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A writer resembling Zoé Valdés - a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter - is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement, until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world's avant-garde. Dora became his lover, muse, and ultimately, his victim. She became The Weeping Woman captured in his famous portrait, the mistress he betrayed with other mistress-muses, and their affair ended with her commitment to an asylum at the hands of Picasso's friends.

M. F. K. Fisher's first novel tells of a late-summer idyll at the Swiss farmhouse of Tim and Sara, where guests have gathered at ease on the terrace next to the burbling fountain in which baby lettuces are being washed, there to enjoy the food and wine served them by this stylish American couple. But all around these seemingly fortunate people, the forces of darkness are gathering: The year is 1939; World War II approaches.

The actual facts of Miguel de Cervantes' life seem to be snatched from an epic tale: An impoverished and talented young poet nearly kills a man in a duel and is forced into exile; later, he distinguishes himself in battle and is severely wounded, losing the use of his left hand; on his way back to Spain his ship is captured by pirates and he is sold into slavery in Algiers; after prolonged imprisonment and failed escape attempts, he makes his way back home, eventually settling in a remote village in La Mancha to create his masterpiece....

Dopo tanta vita e tanti abbandoni, tanti libri scritti e tanta nostalgia, in questo nuovo libro Isabel Allende racconta il suo Cile, immaginato e sognato nella distanza. Il racconto disegna, sul filo di una memoria che aggira i fatti troppo intimi, un paesaggio interiore dove aleggiano gli spiriti dei defunti e dove i ricordi si sovrappongono senza un ordine cronologico.

"Je m'appelle Marion. Je ne suis pas très grande, contrairement à ce qu'essaie de me faire croire Christian Louboutin. J'ai les cheveux bouclés et les yeux verts (marron-verts) (surtout marron). Avant de trouver l'homme de ma vie, j'ai eu pas mal d'histoires - je dis ça sans me vanter, elles ont toutes mal fini - le célibat, je connais donc. Je suis passée par là, et repassée et re-repassée en cherchant mon chemin. Je pensais que le grand amour m'apporterait toutes les réponses. Devinez quoi ? Il pose de nouvelles questions."

Eine polyamouröse Clique, eine Schildkröte und ein schweigendes Kind fliehen aus der Stadt in ein Haus an der Küste. Sie flüchten vor der Langweile, vor sich selbst und ihrer eigenen Geschichte. Denn jemand ist gestorben. "Meine Gedanken sind nicht gut, und meistens folgen ihnen Taten", schreibt Anna in ihrem Tagebuch, mit dem sie auf Anraten ihres Therapeuten die Reise akribisch dokumentiert.

Jende Jonga, ein in New York lebender kamerunischer Einwanderer, ist auf der Suche nach einem besseren Leben für sich, seine Frau Neni und den sechsjährigen Sohn in die USA gekommen. Jende kann sein Glück kaum fassen, als er im Herbst 2007 den Job als Fahrer von Clark Edwards ergattert, einem leitenden Manager bei Lehman Brothers. Clark verlangt Pünktlichkeit, Diskretion und Loyalität - und Jende will um jeden Preis gefallen.

"Demain, on reprendrait le bateau, le train, puis Hélène un taxi et l'avion, on quitterait l'odeur de citron. Mais là, seul avec Hélène sur le port de Procida, j'ai eu l'impression que j'étais amoureux. Elle n'avait pas besoin d'un confident, j'ai réalisé, elle avait besoin de quelqu'un qui mangerait ce qu'elle commandait pour lui. Hélène était facile à aimer : il suffisait d'avoir faim. C'était simple et je me sentais important de l'avoir compris."

1977 : Martin Radford, jeune historien londonien dont la carrière universitaire a été brisée par un scandale, arrive sur l'île de Madère. Il y rencontre Leo Sellick, un millionnaire sud-américain, qui habite une superbe villa, naguère propriété du mystérieux Edwin Strafford, mort en 1951. Homme politique de premier ordre, promis à un brillant avenir, Edwin Strafford a été en 1908, à l'âge de 32 ans, ministre de l'intérieur du cabinet Asquith, aux côtés de Lloyd George et de Churchill, avant de démissionner brutalement en 1910 et de quitter la vie politique sans explication aucune pour disparaître dans l'anonymat.

When Jon and Ray form a tight friendship, they find in each other everything they lack at home, but it’s not until Ray falls in love with beautiful, headstrong Karen Dorsey that the three friends begin to dream of breaking away from Brewster for good. Freedom, however, has its price. As forces beyond their control begin to bear down on them, Jon sets off on the race of his life - a race to redeem his past and save them all.

A heartbreaking and darkly funny depiction of the intricacies of family, Unquiet is an elegy of memory and loss, identity and art, growing up and growing old. Linn Ullmann nimbly blends memoir and fiction in her most inventive novel yet, weaving a luminous meditation on language, mourning, and the many narratives that make up a life.

Barney Panofsky - Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur - is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival’s autobiography. Whether it’s ranting about his bohemian misadventures during the 1950s in Paris, his tumultuous three marriages, or his successful trashy TV company, Totally Unnecessary Productions, he quickly proves that his memory may be slipping, but his bile isn’t.

In the cold spring of 1936, Arthor Crandle, down-on-his luck and desperate for work, accepts a position in Providence, Rhode Island, as a live-in assistant for an unnamed shut-in. He arrives at the gloomy colonial-style house to discover that his strange employer is an author of disturbing, bizarre fiction. Health issues have confined him to his bedroom, where he is never to be disturbed. But the writer, who Crandle knows only as "Ech-Pi", refuses to meet him, communicating only by letters left on a table outside his room.

Nobel Prize-winning writer André Gide lays bare his adolescent psyche in this early work, first conceived and published as part of his novel The Notebooks of André Walter, completed when he was just 20 years old. This profoundly personal work draws heavily on his religious upbringing and private journals to tell the story of a young man who, like the author, pines for his forbidden love, Cousin Emmanuelle. This unique portrait of Gide as a young man presents the passions and conflicts, temptations and anguish he would explore in maturity.

In a riveting novel rooted in one of American history's great "what ifs," Jim Lehrer tells the story of two men haunted by the events leading up to John F. Kennedy's assassination. November 22, 1963. As Air Force One touches down in Dallas, ambitious young newspaper reporter Jack Gilmore races to get the scoop on preparations for President Kennedy's motorcade. Will the bubble top on the presidential limousine be up or down? Down, according to veteran Secret Service agent Van Walters.

Sie war ein Idol, doch ihre Liebe wurde zur Gefahr. Renate Müller - sie war in den 30er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts eine Ikone des deutschen Films. Selbst die Nazigrößen vergötterten sie und versuchten, sie für ihre Zwecke einzusetzen und zu missbrauchen. Doch ihre Liebe zu einem Juden machte sie zur persona ingrata und brachte sie in höchste Gefahr.

La famiglia Kovačič nel 1938 viene espulsa dalla Svizzera ed e costretta a tornare a Lubiana, città d'origine del padre. Il piccolo Lojze ha dieci anni e, prima di lasciare Basilea, immagina il paese paterno come un luogo meraviglioso e fiabesco, sogna di galoppare su cavalli selvaggi e navigare su grandi fiumi. La realtà però è un'altra e lo capirà già durante il durissimo viaggio che dovrà affrontare, ma soprattutto nella difficolta ad adattarsi a un mondo altro, diverso, in cui i suoi sforzi e quelli della sua famiglia per adeguarsi alla realtà dell'esilio sembrano vani.

Il 7 ottobre 1967 Ernesto Che Guevara resta imbottigliato con un piccolo gruppo di guerriglieri in una "quebrada" della foresta. Consegnatosi ai soldati, il Che viene trasportato nel vicino paesino di La Higuera dove è rinchiuso nel locale della scuola. Il 9 ottobre a un soldato scelto a sorte tocca il compito di uccidere il ferito, il cui cadavere viene poi trasportato all'ospedale di Vallegrande per essere mostrato a fotografi e giornalisti.

Un bambino fragile, che sogna la vita e guarda con occhi colmi di meraviglia il mondo intorno a sé, cresce con il dono della fantasia, sensibile ai sentimenti e alle emozioni. Con la stessa intensità, sente i luoghi che attraversa: Fès, la sua città natale, la bianca Tétouan chiusa fra le montagne; Tangeri e Casablanca, le città della vita adulta, porte socchiuse verso l'Europa, e infine Parigi, dove arriverà da studente, innamorato timido alle prese con donne sfuggenti, per iniziare una nuova vita.

Garcilaso de la Vega, detto El Inca, il primo vero storico della conquista del Nuovo Mondo, il primo a fermare sulla carta la memoria dei vinti negli anni stessi in cui i conquistadores la dissipavano, era figlio naturale di un capitano spagnolo e di una principessa inca di Cozco, nel Perù. Il suo raro destino volle che, appena adulto lui, iniziato il cursus honorum di uomo di lettere e di chiesa nella Spagna di fine Cinquecento, già scomparisse la cultura complessa e forte nella quale era nato e da cui bambino, la sua mente aveva fissato i primi quadri indimenticabili dell'esperienza.