2025-09-28
Never Let Me Go
Elevés à Hailsham, une école anglaise idyllique où les enfants sont protégés du monde extérieur, Kath, Ruth et Tommy ont été éduqués dans la conviction que leur bien-être personnel était essentiel, non seulement pour eux-mêmes, mais également pour la société au sein de laquelle ils auraient un jour à prendre leur place. Bien des années plus tard, Kath s'interroge sur le sens de leur éducation.
Sum
In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you may remember. You may be split into all your different ages, or be forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been . In these wonderfully imagined tales, neuroscientist and writer David Eagleman offers us a series of lenses through which to see ourselves here and now.
Normal People
Marianne e Connell si parlano di tutto ma solo all'insaputa di tutti, si frugano i corpi e i sentimenti ma solo di nascosto, come pianeti dalle orbite imprevedibili si girano intorno, fra moti armonici e strazianti collisioni. Cosa impedisce a due ragazzi dei nostri giorni disinvolti di stare insieme in libertà e leggerezza? Gli squilibri di classe e potere? Le «stelle contrarie»? O solo l'orrore, e l'attrazione, della normalità? Nell'abbraccio in cui si stringono, però, «il suo corpo sposa quello di lei come quei materassi che pare facciano bene alla salute». E in quel quieto, benefico sostenersi sembra tacere ogni domanda. Dopo l'esplosivo debutto di Parlarne tra amici, Sally Rooney ci offre un nuovo, emozionante manuale sentimentale per la nostra modernità. «Il suo primo romanzo è stato universalmente e meritatamente acclamato. Era difficile credere che potesse mai scrivere qualcosa di meglio. Invece è successo». «The Guardian»
Yellowface
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree. But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.