15/06/2023 – Globolibri.it

The Pillars of the Earth

Arnaldo Ageno — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:58:53 +0000

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett’s classic historical masterpiece.

The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:00:20 +0000

Tucked into the Welsh valleys and encircled by silver birch and pine, the village of Cwmcysgod may appear a quiet, sleepy sort of place. But beneath the surface, tensions simmer, hearts ache, and painful truths threaten to emerge. Sixteen-year-old Catrin Bone knows only what she has been told.

Now, she is beginning to question her small world, and a version of the past that seems to entrap and embitter her reclusive mother, Mary. Mary had a sister once, a girl of unparalleled beauty. Why did she disappear from the village in a shroud of shame all those years ago – and where is she now?Meanwhile the Clements brothers, skint and all out of hope, run rampant across the hills and lanes.

And old Dai Bevel, whose frailty masks a dark history, dreams of a girl he used to know… The sins of the past are approaching, for it takes a village: to raise a child, to bring down a woman, to hide something monstrous and to look the other way. In this tender, sly, exquisitely wrought novella, a unique cast of characters give voice to their versions of the truth.

But it is the story of Rosalind Bone, of her strength and of all that she has endured, that rises above the rest, shimmering with hope and possibility…

Como matar a tu familia

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 05:23:34 +0000

No puedes elegir a tu familia… pero sí te la puedes cargar.
El thriller que ha conquistado Reino Unido. Más de 500.000 ejemplares vendidos.

Os presentamos a Grace Bernard: hija, hermana y asesina en serie.
Grace lo ha perdido todo y no se detendrá ante nada para vengarse.
Cuando Grace Bernard descubre que el padre millonario que la abandonó ha ignorado las llamadas de auxilio de su madre moribunda, jura venganza y se propone matar a todos los miembros de su acaudalada familia. Así que hace una lista de nombres y, decidida a tacharlos todos, se lanza en una misión despiadada para hacer justicia y, en el proceso, convertirse en la única heredera de la fortuna de los Artemis. Su plan es perfecto y confía en salirse con la suya sin mayores problemas, pero siempre hay variables que una no puede controlar… sobre todo cuando hablamos de matar.

The House on Via Gemito

Arnaldo Ageno — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 15:54:50 +0000

The modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The living room furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night. Federi, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced of possessing great artistic talent.

If he didn’t have a family to feed, he’d be a world-famous painter. Ambitious and frustrated, genuinely talented but full of arrogance and resentment, his life is marked by bitter disappointment. His long-suffering wife and their four sons bear the brunt.

It’s his first-born who, years later, will sift the lies from the truth to tell the story of a man he spent his whole life trying not to resemble. Narrated against the background of a Naples still marked by WWII and steeped in the city’s language and imagery, The House on Via Gemito – first published 20 years ago – is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature.