Mario Biondi Books

These richly hypnotic tales enfold the reader into Isaac Bashevis Singer's special world of imps, demons, lovers, and other mischievous creatures. His world is a world of feelings, driven by lust, lechery, greed, madness, and love. All of his creatures are seen with a clear but loving eye; all seem and are in fact possessed by good and evil, caught in fascinating dilemmas, now terrible, now wryly comic. Here is a dazzling new collection of stories from the fertile genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of today's most entertaining and original writers. (from back cover)

È un giorno di ottobre del 1882 e Josef Breuer, psichiatra geniale e medico personale di artisti e filosofi a Vienna, si trova al Caffè Sorrento con Lou Salomé, una giovane donna di straordinaria bellezza. Lou lo ha convocato per una questione urgente che coinvolge il futuro della filosofia tedesca. Preoccupata per la vita del suo amico Friedrich Nietzsche, lo descrive come un pensatore in profonda prostrazione, afflitto da sintomi gravi: emicrania, cecità parziale, nausea, insonnia, febbri e anoressia, che lo portano a usare morfina in dosi pericolose. Breuer, stimato medico e futuro padre della psicanalisi, è oppresso dai legami della vita borghese e turbato dalla sua paziente Bertha. Attraverso Lou, apprende della disperazione di Nietzsche, che diventerà il suo illustre paziente. Breuer sottoporrà il filosofo alle sue cure, convinto che la guarigione del corpo passi attraverso quella dell’anima. Durante le sedute, si instaurerà un dialogo profondo e coinvolgente, in cui Breuer cercherà di scoprire le radici del male oscuro di Nietzsche e indurlo ad aprirsi.

1954, Stati Uniti: San Pedro è un'isola di rara bellezza, ma così sperduta che nessuno dei suoi abitanti può permettersi di avere nemici. Quando però un pescatore muore in circostanze sospette e un membro della locale comunità giapponese viene accusato di omicidio, il precario equilibrio del microcosmo si dissolve sotto la bufera dei pregiudizi, delle differenze culturali ed etniche, dei rancori sedimentati nel corso degli anni.

Sean Courtney goes to South Africa in the late 19th century to begin farming.

Italian

In 1860 Robyn Ballantyne and her brother return to Africa to search for their missing father and face the terrors of near certain death and the uncertainties of love in the heart of the Dark Continent

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/Faulkner Award Winner • A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom suspense—one that leaves us shaken and changed. "Haunting .... A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper." —Los Angeles Times San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries—memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched.

High in the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There he finds the intense comradeship of war. And there he finds Maria who has escaped from Franco’s rebels.

Rebecca Navarro, Best-Selling Authoress Of Regency Romances, Suffers A Paralysing Stroke. Assisted By Her Nurse, Rebecca Plans Her Revenge On Her Unfaithful Husband. But Will Freddy Royle, Hospital Trustee, Celebrity And Necrophiliac, Thwart Those Plans? Dave Thornton, Soccer Thug, Has Lost His Heart To Flawed Beauty Samantha Worthington. Together They Go In Search Of The Man Who Marketed The Drug That Crippled Her - In Order To Cripple Him. Lloyd From Leith Has A Transfiguring Passion For The Unhappily Married Heather. Together They Explore The True Nature Of House Music And Chemical Romance. Will Their Ardour Fizzle And Die In The Grim Backstreets Of Edinburgh, Or Will It Ignite And Blaze Like A Thousand Suns?