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Angelo Morino

    Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter
    Over de liefde en andere duivels
    L'amour aux temps du choléra
    Journal d'un enlèvement
    Distant Star
    Strange Pilgrims
    • Strange Pilgrims

      • 208pages
      • 8 heures de lecture
      4,1(7090)Évaluer

      This collection features twelve extraordinary stories by a Nobel Prize-winning author, renowned for his classic works. Set in contemporary Europe, the narratives explore the unique and remarkable experiences of Latin Americans abroad. An ailing Caribbean ex-President finds an unlikely friendship with an ambitious ambulance driver and his strong-willed wife in Geneva. Margarito Duarte travels from the Colombian Andes to Rome with a cello-shaped box to present to the Pope. In Vienna, a woman known as Frau Frieda supports herself by sharing her dreams with wealthy families. A Mexican performer, stranded in Barcelona due to a car breakdown, ends up in an asylum. A vacationing family in Tuscany encounters a ghost at a Renaissance castle owned by a famous Venezuelan writer. Maria dos Prazeres, a former lady of the night in Barcelona, dreams of death and begins planning her funeral. A widow in a Saint Francis habit sails from Argentina to meet the Pope, while a beautiful Caribbean boy descends into madness in Spain. A German governess wreaks havoc on her charges’ summer, leading to her own downfall. Billy Sanchez takes his pregnant wife to a Paris hospital, never to see her again. In this mesmerizing collection, the author invites readers into enchanting worlds, leaving them spellbound.

      Strange Pilgrims
    • Distant Star

      • 176pages
      • 7 heures de lecture
      4,0(297)Évaluer

      Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider's dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation amongst his old poetry friends. číst celé

      Distant Star
    • Journal d'un enlèvement

      • 316pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      3,9(6599)Évaluer

      Maruja Pachon fut enlevée en septembre 1990, en même temps que huit autres personnalités, par le bras armé du cartel de Medellin. A partir des témoignages de ceux qui furent directement ou indirectement mêlés à cette atroce aventure dans laquelle périrent deux otages, Gabriel Garcia Marquez nous entraîne dans un thriller qui a pour cadre la guerre totale déclarée par les narcotrafiquants colombiens à un gouvernement qui avait décidé de les anéantir. Autour de Maruja et de son mari Alberto, gravitent les protagonistes d'une réalité qui dépasse souvent la fiction : les otages et leurs familles, le Président et ses conseillers, confrontés à la folie meurtrière d'un Pablo Escobar omniprésent dans ce drame qui commence comme un fait divers et se déroule comme un grand roman jusqu'à la reddition du plus puissant parrain des temps modernes.

      Journal d'un enlèvement
    • L'amour aux temps du choléra

      • 479pages
      • 17 heures de lecture
      3,9(411497)Évaluer

      Dans une petite ville des Caraïbes, à la fin du XIXe siècle, un jeune télégraphiste, pauvre, maladroit, poète et violoniste, tombe amoureux fou de l'écolière la plus ravissante que l'on puisse imaginer. Ils jurent de se marier et de vivre un amour éternel...

      L'amour aux temps du choléra
    • In this Nobel Prize-winning novel, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the vibrant life of young Marito in 1960s Lima, Peru. His world shifts with the arrival of his older aunt Julia, sparking a secret romance, and the eccentric scriptwriter Pedro Camacho, whose wild soap operas captivate the city. A masterful blend of humor and chaos.

      Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter
    • 'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin' Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a sensual and hypnotic journey through the mind of a man discovering love for the first time after a lifetime filled with hundreds of different women. The nights spent sleeping side-by-side with his 'Delgadina' fill his soul with an unexpected longing. He feels her presence when she is not there. The now passionate meditations of his newspaper columns are bound up in love and received by a rapturous, growing readership, and in his imagination - as real for him as memories - he sees them together as they might have been. This is a story of one man's reassessment of his life as he awakens to the transformative power of love.

      Memories of my melancholy whores
    • Da un'antica tomba nel convento delle clarisse emerge una lunghissima chioma rossa. Da questo evento ha origine il romanzo, ambientato in una Cartagena de Indias perduta in un oscuro passato coloniale. Una bellissima bambina, un medico negromante e un giovane esorcista posseduto dal mal d'amore sono protagonisti di una passione innaturale e distruttiva. García Márquez dà vita a pagine di struggente poesia e di emozionato pudore e conduce il lettore in un universo capace di travolgere i sensi e i sentimenti in nome di una passione erotica che diventa malattia, metafora della letteratura e della vita.

      Oscar Moderni - 22: Dell'amore e di altri demoni
    • Scala stranieri: Storia di Mayta

      • 312pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.

      Scala stranieri: Storia di Mayta