Alberto Pezzotta Book order (chronological)

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.

THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between the individual and society. The second story, which is as modern as the first is ancient, and which elevates the book to a tragic plane, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries. These twin dramas are perfectly harmonized, and they are modulated by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. THINGS FALL APART is the most illuminating and permanent monument we have to the modern African experience as seen from within.

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

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