5 Novel eBooks

Ferocity by Nicola LaGioia, translated by Antony Shugaar
The Shifting Pools by Zoë Duncan
The Rift, UK Edition
Tom Keve, "Trois explications du monde"
John G. Brandon - Un urlo a Soho

Ferocity by Nicola LaGioia, translated by Antony Shugaar
English | October 10, 2017 | ISBN: 1609453816 | EPUB | 464 pages | 1.2 MB
Winner of the 2015 Strega Prize, Italy's preeminent prize for fiction, Ferocity is a cinematic suspense novel that also addresses vital social questions, a combination of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, filtered through the fierce Mediterranean vision of Elena Ferrante.
Southern Italy, the 1980s. On a hot summer's night under a full moon, far from the outlying neighborhoods of a southern Italian metropolis, Clara stumbles naked, dazed, and bloodied down a major highway. When she dies no-one is able to say exactly how or why, but her brother cannot free himself from her memory or from the questions surrounding her death. The more he learns about her life and death, the more he uncovers the moral decay at the core of his family's ascent to social prominence.
At once an intimate family saga, a history of an entire region, and a portrait of the moral and political corruption of a whole society, Ferocity is an exhilirating, ambitious, and vivid work of fiction by Italy's foremost literary novelist.

The Shifting Pools by Zoë Duncan
English | July 10, 2017 | ISBN: 1785630369 | EPUB | 272 pages | 1 MB
Fleeing war and the death of her family, Eve has carefully constructed a new life for herself in London. Yet she is troubled by vivid, disturbing dreams, symptoms of her traumatic past, which intrude increasingly on her daily life. As she is drawn further into her dream world, she finds herself caught up in a fresh battle for survival. A dark, lyrical fantasy about healing and reconnecting with the full richness of the self.

The Rift (UK Edition) by Nina Allan
English | 11 July 2017 | ISBN: 1785650378 | EPUB | 432 pages | 3.1 MB
From the award-winning author of The Race comes the spellbinding science fiction story of Julie, a seventeen-year-old who goes missing. When she reappears twenty years later, she has an incredible story to tell about her time on another planet.
Selena and Julie are sisters. As children they were closest companions, but as they grow towards maturity, a rift develops between them.
There are greater rifts, however. Julie goes missing at the age of seventeen. It will be twenty years before Selena sees her again. When Julie reappears, she tells Selena an incredible story about how she has spent time on another planet. Selena has an impossible choice to make: does she dismiss her sister as a damaged person, the victim of delusions, or believe her, and risk her own sanity in the process? Is Julie really who she says she is, and if she isn't, what does she have to gain by claiming her sister's identity?
The Rift is a novel about the illusion we call reality, the memories shared between people and the places where those memories diverge, a story about what might happen when the assumptions we make about the world and our place in it are called into question.

Tom Keve, "Trois explications du monde"
Albin Michel | 2013 | ISBN: 2757822683 | French | EPUB | 560 pages | 1.3 MB
Du début du XIXe siècle à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, d'une yeshiva de Bohême en 1805 au New-York des années 30, en passant par Vienne, Budapest, Prague, Berlin, Londres, Jérusalem… une grande fresque historique, mais avant tout, le roman vrai des idées du monde contemporain, dont les héros sont des rabbins d'Europe centrale, Sigmund Freud, Carl-Gustav Jung, Albert Einstein, Nils Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Sandor Ferenczi, Lou Andrea Salomé…. Autant de personnages hors du commun formidablement humains. Sur fond de racines sociales, culturelles, intellectuelles et religieuses des principaux protagonistes, l'intrigue installe le débat sur l'enracinement de la psychanalyse dans la tradition et la culture juives, tandis que les scientifiques s'interrogent sur la structure de la matière, et que des passerelles s'établissent entre des disciplines apparemment incompatibles. L'auteur réussit un tour de force : rendre captivant les questionnements de tous ces savants, qu'il a su incarner de manière extraordinairement vivante, dans une véritable dramaturgie aux prises avec les affres de la jalousie et des rivalités, les tourments amoureux, ou la dépression, et jubilant quand, pris de vertige, ils formulent soudain une théorie qui va changer l'interprétation du monde.
"Une véritable dramaturgie aux prises avec les affres de la jalousie et des rivalités, les tourments amoureux." - France Culture
Biographie de l'auteur
Tom Keve, physicien anglais d'origine hongroise, vit à Londres et parle français. Trois explications du monde est son premier roman.

John G. Brandon - Un urlo a Soho
Italian | 2017 | 228 pages | ASIN: B073ZDYCYH | EPUB | 0,3 MB
Londra. Un grido terribile squarcia il silenzio ovattato della notte di Soho. L'ispettore McCarthy di Scotland Yard accorre sulla presunta scena del delitto, muovendosi nel buio assoluto e quasi surreale imposto dal coprifuoco (siamo negli anni della seconda guerra mondiale). Lì trova uno stiletto e un fazzoletto da donna insanguinati. Tutto lascia pensare a un fatto di sangue, ma tanto la vittima quanto l'aggressore sembrano essersi volatilizzati nel nulla.
C'è un solo posto dove McCarthy può trovare la chiave per svelare l'enigma: i bassifondi del quartiere, tra piccoli gangster italiani, spie, aristocratici inglesi e ricchi tedeschi.
John G. Brandon guida il lettore per le strade di Soho, immergendolo in una storia intrigante e ricca di mistero sullo sfondo di una Londra anni '40, di cui offre un ritratto intenso e coinvolgente.