Hondo, un ragazzino di dodici anni, ha perduto i cammelli che custodiva. Deve ritrovarli, e con loro la possibilità di sposare Yasmine, la figlia del proprietario degli animali. Il destino gli si accanisce contro, in un turbinio di avventure e vicissitudini fra trafficanti di organi, polizia, guerriglieri, spacciatori che allontanano sempre più la possibilità di recuperare i cammelli. Un romanzo tragico e picaresco, incalzante e incisivo che passa in rassegna tutta l'Africa nera, dalla Mauritania alla Costa d'Avorio, dalla Sierra Leone al Ruanda. Ovunque guerra e violenza, sopraffazione e miseria, un destino segnato per i ragazzi africani, bambini invecchiati prima di vivere.

Starting in 1970, Jean Genet—petty thief, prostitute, modernist master—spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself. For Genet's most overtly political book is also his most personal—the last step in the unrepentantly sacrilegious pilgrimage first recorded in The Thief's Journal, and a searching meditation, packed with visions, ruses, and contradictions, on such life-and-death issues as the politics of the image and the seductive and treacherous character of identity. Genet's final masterpiece is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world.

Il volume offre al cristiano una panoramica per orientarsi nella molteplicità delle religioni e delle correnti spirituali. Uno strumento semplice per aprirsi alla conoscenza, al confronto e al dialogo, sempre più necessari nella nostra società multietnica.

As journalists, both had covered the Vietnam War until 1972. after twenty long years-of Stalinism, boat people, Hollywood heroics and French nostalgia - they decided it was time to go back. Vietnam, they believed, was not a story which 'you could simply stop watching and switch off.' They traveled from South to North, from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) to Hanoi, exploring memories of the war and the contradictions of peace, looking and listening with a sensitivity and sense of solidarity all too rare in travel writing. The result is an extraordinary account of a country transformed and of a people, victors and victims together, betrayed on all sides, coming back to life.

In Hanoi they find none of the grim austerity imagined by foreigners, but rather a city of beauty now 'opening' to capitalism partly thanks to the experiences and money orders of workers sent in their thousands to Poland of the GDR. At Khe Sanh, on the bloodiest battlefield of the war, children dig for shrapnel to sell for a cent a kilo; lovers stroll on the beach at De Nang, where the first US troops landed. Loudspeakers in the street still broadcast a litany of production figures, but they are drowned out by Paul Anka and the Everly Brothers. Saigon, the author discover, has easily triumphed over Stalin's murderous economic planning. But it may face a tougher adversary in capitalism, whose grim 'post-communist' program can be found in a single neon sign: 'Kenwood-HiFi-Stereo-Night-Club-Karaoke-VIP-Room-Discotheque-Saigon-Pub-Health-Centre-Coffee-Shop.'

As rich in political perceptions as it is in memorable images, Return to Vietnam shatters the myths about a country which the West fought over, flattened and forgot.