MILAN – No matter how high the price of books is, the economic value and the symbolic value of a volume will never go hand in hand: the value of a novel like “Crime and Punishment” is infinitely higher than the economic value that they ask of us from cash desk. Nevertheless, one of the greatest pleasures of a book lover is the discovery of an offering. Finding books on offer for a Booklover is one of the funniest things. We have selected for you 10 books that cost less than 3 euros, taken from Amazon and Ibs reminders .
” Out of an obvious destiny ” by Giorgio Faletti (2.65 euros)
The past is the hardest place to return to. Jim Mackenzie, a half-Indian helicopter pilot, learns this the hard way when he finds himself after several years in the immovable city on the edge of the Navajo reservation where he spent his adolescence and from which he always wanted to escape with all his might. . Jim is forced to extricate himself between unfinished business and unsaid words, between men and women he thought he had forgotten and presences that he hoped were erased by time. And above all, he is forced to confront the person who has escaped the most throughout his life: himself.
” The long wait for the angel ” by Melania G. Mazzucco (€ 1.95)
Jacomo Robusti, known as Tintoretto, a volcanic, ambitious and nonconformist painter, ready to fight by any means to assert himself and to sacrifice everything and everyone to his talent.Venice at the end of the sixteenth century, rich and fragile, threatened by the wars with the Turks and the epidemic of plague. The thousand inventions of a controversial career. An increasingly large family: rebellious sons, females destined for the monastery. And at the center of this creative and feverish life, his beloved illegitimate daughter Marietta, educated in music and painting to stay close to him. Child dressed as a boy, girl and finally a woman, Marietta becomes her dream and her most successful creation. But she will be the pupil herself to teach the teacher what gives meaning to her life.
“The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring ”by John RR Tolkien (2, 70 euros)
In this first novel of Tolkien’s trilogy, the reader gets to know the Hobbits, tiny, wise and long-lived beings. Frodo, having come into possession of the Ring of Power, and forced to leave for the land of darkness. A group of Hobbits accompanies him and, along the way, other beings join the company: Elves, Dwarves and Men, also linked to Frodo’s destiny. The stages of the journey lead them through many different experiences, until the disappearance of Gandalf, dragged into the abyss by a hideous creature, leaves them without a guide. Thus the Fellowship of the Ring dissolves and its members disperse, threatened by dark forces, while the goal seems desperately to drift away.
“Flee, Charlie Brown ”Charles M. Schulz (€ 2.25)
He, Charlie Brown, a born loser, tender, insecure, haunted by an eternal inferiority complex, in love (but hopelessly unrequited) with the red-haired girl; Linus, inconstant and genius, together with his blanket became the symbol of the desperate need for security of modern man; Snoopy, a dog more human than humans, thinks, writes and dreams of fighting (and sooner or later bringing down) the legendary Red Baron; Lucy, shrewish and opinionated, with only one weakness: she loves (not loved back) Schroeder, the child prodigy who adores Beethoven. And then Sally, Piperita Patty, the little bird Woodstock and many others who over the years have joined the Peanuts gang.
“ The tampering with words”By Gianrico Carofiglio (€ 2.65)
Words are used to communicate and tell stories. But also to produce transformations and change reality. When it is used sloppily and unconsciously or when its meanings, effect and wear and loss of meaning are deliberately manipulated. If this happens, it is necessary to subject the words to careful maintenance, to restore their original strength, to make them adhere to things again. In this atypical and surprising book, Gianrico Carofiglio reflects on the languages of power and oppression, and devotes himself to the recovery of five key words of the civil lexicon: shame, justice, rebellion, beauty, choice, linked together in a rich conceptual itinerary of suggestions.
“ The innocent”By David Baldacci (2.95 euros)
A ruthless killer and a young girl. There is a more lethal couple
A home, a family, a normal life: these are just some of the things that Will Robie will never be able to have, an impossible goal to achieve, almost as much as those that work imposes on him. Narcotraffickers, terrorists, rich sheiks and criminals of all kinds: if the United States orders, he executes, and these individuals disappear from the face of the earth. But what happens when consciousness kicks in and not pulling that trigger sets off a series of dangerous chain reactions
Robie has to find out soon, and he won’t be alone.
” Sea of Truth ” by Andrea De Carlo (2.70 euros)
One snowy day in late November Lorenzo Telmari, a former skipper and globetrotter who retired to the countryside to write a book, receives a phone call from his brother who tells him that their father Teo, an internationally renowned virologist, is dead. Lorenzo rushes to Rome, where he discovers he has inherited a burning secret, with vast ethical and political implications. Soon and sucked into a very current and disturbing story, which unfolds, without a moment’s respite, between complicated family relationships, intertwining politics and religion, a passionate love story, escapes by land and sea to the coasts of southern Portugal . With “Sea of Truths” Andrea De Carlo wrote one of his most committed and at the same time most adventurous novels, weaving a tight plot that allows him to tell, with passion,
” Bartleby the scribe ” by Herman Melville (2.95 euros)
Bartleby is the name of a gray, small Wall Street employee who, without giving any explanation, gradually gives up his job as a copyist and remains motionless in silence staring at a wall, impervious to any attempt at persuasion, mild and respectful but firmly resolute. In this extraordinary story (among the most beautiful of all American literature) Melville demonstrates, as a great master, that he knows how to deal with anguished and haunting themes such as madness, predestination, incommunicability, alienation, with subtle humor and happy lightness.
” Listen to my voice ” by Susanna Tamaro (2.70 euros)
What happened to Olga’s granddaughter, the grandmother protagonist of “Go where your heart takes you
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She returned from America in time to make peace with her grandmother or she only found the long diary letter addressed to her
. loneliness had pushed her to go up to the attic to look for traces of the only two people she really wanted to know: her mother and father
Who they were
What was their story
She really was the daughter of a Turkish prince, as her grandmother told her as a child , or is there something still asking to be revealed
“ Interview with power”By Oriana Fallaci (2.95 euros)
In 1974 Oriana Fallaci publishes“ Interview with history ”. It is an epoch-making book, translated into the world, studied in universities, continually reprinted. With those interviews Oriana gives us “an unforgettable gallery of international protagonists of her time: government and opposition statesmen, democratic leaders and dictators, humanitarian pacifists and warriors, spiritual leaders, ideologues, men of action …”. Thus writes Federico Rampini in the Preface.
