«Lei giocava a fare - mi sembrò - la ballerina di carigliòn, saltellando a braccia tese e dandosi ogni tanto a una piroetta. Quant'era bella la sua figurina contro i vetri luccicanti di sole, audace nei saltelli, cosí esposta alla morte». Una bambina suadente, un duello, una nonna che possiede la chiave degli Inferi, l'esame di glottologia. Un racconto che incanta, la voce unic...(展开全部)

A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world’s most famous writers – a leading light of literary modernism and feminism – and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sackville-West, and they remained friends until Virginia’s death in 1941. The he...(展开全部)

From:TechCrunch: I’ve been disappointed by modern sci-fi, fantasy and magical realism for years, and thought I’d try my luck with this newly translated novel touted as “Harry Potter meets metaphysics in backwater Russia.” A girl is approached by a mysterious stranger offering entrance to a mysterious school… but instead of magic the students seem to be having their minds system...(展开全部)

阿尔贝托·莫拉维亚(Alberto Moravia，1907—1990)　举世瞩目的意大利二十世纪划时代小说家。他在毕生创作的近十八部长篇小说和十二部短篇小说集中，剖析了人的绝望感和忧虑，探讨了人的社会存在，揭示世界和人生的荒诞，否定理性至上的乐观主义精神，凸现了道德和行为、目的和手段、生存自由和生存条件之间的矛盾冲突，以及人的理想和现实的迥然不同。他认为：“作家的任务就是要揭示现代人怎么变成了被人利用的工具，而不是目的了。”他的小说故事性强，有多部被拍成电影。

Carlo Ancelotti, uno dei grandi protagonisti del calcio italiano, racconta la sua vita con la schiettezza e lo spirito pungente che gli vengono dalle sue origini contadine. "Uno su mille ce la fa", e lui è quell'uno. Centrocampista forse un po' lento, ma caparbio e con una lucida visione di gioco, ha avuto due grandi maestri, uno agli antipodi dell'altro: Liedholm e Sacchi. Da ...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journe...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities–places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey ...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journe...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities–places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey ...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journe...(展开全部)