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Ossigeno
by Sacha Naspini
Paul Auster meets Stephen King in this poetic yet disturbing investigation into the darkest corners of human nature. After the coral, ambitious Le case del malcontento, Sasha Naspini comes back with a tightly plotted narrative that keeps you at the edge of your seat from page one to the very end, while drawing with sharp sensibility broken characters who fight against all odds to put their pieces back together in unexpected new shapes. Laura disappears on the 12th of August 1999, at eight years old. She is found 14 years later in a bunker. She’s 22 now. Luca is having dinner with his father, just another evening, always the same for the last thirty years. Someone knocks at the door: it’s the police. What happens if one day you find out the person who raised you is a monster? Ossigeno is the story of those who stay after everything and everyone else have gone. The arrest of the monster is the beginning of a new life, one that seemed impossible to imagine – there are no cages anymore, but the characters are nevertheless stuck in their own minds, made of memories and scars they can’t forget. Luca’s father was his bridge to reality, he was his moral compass, someone to look up to. After the death of his mother, he had become his whole family. And throughout this whole time, he was monster. Where does this leave Luca? Is he a monster too, for sharing is father’s blood? Meanwhile, Laura is trying hard to live again. Her mother doesn’t know how to talk to her. Laura smiles, she acts normal. She likes to wander around the city – she likes to get lost in the crowd. But sometimes she feels the need to be surrounded by walls. She locks herself in a random bathroom. She could stay there for hours, until someone knocks. No one knows what she’s doing in there. Ossigeno is a matrioska. Characters close themselves in dark boxes – and a boy in Wyoming hides in a locket, not knowing he has always been captive inside someone else’s nightmare. Ossigeno is not a psychological thriller – it is not a crime novel. It is a story of dark roots and curious, eerie minds. Of secrets buried so deep that become seeds for madness. Of masks worn so tightly they become your own skin. But what’s underneath, no matter how hard you try, is still there. Hidden. Observing. Waiting to see what happens. Sasha Naspini’s previous novel, Le Case del malcontento, was sold in China, Korea, Greece and Turkey and is being considered by many publishers worldwide. Its passionate, extremely sophisticated story-telling and unforgettable characterization makes it a psychological masterpiece, an analysis on the complexity of human nature – I would say it’s the Italian Spoon River Anthology, and the title has also been compared to Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. With a vernacular yet classical, literary language, and multiple points of view, Le Case is an epic rural tale with a universal echo. The novel plays with genres, mixing noir, psychological thriller, historical memoir and dark fairy-tale.
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Early learning: first word booksIn der Schule / At School
by Susanne Böse / Sigrid Leberer
This title is part of the bilibrini series. These books are recommended for the first contact with a new language and are thematically appropriate for vocabulary-building in pre-school or the early school years. The texts are written in simple, short sentences and include basic vocabulary for a given theme. The word-picture strip on each page depicts key objects from the illustrations for playful vocabulary practice. Vocabulary in this title: school life and classroom objects. For children from 2 years of age.
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Picture booksRadegonde & the dragon
by Anne Mahler, Naïma
In a quiet town nestled on a river bank, people fear the heavy rains that foretell the rise of a terrible dragon. When one day, the beast comes out of its dark lair in the deep of the earth and attacks the town, enough is enough! Young Radegonde, a brave and inventive girl, decides to deliver the town from its plague. She comes up with a plan to get rid of the monster, once and for all. But when the reader turns the book around, it is the dragon’s turn to speak and to give her side of the story.
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FictionNovember 2015The Traveller
A World Beyond
by M .R. J. Luscombe
In a magical afterlife realm where wishes manifest, a mature boy comes into contact with dark beasts that no one in their right mind would wish for. A lost soul that believed in the torments of the afterlife collides with this heavenly realm and broods out his menacing creations. Through spiritual guidance and forming strong bonds with the loving creatures of this world, the mature boy must master the powers of imagination and overcome his losses as he journeys to The Land of the Great One where he is faced with an ultimate challenge. Delve into stunning environments and awaken all your senses to the fullness of all that you are, on an adventure beyond a lifetime!
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The ArtsBook of the Hunt
by Gaston Phoebus
Written between 1387 and 1389 by Gastone of Foix, the Book of the Hunt is one of the most interesting testimonies of the cultural history of this time. The four parts of the manuscript show the naturalistic knowledge at the end of the 14thcentury, based on the direct observation of the natural world. It was used as a manual of natural history up until the 19th century. The text is complemented by 87 miniatures in large format, executed by the Master of the Bedford Hours, as well as by a great number of illuminated initial letters and floral decorations that make the pages of the manuscript one of the masterworks of French miniature. The style of the miniatures is very particular, related to those of contemporary tapestries: the horizon of the scene is kept high, thus creating an ample space for the characters; the flora is described with a singular effect of relief, obtained by juxtaposing different tonalities of colour.
