Şeker Portakalı (Zeze, #1)

José Mauro de Vasconcelos

Yazarlıkta karar kılıncaya kadar, boks antrenörlüğünden ressam ve heykeltıraşlara modellik yapmaya, muz plantasyonlarında hamallıktan gece kulüplerinde garsonluğa kadar çeşitli işlerde çalışan Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos'un başyapıtı Şeker Portakalı, "günün birinde acıyı keşfeden küçük bir çocuğun öyküsü"dür. Çok yoksul bir ailenin oğlu olarak dünyaya gelen, dokuz yaşında yüzme öğrenirken bir gün yüzme şampiyonu olmanın hayalini kuran Vasconcelos'un çocukluğundan derin izler taşıyan Şeker Portakalı, yaşamın beklenmedik değişimleri karşısında büyük sarsıntılar yaşayan küçük Zeze'nin başından geçenleri anlatır. Vasconcelos, tam on iki günde yazdığı bu romanı "yirmi yıldan fazla bir zaman yüreğinde taşıdığını" söyler. Aydın Emeç'in, güzel Türkçesiyle dilimize armağan ettiği Şeker Portakalı'nın başkahramanı Zeze'nin büyüdükçe yaşadığı serüvenleri, yazarın Güneşi Uyandıralım ve Delifişek adlı romanlarında izleyebilirsiniz.

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The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please," asks the stranger, "draw me a sheep." And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil and paper... And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed forever the world for its readers. Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince, presented here in a stunning new translation with carefully restored artwork. The definitive edition of a worldwide classic, it will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.

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Filippo, Me and the Cherry Tree

Paola Peretti

A powerful, uplifting and moving story of a teenage girl's battle against losing her sight and keeping her friendships. Mafalda is thirteen and has been blind since she was ten. Her best friend is the cheerfully rule-breaking Filippo, and she is accompanied everywhere by Ottimo Turcaret, her devoted cat. Mafalda is always looking on the bright side, thinking of things she can do both now and in the future despite her loss of sight. But other things are worrying her too: her father who has lost his job and is now in the depths of depression, refusing to leave his bed; and the horrible girl in school, Debbie, who seems very interested in Filippo . . . So now Mafalda has to start thinking what Filippo really means to her . . . Then two new adults come into her life: Elsa, a homeless young woman, and Nino, the elderly upstairs neighbour with an awful temper and a great passion for Charles Dickens. Little by little, Mafalda learns their stories, and how their lives had also been shaped by brave and difficult choices. A moving sequel to THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ME AND THE CHERRY TREE

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Kiraz Ağacı ile Aramızdaki Mesafe

Paola Peretti

Durup kiraz ağacını selamlıyorum. Babamla birlikte her gün geçtiğimiz sokaktan bakınca onu uzaktan -ama sadece biraz uzaktan- görebiliyorum. Aslında karşımda gördüğüm şey renkli bir leke ama ben onun ağaç olduğunu, yani hayallerimdeki gibi iyi yürekli bir devin saçları olduğunu biliyorum. Tamamen bulanık, ama orada. *** Yazarın kendi yaşam hikâyesinden esinlenerek, küçük bir kızın görme yetisini kaybetmesiyle ilgili kaleme alınmış olan bu roman her yaştan okur için. Küçük Prens, İçimdeki Müzikgibi kitapların hayranları için çok özel bir yeri olacak… Mafalda, dokuz yaşındaki bir kız çocuğu ve bildiği bir şey var: Gelecek altı ay içinde, görme yetisini tamamen kaybedecek. Mafalda, görünürdeki bu karanlık gelecekte yolunu bulabilecek, okula gidebilecek, futbol oynayabilecek ve kedisine bakabilecek mi? Ailesi ve arkadaşlarının yardımıyla Mafalda, kendisi için önemli olan şeyleri keşfetmeye çalışır. Görme yetisini kaybetse de yapabileceği şeylerin listesini çıkarır… İlham veren bir cesaret ve kararlılık hikâyesi.

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Beyaz Diş

Jack London

Jack London'ın ıssız diyarı, yabanı, buz kalpli kuzey topraklarındaki hayatı konu edindiği ikinci romanı Beyaz Diş'tir. Vahşetin Çağrısı'na kendini bırakmış bir annenin yavrusu Beyaz Diş'in diyarıdır anlatılan. Onun hayranlık uyandırıcı zekâsı ve içgüdüleriyle kendini var edişinin ve "insan tanrılar”"n yaşamına geri dönüşünün enfes hikâyesi…

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Varislerin Oyunu (Wisteria, #1)

Adora Yağmur

Yirmi dört krallık arasında bölünmüş ve düzensiz bir şekilde yönetilen Wisteria Diyarı… Savaş, açlık ve suçlarla dolu bir dünya… Krallıklar arasındaki savaşın kurbanlarından biri olan Irithel, küçük yaşta hem annesini hem de abisini kaybetmiştir ve çektiği acıların intikamını almak için kendini yıllarca eğitip usta bir dövüşçü haline gelmiştir. Yıllar süren hazırlığın ardından Irithel’in planı basittir: Yirmi dört krallıktan yirmi dört vârisin eğitim gördüğü Kraliyet Okuluna sızacak, ailesini ondan alan krallığın karşısında duracaktır. Her şey yolunda giderken Irithel’in planları, okuldaki gizemli bir katil tarafından bozulur. Beraber kapana kısıldığı yirmi dört vâristen biri, onları teker teker öldürmeye karar vermiştir ve bunu bir oyun haline getirerek art arda suikastlara imza atar. Oyundan kurtulmanın tek yolu ise bu oyunu kuran suikastçının kim olduğunu bulmaktır.

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The Iliad

Homer

After nine years fighting the Trojan War, the Greeks sense imminent defeat. The gods have cursed them with a plague; the Trojans have set their ships on fire; and their best warrior, the impenetrable Achilles, has turned his back on them. But when the Trojans go too far and kill Patroclus, his beloved brother-in-arms, Achilles returns to the battlefield with a vengeance so terrible that it shocks even the gods. Written by Homer more than twenty-five hundred years ago, The Iliad is among the oldest extant works of Western literature—the seminal epic narrative of infantry combat, the scars of battle, and the inevitability of fate. Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War.

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Circe

Madeline Miller

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--neither powerful like her father nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power: the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or with the mortals she has come to love.

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The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062060624. Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath. They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.

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The Odyssey

Homer

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles' translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. -- Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation.

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The Odyssey

Homer

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles' translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. -- Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation.

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