Le Vieux Puits est un livre fascinant. Par de brefs chapitres thématiques –; Mes parents, La ville, Autoportrait, La religion, Le théâtre, Le temps, Éveil, etc.
Lolo, il figlio di Iris, regina delle fate, desidera diventare un bambino del mondo reale ma una minaccia incombe, la sua mamma e la pace del regno sono in grave pericolo:
Ils s’étaient soudain rendu compte que le temps avait désagrégé leur passé, alors que durant leur enfance et leurs années de jeunesse, ils l’avaient considéré comme un ensemble compact bien cimenté. »
A young writer, struggling for success, employs an elderly woman called Emerence to be her housekeeper. From their first encounter it is clear that Emerence is no ordinary maid.
A young writer, struggling for success, employs an elderly woman called Emerence to be her housekeeper. From their first encounter it is clear that Emerence is no ordinary maid.
Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.
Eszter Encsy is an acclaimed actress, funny and outrageous, quick-witted but callous. Yet even flushed with the success of adulthood, Eszter craves acceptance of herself as she really is and of the person she has been.
Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry—a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau.
A Dickensian coming-of-age tale about poverty, sex, World War I, and the darker side of human nature as seen through the eyes of a lobby boy in a Budapest hotel.
Primarily a piece of creative writing and autobiographical literature of a very distinctive Central European kind, this detailed and imaginative short memoir is also an important document of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944.
All'alba della seconda guerra mondiale un uomo misterioso, che si presenta come Adam Cadmon, consegna ad uno studioso il manoscritto di una storia fantastica: