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The heart-stopping new novel from Italy's million-copy bestselling author of The Eight Mountains Two brothers reunited high in the Italian Alps, surrounded by the peaks, valleys and nature of a wild, secluded world 'A writer of rare wisdom and grace' Wall Street Journal Alfredo and Luigi grew up in Valsesia, in northern Italy. Their father planted trees for them when they were born: for Luigi, a larch, which looks towards the sun and waves in the wind; for Alfredo, a pine, which flourishes only in the shade. Since their father's untimely death, all the two brothers have in common is their heavy drinking and the old family home, high up on the mountain. Luigi would like to buy Alfredo out, to start a new life down in the valley with Elisabetta and the baby girl they are expecting. But in this remote and wild landscape, one drink too many, one wrong word, can turn dogs into wolves. Translated by Stash Luczkiw Praise for Paolo Cognetti 'Exquisite' Annie Proulx 'Enchanting' Guardian 'Brilliant' New York Times 'Uncommonly beautiful' Vogue 'A masterclass in high-altitude atmosphere' Financial 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

‘Er was eens een jongen die een verdriet met zich meedroeg waarvan hij niet wilde scheiden. Hij nam het overal mee naartoe. Hij liep er elke morgen mee door het dorp naar school. Als hij in de klas ging zitten, nestelde het verdriet zich aan zijn voeten en lag daar dan vijf uur zonder een kik te geven. In het speelkwartier nam de jongen het mee naar de speelplaats, en als de school uitging liep hij in tegenovergestelde richting terug door het dorp, het verdriet aan zijn zijde. Als hij thuiskwam waste hij zijn handen, want dat hadden zijn vader en moeder hem zo geleerd. Daarna deed hij de deur van de ijskast open, keek of er iets voor hem klaarstond, en als dat niet zo was maakte hij spaghetti met tomaat. Vervolgens legde hij een tafelkleed op tafel en at. Het verdriet klom op de stoel naast hem, en terwijl hij at aaide de jongen het. Maar als zijn ouders erbij waren, lag het verdriet aan de voeten van de jongen. Af en toe liet de jongen zijn hand onder tafel verdwijnen en gaf het een stukje brood. De snuit van het verdriet zocht zijn hand, en daarna likte het zijn vingers.’ Elk mens draagt een eigen verdriet met zich mee. Groot of klein, hanteerbaar of onbeheersbaar. In deze poëtische roman onderzoekt Andrea Bajani het wezen van het verdriet.

"For fans of Elena Ferrante, Fredrik Backman, and Paulo Coelho comes the international sensation about the friendship between two young Italian boys from different backgrounds and how their incredibly strong connection evolves, changes, and challenges them throughout their lives. Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family shares is their love for the Dolomites, the mountains that hug the northeastern border of Italy. While on vacation at the foot of the mountains, Pietro meets Bruno, an adventurous, spirited local boy. Together they spend many summers exploring the mountain's meadows and peaks and discover the similarities and differences in their lives, their backgrounds, and their futures. The two boys come to find the true meaning of friendship and camaraderie, even as their divergent paths in life-- Bruno's in the mountains, Pietro's in cosmopolitan cities across the world--test the strength and meaning of their connection. A modern Italian masterpiece, The Eight Mountains is a lyrical coming-of-age story about the power of male friendships and the enduring bond between fathers and sons. "There are no more universal themes than those of the landscape, friendship, and becoming adults, and Cognetti's writing becomes classical (and elegant) to best tell this story.

In the tradition of his books On Beauty and On Ugliness and The Infinity of Lists, Umberto Eco presents an enthralling illustrated tour of the fabled places that have awed and eluded us through the ages. "Eco is one of the most influential thinkers of our time" Los Angeles Times From the epic poems of Homer to contemporary science fiction, from the Holy Scriptures to modern mythology and fairy tale, literature and art are full of illusory places we have at some time believed are real, and onto which we have projected our dreams, ideals and fears. Umberto Eco leads us on an illuminating journey through these legendary lands - Atlantis, Thule and Hyperborea, the Earth's interior and the Land of Cockaigne - and explores utopias and dystopias where our imagination can confront concepts that are too incredible, or too challenging, for our limited real world. In The Book of Legendary Lands the author's text is accompanied by several hundred carefully assembled works of art and literature; the result is a beautifully illustrated volume with broad and enduring appeal. Translated from Italian by Alastair McEwen

Jason, Julia en Rick zijn dol op avontuur. Een villa boven op de rotsen, vol mysterieuze kamers met geheimzinnige sleutels. Een deur die achter een kast verborgen zit en die niet lijkt open te gaan. Maar toch willen Julia, Jason en Rick de deur open maken.

Elke avond legt Pietro zijn oor vol verwachting op de buik van Sara om te horen of daarbinnen iets groeit. Zijn hoop slaat om in wanhoop als Sara maar niet zwanger raakt. Op een dag is ze verdwenen. Het enige wat ze achterlaat is een briefje waarop staat 'Je moeder heeft gebeld, Mario is dood. Wie is Mario?' Die vraag is voor Pietro aanleiding tot een zoektocht in het verleden, waarbij hij stuit op een onverwerkt familietrauma. Mario, de grootvader van Pietro, is ooit als een gebroken man teruggekeerd van het oostfront. Pietro kende hem eigenlijk amper; niemand in zijn familie praatte graag over Mario, en al helemaal niet over diens oorlogsverleden. Na Sara's vertrek besluit Pietro af te reizen naar de rivier de Don, die in de Tweede Wereldoorlog het frontgebied vormde tussen de Russen en de fascistische troepen. Pietro wil weten wat zijn opa daar heeft meegemaakt. Tijdens die eenzame reis zal hij ook zijn relatie met Sara in een ander daglicht gaan zien.

"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?

Tegen de achtergrond van het zeventiende-eeuwse Europa wordt de zoektocht beschreven die de hoofdpersoon onderneemt naar de 180e meridiaan en de liefde die hij opvat voor een onbereikbare schone.

'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.

“The great plague novel.” —The New Yorker Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters—the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister "Unnamed"—in their struggle to be reunited. A vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, The Betrothed's exploration of love, power, and faith presents a whirling panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life and is one of the greatest European historical novels. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer.

Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth