Author: Gaston Dorren
Language: English
Summary: BABEL takes you to the 20 mightiest languages of our time. Half of the world population are native speakers of one of these 20. Well over three quarters can speak at least one of them. And just over 90% live in countries where one of them is used by central government. Continue reading “Babel”
Author: Tom Bissell
Language: English
Summary: Here are six fictional stories about Americans colliding with a remote and often perilous part of the world:
Two journalists, stranded in wartime Afghanistan, are taken in by a warlord who becomes the arbiter of their fates.
Continue reading “God Lives in St. Petersburg and Other Stories”
Author: Gianmarco Sicuro
Language: Italiano
Summary: L’anno dell’alpaca è il racconto del lungo viaggio di chi si ritrova, suo malgrado, dall’altra parte del pianeta quando l’Organizzazione mondiale della Sanità annuncia l’inizio di una pandemia. Mentre il mondo si chiude in casa, la cronaca personale di Giammarco Sicuro, inviato speciale della redazione Esteri del Tg2, fa conoscere al lettore le realtà e le vicende umane di tre continenti: dal Perù dei primi casi accertati, alla Spagna in lockdown. Dalla Corea del Sud divenuta un modello di gestione del virus, al dramma di Messico e Brasile. Continue reading “L’Anno dell’Alpaca”
Author: Nicole Mones
Language: English
Summary: Expatriate translator Alice Mannegan spends her nights in Beijing’s smoky bars, seeking fleeting encounters with Chinese men to blot out the shame of her racist father back in Texas. But when she signs on to an archaeological expedition searching for the missing bones of Peking Man in China’s remote Northwest deserts, her world cracks open. As the group follows the trail of the Jesuit philosopher/paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin to close in on one of archaeology’s greatest mysteries, Alice finds herself increasingly drawn to a Chinese professor who is shackled by his own painful memories. Love in all its forms–human, sexual, divine, between a nation and its history, a man and his past, a father and his daughter–drives the story to its breathtaking finish. Continue reading “Lost in Translation”
‘TheToyZone’ mapped the most popular books for kids written by a local writer in every country. Read more about this here and here. Continue reading Children Books All Over The World
Author: Lucio Cascavilla Language: Italiano Summary: In questi dodici racconti la voce narrante accompagna pazientemente il lettore per quelle strade faticose, tortuose e a volte così estranee a noi occidentali, registra puntualmente ogni dettaglio e ogni particolare cogliendovi sfumature che ad altri potrebbero essere sfuggite. Veniamo a conoscere antiche tradizioni e atavici riti, anche quelli forse più discutibili imposti dal Partito, di quello che un … Continue reading Sogni, Segni e Sintomi. Racconti dalla Cina
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