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The Almond Picker

The Almond Picker

2006 ·
·3.53·685 Ratings ·315 Pages
“ Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. ” ― Rumi
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  • La zia marchesa

    2006··Italian
    ·3.75·307 Ratings
    Seconda metà dell’Ottocento. La Montagnazza. Agrigento. Amalia vive con la nipote Pinuzza in condizioni di estrema indigenza in una delle molte grotte scavate nella pietra. Le occupazioni quotidiane vanno molto spesso di pari passo con i racconti di qu
  • Boccamurata

    2007··Italian
    ·3.3·161 Ratings
  • La monaca

    2010··Italian
    ·3.37·131 Ratings
    Messina, 15 agosto 1839. In casa del maresciallo don Peppino Padellani di Opiri, fervono i preparativi per la festa dell'Assunzione della Vergine. È forse l'ultimo giorno sereno nella vita di Agata, innamorata del ricco Giacomo Lepre e da lui ricambiata.
  • Five Moral Pieces

    2002·
    ·3.79·655 Ratings
    Embracing the web of multiculturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in today's
  • Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism

    2007·
    ·3.73·362 Ratings
    The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Umberto Eco’s response is a provocative, passionate, and witty ser
  • Experiences in translation

    2001·
    ·3.98·242 Ratings
    In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. An author whose works have appeared in many languages, Eco i
  • It's Getting Later All the Time

    2006·
    ·3.58·139 Ratings
    From Italy, an epistolary novel like no other, full of Tabucchi's special "enchantment, which trans-figures even as it captivates" (TLS).In It's Getting Later All the Time, an epistolary novel with a twist, Antonio Tabucchi"internationally acclaimed as th
  • Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition

    2000·
    ·3.78·757 Ratings
    How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on linguistic resources? Here, in six remarkable essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth questions of reality, perce
  • La Folie Baudelaire

    2014·
    ·4.07·54 Ratings
    A spectacular act of close reading and looking by a great writerIn La Folie Baudelaire, Roberto Calasso—one of the most original and acclaimed writers on literature, art, culture, and mythology—turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in
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