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Will, you took an oath to the Ranger Corps. Does it mean nothing to you now?
A senseless tragedy has destroyed your life. You are determined to punish those responsible, but you must not turn your back on the Ranger Corps.
Now a routine mission has uncovered a shocking web of crime. Soon you will be forced to choose between taking the dark path of revenge, and saving innocent lives…
Nel museo egizio Bliss viene rinvenuto il corpo del filantropo B.H. Kyle, con il cranio fracassato da una statuetta di Sakhmet, dea della vendetta. Quale oscuro significato nasconde il misterioso delitto, tanto più che la dea Sakhmet dovrebbe proteggere i buoni e avversare i malvagi? Il procuratore distrettuale John F.X. Markham è incaricato di risolvere il caso, ma dovrà ricorrere ancora una volta al brillante intuito e alla raffinata cultura del suo amico Philo Vance, il celebre, eccentrico investigatore di New York. S.S. Van Dine pseudonimo di Willard Huntington Wright, nacque a Charlottesville (Virginia), nel 1888. Studiò in California e si specializzò all’Università di Harvard. Fu poi a Monaco e a Parigi per studiare arte. Nel 1907 iniziò l’attività di critico letterario e d’arte. Nel 1925 cominciò a scrivere romanzi polizieschi ed ebbe subito un successo straordinario. Il creatore del detective Philo Vance morì a New York nel 1939.
Al suo terzo romanzo, La fine dei Greene, S.S.Van Dine ideò uno dei delitti più ingegnosi della storia del giallo. Tobias Greene, il vecchio patriarca,è ormai morto da una dozzina di anni,eppure la sua presenza sembra ancora pervadere la casa, a partire dalla sua misteriosa biblioteca chiusa a chiave. Inoltre, le sue disposizioni testamentarie continuano ad imporre all’intera famiglia le sue volontà: tutti i membri devono restare sotto lo stesso tetto per almeno venticinque anni, pena la perdita dell’intera eredità. Ma una notte, un insolito ladro penetra in casa e, preso dal panico, uccide uno dei familiari e ne ferisce un altro. Sarà l’intuito impareggiabile di Philo Vance a svelare uno ad uno i misteri nascosti di questo caso.
Julia Franck's German-Book-Prize-winning novel, , was an international phenomenon, selling 850,000 copies in Germany alone and being published in thirty-five countries. Her newest work, echoes the themes of , telling a moving personal story set against the tragedies of twentieth-century Germany.
Heartbreaking and shocking, is a dark fairytale of East Germany, the story of a single family tragedy that reflects the greater tragedies of totalitarianism.
Sonja Franeta is a writer, educator and activist born in the Bronx, New York to an immigrant Yugoslav family. She received a Master’s degree in Russian from New York University and a Master’s in Comparative Literature from University of California at Berkeley. She is passionate about Russian language, culture, queers and literature.
My Father's Dreams is a controversial and shocking novel by Slovenia's bestselling author Evald Flisar, and is regarded by many critics as his best. The book tells the story of fourteen-year-old Adam, the only son of a village doctor and his quiet wife, living in apparent rural harmony. But this is a topsy-turvy world of illusions and hopes, in which the author plays with the function of dreaming and story-telling to present the reader with an eccentric 'bildungsroman' in reverse. Spiced with unusual and original overtones of the grotesque, the history of an insidious deception is revealed, in which the unsuspecting son and his mother will be the apparent victims; and yet who can tell whether the gruesome end is reality or just another dream — This is a novel that can be read as an off-beat crime story, a psychological horror tale, a dream-like morality fable, or as a dark and ironic account of one man's belief that his personality and his actions are two different things. It can also be read as a story about a boy who has been robbed of his childhood in the cruelest way. It is a book which has the force of myth: revealing the fundamentals without drawing any particular attention to them; an investigation into good and evil, and our inclination to be drawn to the latter.
J.C. Robin, campione di tiro con l’arco, viene assassinato con una
freccia nel campo di tiro situato nella villa di Bertrand Dillard,
celebre fisico. Poco dopo viene rinvenuta una seconda vittima, lo
studente John E. Sprigg, che portava con sé una misteriosa formula. Il
procuratore distrettuale John F.X. Markham è incaricato di risolvere
l’intricato caso, ma sarà solo grazie all’aiuto del suo amico Philo
Vance, il brillante e acuto investigatore, che verrà scoperto
l’assassino.
In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, “Abraham!” to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” Later, when Isaac calls out, “My father!” to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, “Here I am.”
How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer’s first novel in eleven years-a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy.
Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington D.C., is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a spiraling conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the very meaning of home — and the fundamental question of how much life one can bear.
Showcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers and critics loved in his earlier work, is Foer’s most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer’s stature as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a mature novelist who has fully come into his own as one of the most important writers of his generation.
"A propulsive literary thriller. Finn, who writes with a psychological acuity that rivals Patricia Highsmith's, switches between Europe and Africa in tense alternating chapters, rewarding close attention. The book is terrific… subtle and thrilling. Remarkably well-paced and well-written… Don't expect to be able to set this book down or forget its haunted characters."
— , starred
"Intense, impressive."
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"I rarely get as invested in the outcome of a novel as I did reading , but the empathies that Finn evokes in this powerful and unpredictable book are not casual; these traumas could be our own. [Finn's] prose is hypnotic and knife-precise and at times so beautiful it's unnerving. I didn't read this book so much as I it and it will haunt me for a very, very long time."
— Jill Alexander Essbaum, —bestselling author of
Pilgrim's husband left her for another woman, stranding her in a Swiss town where she is involved in an accident that leaves three children dead. Cleared of responsibility though overcome with guilt, she absconds to Africa, befriending a series of locals each with their own tragic past.
Mysteriously, the remains of an albino appear, spooking everyone — sign of a curse placed by a witch doctor — though its intended recipient is uncertain. Pilgrim volunteers to rid the town of the box and its contents, though wherever she goes, she can't shake the feeling that she's being followed.
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