Stefano Beretta Bücher

La complessa e profonda amicizia tra un fisico e uno storico, due studiosi legati da percorsi simili e da una grande passione comune: la musica. Un violino e un pianoforte, la politica e il sentimento; sullo sfondo un’immaginaria Inghilterra retta da un regime totalitario. Tra questi elementi si snoda la tensione del giallo: i due protagonisti vengono sottoposti a indagine perché, in modi diversi, potrebbero essere considerati "sovversivi". Le loro vite e la loro amicizia cambieranno per sempre. Dietro questa storia, il narratore ne lascia affiorare un’altra, quella che parla della sua stessa vita, degli anni del suo esilio, del suo matrimonio senza amore, del tentativo fallito di scrivere un romanzo.

"An emotional novel about motherhood--about a woman who has never thought she wanted to become a mother, and how she does or does not decide to go ahead and have a child"--

A gripping, sinister Gothic tale inspired by and in the tradition of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw  In 1891, in a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence and her younger brother are neglected by her guardian uncle. Banned from reading, Florence devours books in secret and talks to herself?and narrates her story?in a unique language of her own invention. By night, she sleepwalks the corridors and is troubled by a recurrent dream in which a mysterious woman appears to threaten her younger brother Giles. After the sudden violent death of the children's first governess, a second teacher, Miss Taylor, arrives, and immediately strange phenomena begin to occur. Florence becomes convinced that the new governess is a malevolent spirit who means to do Giles harm. Against this powerful enemy, Florence must use all her intelligence and ingenuity to protect her little brother and preserve her private world. This gothic page-turner in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher is told in a startlingly different and wonderfully captivating narrative voice.

In »Zwei Leben« erzählt Vikram Seth zärtlich und präzise von einer wahren Liebe, die ein Jahrhundert umspannt. Mit zurückschauender Sehnsucht berichtet er von zwei Menschen, seinem Onkel Shanti und Tante Henny, die sich an der Wegkreuzung von indischer Diaspora und jüdischem Exil trafen: ein bewegendes Denkmal und erzählerisches Kunststück zugleich. »Nimm den Schwarzen nicht«, sagt Henny zu ihrer Mutter und meint den jungen Inder an der Tür. Doch Shanti, der im Berlin der dreißiger Jahre Zahnarzt werden will, bekommt das Zimmer in der Bleibtreustraße - und das wird Hennys Glück. Shanti, von den Nazis verdrängt, kann erst in London praktizieren, und dort steht 1939 plötzlich Henny an der Victoria Station - als einziger Jüdin aus dem Freundeskreis ist ihr die Flucht gelungen.