Pier Francesco Paolini Books

"A SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS....GET READY FOR IRVING'S MOST RAUCOUS NOVEL TO DATE." --The Boston Globe "Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture or religion to call his own....The novel may not be 'about' India, but Irving's imagined India, which Daruwalla visits periodically, is a remarkable achievement--a pandemonium of servants and clubmen, dwarf clowns and transvestite whores, missionaries and movie stars. This is a land of energetic colliding egos, of modern media clashing with ancient cultures, of broken sexual boundaries." --New York Newsday "HIS MOST DARING AND MOST VIBRANT NOVEL...The story of circus-as-India is told with gusto and delightful irreverence." --Bharati Mukherjee The Washington Post Book World "Ringmaster Irving introduces act after act, until three (or more) rings are awhirl at a lunatic pace....[He] spills characters from his imagination as agilely as improbable numbers of clowns pile out of a tiny car....His Bombay and his Indian characters are vibrant and convincing." --The Wall Street Journal "IRRESISTIBLE...POWERFUL...Irving's gift for dialogue shines." --Chicago Tribune

Transformed by Don Juan from a bent, gray-haired old woman into a sensual sorceress whose mission is to test Castaneda, Dona Soledad turns her mysterious and awesome powers against Castaneda in a struggle that nearly consumes him.

The story of friendship between four African American women who lean on each other while "waiting to exhale": waiting for that man who will take their breath away.

In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as Opus Pistorum) is that book. Here one finds Miller’s characteristic candor, wit, self-mockery, and celebration of the good life. From Marcelle to Tania, to Alexandra, to Anna, and from the Left Bank to Pigalle, Miller sweeps us up in his odyssey in search of the perfect job, the perfect woman, and the perfect experience.

"Una straordinaria meditazione sulla morte e un'amara riflessione sulla perdita di tradizioni e valori antichissimi, nel racconto di un grande rappresentante della letteratura contemporanea." [dalla pagina web di Bompiani]

Nel sud dell’Inghilterra, sulle colline del Berkshire, prolifica una ricca conigliera. Qui vive anche il piccolo Quintilio, spesso preda di sogni premonitori: stavolta il sonno gli ha parlato di un grave pericolo che li minaccia, qualcosa che viene dagli uomini, un presentimento inspiegabile. Come svelare agli altri conigli il rischio che sta per travolgerli? Come metterli in guardia? E cosa fare se il Coniglio Capo non gli crede? Fuggire: bisogna fuggire lontano, attraverso terre sconosciute. Bisogna trovare il coraggio necessario, correre fino allo sfinimento e non lasciarsi mai prendere dallo sconforto. Quintilio non è solo nel suo viaggio: con lui ci sono Moscardo, Parruccone, Mirtillo e tanti altri. Loro sanno attraversare i fiumi, sfuggire alle trappole, lottare con coraggio se c’è un amico da salvare. Anche se il viaggio sembra non finire mai e i nemici sbucano da ogni parte…