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Susanna Basso

    Lessons
    Levels of Life
    Atonement
    The Moons of Jupiter
    Lives of girls and women
    Amica della mia giovinezza
    • Amica della mia giovinezza

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      Georgia incontra Maya a una cena, sono entrambe «mogli» e si riappropriano del loro essere donne diventando migliori amiche. Fino a quando Georgia non conosce un uomo e Maya tradisce la sua fiducia, o forse la mette soltanto di fronte alla realtà. Non si parleranno più. Brenda invece ha un amante, Neil, lo incontra di nascosto in un bosco, dentro a un furgone e questo basta a entrambi, sembra perfetto. Poi qualcosa si incrina, lui non lo capisce ma Brenda sa che finiranno con l'odiarsi, e che quella loro passione è destinata a svanire. Anita e Margot invece si rivedono dopo anni, sono state inseparabili, il passato le ha divise ma in quello stesso passato forse ritroveranno il bisogno l'una dell'altra. In questa raccolta di racconti, la settima di Alice Munro, ci sono i paesaggi senza fine del Canada e le donne e gli uomini che in tutto quello spazio si avvicinano, si feriscono, si lasciano e poi continuano a vivere. E c'è la scrittura di un'autrice che raggiunge una consapevolezza e una maturità assolute, ed è in grado di definire con un dettaglio l'essenza di una vita.

      Amica della mia giovinezza
    • Lives of girls and women

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
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      Del Jordan's scrapbook of memories records a young girl changing from childhood to adolescence._

      Lives of girls and women
    • The Moons of Jupiter

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
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      THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of human contact.

      The Moons of Jupiter
    • Atonement

      • 375 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
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      Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

      Atonement
    • Levels of Life

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
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      Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. "You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed..." One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as "an unparalleled magus of the heart." This book confirms that opinion.

      Levels of Life
    • While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes, and he is left alone with their baby son. Her disappearance sparks a journey of discovery that will continue for decades, as Roland confronts the reality of his rootless existence and attempts to embrace the uncertainty - and freedom - of his future.

      Lessons
    • Machines Like Me

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions- what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.

      Machines Like Me
    • Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man- a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a grow

      Saturday
    • Solar

      • 390 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
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      Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, 'Solar' is a serious and darkly satirical novel, showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time. It is a story of one man's greed and self-deception

      Solar
    • Super ET: Espiazione

      • 381 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      All'età di tredici anni, in un caldo giorno d'estate del 1935, Briony Tallis sente di essere diventata una scrittrice. La sera stessa, accusando di un crimine odioso un innocente, commette l'errore che la segnerà per tutta la vita. Eppure la giornata era iniziata sotto i migliori auspici. C'era la commedia da mettere in scena, i cugini arrivati dal nord per trascorrere qualche tempo in casa Tallis, e da Londra era atteso l'amatissimo fratello Leon con un amico, industriale della cioccolata. Soltanto la sorella maggiore Cecilia impensieriva Briony, con quel suo misterioso rapporto che la legava a Robbie Turner, il figlio della loro donna di servizio. Tutti i personaggi entrano in scena ma, nella commedia della vita, non ci sono prove prima della recita e ogni gesto assume un carattere definitivo. Presto, sarà troppo tardi per fermare la macchina dell'ingiustizia e la guerra arriverà a spazzare via il vecchio mondo con le sue raffinate ipocrisie.

      Super ET: Espiazione