Hello everyone, today we will propose our section Interesting Book where we announce all the books that have hit both online and in our weekly walk to the library.
The episode today, apart from the first book that is a brand new urban fantasy that will be released later this month, is entirely dedicated to women's stories, all set in exotic places, however, very far from us, like Iraq and India. Books that are narrated hidden stories of strong women, who want to rebel against the yoke of society, politics, life, facing many difficulties and suffering to survive. Beautiful and touching short stories that have attracted our eyes and our interest (thanks in part to cover a lot of beautiful and affordable prices) to break the usual readings we do, to dive into new worlds that are the result of ' inventive author, but an image of a tough and different.
Author: Maxime Chattam
Pages: 350
Price: €
18.50 Publisher: Fazi Editore (Lain)
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Plot
Nobody had noticed his arrival, and suddenly is above the whole city: a frightening, cold storm. When fourteen year old Matt sees the lie, would like to warn parents to understand what happens if there is a real danger. But it is already too late, is struck by lightning and loses consciousness.
When she wakes up, alone. The mother and father have disappeared, evaporated neighbors, empty roads · What happened? Together with his friend
Tobias, Matt is desperate to find someone still alive in this New York mute and cold that seems to give hope. Yet the two are not alone: \u200b\u200bstrange presences eyes will follow the movements of ice, strange mutant creatures spy them. The two guys you just have to escape the city.
awaits a wilderness, where nature has taken over completely. They manage to find shelter on an island in the west, with a community of children, "Pan". Their refuge is far from certain, however: why Alterra, the only adult survivors have become hunters of children ·
When she wakes up, alone. The mother and father have disappeared, evaporated neighbors, empty roads · What happened? Together with his friend
Tobias, Matt is desperate to find someone still alive in this New York mute and cold that seems to give hope. Yet the two are not alone: \u200b\u200bstrange presences eyes will follow the movements of ice, strange mutant creatures spy them. The two guys you just have to escape the city.
awaits a wilderness, where nature has taken over completely. They manage to find shelter on an island in the west, with a community of children, "Pan". Their refuge is far from certain, however: why Alterra, the only adult survivors have become hunters of children ·
Author: Jessica Jiji
Pages: 384
Price: € 9.90
Publisher: Newton Compton
Release Date: February 2011
Plot
Iraq, 40s. Kathmiya Mahmoud is a poor Arab girl who dreams of getting married and having a family. But the father has other plans for her: she must leave the country and do the household, like her mother in the city of Basra. There, in a new and unknown, Kathmiya work at home of Jewish businessmen and knows Shafiq: their mutual affection and attraction grows every day. Basra is a city in which Jewish and Muslim communities live together peacefully: the best friends Shafiq and his family are the Arab neighbors, which will help when the boy and his social tensions during the war, they explode. But Shafiq Kathmiya and will have to face and fight a different kind of conflict: the Islamic law which must obey the beautiful young Arab forbids any contact between a man and a woman before marriage ... plus she is a poor servant, whose childhood is marked by several episodes mysterious that she does not remember and that parents have no intention of revealing. The two young people will resist and prove that their love is more stubborn hatred and prejudice, stronger than the tragedy that befalls the troubled lands of the Middle East.
http://www.newtoncompton.com/ebook/index.php?id=978-88-541-2441-7
Author: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Pages: 314
Price: € 18.60
Publisher: Corbaccio
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Plot
the eve of the monsoon season, in a remote village in India Kavita gave birth to a baby girl. But in a society that considers only a female problem, the only way to save her life is to entrust it to an orphanage. A decision which will impinge on the relationship of Kavita with her husband for the rest of their days, despite the arrival of a son shortly thereafter. Antipodes, Somer, an American pediatrician, decided to adopt a child after he surrendered to the idea that it will have its own. When she and her husband, a doctor of Indian origin Krishnan, see the photo of Asha, a golden-eyed girl who comes from the orphanage in Mumbai, think that my love for you will overcome all obstacles ...
A debut novel that explores the feelings associated with motherhood, loss, and cultural identity through the story of two families, one Indian and one American, and through the life of a girl who joins them inextricably.
A debut novel that explores the feelings associated with motherhood, loss, and cultural identity through the story of two families, one Indian and one American, and through the life of a girl who joins them inextricably.
Author: Mourad Kenizé
Pages: 336
Price: € 14.90
Publisher: Newton Compton
Plot
passionate and courageous struggle of a woman of India ' Eight hundred
Almost a century before Gandhi, a woman stands at the head of a revolt against British rule in the Indian subcontinent. Kenizé Mourad - already the author of international bestseller part of the princess died - tells us in this new novel, a little known page of Indian history through the epic an unforgettable heroine and her valiant struggle against the British imperalismo. In 1856, in fact, the East India Company is determined to extend its dominion over the kingdom of Awadh, rich independent state in northern Mexico, and its capital, the beautiful Lucknow, "the city of gold and silver" , known for its beauty and peaceful co-existence in its territory of Muslims and Hindus. But Hazrat Mahal, the fourth wife of King dell'Awadh, forced into exile by the Company, decided to tackle the British to maintain the freedom of his people, awaiting the return of her husband. At his side fight Jai Lal, head of the troops rajah rebels, and the sepoys, Indian soldiers of the gun British converts to the new cause and willing to sacrifice their lives for the independence of Lucknow. Extraordinary
female figure, Hazrat Mahal will fight with courage and determination, to the point that even the intrepid Jai Lal will remain hopelessly fascinated ...
Almost a century before Gandhi, a woman stands at the head of a revolt against British rule in the Indian subcontinent. Kenizé Mourad - already the author of international bestseller part of the princess died - tells us in this new novel, a little known page of Indian history through the epic an unforgettable heroine and her valiant struggle against the British imperalismo. In 1856, in fact, the East India Company is determined to extend its dominion over the kingdom of Awadh, rich independent state in northern Mexico, and its capital, the beautiful Lucknow, "the city of gold and silver" , known for its beauty and peaceful co-existence in its territory of Muslims and Hindus. But Hazrat Mahal, the fourth wife of King dell'Awadh, forced into exile by the Company, decided to tackle the British to maintain the freedom of his people, awaiting the return of her husband. At his side fight Jai Lal, head of the troops rajah rebels, and the sepoys, Indian soldiers of the gun British converts to the new cause and willing to sacrifice their lives for the independence of Lucknow. Extraordinary
female figure, Hazrat Mahal will fight with courage and determination, to the point that even the intrepid Jai Lal will remain hopelessly fascinated ...
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