25 maggio 2013
   FICTION
The round house by Louise Erdrich


2012 National Book Award winner
“Marvelous.”
Philip Roth



Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe


In the author’s own words: “It is set during the Brussels World’s Fair of 1958. It’s a comic novel of the Cold War, mixing espionage, politics and romance. I think of it as John Le Carré meets Evelyn Waugh, although a friend who read it said it was more like GK Chesterton meeting Alfred Hitchcock.”



Sinalcol by Elias Khoury


By a giant of Lebanese literature, the new novel that does for Lebanon what his literary masterpiece Gate of the Sun did for Palestine.



La Transmigración de los cuerpos by Yuri Herrera


The third novel by the new treasure of Mexican literature. In an unspecified city, paralysed by a mysterious epidemic, a man is on a mission of biblical redemption. On his way, he will meet a beautiful blond woman and he will become involved in a tragedy of Shakespearian proportions. Pure grace.



Eines abends in Paris by Nicolas Barreau


In a little cinema in Paris dreams suddenly come true. After the great word-of-mouth success of Gli ingredienti segreti dell’amore (Das laechlen der frauen), the new novel by one of last year’s most romantic international surprises.

   NON FICTION
Cypherpunk. Internet and the future of freedom by Julian Assange


Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyber-space to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave us.
"Obligatory reading for everyone interested in the reality of our freedoms."
Slavoj Žižek



We are alive: Bruce Springsteen at sixty-two by David Remnick


The New Yorker editor-in-chief profiles Bruce Springsteen’s legendary career in music.



Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott


Based on an incredibly successful play, the next big book on environment and sustainability from a leading scientist. What will come of us when there are 10 billion people living on planet earth? Written with the gripping suspense of a thriller, it tells the terrible story of an impending disaster: our own.



Of Africa by Wole Soyinka


Nobel-laureate Soyinka offers a wide-ranging inquiry into Africa's culture, religion, history, imagination, and identity.