This book was disturbing - as it was meant to be - but beautifully written. Some books are disturbing in a good "ax to a frozen sea" way -- this is just bloody disturbing.
Depois de ser completamente desencorajado pelos seus editores, Henry, um escritor que acreditava piamente no sucesso do seu livro sobre o Holocausto, desiste do projecto e muda-se para outra cidade onde começa uma nova vida. Porem, continua a receber cartas de todo o tipo dos seus leitores, e uma...
Yikes. Weird and dark. I have never heard a pear described as beautifully as in this book. Eloquent. Engrossing.
هي رواية للأديب الكندي "يان مارتل", وحصدت جائزة "Man Booker" الأدبية في عام 2002؛ وهي جائزة ذات مستوى عالي تُقدَّم سنوياً لأفضل رواية كتبت باللغة الإنجليزية لأديب من دول الكومنولث أو من الجمهورية الأيرلندية, ترجمة لأربعين لغة وإلى العربية عام 2006مقدمة الكتاب تخبرنا عن سر النهاية لو كنت أعلم لقرأ...
I can only assume that part of the reason this book has such a low rating is the outraged fans of Life of Pi, who, probably confused by Ang Lee’s pretty movie, remember that story as a cute fairytale about a kid and a tiger in a boat and are still high on fairytale dust. Oh, shocker! Yann Martel...
From his modest flat on Rua São Miguel in the ill-famed Alfama district to his uncle’s stately estate in leafy Lapa, it is a good walk across much of Lisbon. It will likely take him an hour. But the morning has broken bright and mild, and the walk will soothe him. And yesterday Sabio, one of his ...
Harper, For the first time I’m sending you an original screenplay and with it, naturally, the movie that was made from it. Hiroshima Mon Amour was written by Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), who is often associated with the Nouveau Roman literary movement in France, and directed by Alain Resnais (bo...