Il racconto della giungla è l’adattamento in versi di Amitav Ghosh di un episodio della leggenda di Bon Bibi, un racconto popolare nei villaggi nelle Sundarbans. È la storia del ricco e avaro mercante Dhona, del povero ragazzo Dukhey e di sua madre; è anche la storia di Dokkhin Rai, un potente spirito che appare agli umani nelle sembianze di tigre, di Bon Bibi, la benigna dea della foresta, e di suo fratello, il guerriero Shah Jongoli. La versione originale di questa leggenda, risalente al diciannovesimo secolo, è composta in un metro di versi bengalesi noto come dwipodi poyar.

Con Amitav Ghosh, Ines Gobetti e Giorgio Brizio dei Fridays for Future e Fabio Geda, letture di Anna Nadotti. 

Circolo dei lettori
19 novembre 2021

📚 Amitav Ghosh | "Jungle Nama" (Neri Pozza)

Visioni è un podcast di Radio Frammenti che racconta il mondo dei festival, degli eventi culturali e delle stagioni teatrali.
Radio Frammenti è un progetto ideato e curato da Maria Genovese.
In questa intervista incontriamo Michele Rech, in arte Zerocalcare che ci racconta del suo nuovo libro "Quando muori resta a me"

Il 7 maggio è uscito il nuovo libro di Zerocalcare "Quando muori resta a me" edito da BAO Publishing.

Un viaggio con suo padre verso il paesino tra le Dolomiti da cui proviene la famiglia paterna sarebbe la scusa perfetta per capire meglio Genitore 2, ma Zerocalcare e suo padre sono incapaci di parlarsi di cose significative.

Questo rende difficile la trasferta, quando si capisce che la loro famiglia non è vista di buon occhio - anzi, da alcuni è proprio odiata - in paese. Le radici dell'odio risalgono a prima della Grande guerra, e si intrecciano al mistero che circonda, da trentacinque anni, il giorno più misterioso ed emblematico della vita di Calcare, quello che lui fin da bambino ricorda come "Il giorno di Merman".

Negli interstizi dei non detti, l'amore incrollabile di un padre per il suo unico figlio attraversa alcune delle pagine più buie della Storia del nostro Paese, silenziosamente coraggioso.

In contemporanea con l’uscita del nuovo libro, dal 7 maggio arriva in esclusiva su Storytel l’audiolibro di Quando muori resta a me, letto da Zerocalcare e Neri Marcorè.
Continua il lavoro di adattamento al formato audio delle opere di Zerocalcare, per raccontare il mondo delle immagini e dei fumetti attraverso i suoni, grazie alla collaborazione tra BAO Publishing e Storytel Italia - prima piattaforma europea di audiolibri e podcast.

Visioni - Quando muori resta a me - Zerocalcare

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly anticipated debut novel from one of The New Yorker’s rising stars.

“Brilliantly written, piercingly smart, quietly subversive, Great Expectations will be one of the talked-about novels of the year.”—Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin, winner of the National Book Award

“Vinson Cunningham’s novel is a coming-of-age story that captures the soul of America.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

I’d seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency.

When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator’s idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he’ll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take to become the United States’ first Black president.

Great Expectations is about David’s eighteen months working for the Senator's presidential campaign. Along the way David meets a myriad of people who raise a set of questions—questions of history, art, race, religion, and fatherhood—that force David to look at his own life anew and come to terms with his identity as a young Black man and father in America.

Meditating on politics and politicians, religion and preachers, fathers and family, Great Expectations is both an emotionally resonant coming-of-age story and a rich novel of ideas, marking the arrival of a major new writer.

Listen to an excerpt from GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Vinson Cunningham; Read by Aaron Goodson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century • "Comprehensive, compulsively readable and wholly terrific."—The Wall Street Journal

"Long before the inquiry into Ohtani's ties to betting, there was Pete Rose....Charlie Hustle chronicles one of the most polarizing figures in sports."—NPR, All Things Considered

“Baseball biography at its best. With Charlie Hustle, Pete Rose finally gets the book he deserves, and baseball fans get the book we’ve been craving, a hard-hitting, beautifully-written tale that will stand for years to come as the definitive account of one of the most fascinating figures in American sports history.”—Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of King: A Life

Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago that still stands today. He was a working-class white guy from Cincinnati who made it; less talented than tough, and rough around the edges. He was everything that America wanted and needed him to be, the American dream personified, until he wasn’t.

In the 1980s, Pete Rose came to be at the center of one of the biggest scandals in baseball history. He kept secrets, ran with bookies, took on massive gambling debts, and he was magnificently, publicly cast out for betting on baseball and lying about it. The revelations that followed ruined him, changed life in Cincinnati, and forever altered the game.

Charlie Hustle tells the full story of one of America’s most epic tragedies—the rise and fall of Pete Rose. Drawing on firsthand interviews with Rose himself and with his associates, as well as on investigators' reports, FBI and court records, archives, a mountain of press coverage, Keith O’Brien chronicles how Rose fell so far from being America’s “great white hope.” It is Pete Rose as we've never seen him before.

This is no ordinary sport biography, but cultural history at its finest. What O’Brien shows is that while Pete Rose didn’t change, America and baseball did. This is the story of that change.

Listen to an excerpt from CHARLIE HUSTLE by Keith O'Brien; Read by Ellen Adair

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.

His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. The result is a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging curiousity.

Despite the fact that Australia harbors more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else, including sharks, crocodiles, snakes, even riptides and deserts, Bill Bryson adores the place, and he takes his readers on a rollicking ride far beyond that beaten tourist path. Wherever he goes he finds Australians who are cheerful, extroverted, and unfailingly obliging, and these beaming products of land with clean, safe cities, cold beer, and constant sunshine fill the pages of this wonderful book.

Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide.

Listen to an excerpt from IN A SUNBURNED COUNTRY, written and read by Bill Bryson

Promuove e produce cultura, tutti i giorni, per tutti, nelle sue tre sedi – Torino, Novara e Rivoli – con rassegne e festival. Un progetto di Regione Piemonte

📚 Amitav Ghosh | "Jungle Nama" (Neri Pozza)

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