Figlio di una prostituta e fratello di Lupe, tredicenne con il dono di leggere nel pensiero, Juan Diego Guerrero è stato un 'bambino della spazzatura' addetto a separare i materiali in una discarica messicana ed è riuscito a sopravvivere a un destino di miseria grazie ai libri trovati tra i rifiuti. Oggi, a 54 anni, è un romanziere affermato e di successo, ma la sua esistenza precedente non l'ha mai abbandonato e torna ad abitare la sua mente in forma di sogni quando, per mantenere una promessa fatta in gioventù, parte per un viaggio nelle Filippine. Un viaggio avventuroso e commovente su due binari temporali, in cui le tracce di vita si ricongiungono in modi del tutto inaspettati.

Il celebre romanzo di Irving narra la storia di Homer Wells, un ragazzo dall'animo ricco di sentimenti e ideali cresciuto nell'orfanotrofio di St. Cloud's nel Maine, e del medico-padre Wilbur Larch, che accoglie nel suo istituto neonati abbandonati e fa abortire povere donne che altrimenti finirebbero nelle mani di macellai. Larch educa il giovane e gli insegna la professione, nella speranza che un giorno prenda il suo posto, ma Homer preferisce seguire la propria via lavorando in una fattoria dove si produce sidro. Si renderà ben presto conto che non conosce nulla del mondo degli adulti, e che dovrà affrontare dolori, asperità e percorrere molta strada per capire le regole della vita.

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John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.

In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego—a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico—has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what’s coming—specifically, her own future and her brother’s. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn’t know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding whathas happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you.

Lupe doesn’t know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the future—especially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future?

As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow older—most of all, in what we remember and what we dream—we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.

Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past—in Mexico—collides with his future.

Questa è la storia di una famiglia un po' eccentrica e sgangherata. A raccontarla in prima persona è uno dei cinque figli, quello di mezzo, che dà l'avvio alla narrazione dal giorno in cui suo padre si comprò un orso e sposò sua madre. Poi venne il sidecar e infine i cinque figli. Così equipaggiata la famiglia Berry vaga per il mondo alla ricerca del luogo perfetto per l'Hotel New Hampshire, un 'luogo dove ognuno di noi può essere se stesso'. Mentre il lettore si addentra nelle mirabolanti e scanzonate avventure della famiglia Berry alla conquista della terra promessa, altri personaggi si avvicendano a ricoprire i ruoli di questa storia: terroristi e domatori, sognatori e prostitute, stupratori e frustati, animali impagliati e illusionisti.

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.

As we grow older—most of all, in what we remember and what we dream—we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.

As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. “An aura of fate had marked him,” John Irving writes, of Juan Diego. “The chain of events, the links in our lives—what leads us where we’re going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don’t see coming, and what we do—all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious.”

Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past—in Mexico—collides with his future.

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.

As we grow older—most of all, in what we remember and what we dream—we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.

As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. “An aura of fate had marked him,” John Irving writes, of Juan Diego. “The chain of events, the links in our lives—what leads us where we’re going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don’t see coming, and what we do—all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious.”

Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past—in Mexico—collides with his future.

Inspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown, distributed, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini began the Slow Food organization, he has been constantly engaged in the fight for food justice. Beginning first in his native Italy and then expanding all over the world, the movement has created a powerful force for change.
The essential argument of this book is that food is an avenue towards freedom. This uplifting and humanistic message is straightforward: if people can feed themselves, they can be free. In other words, if people can regain control over access to their food—how it is produced, by whom, and how it is distributed—then that can lead to a greater empowerment in all channels of life. Whether in the Amazon jungle talking with tribal elders or on rice paddies in rural Indonesia, the author engages the reader through the excitement of his journeys and the passion of his mission.
Here, Petrini reports upon some of the success stories that he has observed firsthand. From Chiapas to Puglia, Morocco to North Carolina, he has witnessed the many ways different peoples have dealt with food problems. This book allows us to learn from these case studies and lays out models for the future.

In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball and kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary and terrifying.

In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.

Tra astronomia e fantasmi, guerre sante e tentazioni diaboliche, ecco il terzo numero di Hypnos, che presenta due racconti inediti di Fritz Leiber, 'Il fonditore di bottoni' e 'Dormi ancora, Biancaneve', un racconto di Washington Irving, famoso autore del racconto 'Il mistero di Sleepy Hollow', la novelette 'Technicolor', di John Langan e infine 'Il suo sguardo, di Moreno Pavanello.

Un'impresa folle, quella di Siggy e Graff, studenti universitari di Vienna che decidono di attraversare in moto l'Austria alla fine delle lezioni, con la primavera ormai alle porte. Un semplice viaggio senza meta nella campagna viennese, infatti, si trasforma presto in un piano picaresco e stravagante: liberare tutti gli animali rinchiusi nello zoo di Vienna. È il 1967, l'incubo della seconda guerra mondiale sembra lontano; nel loro vagabondare Siggy e Graff incontrano personaggi grotteschi e divertenti, incappando in romantiche avventure, fino a scontrarsi con una drammatica realtà, che rischia di mettere fine al loro sogno. Ma forse il desiderio di compiere un gesto rivoluzionario sarà più forte di qualunque logica...

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While playing baseball in the summer of 1953, Owen Meany hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother, and he becomes convinced that he is an instrument of God. Reprint.

In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball and kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary and terrifying.