La macchina mondiale
By: Paolo Volponi
3.52
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Anteo Crocioni è un giovane contadino marchigiano degli anni '50. Conosce bene il suo lavoro e l'am…
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1. Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
By: Mark Rotella , Carlo Levi , Frances Frenaye
4.11
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi―a doctor, painter, philosophe… read more
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2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
3. Solaris
By: Stanisław Lem
3.99
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more
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"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
4. The Corrections
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.84
Format: 653 pages, Paperback
"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more
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"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"The shame and disorder in his house were like the shame and disorder in his head."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
5. La scomparsa di Majorana
By: Leonardo Sciascia , Lea Ritter Santini
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Dal 26 marzo 1938 si perdono le tracce, fra la partenza e l'arrivo in un viaggio per mare da Palerm… read more
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6. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
7. Pornografia
By: Witold Gombrowicz , Alastair Hamilton
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Gombrowicz's strange, bracing final novel probes the divide between young and old while providing a… read more
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8. Paese d'ombre
By: Giuseppe Dessì , Sandro Maxia
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Paperback
"Paese d'ombre" e l'ultimo romanzo di Giuseppe Dessi (Villacidro, 1909-Roma 1977). Pubblicato nel 1… read more
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9. The Monkey's Wrench
By: Primo Levi , William Weaver , Ruth Tenzer Feldman , Ruth Feldman
3.86
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Tino Faussone, torinese, fa di mestiere il montatore: «È sui trentacinque anni, alto, secco, quasi … read more
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"Se si escludono istanti prodigiosi e singoli che il destino ci può donare, l’amare il proprio lavoro (che purtroppo è privilegio di pochi) costituisce la miglior approssimazione concreta alla felicit…"-Primo Levi, The Monkey's Wrench
10. La bella estate
By: Cesare Pavese
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come… read more
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11. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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12. Staccando l'ombra da terra
By: Daniele Del Giudice
4.14
Format: 438 pages,
Puo accadere un giorno di dover volare da soli, e di perdersi come ci si perde nella vita, Sara nec… read more
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13. Mr Palomar
By: Italo Calvino
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
<<Rileggendo il tutto, m'accorgo che la storia di Palomarsi puo riassumere in due frasi: "Un uomo s… read more
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14. The House of Mirth
By: Edith Wharton , Nina Bawden
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, p… read more
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15. La vita agra
By: Luciano Bianciardi , Geno Pampaloni
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Questo romanzo, in larga parte autobiografico, si sarebbe potuto anche intitolare Missione impossib… read more
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16. Romanzo senza umani
By: Paolo Di Paolo
3.09
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
Un uomo solo cammina lungo le rive di un grande lago tedesco. È partito all’improvviso, chiudendo i… read more
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17. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
By: Michael Bible
3.60
Format: 135 pages, ebook
Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more
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"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
18. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
19. L'età fragile
By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio
3.73
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more
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20. Aggiustare l'universo
By: Raffaella Romagnolo
3.99
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
Ottobre 1945. L'anno scolastico inizia in ritardo. È il primo dell'Italia liberata e non è semplice… read more
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21. La macchina mondiale
By: Paolo Volponi
3.52
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Anteo Crocioni è un giovane contadino marchigiano degli anni '50. Conosce bene il suo lavoro e l'am… read more
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