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Age of Iron
€13,50by J.M. Coetzee
Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday Express Book of the Year award-winner Age of Iron.
In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors: the hounding by the police of her servant’s son, the burning of a nearby black township, the murder by security forces of a teenage activist who seeks refuge in her house. Through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man who one day appears on her doorstep.
In Age of Iron, J. M. Coetzee brings his searing insight and masterful control of language to bear on one of the darkest episodes of our times.
‘Quite simply a magnificent and unforgettable work’ Daily Telegraph
‘A superbly realized novel whose truth cuts to the bone’ The New York Times
‘A remarkable work by a brilliant writer’ Wall Street Journal
South African author J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice for his novels Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K. His novel, Foe, an exquisite reinvention of the story of Robinson Crusoe is also available in Penguin paperback.
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Remembering Babylon
€10,00by David Malouf
A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focussing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines. Remembering Bablyon tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds. Shot through with humour, and written with the poetic intensity that characterised Malouf’s An Imaginary Life, this is a novel of epic scope yet it is simple, compassionate and universal: a classic.
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Angels & Insects
€12,00di A.S. Byatt
Like A.S. Byatt’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studies. In The Conjugal Angel, curious individuals – some fictional, others drawn from history – gather to connect with the spirit world. Throughout both, Byatt examines the eccentricities of the Victorian era, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance, science and faith into a sumptuous, magical tapestry.
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Joseph Knight
€12,00by James Robertson
‘A book of such quality as to persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the writer.’
Daily Telegraph
A gripping, shocking story of history, enlightement and slavery from the bestselling author of THE FANATIC. JOSPEH KNIGHT confirms James Robertson as one of our foremost novelists.
Exiled to Jamaica after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Sir John Wedderburn made a fortune, alongside his three brothers, as a faux surgeon and sugar planter. In the 1770s, he returned to Scotland to marry and re-establish the family name. He brought with him Joseph Knight, a black slave and a token of his years in the Caribbean.
Now, in 1802, Sir John Wedderburn is settling his estate, and has hired a solicitor’s agent, Archibald Jamieson, to search for his former slave. The past has haunted Wedderburn ever since Culloden, and ever since he last saw Knight, in court twenty-four years ago, in a case that went to the heart of Scottish society, pitting master against slave, white against black, and rich against poor.
As long as Knight is missing, Wedderburn will never be able to escape the past. Yet what will he do if Jamieson’s search is successful? And what effect will this re-opening of old wounds have on those around him? Meanwhile, as Jamieson tries to unravel the true story of Joseph Knight he begins to question his own motivation. How can he possibly find a man who does not want to be found?
James Robertson’s second novel is a tour de force, the gripping story of a search for a life that stretches over sixty years and moves from battlefields to the plantations of Jamaica, from Enlightenment Edinburgh to the back streets of Dundee. It is a moving narrative of history, identity and ideas, that dramatically retells a fascinating but forgotten episode of Scottish history.
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The Scarlet Letter
€4,50by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
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Nadalrimando
€11,50di Andrea Mazzei
“Nadalrimando” è un’opera prima.
Attraverso queste poesie, l’autore recupera i ricordi dalla sua prima infanzia fino ai giorni nostri, del periodo più magico dell’anno, il Natale, .
Poesie scritte, per l’appunto, in rima, da qui “rimando”, ma anche “ritorno” ad immagini, sensazioni ed emozioni indelebili che appartengono al vissuto di ognuno di noi.
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Sport e disabilità
€16,00di Paolo Dell’Aquila e Donatella Donati
In questo volume si espone la nascita del sistema sport moderno, dominato dalla razionalizzazione, dalla quantificazione e dalla globalizzazione, che ha dato origine, in età contemporanea, alle grandi cerimonie sportive.
La “sportivizzazione” genera i mega eventi sportivi, con particolare riferimento all’atletica per normodotati e, in seguito, all’atletica per disabili. Sono raccontati l’emergere ed il funzionamento dei giochi olimpici e poi paralimpici e le modalità con cui essi hanno favorito l’inclusione e lo sviluppo di una mentalità maggiormente ecocompatibile e relazionale.
Nella seconda parte questo saggio racconta come lo sport per persone con disabilità, utilizzato in ambito medico per la riabilitazione, è giunto ad essere ciò̀ che è oggi. Dopo il sintetico ritratto dei suoi due capostipiti: Ludwig Guttman e Antonio Maglio, vengono ripercorse le tappe evolutive principali del movimento Paralimpico e della sua Mission. Infine, viene evidenziata sia l’importanza dell’attività sportiva per le persone con disabilità intellettivo-relazionale, che la carenza di sostegni preventivi orientati all’acquisizione di stili di vita attivi. In conclusione si sottolinea il processo inclusivo realizzato attraverso la pratica sportiva sorretta dalla presa in carico socio-sanitaria ed educativa.
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Roffeno
€20,00Ricerche su una comunità montana di fine Cinquecento
di Claudia Evangelisti
L’autrice riesce a conoscere uno per uno i quattrocento abitanti circa di Roffeno e a seguirne le vicende, le storie personali, l’ascesa o la decadenza, verificando come, nonostante tutto, all’interno di un mondo apparentemente immobile, sia possibile riscontrare forme di mobilità sociale.” (Ottavia Niccoli)
Una minuscola comunità dell’Appennino bolognese del VXI secolo, i suoi abitanti, lo loro storie personali e le loro relazioni. Fra banditi e notai, conflitti e ricomposizioni, scritture e voci, ecco una ricerca che racconta vite normali di donne e uomini, l’inevitabile disordine delle loro esistenze e i loro movimenti all’interno di un mondo all’apparenza immobile.
