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1) No está solo
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550 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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Tras Dicker y Lemaitre, llega el nuevo gran thriller europeo, bienvenidos al mundo Dazieri. Un niño desaparece a las afueras de Roma. La madre es encontrada muerta y los investigadores creen responsable al marido de la mujer. Sin embargo, cuando Colomba Caselli llega a la escena del crimen se da cuenta de que algo no cua dra. Colomba tiene treinta años, es guapa, atlética y dura. Formó parte del Departamento de Homicidios de Roma, pero desde hace...
2) Theorem
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xii, 189 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"For Pier Paolo Pasolini, post-war Italy was overrun by the corrosive forces of consumerism, bourgeois uniformity and shallow bourgeois conventions. In his writing and film-making he was frequently critical of the establishment. Condemned by those in power as dangerous and offensive to public morality, he remained, nevertheless, an extremely popular and influential figure. Through his work, he attempted to awaken people to a different set of values,...
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English
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"Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges -- suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman -- Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies...
5) The leopard
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Everyman's library volume no. 23
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English
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Set in the 1860's, tells the story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
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English
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"Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigata in that time. Engineer Ernesto Sabatello, while rummaging in the attic of his house, finds some films shot by his father from 1958 to 1963, always on the same day, March 27 and always the same shot; the outside wall of a...
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xxxi, 663 pages : map ; 22 cm
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English
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"The Betrothed is an inextricable thread in the fabric of Italian culture, one of the most influential works in the Italian literary canon, and required reading in Italian schools. Published in 1827 but set two hundred years earlier, it is considered the first iteration of the historical novel; Edgar Allen Poe declared it "a work which promises to be the commencement of a new style in novel-writing" in 1835. But, until now, it has remained relatively...
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300 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"A novel based on the life of Gerda Taro, a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political photographer. She was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the first female photojournalist to be killed on a battlefield."--...
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