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Susanna Clarke discusses her remarkable debut novel, the BookSense Book of the Year, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell with her friend, novelist Neil Gaiman. Set in an alternate version of England in the early 1800s, an England in which the people yearn to recapture the practical magic of an earlier era, this fantasy novel combines the wit of Jane Austen with rollicking adventure and hilarious scholarly footnotes.

Beglückend und ermutigend: In ihren neuen Briefen an eine Freundin schreibt Susanna Tamaro über ihren Weg zur inneren Kraft. Es ist ein Weg der Suche und der Stille. Wunderschön poetisch erzählt eine der erfolgreichsten Schriftstellerinnen unserer Zeit, wie sie ihr persönliches Glück findet in einer Welt, die von Tag zu Tag materialistischer und brutaler wird. Dabei geht sie eindringlich auf eine Vielfalt von Lebensfragen ein. Susanna Tamaro (geb. 1957) ist eine italienische Schriftstellerin.

Due interventi e una conversazione libera e amichevole con Susanna Tamaro su di sé, sul rapporto con la scrittura e sui suoi libri, fanno di "Verso casa" un prezioso piccolo compendio che avvicina i lettori ad un'autrice riservata eppure capace di parlare il linguaggio di tutti e soprattutto di illuminare aspetti spesso oscuri nella vita di ciascuno attraverso il semplice ma impegnativo esercizio del conoscere se stessi. Con una nuova introduzione dell'autrice.

Thanks to a successful interview with the painfully shy E.B. White, a beautiful, 19-year-old, blue-eyed blonde from the cornfields of Iowa lands a job as a receptionist at The New Yorker magazine. There she stays two decades, becoming general all-around factotum - watching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, failures, triumphs, and tragedies of the eccentric inhabitants of the 18th floor. Though she dreamed of becoming a writer, she never advanced at the magazine.