Here are some new titles that intrigued me ...
title: "The Color of Fear"
Author: Gérard Di Roero Cortanze
Publisher: Garzanti
Translation: from French Doriana Comerlati.
pages: 304
price: € 18.60
"the real protagonist is indigo, blue in the search for perfection is a road of evil, full of crimes, the dark ghosts of claims errors." Claudio Magris
Plot: Haute Savoie, 1859. The snow wrapped in a blanket on the small quiet town of Rumilly. Two children are cut off at breakneck speed in white. To celebrate their tenth birthday they decided to defy the ban and sneak into his father's estate of the Castle. Approach on tiptoe to the window and stick your nose to the glass. They have to find out if what is said of landlord is the reality.
What you see is all the more surprising items of the country. The canary in the elegant gilded cage is really locked up all blue, and the same color is the face of his master: Jean-Antoine Giobert, who has always lived in that building block in ruins surrounded by fields of Isatis tinctoria, a plant that provides a very special blue. The only survivor of a family massacred during the revolution, the wealthy gentleman has only one passion and obsession: indigo. The study and experience in all its nuance and gradation, and sell it by weight d 'oro. His whole existence is dedicated to finding the perfect blue, pure, on which he wrote for years a powerful Treaty and which is also involved in bizarre competitions for the awarding of the most perfect color. Competitions to win the one after the other without fear of the opponents. But in the days following those contests are discovered heinous crimes that are dangerously similar to the delusions of which Giobert dream is prey for many nights. To escape the doubt and cleared, the man is forced to weave the search for the Assassin in blue overall with a dark and hypnotic spiral. A novel
enigmatic, poetic and engaging which depicts the cruelty of our inner being, penetrating deeper into the hidden depths of the human soul and prohibited. A true tale of evil, acclaimed by all the literary criticism north of the Alps and won the hearts of readers and booksellers.
"A journey Faustian hell and that would never end." Elle
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Title: Apocalypse Z
Author: Manel Loureiro
Translation: Claudia Marinelli
Publisher: North
Pages : 416
Price: € 16.60
In the library: November 4, 2010
Plot: Thirty years old. He is a lawyer. He lives in a small town in Galicia, Spain. Like everyone else, learned the news on television: a small republic in the Caucasus, a group of guerrillas stormed a Russian military base. A 'normal' terrorist act in one of the most turbulent and unstable world? So it seems.
Soon, however, the creeping suspicion that something more serious happened. Something that can not be controlled. An atomic explosion? A virus? Then, amidst the general confusion, Russia announced the closure of the borders and within a few days, all the EU countries do the same. Then whole cities are isolated and quarantined. Then martial law comes into force.
But it's useless.
now nothing is the same as before. There is no electricity, lacking drinking water, gasoline is over, the shelves are empty. No man running through the streets. For whoever does it is no longer a man. It has become a zombie.
Thirty years old. He is a lawyer. He lives in a small town in Galicia, Spain. And maybe it's the only survivor of the Apocalypse ... Z
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Title: The book Wild
Ator: Juan Villoro
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Translation: E. Rolla
pages: 218
price: € 13
Plot: A unique story and special that will make you discover things about the books you never imagined: Anime mysterious screw their own personal image ... --- There are books with a strong personality. Books that you choose the players and not vice versa. And books that refuse to be read. Juan, fourteen, is on vacation from Uncle Tito, the bibliophile in Love. Right there Juan discovers that books have a life of its own. Some even change content depending on who reads them. Among these is the book Wild: A Book rebel who does not want to read that - he says his uncle - hidden between the pages of a very important secret. Juan will be the predestined, the player special ability to capture it.
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