Paolo Giordano
1) Tasmania
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Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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La nueva obra maestra de Paolo Giordano: una novela sobre lo que nos pasa y no podemos explicarnos.
«Un viaje extraordinario a través de un apocalipsis contemporáneo y personal.» Daniel Verdú, El País
«Confronta lo convulso del presente con nuestros conflictos personales más íntimos. Uno de los mejores libros que puedas leer este año.» Isabel Loscertales, Woman
«Excelente y brillantísima. ... Su obra más personal, que habla sobre todo...
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Un clásico inolvidable y más actual que nunca.
«Sorprendente, íntima y profundamente conmovedora, lleva a los lectores a un viaje hipnótico a través de una historia de amor inesperada.» John Boyne, autor de El niño con el pijama de rayas
«Conmovedora... magistral.» Times Literary Supplement
«Una lectura melancólica y bellísima, un libro que merece el éxito que ha cosechado.» The Guardian
«Elegante e inteligente.» Elle
«Profundamente...
3) Like family
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English
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"When a young married couple hire a middle-aged widow during the wife, Nora's, difficult pregnancy, they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A--maid, nanny, and confidante--becomes the glue in their household, and over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. But the delicate fabric of the young family comes undone when Signora...
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2020.
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English
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"A powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire, youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers Every year, after her school in Turin closes for the summer holidays, Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia and endures weeks of relentless heat and boredom. But everything changes the summer she meets the three boys who live on the farm next door:...
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2014.
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English
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"From the bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a searing novel of war and the journey from youth into manhood. In Paolo Giordano's highly awaited new novel, a platoon of young men and one woman soldier leaves Italy for one of the most dangerous places on earth. Forward Operating Base (FOB) in the Gulistan district of Afghanistan is nothing but an exposed sandpit scorched by inescapable sunlight and deadly mortar fire. Each member in...
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Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."
