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[Italian] - La ragazza con la gonna in fiamme
"Il libro di esordio di Aimee Bender, autrice del bestseller L'inconfondibile tristezza della torta al limone, è una raccolta che usa la dimensione surreale e fantastica, a volte fiabesca, per raccontare in maniera originale l'amore, il tradimento, il desiderio sessuale, le dinamiche familiari, l'amicizia. Dietro un uomo che torna dalla guerra senza labbra, una donna che partorisce misteriosamente la propria madre, un folletto che si innamora di una sirena nei corridoi di un liceo americano – dietro l'ereditiera o la bibliotecaria che cercano di esorcizzare il dolore con il sesso, dietro il delinquente ossessionato dalla propria bruttezza – c'è in fondo ognuno di noi, con la sua solitudine, le sue paure e le sue infinite possibilità di redenzione. Figlia del postmoderno di Calvino e del minimalismo di Carver, la scrittura leggera ma mai banale della Bender è una forma di 'realismo magico' dallo straordinario impatto emotivo."
Aimee Bender (Author), Tamara Fagnocchi (Narrator)
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"The debut title of a new city-based anthology series featuring stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes As an incubator of the future, Los Angeles has long mesmerized writers from Philip K. Dick to Aldous Huxley. With its natural disasters, Hollywood artifice, staggering wealth and poverty, urban sprawl, and diversity, one can argue that Los Angeles is already so weird, surreal, irrational, and mythic that any fiction emerging from this place should be considered speculative. So, bestselling author Denise Hamilton commissioned some stories and did exactly that. In Speculative Los Angeles, fourteen of the city’s most prophetic voices reimagine the city in very different ways. In this audiobook, you’ll encounter twenty-first-century changelings, dirigibles plying the suburban skies, black holes and jacaranda men lurking in deep suburbia, beachfront property in Century City, walled-off canyons and coastlines reserved for the wealthy, psychic death cults, robot nursemaids, and an alternate LA where Spanish land grants never gave way to urbanization. As with our city-based Akashic Noir Series, each story in Speculative Los Angeles is set in a distinct neighborhood filled with local color, landmarks, and flavor. Since the best speculative fiction provides a wormhole into other worlds while also commenting on our own, that is exactly what you’ll find here. Featuring brand-new stories by: Aimee Bender, Lisa Morton, Alex Espinoza, Ben H. Winters, Denise Hamilton, Lynell George, Stephen Blackmoore, Francesca Lia Block, Charles Yu, Duane Swierczynski, Luis J. Rodriguez, A. G. Lombardo, Kathleen Kaufman, and S. Qiouyi Lu "
Aimee Bender, Alex Espinoza, Ben H. Winters, Denise Hamilton, Lisa Morton (Author), Gabrielle De Cuir, Janina Edwards, John Rubinstein, Judy Young, Justine Eyre, Kate Orsini, Paul Boehmer, Roxanne Hernandez, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)
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"Told in lush, lilting prose, The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and of a broken love between mother and child. On the night her mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter. Next to the couch on which she’s sleeping, there is a lamp that catches her eye, its shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie sees a dead butterfly floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents – her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact: she is sure these things were real. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories have over her, and with what they say about her place in the world."
Aimee Bender (Author), Julia Whelan (Narrator)
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[Italian] - La maestra dei colori
"La scrittura di Aimee Bender è da sempre un inconfondibile mix di realismo e fantasia; in questa nuova raccolta di racconti la sua voce, carica di sensualità e magia, continua a ridisegnare il mondo in maniera originale, senza concessioni al sentimentalismo e ai cliché della narrativa 'femminile'. Alcune storie sono ambientate al giorno d'oggi, fra teenager al centro commerciale o studentesse in un campus universitario; in altre fa capolino l'elemento surreale (un ragazzino che soffre di 'analfabetismo facciale', cioè non riesce a distinguere il viso delle persone e la loro espressione; un vecchietto inoffensivo che è convinto di essere un criminale nazista); altre ancora sono incantevoli esempi di 'realismo magico' (una sarta viene rapita e condotta in un paese dell'Asia dove dovrà rammendare le tigri a cui si stanno strappando via le strisce) o rivisitazioni di fiabe classiche."
Aimee Bender (Author), Tamara Fagnocchi (Narrator)
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[Italian] - L'inconfondibile tristezza della torta al limone
"Alla vigilia del suo nono compleanno, la timida Rose Edelstein scopre improvvisamente di avere uno strano dono: ogni volta che mangia qualcosa, il sapore che sente è quello delle emozioni provate da chi l'ha preparato, mentre lo preparava. I dolci della pasticceria dietro casa hanno un retrogusto di rabbia, il cibo della mensa scolastica sa di noia e frustrazione; ma il peggio è che le torte preparate da sua madre, una donna allegra ed energica, acquistano prima un terrificante sapore di angoscia e disperazione, e poi di senso di colpa. Rose si troverà così costretta a confrontarsi con la vita segreta della sua famiglia apparentemente normale, e con il passare degli anni scoprirà che anche il padre e il fratello – e forse, in fondo, ciascuno di noi – hanno doni misteriosi con cui affrontare il mondo. Mescolando il realismo psicologico e la fiaba, la scrittura sensuale di Aimee Bender torna a regalarci una storia appassionante sulle sfide che ogni giorno ci pone il rapporto con le persone che amiamo."
Aimee Bender (Author), Patrizia Salmoiraghi (Narrator)
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[Italian] - Un segno invisibile e mio
"Mona Gray, vent'anni, è innamorata dei numeri fino all'ossessione: l'ordine e la precisione dell'aritmetica le servono a difendersi dall'instabilità del mondo. Da quando il padre ha contratto una misteriosa malattia, infatti, Mona ha bloccato ogni propria aspirazione, ha paura di innamorarsi e si rifugia in una serie di piccoli gesti e oggetti scaramantici. Ma quando viene assunta come insegnante di matematica alle elementari, la sua vita - grazie a un'allieva fuori dal comune e aun collega capace di far breccia nella sua timidezza - comincia a cambiare irreversibilmente. Tenero, spassoso, commovente, acclamato dal Los Angeles Times come uno dei libri dell'anno, questo romanzo ha lanciato Aimee Bender come una delle migliori voci nella nuova narrativa americana."
Aimee Bender (Author), Patrizia Salmoiraghi (Narrator)
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"The award winning series of classic and contemporary fiction returns with a collection of darkly funny short stories by the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes, Nathan Englander, Kim, Addonizio, and George Saunders. Readers include Anjelica Huston, Neil Gaiman, Michael Imperioli, Harris Yulin, Christina Pickles, Jefferson Mays, and Christine Ebersole."
A.M. Holmes, Aimee Bender, George Saunders, Kim Addonizio, Nathan Englander, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King (Author), Anjelica Huston, Christina Pickles, Christine Ebersole, Harris Yulin, Jefferson Mays, Michael Imperioli, Neil Gaiman (Narrator)
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel
"The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother-her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother-tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose. The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden-her mother's life outside the home, her father's detachment, her brother's clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. It is heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad, and confirms Aimee Bender's place as "a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language" (San Francisco Chronicle)."
Aimee Bender (Author), Aimee Bender (Narrator)
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Thalia Book Club: Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
"Aimee Bender sits down with Heidi Julavits to discuss her book, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. Lillo Wei reads an excerpt from the book."
Aimee Bender (Author), Heidi Julavits, Lillo Wei (Narrator)
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"By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element. - Andrew Lam's 'The Palmist', performed by James Naughton. A chance encounter on a bus between a fortune-teller and a teenage boy. - W. W. Jacobs' 'The Monkey's Paw', performed by John Lithgow. A wonderful ghost story about a trinket with terrible powers. - Saki's 'The Occasional Garden', performed by Daniel Gerroll. If you can't grow a garden; poof! - you can rent one. - Donald Barthelme's 'The Balloon', performed by Maria Tucci. There's something suddenly in the sky in midtown Manhattan.... - Kevin Brockmeier's 'The Year of Silence', performed by Anthony Rapp. What if everything went quiet? - Jonathan Safran Foer's 'The Sixth Borough', performed by Jerry Zaks. Yes, New York had a Sixth Borough, but it drifted away.... - Aimee Bender's 'Drunken Mimi', performed by Bernadette Quigley. A romance between a mermaid and an imp. - Haruki Murakami's 'The Little Green Monster', performed by Dana Ivey. A piece of Murakami magic: Is this a monster I see before me?"
Aimee Bender, Andrew Lam, Donald Barthelme, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Saki, W.W. Jacobs (Author), Anthony Rapp, Bernadette Quigley, Dana Ivey, Daniel Gerroll, James Naughton, Jerry Zaks, John Lithgow, Maria Tucci, Rene Auberjonois (Narrator)
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