secondario. Il fatto è che mentre scrivevo quelle pagine mi è venuta voglia di
scrivere anche quel piccolo libro, un po’ per dare un lieve e lontano sequel a
Mr Gwyn e un po’ per il piacere puro di inseguire una certa idea che avevo in
testa. Così, finito Mr Gwyn, mi son messo a scrivere Tre volte all’alba, cosa
che ho fatto con grande diletto. Adesso Tre volte all’alba è scritto e forse non è
inutile chiarire che può essere letto da chiunque, anche da coloro che non
hanno mai preso in mano Mr Gwyn, perché si tratta di una storia autonoma e
compiuta. Ciò non toglie tuttavia che, nella sua prima parte, mantenga ciò che
Mr Gwyn prometteva, cioè uno sguardo in più sulla curiosa vicenda di Jasper
Gwyn e del suo singolare talento.” Alessandro Baricco.
Andrea CAMILLERI. Una lama di luce. Palermo : Sellerio, 2012 – L.ITAL. CAM
Un gorgo d'angoscia governa l'alterno respiro delle storie che nel romanzo si
tramescolano. Il commissario Montalbano è in apprensione. Gli orli sfumati di
un sogno trasudano malessere, sensazioni superstiziose, oscure
premonizioni. Un pensiero laterale stenta a chiarirsi, e perdura nella realtà
come sospettosa vigilanza; e come soprassalto a ogni minima coincidenza
con lo squallore infausto del sogno che di uno straccio di terra aspra e solitaria
ha fatto un obitorio a cielo aperto, con bara chiusa e cadavere da riconoscere,
sotto una luce itterica e di meteoropatica influenza.
Persino il consueto barbugliamento di Catarella si è dato in sogno negli arcani
costernanti di una locuzione latina. La rotta sequenza delle indagini, su
un'aggressione a mano armata e violenza carnale, su un traffico d'armi, e su
degli esportatori di opere d'arte rubate, allinea e intreccia storie di donne di
forte e deciso temperamento; mentre il commissario, così esposto al lato
oscuro delle cose e ai clandestini giochi della mente, è in attesa che qualcosa
di non del tutto delucidato esca fuori, alla fine, da un qualche retroscena, e si
riveli. Si sedimenta lo spaesamento in Montalbano. Nella vita del commissario
va crescendo un senso di solitudine che accascia e predispone a una
morbidità di sentimento. Livia continua a essere una voce nel telefono, una
minaccia costante e fastidiosa di baruffe. Un'assenza. Una lontananza
impegnativa. Irrompe in carne e ossa una donna fatale...". Salvatore Silvano
Nigro.
Donato CARRISI. Il suggeritore. Milano : TEA, 2011 – L.ITAL. CAR
Questo libro non è solo un thriller scritto da un autore italiano agli esordi, che
si confronta con un genere finora appannaggio dei grandi autori americani,
reinventando le regole del gioco. È una storia che esplora la zona grigia fra il
bene e il male fino a cogliere l'ultimo segreto, il minimo sussurro. Qualcosa di
sconvolgente è successo, qualcosa che richiede tutta l'abilità degli agenti della
Squadra Speciale guidata dal criminologo Goran Gavila. Il loro è un nemico
che sa assumere molte sembianze, che li mette costantemente alla prova in
un'indagine in cui ogni male svelato porta con sé un messaggio. Ma,
soprattutto, li costringe ad affacciarsi nel buio che ciascuno si porta dentro. È
un gioco di incubi abilmente celati, una continua sfida. Sarà con l'arrivo di Mila
Vasquez, un'investigatrice specializzata nella caccia alle persone scomparse,
che gli inganni sembreranno cadere uno dopo l'altro, grazie anche al legame
speciale che comincia a formarsi fra lei e il dottor Gavila. Ma un disegno
oscuro è in atto, e ogni volta che la Squadra sembra riuscire a dare un nome
al male, ne scopre un altro ancora più profondo...
Erri De LUCA. E disse. Milano : Feltrinelli, 2011 – L.ITAL. DEL
"Mosè, primo alpinista, è in cima al Sinai. Inizia così il suo corpo a corpo con la
più potente manifestazione della divinità." Erri De Luca racconta l'eroe Mosè
con la grazia del grande scrittore che reimmagina, attraverso la Scrittura, la
grandezza sofferente dell'uomo alla guida di un popolo in fuga. "E disse": con
questo verbo la divinità crea e disfa, benedice e annulla. Dal Sinai che
scatarra esplosioni e fiamme, vengono scandite le sillabe su pietra di alleanza.
Nell'impeto di un'ora di entusiasmo un popolo di servi appena liberati si
sobbarca di loro: "Faremo e ascolteremo". Luogo di appuntamento è il largo di
un deserto, dove la libertà è sbaraglio quotidiano. Notizia strepitosa: nell'antico
ebraico, madrelingua, le parole della nuova legge sono rivolte a un tu
maschile. Le donne guardano con tenerezza gli uomini commossi e agitati.
Il dito scalpellino che scrive in alto a destra: "Anokhi", Io, è il più travolgente
pronome personale delle storie sacre.
Erri De LUCA. Il torto del soldato. Milano : Feltrinelli, 2012 – L.ITAL. DEL
Un vecchio criminale di guerra vive con sua figlia, divisa tra la repulsione e il
dovere di accudire. Lui è convinto di avere per unico torto la sconfitta. Lei non
vuole sapere i capi d'accusa perché il torto di suo padre non è per lei riducibile
a circostanza, momento della storia. Insieme vanno a un appuntamento
prescritto dalla kabbala ebraica, che fa coincidere la parola fine con la parola
vendetta. Pretesto sono le pagine impugnate da uno sconosciuto in una
locanda.
Erri De LUCA. I pesci non chiudono gli occhi. Milano : Feltrinelli, 2011 –
L.ITAL. DEL
A dieci anni l'età si scrive per la prima volta con due cifre. È un salto in alto, in
lungo e in largo, ma il corpo resta scarso di statura mentre la testa si precipita
avanti. D'estate si concentra una fretta di crescere. Un uomo, cinquant'anni
dopo, torna coi pensieri su una spiaggia dove gli accadde il necessario e pure
l'abbondante. Le sue mani di allora, capaci di nuoto e non di difesa, imparano
lo stupore del verbo mantenere, che è tenere per mano.
Erri De LUCA. Le sante dello scandalo. Milano : Feltrinelli, 2011 – L.ITAL. DEL
Cinque donne stanno nell'elenco maschile delle generazioni tra Abramo e
Ieshu/Gesù. Cinque casi unici forzano la legge, confondono gli uomini e
impongono eccezioni. Le donne qui fanno saltare il banco, riempite di grazia
che in loro diventa forza di combattimento.
Massimo GRAMELLINI. Fai bei sogni. Milano : Longanesi, 2012 – L.ITAL. GRA
Questo libro non è solo un thriller scritto da un autore italiano agli esordi, che
si confronta con un genere finora appannaggio dei grandi autori americani,
reinventando le regole del gioco. È una storia che esplora la zona grigia fra il
bene e il male fino a cogliere l'ultimo segreto, il minimo sussurro. Qualcosa di
sconvolgente è successo, qualcosa che richiede tutta l'abilità degli agenti della
Squadra Speciale guidata dal criminologo Goran Gavila. Il loro è un nemico
che sa assumere molte sembianze, che li mette costantemente alla prova in
un'indagine in cui ogni male svelato porta con sé un messaggio. Ma,
soprattutto, li costringe ad affacciarsi nel buio che ciascuno si porta dentro.
È un gioco di incubi abilmente celati, una continua sfida. Sarà con l'arrivo di
Mila Vasquez, un'investigatrice specializzata nella caccia alle persone
scomparse, che gli inganni sembreranno cadere uno dopo l'altro, grazie anche
al legame speciale che comincia a formarsi fra lei e il dottor Gavila. Ma un
disegno oscuro è in atto, e ogni volta che la Squadra sembra riuscire a dare
un nome al male, ne scopre un altro ancora più profondo...
Margaret MAZZANTINI. Mare al mattino. Torino : Einaudi, 2011 – L.ITAL. MAZ
"Pensava soltanto a quello. Riportare la sua vita a quel punto. Nel punto dove
si era interrotta. Si trattava di unire due lembi di terra, due lembi di tempo. In
mezzo c'era il mare. Si metteva i fichi aperti sugli occhi per ricordarsi quel
sapore di dolce e di grumi. Vedeva rosso attraverso quei semi. Cercava il
cuore del suo mondo lasciato".
Farid e Jamila fuggono da una guerra che corre più veloce di loro. Angelina
insegna a Vito che ogni patria può essere terra di tempesta, lei che è stata
araba fino a undici anni. Sono due figli, due madri, due mondi. A guardarlo
dalla riva, il mare che li divide è un tappeto volante, oppure una lastra di
cristallo che si richiude sopra le cose. Ma sulla terra resta l'impronta di ogni
passaggio, partenza o ritorno che la scrittura, come argilla fresca, conserva e
restituisce. Un romanzo di promesse e di abbandoni, forte e luminoso come
una favola.
Antonio TABUCCHI. Racconti con figure. Palermo : Sellerio, 2011 – L.ITAL. TAB
"Spesso la pittura ha mosso la mia penna. Se in un lontano pomeriggio del
1970 non fossi entrato al Prado e non fossi rimasto "prigioniero" davanti a Las
Meninas di Velazquez, incapace di uscire dalla sala fino alla chiusura del
museo, non avrei mai scritto 'II gioco del rovescio'. Lo stesso vale per l'enorme
suggestione provata da bambino davanti agli affreschi del convento di San
Marco, rivisitati spesso da adulto, che un bel giorno ritornò con prepotenza
sbucando nelle pagine de 'I volatili del Beato Angelico'". Dalla suggestione di
un'immagine, soprattutto dalla pittura, nascono questi racconti di Tabucchi. Ma
a sua volta il racconto sembra catturare in un'altra dimensione le figure che lo
provocarono: è quella contea fantastica dove, come scrisse Leopardi, "l'anima
immagina quello che non vede". Così le figure sembrano risvegliarsi dalla loro
immobilità, acquistano vita, da immagini diventano personaggi e interpreti
delle loro storie. Suddiviso come un ideale spartito musicale (l'Adagio dove
prevale la chiave della malinconia, l'Andante con brio per un'atmosfera più
giocosa, le Ariette laddove il motivo è solo accennato e non eseguito) questo
libro polifonico è anche il puro piacere del testo, un fuoco d'artificio narrativo,
lo stupefacente cromatismo di un maestro riconosciuto del racconto.
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