This is one of the most amazing books I've ever read! It's language is totally unique, creative, and wonderful. It speaks of the inner world of its main character, Virginia, and takes us into her throughts, dreams, experiences and imaginations. Not much is happening and still the whole life is transmitted through this book. I couldn't read more than 3 to 5 pages at a time but returned to it night after night and when I had finished I started again. I gifted this book to many friends who were equally mesmerized by it.
Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time
'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world'
Like the clay from which she sculpts figurines as a girl, Virginia is constantly shifting and changing. From her dreamlike childhood on Quiet Farm with her adored brother Daniel, through an adulthood where the past continues to pull her back and shape her, she moves through life, grasping for the truth of existence. Illuminating Virginia's progress through intense…
This book is a most wonderful approach to the mind of newborn twins, who look into the world and are looked at by the writer, who tries to read and interpret what might be going on in their minds. Charming, astonishing, playful, funny, wise, and incredibly insightful, the poet Louise Glück, Nobel Prize winner of Literature has created the emergence of the world at the beginning of life.
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from the Nobel laureate Louise Glück.
“Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V.” So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Glück’s astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, an incandescent act of autobiography.
Here are the elements you’d expect to find in a story of infant twins: Father…
Stephen Hawking's capacity to tell the story of the universe and explain the concepts of gravity, relativity, spacetime and more in clear and accessible ways transmits some of the fascination a researcher might feel when trying to resolve the mysteries of the beginning and/or end of everything. A fascinating read!
Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece by one of the world's greatest thinkers. It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time, from the Big Bang to black holes, via spiral galaxies and strong theory. To this day A Brief History of Time remains a staple of the scientific canon, and its succinct and…
If Fellini met Kafka, the comical side with the darkness of the absurd, then you would enter the world of the main character, Sine, who spends some time at a remote hotel, where things are strange yet revealing, and where she can move with ease and wonder through the memories and fantasies of the people who are or were with her: Her mother who just passed away, her late father, her sister, her husband, friends and colleagues and an unknown small child that gets attached to her. A book to dream with, to smile at and be puzzled, and to get to love the wanderings of the mind.
