Aventura

In het hedendaagse Pakistan, met zijn grote tegenstelling tussen rijk en arm, zijn machtsstrijd, politiek gekonkel en corruptie dagelijks voorkomende verschijnselen.

Some five and a half million fellow Italians followed Cristoforo Colombo of Genoa across the Atlantic, most of them within the past century. La Storia (the word means "history" as well as "story") is the first comprehensive account of the Italian American immigration, combining historical research with the gripping personal narratives of the immigrants themselves and their descendants - first-person stories of the adventurers, missionaries, artisans, laborers, and. Peasants of both sexes who settled throughout the United States, surviving hardship to become an integral and valued part of our national fabric. Their story begins in the Old Country, where desperate poverty, especially in the South, forced entire families to uproot themselves. After a difficult passage, the immigrants faced new challenges in America, most notably the fierce discrimination that unfairly branded them a criminal race and to an extent continues to the. Present day, alongside the far wider acceptance a true assessment of their characteristics and achievements has brought them. Above all, this is a story of people - people in all their warmth and variety, from those who remain unsung outside the affection and respect of their immediate families to the talented and celebrated - from Verrazzano, Da Ponte, La Guardia, Sinatra, DiMaggio, Puzo, Iacocca, and Cuomo to De Niro, Scorsese, Madonna, and many more - who have touched. The lives of millions of fellow Americans.

Argentinian Puig will now command attention from readers not previously familiar with his fiction. In Pubis Angelical he interweaves three stories, the first about a beautiful Viennese actress held captive in a mysterious marriage to a World War II munitions maker. The second and most interesting story, since it encompasses a history of Peronism, concerns an Argentinian refugee, dying in a Mexico City hospital, and her conversations with an old friend and an old lover. The third narrative is a futuristic spy thriller about a secret agent called W218. The implication is that one of the three women is real, the others fantasies or projections. Feminist and political themes are clear; but, except for the moving story of the dying woman, the novel is more confusing than compelling. PW found this to be "a novel of feminine reverie and feminist polemic... revealing very little." --Janet Wiehe, Library Journal & Publishers Weekly.