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'Could Cognetti be the new Elena Ferrante?' Bookseller The international sensation that spent a year on the Italian bestseller list about two young boys who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow up to become 'ENCHANTING' Guardian 'BRILLIANT' New York Times 'ABSORBING' Irish Times Pietro, a lonely city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his father's dreams and passions. There, too, he meets Bruno, the son of a local stonemason. As the pair run wild, they form a once-in-a-lifetime friendship. Then one year, the summer visits stop. Pietro is drawn to cities around the world. But the memory of the mountains never leaves him and, after his father dies, he returns in search of the freedom and camaraderie that he once knew. 'Exquisite... A rich, achingly painful story' ANNIE PROULX Winner of the 2017 Strega Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Prix Medicis etranger

'On Beauty' is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times.

From the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains comes a story of love and community in the wild beauty of the Italian AlpsThe remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda lives by the seasons. These quiet, complex rhythms appeal to Fausto, who has left the city of Milan behind, and with it his relationship. He takes a job as chef in a little restaurant and entrusts himself to new beginnings.Silvia is also seeking change: her sights are on the glaciers where, she has read, climbing a thousand metres towards the sky is equivalent to travelling ten times the same distance to the north. She is in search of her personal North Pole.When Fausto and Silvia meet one night, their story begins: a tender story of love and renewal; of the community that sustains them; and of lives humbled by the implacable strength and beauty of the mountains.As intimate in focus as it is epic in scope, The Lovers is a luminous meditation on our quest to understand our place in one another's lives, and in the magnificence of the world around us.Praise for The Eight Mountains:'Exquisite... A rich, achingly painful story' Annie Proulx'Enchanting' Guardian'Brilliant' New York Times

Acompaña a los gemelos Jason y Julia en este primer episodio de la serie «Ulysses Moore» y descubre un nuevo y excitante mundo repleto de misterios, acción y aventuras. Cuando los gemelos Jason y Julia Covenant y sus padres llegan a Villa Argo, una casa antigua situada junto a un acantilado, el mayordomo, Néstor, loes advierte de que no utilicen una de sus puertas bajo ningún concepto. Desde el primer día, Jason tiene claro que la casa esconde algún secreto, y él y su hermana están decididos a descubrirlo. Encontrarán un paquete con un mensaje en clave que deberán descifrar si quieren seguir hurgando en el poderoso misterio que esconde Villa Argo... ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia have just moved from London to an old mansion on the English coast. Their new home is filled with twisting tunnels and strange artifacts from around the world, and the twins can't wait to discover all its secrets. Before long, Jason, Julia, and their friend Rick stumble upon a mysterious-looking door hidden behind an old wardrobe. But none of the keys in the house will open it. What lies behind the door? And why has someone tried to conceal it? Jason, Julia, and Rick are determined to find out, no matter what it takes....

Die Geschichte zweier ungleicher Brüder Zwei Bäume pflanzte ein Vater vor seinem Haus, einen für jedes Kind. Der erste, eine Lärche, ist wie Luigi, hart und zerbrechlich. In 37 Jahren hat Luigi nie das Tal verlassen, seine Frau Betta und er verliebten sich beim Baden in den Flusstümpeln zwischen den weißen Birken. Nun erwarten sie ein kleines Mädchen. Der zweite Baum, die robustere Fichte, die auf der Schattenseite gedeiht, ist wie der streitsüchtige Fredo. Vor Jahren kehrte er seiner Heimat den Rücken. Jetzt ist er ins Tal zurückgekehrt, um sich nach dem Tod des Vaters vom Elternhaus und seiner Herkunft zu befreien. Die beiden Brüder trennt mehr als sie verbindet und doch wachsen ihre Wurzeln in derselben Erde ... Paolo Cognetti erzählt die spannende, verdichtete Geschichte eines Loyalitätskonflikts. Nicht nur die Natur im Piemont wird auf wundervolle Weise in Worte gebannt, sondern auch seine eigenwilligen Menschen, die sich durch den Einzug der Moderne und des Fortschritts unwiederbringlich verändern müssen.

"The Prague Cemetery" is the latest international bestseller from Umberto Eco, author of "The Name of the Rose." Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with political and religious conspiracies from Turin to Prague to Paris. What if, behind it all, lay one lone man determining the fate of the Continent?

<i>Foucault's Pendulum</i> is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic significance within the novel. Bored with their work, and after reading too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, three vanity publisher employees (Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon) invent their own conspiracy for fun. They call this satirical intellectual game "The Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real. The three become increasingly obsessed with The Plan, and sometimes forget that it's just a game. Worse still, other conspiracy theorists learn about The Plan, and take it seriously. Belbo finds himself the target of a real secret society that believes he possesses the key to the lost treasure of the Knights Templar. Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semioticadventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.

Een Siciliaanse politiecommissaris wordt geconfronteerd met het lijk van een jonge vrouw die gewurgd op haar bed wordt aangetroffen.

A student of philosophy in 1970s Milan, Casaubon is completing a thesis on the Templars, a monastic knighthood disbanded in the 1300s for questionable practices. At Pilades Bar, he meets up with Jacopo Belbo, an editor of obscure texts at Garamond Press. Together, with Belbo's colleague Distallevi, they scrutinize the fantastic theories of a prospective author, Colonel Ardenti, who claims that for seven centuries the Templars have been carrying out a complex scheme of revenge. When Ardenti disappears mysteriously, the three begin using their detailed knowledge of the occult sciences to construct a Plan for the Templars - only to discover too late that the Plan they have invented is in fact real. As brilliant and quirky as his Name of the rose, this book (not a novel in the strict sense of the word) is full of puns, allusions and literary references and "information" playfully and masterly manipulated by Eco