les adquisicions literàries d'aquestes festes

Les festes nadalenques m'han deixat els següents quatre llibres.

Títol: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Autor: Haruki Murakami
Editorial: Vintage Books London
Idioma: Anglès
Preu: 11€
Contraportada:

More insights into life, death, memories, love and kangaroos than one has a right to expect in any single volume.
Daily Express

An intimate pleasure.
The Times

Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether in a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami's characters confront loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distance between those who ought to be closest of all.

Following the success of Kafka on the Shore comes a collection that gives full rein to Murakami's inventive mastery. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of the human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising and relentlessly entertaining.

Funny but also sad and wise
Sunday Telegraph

These stories are rich in Murakami magic...a collection that all readers will enjoy.
Independent

A stunning collection...simple, mysterious and true... Masterful
Arena

Exhilarating
Spectator

He casts a spell...his world is like no other
Daily Mail

Títol: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Autor: Lewis Carroll
Editorial: Penguin Popular Classics
Idioma: Anglès
Preu: 3,50€
Contraportada:
COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
Lewis Carroll's classic story of Alice's extraordinary adventures is crammed with strange events and bizarre and unforgettable characters.

Alice follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit-hole and into a series of extraordinary adventures in Wonderland, a country of crazy logic where the absurd and surreal are the norm. Riddles have no answers, songs turn into nonsense and everything is punctuated with dreadful puns.
The animals who live there can not only speak but are positively argumentative; however, the self-possessed Alice is well able to cope with everything she meets.
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Títol: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Autor: Khaled Hosseini
Editorial: Bloomsbury
Idioma: Anglès
Contraportada:
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Marian is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen-years-old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship to grow as deep as the bond between sisters, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter.
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In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.
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Títol: La noia que somiava un llumí i un bidó de gasolina - Millennium 2
Autor: Stieg Larsson
Editorial: Columna
Idioma: Català
Contraportada:
La jove investigadora i hacker Lisbeth Salander torna a Estocolm després d'unes merescudes vacances per mig món, lluny del periodista Mikael Blomkvist, els secrets de la família Vanger i l'assetjament a què la va sotmetre el seu tutor.

En Mikel, per la seva banda, passa per un molt bon moment: redimit dels càrrecs que l'acusaven injustament, reconegut per tots els mitjans del país i amb la revista Millennium donant importants beneficis, està a punt de llançar un número especial que posarà al descobert una xarxa de prostitució de noies menors provinents de l'est d'Europa en què estan implicats els més alts estaments de la societat sueca.

Però la calma només és aparent: un triple assassinat fa que els destins d'en Mikael i la Lisbeth es tornin a encreuar, per bé que aquesta vegada és la noia qui apareix com a principal sospitosa d'un cas en què revelacions sorprenents i fets inesperats posaran a prova la capacitat dels personatges per superar els obstacles i mantenir la confiança que hi havia entre ells.