LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alain elkann

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  • Mitzvah
    Alain Elkann / K.E. Bättig von Wittelsbach
    On Yom Kippur, from an early age Alain Elkann gathers in the temple of Rue de la Victoire in Paris in the company of his father and fasts for a whole day. And it is in Paris that he still returns today when he wants to feel at home, when he feels the need to 'be only the son of his father and his mother'. But what does it mean to him to be Jewish today? Is coexistence and since...
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    12,66 €

  • Pound’s Silence
    Alain Elkann / Alastair McEwen
    As Mirella Serri stated in tuttolibri, la Stampa, 'The story ends with a clever surprise by the would-be biographer. Rightly, we are used to separating political orientation and artistic production. This applies, however, to literary criticism. Nonetheless, in the creative space of a novel Elkann allows himself the freedom that those who work with the imagination can afford. An...
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    13,03 €

  • A Single Day
    Alain Elkann
    'In the pages of Alain Elkann’s latest novel, perhaps the most important book in his literary journey, the author takes on the challenge that is extreme brevity. Everything happens in one day because-as the author sees it-the dimensions of a story don’t depend on its length. The tale of a brilliant bourgeois life becomes, brief as it is, a thriller. The narration is by turns ir...
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    12,93 €

  • Nonna Carla
    Alain Elkann / K.E. Bättig von Wittelsbach
    One of Alain Elkann’s most intimate books, this is a story told through diary entries that lovingly and demurely investigate his mother’s illness and death. From the warning signs of illness to the traumatic experience of the intensive care unit to the closing moments of the funeral, these are memories that emerge as simple and precise, highlighting a son’s rebellion and helple...
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    17,07 €

  • Anita
    Alain Elkann / K.E. Bättig von Wittelsbach / K.EBättig von Wittelsbach
    'My name is Milan because my mother adored books by Milan Kundera. But since her brother, named Misha, had been killed in a concentration camp, my mother always called me Misha and that is how I became Misha for everyone. My name can be written in many different ways, depending on the language. I prefer to write it as Misha.' So begins Alain Elkann’s tale of love and loss, but ...
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    14,62 €