Miss Bee and the Corpse in the Library

Miss Bee and the Corpse in the Library

Author:Alessia GazzolaPublisher:LonganesiRelease Date:19-11-2024 London, 1924. Beatrice Bernabò, known as Miss Bee, is a twenty-year-old Italian who has moved to the English capital with her father Leonida, a professor of Italian studies at the University, and her...
The experimental Age

The experimental Age

Author: Erri De LucaPublisher: FeltrinelliRelease Date: 12-11-2024 No generation before the present one has reached old age with such a majority and in such an active state, which makes it an experimental age today. An opportunity, a chance to discover something new...
The rootless girl

The rootless girl

Author:Cristina CaboniPublisher:GarzantiRelease Date:22-10-2024 A wine that rested on the sandy bottom of the sea, cradled by the waves. Adeline had never heard of anything like it. Yet, ever since she tasted it, something in her changed. Perhaps because it was...
The blossoming of neurons

The blossoming of neurons

Author:Michela Matteolipublisher:SonzognoRelease Date:01-10-2024 We all like to think that the brain does not have to deteriorate with age. This is why the increasingly flourishing strand of studies on neurogenesis in adults, i.e. the birth of nerve cells even when...
Malacarne

Malacarne

Author:Beatrice SalvioniPublisher:Einaudi Stile LiberoRelease Date:01-10-2024 A 16-year-old girl runs barefoot down the street. It is night, she wears only a petticoat, and runs desperately through the deserted city. She is disappointed, full of anger, because she has...
The hour of bliss

The hour of bliss

Author:Cristina FrascàPublisher:GarzantiRelease Date:10-09-2024 This year, the first bell of September has a sweeter ring for Anna Tosetti. It seems that, for once in her life, everything is going swimmingly. Or at least it is until it all goes wrong. She is not yet a...