Black Harbor Il Giallo Mondadori
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Black Harbor Il Giallo Mondadori
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Author : Hannah Morrissey
language : it
Publisher: Edizioni Mondadori
Release Date : 2023-11-02
Black Harbor Il Giallo Mondadori written by Hannah Morrissey and has been published by Edizioni Mondadori this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-02 with Fiction categories.
A Black Harbor, un purgatorio dove ognuno pensa soltanto a se stesso, le cime appuntite come frecce di pini e abeti si stagliano contro un cielo grigio perla. Tra vento, pioggia, odore di lische di pesce e di terra umida, le polveri tossiche del carbone infettano l'aria e avvolgono tutto in un nero sudario. C'è chi decide di fuggire, e chi di gettarsi dal ponte di ferro rugginoso teso tra le rive del fiume come l'esoscheletro di un gigantesco insetto preistorico. Trasferitasi in questa città del Wisconsin, Hazel Greenlee è la nuova addetta alle trascrizioni presso il dipartimento di polizia. La notte, sola nel suo piccolo ufficio, digita al computer le registrazioni audio di rapporti e verbali di interrogatori, attribuendo volti immaginari alle voci dei detective che risuonano negli auricolari. Del contenuto dei file, oggetto della massima riservatezza, non può parlare con nessuno, nemmeno con il marito. Il suo non è un lavoro adatto a tutti. Mentre le dita volano sulla tastiera, Hazel è costretta ad ascoltare il resoconto brutalmente esplicito di eventi traumatici. Quello che la sostiene è il sogno di diventare una scrittrice, e non è facile vincere la tentazione di aggiungere qualche dettaglio ai documenti. Ma questo buco d'inferno sembra esercitare un'irresistibile attrazione su criminali in cerca di un luogo dove scomparire, perciò non le mancherà la materia prima a cui ispirarsi. A rischio della vita.
Sag Harbor
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Author : Colson Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-12-12
Sag Harbor written by Colson Whitehead and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-12 with Fiction categories.
From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad Benji spends most of the year as one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, going to roller disco bar mitzvahs, desperately trying to find his place in the social hierarchy. Then he spends his summers in the African-American community of Sag Harbor on Long Island, and is just as confused. He's way behind on the latest handshakes, baffled by new slang, and his attempts to be cool and meet girls are constantly thwarted by his extremely awkward inner geek, braces and a badly cut Afro. It's the summer of 1985 and Benji is determined that this is the summer when things will change and he'll fit in. For starters, he'll be reinvented as 'Ben'. When that doesn't catch on, it's another summer of the perpetual mortification that is teenage existence.
Le Orme Di Prospero
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Author : Agostino Lombardo
language : it
Publisher: Roma : La Nuova Italia Scientifica
Release Date : 1995
Le Orme Di Prospero written by Agostino Lombardo and has been published by Roma : La Nuova Italia Scientifica this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Colossus Of New York
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Author : Colson Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-02-01
The Colossus Of New York written by Colson Whitehead and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with Fiction categories.
In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in - or spent time - in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city's inner and outer landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations, and personal memories. Colson Whitehead conveys with almost uncanny immediacy the feelings and thoughts of longtime residents and of newcomers who dream of making it their home; of those who have conquered its challenges; and of those who struggle against its cruelties. Whitehead's style is as multilayered and multifarious as New York itself: Switching from third person, to first person, to second person, he weaves individual voices into a jazzy musical composition that perfectly reflects the way we experience the city. There is a funny, knowing riff on what it feels like to arrive in New York for the first time; a lyrical meditation on how the city is transformed by an unexpected rain shower; and a wry look at the ferocious battle that is commuting. The plaintive notes of the lonely and dispossessed resound in one passage, while another captures those magical moments when the city seems to be talking directly to you, inviting you to become one with its rhythms. The Colossus of New York is a remarkable portrait of life in the big city. Ambitious in scope, gemlike in its details, it is at once an unparalleled tribute to New York and the ideal introduction to one of the most exciting writers working today.
Half Of A Yellow Sun
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Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2008-11-12
Half Of A Yellow Sun written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-12 with Fiction categories.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a haunting story of love and war. • Recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award. With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.
The People Opposite
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Author : Georges Simenon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2022-03-03
The People Opposite written by Georges Simenon and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-03 with Fiction categories.
'You'll get used to things, you'll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.' Adil Bey is an outsider. Newly arrived as Turkish consul at a run-down Soviet port on the Black Sea, he receives only suspicion and hostility from the locals. His one intimacy is a growing, wary relationship with his Russian secretary Sonia, who he watches silently in her room opposite his apartment. But this is Stalin's world before the war, and nothing is as it seems. Georges Simenon's most starkly political work, The People Opposite is a tour de force of slow-burn tension. 'Irresistible... read him at your peril, avoid him at your loss' Sunday Times
Challenging The Mafia Mystique
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Author : Rino Coluccello
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Challenging The Mafia Mystique written by Rino Coluccello and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Sicilian Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, is one of the most intriguing criminal phenomena in the world. It is an unparalleled organised criminal grouping that over almost two centuries has been able not only to successfully permeate licit and illicit economy, politics and civil society, but also to influence and exercise authoritative power over both the underworld and the upper-world. This criminal phenomenon has been a captivating conundrum for scholars of different disciplines who have tried to explain with various paradigms the reasons behind the emergence and consolidation of the mafia. Challenging the Mafia Mystique provides an analysis of the changes the Sicilian mafia has undergone, from legitimisation to denunciation. Rino Coluccello highlights how, from the very emergence of the organised criminal groups in Sicily, a culture existed that was protective and tolerant of the mafia. He argues that the various conceptualisations of the mafia that dominated the public and scientific debate in the nineteenth and more than half of the twentieth century created a mystique, which legitimised the mafia and contributed to their success. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of organised crime, Italian politics and Italian literature.
The Black Camel
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Author : Earl Derr Biggers
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2015-07-03
The Black Camel written by Earl Derr Biggers and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-03 with Fiction categories.
This early work by Earl Derr Biggers was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. "The Black Camel" tells the story of a Hollywood star (Shelah Fane), who is stopping in Hawaii after she finished shooting a film on location in Tahiti. She is murdered in the pavilion of her renter house in Waikiki during her stay. Chan, in his position as a detective with the Honolulu Police Department, "investigates amid public clamor demanding that the murderer be found and punished immediately. "Death is a black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate. Tonight black camel has knelt here", Chan tells the suspects. Earl Derr Biggers was born on 26th August 1884 in Warren, Ohio, USA. Biggers received his further education at Harvard University, where he developed a reputation as a literary rebel, preferring the popular modern authors, such as Rudyard Kipling and Richard Harding Davis to the established figures of classical literature. Following in their footsteps upon graduating, he himself began a career as a popular writer, penning humorous articles and reviews for the Boston Traveler. While on holiday in Hawaii, Biggers heard tales of a real-life Chinese detective operating in Honolulu, named Chang Apana. This inspired him to create his most enduring legacy in the character of super-sleuth Charlie Chan. The first Chan story "The House Without a Key" (1925) was published as a serialised story in the Saturday Evening Post and then released as a novel in the same year. Biggers went on to write five more Chan novels and all were licensed for movie adaptations by Fox Films. These films were hugely popular with several different actors taking the lead role of Chan. Eventually; over 40 films were produced featuring the character. Biggers only saw the early on-screen successes of Charlie Chan due to his death at the age of only 48 from a heart attack in April 1933.
The Wedding
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Author : Dorothy West
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2009-12-30
The Wedding written by Dorothy West and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-30 with Fiction categories.
In her final novel, “a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race” (The New York Times), Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's Black bourgeoisie on Martha’s Vineyard in the 1950s. Within this inner circle of "blue-vein society," we witness the prominent Coles family gather for the wedding of the loveliest daughter, Shelby, who could have chosen from "a whole area of eligible men of the right colors and the right professions." Instead, she has fallen in love with and is about to be married to Meade Wyler, a white jazz musician from New York. A shock wave breaks over the Oval as its longtime members grapple with the changing face of its community. With elegant, luminous prose, Dorothy West crowns her literary career by illustrating one family's struggle to break the shackles of race and class.
Black Girl White Girl
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Author : Joyce Carol Oates
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
Black Girl White Girl written by Joyce Carol Oates and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Fiction categories.
Fifteen years ago, in 1975, Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent, terrible death. Minette Swift had been a fiercely individualistic scholarship student, an assertive—even prickly—personality, and one of the few black girls at an exclusive women's liberal arts college near Philadelphia. By contrast, Genna was a quiet, self-effacing teenager from a privileged upper-class home, self-consciously struggling to make amends for her own elite upbringing. When, partway through their freshman year, Minette suddenly fell victim to an increasing torrent of racist harassment and vicious slurs—from within the apparent safety of their tolerant, "enlightened" campus—Genna felt it her duty to protect her roommate at all costs. Now, as Genna reconstructs the months, weeks, and hours leading up to Minette's tragic death, she is also forced to confront her own identity within the social framework of that time. Her father was a prominent civil defense lawyer whose radical politics—including defending anti-war terrorists wanted by the FBI—would deeply affect his daughter's outlook on life, and later challenge her deepest beliefs about social obligation in a morally gray world. Black Girl / White Girl is a searing double portrait of "black" and "white," of race and civil rights in post-Vietnam America, captured by one of the most important literary voices of our time.