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Swallows

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:51:59 +0000

Twenty-nine-year-old Riki is sick of her dead-end job, of struggling to get by ever since she moved to Tokyo from the country. So when someone offers her the chance to become a surrogate in return for a life-changing amount of money, it’s hard to turn down. But how much of herself will she be forced to give away?Retired ballet star Motoi and his wife, Yuko, have spent years trying to conceive.

As Yuko begins to make peace with her childlessness, Motoi grows increasingly desperate for a child to whom he can pass on his elite genes. Their last resort is surrogacy; a business transaction, plain and simple. But as they try to exert ever more control over Riki, their contract with her starts to slip through their fingers…

Vibrating with the injustices of class and gender, tradition and power, Swallows is an acerbic, witty vision of contemporary Japan, and of a young woman’s fight to preserve her dignity – at any cost.

Ocean Sea

Arnaldo Ageno — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:05:59 +0000

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress – and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father’s last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear. Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Baricco’s novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.

Una manciata di vite disparate converge in una remota locanda al mare: un professore incomprensibile, un rinomato pittore, una seduttrice imperscrutabile – e una bellissima ragazza, malata fatalmente, portata in mare dall’ultima speranza di un padre disperato. Un’intricata rete di destini e associazioni inizia a rivelarsi, ma non è fino all’arrivo di un misterioso marinaio chiamato Adams che la verità in tutta la sua bellezza onirica e crudeltà diventa chiara. Alternativamente giocoso e profondamente serio, il romanzo di Baricco si estende con il potere ipnotico dell’oceano.

The Pleasures of the Damned : Selected Poems 1951-1993

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:42:56 +0000

THE BEST OF THE BEST OF BUKOWSKI
The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best poetry from America’s most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski. Celebrating the full range of the poet’s extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of experience, from his renegade early work to never-before-collected poems penned during the final days before his death. The Pleasures of the Damned is an astonishing poetic treasure trove, essential reading for both long-time fans and those just discovering this unique and important American voice.

The Life Impossible

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:37:37 +0000

What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet…

When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her.

She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed.

But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

All Fours

Arnaldo Ageno — Mon, 19 May 2025 11:38:07 +0000

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025

A semi-famous artist turns forty-five and gives herself a gift – a cross-country road trip from LA to New York, without her husband and child. But thirty minutes after setting off, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel – and embarks on the journey of a lifetime.

Un’artista non troppo famosa compie quarantacinque anni e si fa un regalo: un viaggio in auto da Los Angeles a New York, senza marito e figlio. Ma trenta minuti dopo la partenza, esce spontaneamente dall’autostrada, si sistema in un motel anonimo e intraprende il viaggio della vita.

Happiness TM

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:18:09 +0000

When one of those irritating self-help books actually gets it right, then unnatural and worrying times are just around the corner . . .

While the rest of the country is joining the new HappinessTM cult, Edwin (the wiry, grey-suited, low-level editor at US publisher Panderic Press) is in trouble. A cartel of drug, alcohol, tobacco and drug-rehab bosses have a contract out on him. It’s all the fault of the mysterious Tupac Soiree, and his book What I Learned on the Mountain.

But who is Tupac? And how can Edwin stop the world from succumbing to this plague of HappinessTM?Will Ferguson has created a comic masterpiece, a brutal satire of modern times.

The Life Impossible

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:36:51 +0000

What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet . . .

When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her.

She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the Balearics Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed.

But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Arnaldo Ageno — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:30:21 +0000

Adapted for Young Adults
A revealing portrait of a young Black man asking questions about self-discovery and belonging – long before he became one of the most important voices in America. The son of a white American mother and a Black Kenyan father, Obama was born in Hawaii, where he lived until he was six years old, when he moved with his mother and stepfather to Indonesia. At twelve, he returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.

Obama brings readers along while facing the challenges of high school and college, living in New York, becoming a community organiser in Chicago, and travelling to Kenya. Through these experiences, he forms an enduring commitment to leadership and justice. Via the lens of his relationships with his family – the mother and grandparents who raised him, the father he knows more as a myth than as a man, and the extended family in Kenya he meets for the first time – Obama examines the complicated truth of his father’s life and legacy and comes to embrace his own divided heritage.

On his journey to adulthood from a humble background, he forges his own path by trial and error while staying connected to his roots. Barack Obama is determined to lead a life of purpose, service and authenticity. This powerful memoir will inspire readers to reflect on both where they come from and where they are capable of going.

Necropolis

Arnaldo Ageno — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 19:46:47 +0000

Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Bergen-Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof. Twenty years later, as he visited the preserved remains of a camp, his experiences came back to him: the emaciated prisoners; the ragged, zebra-striped uniforms; the infirmary reeking of dysentery and death. Necropolis is Pahor’s stirring account of providing medical aid to prisoners in the face of the utter brutality of the camps – and coming to terms with the guilt of surviving when millions did not.

It is a classic account of the Holocaust and a powerful act of remembrance.