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Todo in Tuscany: the dog at the villa
by Louise Badger Lawrence KershawA dream house in Tuscany . . . and a dog named Todo.Todo had been waiting at Poggiolino since his mistress died over two years before. The house lay empty and neglected and yet he wouldn't leave. He seemed to know that someday the right people would come along and make it a home again.Louise and Lawrence weren't thinking of buying the very first house they looked at in Tuscany. In fact, their plans to move from London were barely formed . . . but there was something enchanting about the dog waiting at the gates. If they were honest, they wanted Todo - the scruffy dog with the huge grin - as much as they wanted the house. With Todo as their faithful companion they began to restore Poggiolino to life, unlocking her secrets and giving Todo, their beloved dog, a second chance.A heart-warming memoir of moving country, making a new life and coming home.
Todo lo que ganamos cuando lo perdimos todo
by Eduardo VerdúUn jugador frustrado, una mujer abandonada y un servicio secreto todopoderoso se baten en un drama emocional y político basado en hechos reales. Una historia de amor, traición, valentía, esperanza, pérdida y reencuentro. <P><P> En 1979 el aclamado futbolista Lutz Eigendorf lo abandona todo, a su mujer, Gabi, a su hija de dos años, Sandy, su trabajo y su patria, la Alemania comunista, en busca de libertad. La huida de la estrella del Dynamo de Berlín supone un duro golpe para el sistema socialista y para Erich Mielke, presidente del equipo y, además, jefe de la Stasi, el servicio de inteligencia. <P>El jugador intenta reunir a su familia al oeste del muro, pero Gabi y Sandy no pueden respirar sin que lo sepa el servicio secreto más eficaz del mundo, que las somete a interminables interrogatorios y a un férreo acoso. <P>¿Sabía Eigendorf que con su fuga ponía en riesgo su vida y condenaba la de su familia? Gabi, aunque se debate entre el amor y el odio a su marido, no deja de escribirle cartas que él nunca recibe y que ella a veces ni siquiera envía. <P>Mientras tanto, Eigendorf lucha por triunfar en el fútbol occidental y por lograr el sueño irrenunciable de ser feliz con su mujer y su hija en occidente. <P>Esta es la apasionante peripecia de un hombre que firmó su sentencia de muerte con la intención de no cumplirla.
Todo lo que no puedo decir
by Emilie PineEn Todo lo que no puedo decir, Emilie Pine nos trae seis relatos autobiográficos que quieren romper el más antiguo de los pactos de silencio: el cuerpo de las mujeres como fuente de placer y de dolor. «No leas este libro en público: te hará llorar.» Anne Enright Cuando Emilie Pine le dijo a su madre que quería escribir un libro de ensayos autobiográficos, ella le preguntó de qué tratarían. "Sobre alcoholismo, abortos, violaciones, depresión y silencio. Y también sobre encontrar fuerzas, trabajar duro y aprender a alzar la voz." Su madre entendió por qué su hija quería escribir ese libro, pero ¿publicarlo? Sin duda. Publicarlo porque nunca antes ha sido tan necesaria esta exploración sobre todo aquello que las mujeres supuestamente deben esconder: la adicción, la ira, la violencia sexual, la euforia, la sensualidad y el amor. Pine escribe con una sinceridad radical sobre acontecimientos que durante cuarenta años no había admitido ni siquiera ante sí misma: el alcoholismo de su padre, su imposibilidad de quedarse embarazada, violaciones y adicciones. Esta es su historia, pero es también un golpe contra el más antiguo de los pactos de silencio: el cuerpo de las mujeres como fuente y recipiente de dolor y placer.Si nuestro cuerpo pudiera contar su historia, ¿de qué hablaría? Hablaría de sangre, del dolor de la sangre sucia, de la sangre que no debe mostrarse jamás. Hablaría de la angustia de no dar la talla, de callar siempre creyendo que eso mejorará las cosas. Este es un libro devastador, sabio y alegre. Un tratado sobre lo que significa estar viva, un acto de rebelión contra una sociedad que se siente más cómoda silenciando a las mujeres. La crítica ha dicho...«Ágil y profunda: ahonda en la familia, en las cuestiones de clase y en los modos en los que las mujeres son relegadas al silencio.»Deborah Levy «Un tratado a gritos sobre lo que significa crear tus propias reglas [...]. Emilie Pine es como tu mejor amiga... si tu mejor amiga fuese tan afilada que te hiciese sangrar.»Lena Dunham «Pine es fascinante y cercana de principio a fin. En el momento en que crees que la conoces, se revela otra cara.»The Sunday Times «La escritura de Pine es clara y urgente, del tipo que te hace sentarte y tomar nota. Léanla. No solo por su honestidad en temas con los que muchos todavía nos sentimos incómodos, sino también porque es muy consciente de cómo ha dado forma a la historia de su vida en estas páginas.»Independent«Leer estos textos es entender la condición humana con más claridad. Y reivindicar las experiencias propias como reales y válidas.»The Guardian «Nunca he leído nada similar a estos ensayos. La inteligencia de Pine fluye de una manera inimitable a través de cada pregunta, de cada dilema,. Es el tipo de libro que quieres dar a todo el mundo, especialmente a mujeres y hombres jóvenes, para que podamos aprender juntos a tomarnos más en serio a nosotros y a los demás.»The Irish Times
Todo marcha sobre ruedas: Testimonio de un renacer
by María Paz DíazTestimonio de superación de la ex tenista paralímpica y modelo María Paz Díaz. A los dieciocho años, cuando regresaba de una fiesta, María Paz Díaz recibió un impacto de bala a la altura de la cintura que dañó parte de su médula espinal. El autor del disparo fue un gendarme que portaba su arma de servicio. «¿Por qué lo hizo?» es la gran pregunta que ella y sus familiares se hicieron, y que hasta el día de hoy se mantiene sin respuesta. Esa misma noche, y mientras luchaba por mantenerse con vida en el hospital de Talca, Marita supo que no volvería a caminar. Pese al dolor y a la impotencia, pese a las innumerables dificultades y sinsabores que tuvo que enfrentar, esta mujer, que ahora tiene 31 años, no se rindió y luchó cada día por tener una existencia luminosa y cumplir sus sueños. Con esfuerzo y tenacidad recobró su independencia, fue tenista paralímpica, modelo sobre ruedas y logró viajar por el mundo recogiendo experiencias. Ahora, a trece años de su accidente, ha decidido contar toda su verdad en este libro.
Todo o nada: La historia secreta y la historia pública del jefe guerrillero Mario Roberto San
by María SeoaneA través de innumerables cartas personales, el relato de sus familiares,testimonios de militantes del PRT-RRP y de miembros jerárquicos delejército, el personaje adquiere una dimensión matizada y precisa. No es habitual que una investigación sobre un personaje tabú seaobjetiva. Habrá quienes deseen que el personaje resulte obligatoriamenteexecrable. Otros, por el contrario, solo estarán dispuestos a confirmarque se trataba de un héroe impoluto. La verdad es lo que menos interesaa todos ellos y, en consecuencia, la investigación más rigurosa solopuede constituirse en un obstáculo gratuito.En Todo o nada María Seoane no elige un camino más fácil. Conminuciosidad investiga los pliegues desconocidos de la vida de MarioRoberto Santucho, en donde el jefe guerrillero se manifiesta como unpolítico práctico así como un alucinando soñador de una utopíasangrienta. Abandona el territorio de la iconografía mítica paraingresar, en carne y hueso, y como uno de los protagonistas de unadécada trágica e imborrable, en aquello que hoy ya parece ser,afortunadamente, parte del pasado argentino.
Todo pasa
by Hernán CastilloLa biografía no autorizada de Julio Grondona. La historia del hombre que llegó a manejar el dinero de la FIFA sin hablar inglés. Eterno. Camaleónico. Poderoso. El repaso de la vida de Julio Grondona remite inmediatamente a esas palabras. Un hombre de códigos, buenos o malos. Guiños y favores son conceptos asociados a su historia. Una historia atravesada por negociaciones y negocios, repleta de apuestas fuertes. Una historia en la que el inoxidable presidente de la AFA se sentó mano a mano con dictadores y representantes de la democracia. Con radicales y peronistas, con amigos y enemigos; en la AFA y en la FIFA. Negoció y convivió con todos. Él mismo se burla de quienes lo investigan: "Tengo más denuncias que Al Capone". Guste o no, es el dirigente más influyente de la historia del fútbol argentino, y él lo sabe. Aquí, un repaso por su vida. Una vida semejante a la de Dr Jekill y Mr Hyde, ese personaje de ficción que, en él, parece real.
Todos Llaman Padre, A mi Padre
by Tim 'Dr. Hope' AndersBasado en la verdadera historia de amor de la vida de los padres del autor, su madre, una actriz, y su padre, un sacerdote católico. El hijo de un sacerdote católico lo cuenta todo. Esta novela romántica se basa en una verdadera historia de amor: la historia de los padres del autor. El personaje de una joven tenaz, Bouvette Sherwood, que es una exitosa productora y actriz de New York Broadway, conduce la trama. A mediados de la década de 1940, Bouvette se encuentra y se enamora de un alcohólico encantador, Hughie Hewitt. Sin embargo, él tiene un secreto que le oculta durante su intenso noviazgo: es un sacerdote católico. Su historia de amor se desarrolla en un caleidoscopio de intriga, suspenso, traición y romance.
Todos los futuros perdidos: Conversaciones sobre el final de ETA
by Eduardo Madina Borja SémperUn libro lleno de valentía, honestidad y verdad. Este libro comienza con el recuerdo de un día feliz, el 20 de octubre de 2011, en el que la banda terrorista ETA anunció su cese definitivo. Diez años después de aquella fecha histórica, un centenario caserío en Aretxabaleta, cercano a Mondragón, albergaba esta emocionante conversación sobre uno de los episodios más oscuros de nuestro pasado reciente. Eduardo Madina y Borja Sémper eligieron un simbólico cruce de caminos en el corazón de Euskadi porque la suya es una historia de vidas paralelas con muchos puntos de conexión. Nacidos en Bilbao e Irun con apenas unas horas de diferencia, su compromiso les convirtió desde muy jóvenes en objetivos de la violencia. Ambos vivieron los años más duros del terrorismo en primera línea y desde distintas formaciones políticas. Nunca se plantearon renunciar, a pesar del coste que supuso en sus vidas. Todos los futuros perdidos es un conmovedor testimonio contra el miedo, el silencio y el olvido. Un libro imprescindible que reivindica la memoria colectiva de un pasado que no debió existir al tiempo que celebra la mayor de las victorias, la de todos los futuros que se ganaron.
Todos los hombres del Führer: La élite del nacionalismo (1919-1945)
by Ferran GallegoTodos los nombres relevantes de aquellos que hicieron los sueños de Hitler realidad: Los artífices del III Reich. Un sistema político, económico, social, militar y cultural tan complejo como el nazismo sólo pudo levantarse gracias a la decidida participación de muchas personas. Himmler, Göring, Rosenberg, Goebbels, Drexler, Strasser, Röhm, Speer, entre otros destacados jerarcas nacionalsocialistas, fueron algunos de los responsables de la construcción de aquella barbarie. Sin ellos, Hitler, el Führer, su conductor, no hubiera podido sembrar el terror en su propio país y en Europa. Como explica el profesor Gallego en la brillante conclusión de este trabajo -destinado a convertirse en un clásico de la historiografía española sobre la materia- el nacionalsocialismo fue un proyecto social que se instaló en la modernidad y que procedía de sus mismas actitudes culturales. Premio Internacional de Ensayo Caballero Bonald Reseña:«Ferran Gallego es un caso bastante excepcional en España por la dimensión literaria de su prosa, algo especialmente perceptible en este libro.»Jacinto Antón, El País
Todos tenemos un lado (oscuro) rosa
by Herrejón Lili¿Todavía hay alguien que piense que las chicas no saben contar chistes? Eso es porque no conocen a Lili y Herrejón (o Lilirrejón), dos jóvenes influencers de redes sociales que son capaces de arrancar 400.000 carcajadas en seis segundos. Lili y Herrejón no pueden ser más distintas. A Herrejón le gustan las películas de acción y a Lili las románticas. Herrejón prefiere la montaña y Lili la playa. A Herrejón le gustan los chicos como vikingos, tatuados y barbudos, y a Lili le gustan los chicos tiernos que tocan la guitarra. Herrejón prefiere salado y Lili, dulce. Sin embargo, son grandes amigas y compañeras de piso. En Todos tenemos un lado (oscuro) rosa hablan de amistad, de relaciones sentimentales, de la experiencia de compartir piso y, por supuesto, de sí mismas: la música que les gusta, sus peores y mejores citas, lo que les hace reíry llorar... Rompen con las ideas preconcebidas del mundo femenino mostrando mujeres que saben reírse de sus defectos y que prefieren quedarse en casa comiendo una pizza a tener una cita. Todo con el toque dulce que le pone Lili y con un poquito de mala leche, como le gusta a Herrejón.
Toffee Apples and Quail Feathers: New Stories From Call the Midwife
by Jennifer Worth Suzannah WorthFollowing the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011, Suzannah Worth discovered amongst her manuscripts a folder simply labelled 'Fifth Book'. Imagine her excitement when she sat down to read and her mother's distinctive voice came flooding back. She found herself once again immersed in the world of the 1950s East End of London. The voices of much loved, familiar characters spoke loud and clear, particularly that of Fred the boiler man, who features extensively in this joyful collection. From Fred and Maisie's romance, to Fred's little earners including boat tours on the Thames, a fledgling singing career and raising pigs on the allotment, these new stories are as heart-warming and funny as the originals.Published here for the first time and accompanied by a selection of Suzannah's favourite chapters from the original memoirs, featuring Chummy and Sister Monica Joan, this is a very special addition to the Call the Midwife family.
Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap
by Judy GoldmanA routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy Goldman's husband paralyzed. Together is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their "normal" life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested.When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads a newspaper ad for an injection to alleviate back pain, the outpatient procedure sounds like the answer to his longtime backaches. But rather than restoring his tennis game, the procedure leaves him paralyzed from the waist down--a phenomenon none of the doctors the family consults can explain. Overnight, Goldman's world is turned upside down. Though she has always thought of herself as the polite, demure wife opposite her strong, brave husband, Goldman finds herself thrown into a new role as his advocate, navigating byzantine hospital policies, demanding and refusing treatments, seeking solutions to help him win back his independence. Along the way, Goldman flashes back to her memories of their life together. As she tries envision her family's future, she discovers a new, more resilient version of herself. Together is a story of the life we imagine versus the life we lead--an elegant and empathetic meditation on partnership, aging, and, of course, love.
Together, Alone
by Susan Wittig AlbertWhat does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully written memoir, she movingly describes how she has experienced place, marriage, and aloneness while creating a home in the Texas Hill Country with her husband and writing partner, Bill Albert. Together, Alone opens in 1985, as Albert leaves a successful, if rootless, career as a university administrator and begins a new life as a freelance writer, wife, and homesteader on a patch of rural land northwest of Austin. She vividly describes the work of creating a home at Meadow Knoll, a place in which she and Bill raised their own food and animals, while working together and separately on writing projects. Once her sense of home and partnership was firmly established, Albert recalls how she had to find its counterbalance--a place where she could be alone and explore those parts of the self that only emerge in solitude. For her, this place was Lebh Shomea, a silent monastic retreat. In writing about her time at Lebh Shomea, Albert reveals the deep satisfaction she finds in belonging to a community of people who have chosen to be apart and experience silence and solitude.
Together For Good: Lessons from Fifty Five Years of Marriage
by Ella P. Mitchell Henry H. MitchellThe book tells how the Mitchells coped with the first year of marriage, financial problems, the birth and adoption of their children, switching jobs, and moving.
Together on Top of the World: The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits
by Susan Ershler Phil ErshlerOn May 16, 2002, Phil and Susan Ershler reached the top of Mt. Everest and became the first couple in history to scale the fabled Seven Summits. What made their achievement all the more remarkable was that Susan was not a mountain climber, but a high-powered Fortune 500 executive who had never hiked or climbed until she met Phil at the age of 36. Phil, a professional mountain guide who was the first American to summit Everest from its treacherous north face, had climbed his whole life with Crohn's disease, a chronic, debilitating illness. Adding to these challenges, just before their final summit, Phil was diagnosed with colon cancer, and the resulting surgeries and complications were expected to end his career. This is Susan and Phil's story: a tale of love set in the mountains, a story of triumphal highs and devastating lows in quest of a seemingly impossible dream.
Together We March: 25 Protest Movements That Marched into History
by Leah HendersonMarch through history and discover twenty-five groundbreaking protest movements that have shaped the way we fight for equality and justice today in this stunningly illustrated and sweeping book!For generations, marches have been an invaluable tool for bringing about social change. People have used their voices, the words on their signs, and the strength in their numbers to combat inequality, oppression, and discrimination. They march to call attention to these wrongs and demand change and action, from a local to a global scale. Whether demanding protective laws or advocating for equal access to things like voting rights, public spaces, and jobs, the twenty-five marches in this book show us that even when a fight seems impossible, marching can be the push needed to tip the scales and create a movement. This gorgeous collection celebrates this rich and diverse history, the often-overlooked stories, and the courageous people who continue to teach us the importance of coming together to march today.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
by Stephen Turnbull Giuseppe RavaTowards the end of the 16th century three outstanding commanders brought Japan's century of civil wars to an end, and even though reunification was first achieved under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it was his successor Tokugawa Ieyasu who was to ensure a lasting peace. In terms of his strategic and political achievements Ieyasu ranks as Japan's greatest samurai commander. His battlefield prowess, however, needs careful consideration before accolades are offered, because Ieyasu was undoubtedly a lucky general. Mikata ga Hara, for example, was a defeat that the onset of winter saved from being a rout. Ieyasu's crowning victory at Sekigahara depended very much on the defection to his side of Kobayakawa Hideaki, and the absence from the scene of Ieyasu's son Hidetada serves to illustrate how just once there was a failure in Ieyasu's otherwise classic strategic vision. Yet Ieyasu possessed the particular wisdom of knowing who should be an ally and who was an enemy, and he was gifted in the broad brush strokes of a campaign. He also knew how to learn from his mistakes.Ieyasu was also patient, a virtue sadly lacking in many of his contemporaries, and unlike Hideyoshi never outreached himself. To establish his family as the ruling clan in Japan for the next two and a half centuries was abundant proof of his true greatness.
Tokyo Hostess: Inside the shocking world of Tokyo nightclub hostessing
by Clare CampbellThe ambition of Tokyo businessman Joji Obara was to have sex with five hundred women. He set up a kind of date-rape production line to do it - the horrible workings of which would become infamous in the course of a sensational trial.'In recent years, a number of high profile murder cases involving Western women who work as hostesses in Tokyo nightclubs have attracted the attention of the media. 'Gaijin' generally means 'foreign' or 'non-Japanese'. This book focuses on the victims of businessman Joji Obara, who was controversially acquitted of the murder of Lucie Blackman but jailed for that of Carita Ridgway. Samantha Ridgway, Carita's sister, and the Blackman family never gave up their fight for justice and finally Obara was jailed. But there are many more tragic stories of the men who prey on the gaijin girls...
Tokyo Hostess: Inside the shocking world of Tokyo nightclub hostessing
by Clare CampbellThe ambition of Tokyo businessman Joji Obara was to have sex with five hundred women. He set up a kind of date-rape production line to do it - the horrible workings of which would become infamous in the course of a sensational trial.'In recent years, a number of high profile murder cases involving Western women who work as hostesses in Tokyo nightclubs have attracted the attention of the media. 'Gaijin' generally means 'foreign' or 'non-Japanese'. This book focuses on the victims of businessman Joji Obara, who was controversially acquitted of the murder of Lucie Blackman but jailed for that of Carita Ridgway. Samantha Ridgway, Carita's sister, and the Blackman family never gave up their fight for justice and finally Obara was jailed. But there are many more tragic stories of the men who prey on the gaijin girls...
Tokyo, My Everest: A Canadian Woman in Japan
by Gabrielle BauerCo-winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Awards 1997 By either folly or design, Gabrielle Bauer finds herself on a plane bound for Tokyo, leaving her career, home, and husband behind.
A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir
by Ian BurumaA classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970'sWhen Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middleclass youth, what he longed for wasn’t so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he had experienced in Japanese theater performances and films, witnessed in Amsterdam and Paris. One particular theater troupe, directed by a poet of runaways, outsiders, and eccentrics, was especially alluring, more than a little frightening, and completely unforgettable. If Tokyo was anything like his plays, Buruma knew that he had to join the circus as soon as possible. Tokyo was an astonishment. Buruma found a feverish and surreal metropolis where nothing was understated—neon lights, crimson lanterns, Japanese pop, advertising jingles, and cabarets. He encountered a city in the midst of an economic boom where everything seemed new, aside from the isolated temple or shrine that had survived the firestorms and earthquakes that had levelled the city during the past century. History remained in fragments: the shapes of wounded World War II veterans in white kimonos, murky old bars that Mishima had cruised in, and the narrow alleys where street girls had once flitted. Buruma’s Tokyo, though, was a city engaged in a radical transformation. And through his adventures in the world of avant garde theater, his encounters with carnival acts, fashion photographers, and moments on-set with Akira Kurosawa, Buruma underwent a radical transformation of his own. For an outsider, unattached to the cultural burdens placed on the Japanese, this was a place to be truly free.A Tokyo Romance is a portrait of a young artist and the fantastical city that shaped him. With his signature acuity, Ian Buruma brilliantly captures the historical tensions between east and west, the cultural excitement of 1970s Tokyo, and the dilemma of the gaijin in Japanese society, free, yet always on the outside. The result is a timeless story about the desire to transgress boundaries: cultural, artistic, and sexual.
#Tokyo45 Gli ultimi giorni della Seconda Guerra Mondiale
by Philip Gibson Laura FenatiDescrizione del libro E se durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale fossero esistiti i cosiddetti 'social'? #Tokyo45 Gli ultimi giorni della Seconda Guerra Mondiale Il formato di questo libro non è il solito che ci passa tra le mani. Esso tratta l'avvincente storia degli ultimi giorni della Seconda Guerra Mondiale raccontata in forma di messaggi Twitter con dichiarazioni veritiere dei principali personaggi del tempo. La storia inizia con la conquista strategica dell'isola giapponese di Okinawa e continua con i pensieri e le azioni di tali personaggi principali e prosegue con il progetto di invasione del Giappone, la difesa giapponese, il Progetto Manhattan, il primo esperimento atomico, la difesa con i Kamikaze, la Conferenza di Potsdam, la sconfitta elettorale di Churchill, la decisione di sganciare le bombe atomiche, la tentata rivolta di palazzo e la capitolazione finale giapponese.
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
by John GarthHow the First World War influenced the author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy: &“Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written.&” —A. N. Wilson As Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded friends who had wide-ranging conversations in their Tea Club and Barrovian Society. After finishing his degree, Tolkien experienced the horrors of the Great War as a signal officer in the Battle of the Somme, where two of those school friends died. All the while, he was hard at work on an original mythology that would become the basis of his literary masterpiece, the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In this biographical study, drawn in part from Tolkien&’s personal wartime papers, John Garth traces the development of the author&’s work during this critical period. He shows how the deaths of two comrades compelled Tolkien to pursue the dream they had shared, and argues that the young man used his imagination not to escape from reality—but to transform the cataclysm of his generation. While Tolkien&’s contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that resonates to this day. &“Garth&’s fine study should have a major audience among serious students of Tolkien.&” —Publishers Weekly &“A highly intelligent book . . . Garth displays impressive skills both as researcher and writer.&” —Max Hastings, author of The Secret War &“Somewhere, I think, Tolkien is nodding in appreciation.&” —San Jose Mercury News &“A labour of love in which journalist Garth combines a newsman&’s nose for a good story with a scholar&’s scrupulous attention to detail . . . Brilliantly argued.&” —Daily Mail (UK) &“Gripping from start to finish and offers important new insights.&” —Library Journal &“Insight into how a writer turned academia into art, how deeply friendship supports and wounds us, and how the death and disillusionment that characterized World War I inspired Tolkien&’s lush saga.&” —Detroit Free Press
Tolstoy: A Russian Life (Leo Tolstoy, Diaries And Letters Ser. #2)
by Rosamund BartlettThis biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina &“should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject&” (Booklist, starred review). In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy spent his existence rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In &“an epic biography that does justice to an epic figure,&” Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including fascinating material that has only become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union (Library Journal, starred review). She sheds light on Tolstoy&’s remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved and the turbulent times in which he lived.
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
by Nina Sankovitch“NinaSankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that remindsus of the most primal function of literature-to heal, to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves." —Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between UsCatalyzedby the loss of her sister, a mother of four spends one year savoring a greatbook every day, from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond. In the tradition ofGretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project and Joan Dideon’sA Year of Magical Thinking, Nina Sankovitch’ssoul-baring and literary-minded memoir is a chronicle of loss,hope, and redemption. Nina ultimately turns to reading as therapy andthrough her journey illuminates the power of books to help us reclaim ourlives.