The legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj have seen an eight-person field exhibition die. After startling discoveries, a new expedition is sent back into the Congo--its mission, to descend into the secret world where the only way back out may be through the grisliest death....
A 10th century Arab diplomat is kidnapped by Vikings and forced to confront the ultimate horror ....
Jonathan e Bobby: sono amici inseparabili e poi confidenti e amanti nel corso di un’appassionata e difficile adolescenza a Cleveland, Ohio. La vita, la maturità e il capriccio del destino li separano, per poi farli incontrare a New York solo anni più tardi. Jonathan ora vive con una donna, Clare, la sua amica più cara, la sua compagna più vera. Bobby si trasferisce a casa dei due e, quando comincia una relazione con la ragazza, gli equilibri sentimentali e psicologici dei tre ne vengono lentamente ma inesorabilmente sconvolti. Romando d’esordio dell’autore di Le ore e Carne e sangue, Una casa alla fine del mondo racconta le incertezze dell’amore e la ricerca di un nuovo equilibrio in un mondo che si sforza di non crollare sotto il peso delle convezioni che si sfaldano. Romantico, ribelle, spregiudicato, è stato pubblicato in sedici paesi, e ha fatto conoscere al mondo il talento letterario di Michael Cunningham
"You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil." Written in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, this work captures the essence of being young, poor, and a writer in 1920s Paris. Arriving in 1921 as a correspondent for the Toronto Star, Hemingway found himself in a city undergoing a cultural renaissance post-Great War. Artists like Braque and Picasso were redefining cubism, while literary figures such as James Joyce, fresh from completing Ulysses, and Gertrude Stein, who welcomed Hemingway into her circle, were shaping the era. During these formative years, the unpublished Hemingway gathered inspiration for his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and other future masterpieces. The narrative includes vivid sketches of encounters with a diverse group of artists and writers, some destined for fame, others for obscurity. It also paints a portrait of the Paris that Hemingway experienced—a city of streets, cafés, and bookshops where he battled the challenges of near poverty while honing his craft. This work serves as both an elegy for the expatriate community of the 1920s and a reflection on the complexities of a writer's life.
Testi successivi alla raccolta dei Quarantanove Racconti pubblicati in volumi e riviste, pubblicati originariamente come "Part II" e "Part III" de "The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway"
At forty-eight, Tim Cranmer is a retired secret servant living in rural England, enjoying his manor house, vineyard, and young mistress, Emma. However, his past looms large, embodied in Larry Pettifer, a bored radical don and Tim's former double agent during the Cold War. Their rivalry, rooted in their shared boyhood, resurfaces when both Larry and Emma mysteriously vanish. Tim is left to wonder if they have run off together or if Larry has ensnared Emma in a dangerous game. As he embarks on a search for them, Tim finds himself pursued by his former masters, turning the tables on his role as the hunter. He delves into his past, following Larry and Emma through the perilous terrain of their new alliance. As he navigates the moral complexities of post-Cold War Europe—through the remnants of England after Thatcher and the chaotic landscapes of Moscow and Southern Russia—Tim faces a profound dilemma. Stripped of his past and future, he grapples with his humanity as the values he once fought for begin to erode, and the specter of a reinvigorated Russian empire haunts the remnants of the Soviet dream. This narrative showcases John le Carré at his finest.
'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe- lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...
"A page-turner...Chichton's writing is cinematic, with powerful visual images and nonstop action. This book should come with hot buttered popcorn." NEWSWEEK A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defines their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old.... "The suspense is real." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
I versi satanici non è solo un romanzo straordinario, ricchissimo di immagini e invenzioni, ma è anche un libro che ha diviso l'opinione pubblica mondiale, dando origine a un caso letterario senza precedenti e costringendo il suo autore, sul quale pende una condanna a morte, a una clandestinità perpetua. La storia che viene descritta è un meraviglioso cocktail di realismo e fantasia, una vicenda magica in cui due viaggiatori, miracolosamente scampati a un disastro aereo, si vedono trasformati l'uno in una creatura angelica e l'altro in un essere diabolico. Ormai simboli del Bene e del Male, i due si affronteranno nella più antica e inevitabile delle battaglie, una lotta senza esclusione di colpi destinata a protrarsi in eterno nel tempo e nello spazio, dai più sperduti villaggi indiani alla Londra contemporanea. Un abbagliante mosaico di allegria e disperazione, di finzione e verità.
