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A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who represent the story of a nation and the nature of friendship.

First there was the insomnia.Then there were the support groups that helped him sleep.Then Marla Singer turned up, muscled in on ascending bowel cancer and ruined everything.Then he met Tyler Durden. Then came Fight Club. Fight Club is the psychological story of a man's descent into an underground world of violence. Mild mannered product recall specialist by day, tortured insomniac by night, our narrator meets Tyler Durden - part-time projectionist, banquet waiter, soap-maker and anarchic genius. Together they create Fight Club.

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.

"Je m'appelle Virginie. Aujourd'hui, de Nina, Adrien et Étienne, seul Adrien me parle encore. Nina me méprise. Quant à Étienne, c'est moi qui ne veux plus de lui. Pourtant, ils me fascinent depuis l'enfance. Je ne me suis jamais attachée qu'à ces trois-là." 1986. Adrien, Étienne et Nina se rencontrent en CM2. Très vite, ils deviennent fusionnels et une promesse les unit : quitter leur province pour vivre à Paris et ne jamais se séparer. 2017. Une voiture est découverte au fond d'un lac dans le hameau où ils ont grandi.

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.

Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938 and has featured a number of actors who have played the iconic roles of George and Lennie on stage and film, including James Earl Jones, John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.

A Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the deceptively mild Miss Marple with Ian Lavender, Joan Sims and Susannah Harker. Elspeth McGillicuddy is down from Scotland for a holiday and boards the 4:50 train from Paddington station to visit her friend, Miss Marple. During the journey, another train pulls alongside, and through the window Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a tall, dark man strangling a blonde woman. She reports what she has seen, yet no one takes any notice.

Amós Oz é o mais importante escritor israelense da atualidade. Candidato constante ao prêmio Nobel, fez de sua obra uma reflexão profunda sobre o destino do povo judeu. Quais cicatrizes a história turbulenta do país deixou sobre seus habitantes? Que marcas imprime no indivíduo uma vida atravessada pela guerra? Há solução possível para um conflito que remonta a tempos imemoriais?

Au grand jeu du destin, Mimo a tiré les mauvaises cartes. Né pauvre, il est confié en apprentissage à un sculpteur de pierre sans envergure. Mais il a du génie entre les mains. Toutes les fées ou presque se sont penchées sur Viola Orsini. Héritière d'une famille prestigieuse, elle a passé son enfance à l'ombre d'un palais génois. Mais elle a trop d'ambition pour se résigner à la place qu'on lui assigne.

O que acontece quando um diário perdido cai nas mãos da pessoa certa? Catando mariscos na praia de uma remota ilha do Canadá, a escritora Ruth se depara com um saco plástico coberto de cracas que envolve uma lancheira da Hello Kitty. Dentro, encontra o livro de Marcel Proust, Em busca do tempo perdido, e se surpreende ao descobrir que na verdade se trata do diário da menina japonesa, Nao.

Ya en el título de esta novela de Mario Vargas Llosa se recoge la doble historia en que se vertebra su argumento: por un lado, la relación amorosa del joven escritor Varguitas con una mujer de su familia mayor que él, la tía Julia; y por otro, la desaforada presencia del folletinista Pedro Camacho en la misma emisora de radio donde Varguitas trabaja.

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant Nobel-prize-nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them.

Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses. It takes in calculating beauties and sadistic husbands along with such real-life supporting characters as Colette, the Duchess of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, and Tallulah Bankhead. Above all, this malevolently funny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.

Sucesso de crítica e best-seller em todo o universo de língua espanhola, A uruguaia é uma epopeia tragicômica sobre a busca pela felicidade. A uruguaia apresenta o argentino Pedro Mairal, um dos narradores mais destacados da nova literatura latino-americana. Este romance divertido e apaixonante sobre afetos, crise conjugal, autoengano e busca pela felicidade mostra, através das peripécias sentimentais de um escritor recém-chegado aos quarenta anos, como devemos enfrentar as promessas que fazemos e não cumprimos e as diferenças entre aquilo que somos e o que realmente gostaríamos de ser.

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s NO LONGER HUMAN narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a “clown” to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.

Um retrato vertiginoso e emocionante do luto e da depressão. Ao descrever um episódio aterrador que transformará em definitivo a vida das pessoas ao seu redor, o narrador deste livro investiga as ambivalências dos laços afetivos, equilibrados entre a beleza e a fragilidade.

Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he brings back to life in a Frankenstein-esque feat. But his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for his creation... But what does Bella think?

Os dez contos reunidos neste livro foram publicados por Lygia Fagundes Telles entre 1958 e 1981. Todos, de alguma maneira, mereceriam o título emprestado pelo primeiro deles à coletânea. São histórias de homens e mulheres, crianças e adultos flagrados em seus sentimentos mais secretos e em sua relação espinhosa com a vida à sua volta. Em "Um Coração Ardente", um rapaz se apaixona por uma moça sem saber que ela é prostituta e, depois, tenta regenerá-la.

Quase 70 anos depois de ser escrito, chega ao Brasil o romance inédito de Simone de Beauvoir com uma história fundamental para a formação de uma das mais importantes intelectuais do século XX. Escrito em 1954, cinco anos após a publicação de O segundo sexo, As inseparáveis é o romance autobiográfico que conta a história da amizade passional que uniu Sylvie (Simone de Beauvoir) e Andrée (Élisabeth Lacoin, a Zaza).