“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
Stefano Benni's enormously popular and distinctive mix of the absurd and the satirical has made him one of Italy’s best-loved novelists. This is his twelfth bestselling book of fiction. Fifteen-year-old Margherita lives with her eccentric family on the
Este apasionante estudio de Maurizio Viroli, que reivindica al tan vapuleado Nicolás Maquiavelo (1469-1527) como uno de los más inteligentes historiadores y pensadores políticos de todos los tiempos, es el mejor pórtico de la nueva colección Tiempo d
In this courageous, inventive, and intelligent novel, Viola di Grado tells the story of a suicide and what follows. She has given voice to an astonishing vision of life after life, portraying the awful longing and sense of loss that plague the dead, toget
Palermo in the 1980s. Fourteen hours from any place in what one might call the civilized world, a city of great beauty but torn by the second great Mafia gang wars. A perfect place for a young crime reporter to get his start.As our crime reporter looks ba
It is Christmas Eve. Sitting on the steps of the village church in front of an enormous bonfire lit in celebration of the season, a father and his son exchange stories. The father speaks of life as an emigrant from Italy, in perpetual limbo between depart
Il vecchio barone Lamberto, assai ricco e molto malato, vive con un maggiordomo in una villa sull'isola di San Giulio. Purtroppo deve fare i conti con un nipote avido e dei terribili banditi; senza contare uno stuolo di personaggi, di cui si circonda, imp
"Luca Spaghetti is not only one of my favorite people in the world, but also a natural-born storyteller. . . . This [is a] marvelous book." -Elizabeth Gilbert When Luca Spaghetti (yes, that's really his name) was asked to show a writer named Elizabeth Gil
Poisonville is a noir thriller par excellence-there's murder, moral ambiguity, and a protagonist less than heroic. In this #1 bestselling noir novel, however, the killer is not an individual but an entire system. The heavily industrialized northeast, Ital
It is 1938 and fascist Italy has imposed its infamous race laws. A young Jewish professor entertains a tormented passion for the beautiful and enigmatic Sonia. She is everything that he is not: the privileged daughter of a family that is wealthy, prominen
Massimo Carlotto has been described as “the reigning king of Mediterranean noir” (Boston Phoenix), “more noir than even the toughest American noir” (Josh Bazell, author of Beat the Reaper), “about as gritty as they come” (The New York Times),
![Antony Cummins' and Yoshie Minami's 'The Book of Ninja [The First Complete Translation of the Bansenshukai (Japan's Premier Ninja Manual)]'](https://cdn.pdfdrive.com/assets/thumbs/271/27140fbb22a0f9babde875c5a6f11f06-s.jpg "Antony Cummins' and Yoshie Minami's 'The Book of Ninja [The First Complete Translation of the Bansenshukai (Japan's Premier Ninja Manual)]'")
