Alberto Pezzotta Books

Nuova edizione riveduta e aggiornata del "Dizionario dei film" di Paolo Mereghetti, critico cinematografico e giornalista, inviato del "Corriere della Sera", autore di saggi su vari registi e vincitore nel 2001 del Premio Flaiano per la critica cinematografica. Questa edizione del dizionario è stata arricchita con i film usciti negli ultimi due anni nelle sale, ma anche in videocassetta, DVD o programmati per la prima volta nei canali tematici, con nuove schede di film importanti, curiosi o solo strani usciti nei cento e più anni di vita della settima arte. 2 volumi in cofanetto; il secondo con gli indici: degli attori, dei titoli originali, dei registi

Few subjects in American life prompt as much discussion and rancor as immigration. The renowned author Suketu Mehta offers a reality-based polemic that clarifies this debate. Drawing on his experience as an Indian-born teenager in New York City and years of global reporting, Mehta scrutinizes the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash. He argues that the West is not being destroyed by immigrants but by the fear of them. From Dubai to New York City, he contrasts the narratives of populist ideologues with the ordinary heroism of laborers and domestic workers. Mehta takes readers on a poignant journey to San Diego and Tijuana, where a border fence divides families and damages lives. He explains why more people are on the move today than ever before, as civil strife and climate change reshape the planet, leading to increasingly porous borders. Additionally, he highlights the destructive legacies of colonialism and global inequality, asserting that when today's immigrants are asked, "Why are you here?" they can respond, "We are here because you were there." Mehta contends that immigrants bring significant benefits, enabling communities to flourish. Impassioned and rigorous, this work is an urgent intervention and a literary argument of the highest order.

“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.