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Il Palazzo Degli Specchi
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Author : Amitav Ghosh
language : it
Publisher: Neri Pozza Editore
Release Date : 2022-09-23T00:00:00+02:00
Il Palazzo Degli Specchi written by Amitav Ghosh and has been published by Neri Pozza Editore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-23T00:00:00+02:00 with Fiction categories.
Nel novembre del 1885, l’undicenne indiano Rajkumar, in viaggio come garzone su un sampan che risale l’Irrawaddy dal Golfo del Bengala, è costretto a fermarsi vicino a Mandalay, la capitale di un regno – il regno di Birmania – giunto ormai ai suoi ultimi giorni. La casa reale ha chiamato i sudditi a combattere contro i barbari inglesi, i quali, però, coi loro tre battaglioni di sepoy temprati da mille battaglie, hanno agevolmente travolto gli avamposti. In due settimane l’esercito birmano si è disintegrato, e il popolo si è riversato nel palazzo reale mettendo a soqquadro ogni cosa. Rajkumar, testimone casuale della fine di un impero, mentre si aggira nel vasto atrio di quello che tutti chiamano Palazzo degli specchi, con le pareti di cristallo lucente e i soffitti riflettenti, guarda stupito la gente staccare decorazioni, rompere preziose cassette delle offerte, estrarre pietre dure dal pavimento di marmo, portarsi via intarsi d’avorio dalle cassapanche di legno. Nella confusione del saccheggio, Rajkumar incontra la più bella creatura che abbia mai visto, un’ancella che vive a palazzo. L’incontro è di quelli che cambiano la vita. Perché, mentre il regno birmano si dissolve insieme allo splendore dell’orgogliosa famiglia reale, lui non dimenticherà mai lo sguardo di quella ragazza tra le pareti di specchio. Anche quando il suo destino cambierà di segno, rendendolo un uomo ricco grazie al legname delle lussureggianti foreste di tek, sempre a lei tornerà. La loro storia, e quella delle famiglie che nascono e muoiono attorno a loro, finirà per coincidere con il racconto degli splendori e delle miserie di quella terra travagliata, il «paese d’oro» a cui Rajkumar, rifugiatosi a Calcutta nei giorni della vecchiaia, guarderà con nostalgia e rimpianto. Indimenticabile affresco di un secolo di storia nelle ex colonie britanniche e romanzo dal respiro epico, Il Palazzo degli specchi è una delle rare opere in cui si schiude «l’incanto di mondi lontani» (The Times). «L’avvincente storia di un mondo in transizione, fatta vivere attraverso personaggi che amano e soffrono con pari intensità». J.M. Coetzee «Non dimenticherò mai Rajkumar, prima giovane e poi vecchio, Dolly, le principesse, le foreste di tek, il denaro che crea famiglie e guerre. Un romanzo meraviglioso. Una storia incredibile». Grace Paley
The Glass Palace
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Author : Ghosh
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2008
The Glass Palace written by Ghosh and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
The Glass Palace Begins With The Shattering Of The Kingdom Of Burma, And Tells The Story Of A People, A Fortune, And A Family And Its Fate. It Traces The Life Of Rajkumar, A Poor Indian Boy, Who Is Lifted On The Tides Of Political And Social Turmoil To Build An Empire In The Burmese Teak Forest. When British Soldiers Force The Royal Family Out Of The Glass Palace, During The Invasion Of 1885, He Falls In Love With Dolly, An Attendant At The Palace. Years Later, Unable To Forget Her, Rajkumar Goes In Search Of His Love. Through This Brilliant And Impassioned Story Of Love And War, Amitav Ghosh Presents A Ruthless Appraisal Of The Horrors Of Colonialism And Capitalist Exploitation. Click Here To Visit The Amitav Ghosh Website
Glass Palace
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Author : Amitav Ghosh
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2001-09-18
Glass Palace written by Amitav Ghosh and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-18 with Fiction categories.
Rajkumar is a young orphan helping out in a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace in Mandalay, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and court into exile. Haunted by his vision of the Royal Family and one of their attendants, he travels to the obscure town where they have been exiled, and his family and friends become inexorably linked with theirs. From this humble beginning, an extraordinary story of a century unfolds: in Malaya, amid the vast rubber plantations; in India, amid growing nationalistic fervor; in America, where ideals of democracy, terrorist skills and business acumen could all be learned. By the time World War II arrives, Rajkumar's influence will have spread from the great estate at Morningside and he will see his son become involved in the British collapse in Singapore, and another member of his family take part in the remarkable rebellion of the Indian troops against their British officers. Many more fascinating stories unfold in the pages of The Glass Palace. There is the formidable Indian widow, Uma, a spearhead of the Indian nationalist movement and a final refuge for the battered remnants of the family as they flee from Burma before the Japanese advance. And there is Rajkumar's granddaughter, who survives the experience and brings readers back to Burma, completing the family saga started so long ago.
A Marvelous Solitude
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Author : Lina Bolzoni
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2023-12-05
A Marvelous Solitude written by Lina Bolzoni and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader. The experience of reading is often presented as personal and transformative—a journey of self-discovery and, perhaps, renewal. In A Marvelous Solitude, Lina Bolzoni examines the early modern roots of this attitude toward the readerly act. Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, European men of letters increasingly came to see books as something more than compendia of knowledge: they could also help readers understand the human condition. As Bolzoni shows, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and Tasso all presented reading as a private encounter and a dialogue with the author. For many Renaissance intellectuals, reading was instrumental to the construction of the self, which was enriched by contact with other learned men. These readers imagined the book as a mirror image of its author, with whom they held a secret affinity. In their letters to one another, humanists described the book as a body, reflecting the notion that reading literature placed its author in the room with oneself. Reading the work of a deceased author became akin to a necromantic rite, as the writers of bygone times were resurrected and placed in contemporary conversation. The vogue for hanging portraits of authors in libraries and studios ensured that the image of the creator was never far from his words, cementing bonds of friendship across barriers of time. These myths—charming, fragile, and powerful—invested the readerly encounter with miraculous properties that lingered in the hearts of the Romantics. And something of those wonders persists today, in the intimate feeling that reading yet provokes.
The Court Cities Of Northern Italy
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Author : Charles M. Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-21
The Court Cities Of Northern Italy written by Charles M. Rosenberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-21 with Art categories.
The Court Cities of Northern Italy examines painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture produced within the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.
Cuba
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Author : Brendan Sainsbury
language : en
Publisher: EDT srl
Release Date : 2012
Cuba written by Brendan Sainsbury and has been published by EDT srl this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Travel categories.
La Galleria Degli Specchi
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Author : Angelo Barrilari
language : it
Publisher: Gruppo Albatros Il Filo
Release Date : 2023-02-28
La Galleria Degli Specchi written by Angelo Barrilari and has been published by Gruppo Albatros Il Filo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with Fiction categories.
Venti racconti che, partendo da dati attinti dal reale, lo trasfigurano nella metafisica e nel sogno. Queste venti storie sono accomunate da una figura semantica ricorrente e ossessiva: il tema dello specchio, dell’immagine riflessa, dello sdoppiamento dell’io che si traduce in una rappresentazione della crisi d’identità dell’uomo contemporaneo. Tra le righe, altri motivi si rincorrono: labirintiche strutture nelle quali smarrirsi, mura e barriere insormontabili, corridoi e cunicoli, ombre, fantasmi, spettri... E un intero bestiario popolato da ragni, serpenti, struzzi, topi, giraffe, scimmie, formiche, gatti soriani, api, falene… Angelo Barrilari è nato nel 1953 a Pescara dove tuttora vive. Medico internista, avido lettore fin dall’infanzia, appassionato di cinema e di arti visive, frequentatore incallito di cineclub e sale d’essai, collaboratore di fanzines musicali negli anni pionieristici del ciclostile, instancabile collezionista di rarità discografiche e di riviste vintage, inguaribile sognatore. La galleria degli specchi è la sua prima pubblicazione letteraria.
Catalogo Neri Pozza 2000 2015
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Author : Neri Pozza
language : it
Publisher: Neri Pozza Editore
Release Date : 2015-10-30T00:00:00+01:00
Catalogo Neri Pozza 2000 2015 written by Neri Pozza and has been published by Neri Pozza Editore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-30T00:00:00+01:00 with Fiction categories.
Le pagine che seguono illustrano gli ultimi quindici anni di attività della Neri Pozza. Alla vigilia delle celebrazioni per il settantesimo anno di vita delle nostre edizioni – nel 2016 Neri Pozza Editore compie 70 anni– abbiamo deciso di riassumere in un catalogo la forma nuova che ha assunto il progetto che, nel 1946, spinse Neri Pozza a fondare a Venezia una casa editrice che desse voce alle nuove «idee d’arte e poesia» che cominciavano ad affiorare nel dopoguerra, e che avrebbero fatto di quella stagione letteraria una delle più importanti nella storia del nostro paese. Consideriamo i nostri ultimi quindici anni, qui riassunti nelle pagine di un catalogo, una forma nuova dell’antico progetto letterario di Neri Pozza e consideriamo noi stessi una nuova versione del lavoro editoriale come progetto letterario, interamente inserita nel proprio tempo. (dall’introduzione del Direttore editoriale, Giuseppe Russo).
India Del Nord
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Author : Sarina Singh
language : it
Publisher: EDT srl
Release Date : 2010
India Del Nord written by Sarina Singh and has been published by EDT srl this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Travel categories.
Le Palais Des Miroirs
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Author : Amitav Ghosh
language : fr
Publisher: Ed. Techniques Ingénieur
Release Date : 2002
Le Palais Des Miroirs written by Amitav Ghosh and has been published by Ed. Techniques Ingénieur this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
A Mandalay, en 1885, alors que le royaume de Birmanie s'écroule, offrant le triste spectacle d'un roi emmené en exil par les Britanniques, Rajkumar, un orphelin indien de onze ans que le destin des pauvres a jeté sur les rives de l'Irrawaddy, prend sa décision : il sera riche et il retrouvera Dolly, la frêle fillette entrevue dans le Palais des Miroirs livré au pillage, et dont il est tombé irrémédiablement amoureux. Ainsi se nouent les premiers fils d'une prodigieuse saga où le sort des individus est inexorablement lié à celui de nations sur leur déclin ou naissantes, qui s'appellent la Birmanie, la Malaisie et l'Inde. Rajkumar l'indomptable, Dolly, mais aussi Saya John, le vieux patriarche, Uma, la rebelle, Arjun, Alison et Dinu, les tourmentés, sont les héros vibrants d'humanité de cette fresque foisonnante, dont les vies portées par un souffle épique tissent sur trois générations, jusqu'à nos jours, tout un pan fascinant de l'histoire d'un sous-continent encore trop mal connu.