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City | Alessandro Baricco
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The author of the international bestseller Silk now delivers a ravishing and wildly inventive novel about friendship, genius and its discontents, and the redemptive power of narrative. Somewhere in America lives a brilliant boy named Gould, an intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize. His only companions are an imaginary giant and an imaginary mute. Improbably—and yet with impeccable logic--he falls into the care of Shatzy Shell, a young woman whose life up till that point has been equally devoid of human connection . Theirs is a relationship of stories and of stories within stories: of Gould’s evolving saga of an underdog boxer and the violent Western that Shatzy has been dictating into a tape recorder since the age of six. Out of these stories, Alessandro Baricco creates a masterpiece of metaphysical pulp fiction that recalls both Scheherazade and Italo Calvino. By turns exhilarating and deeply moving, City is irresistible.
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FedeLumachi
City | Alessandro Baricco
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Baricco sempre molto piacevole e scorrevole. Prende e ti fa leggere a manetta

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Anitta
City | Alessandro Baricco
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This is a brilliant and unusual book peopled with quirky and endearing characters both real and imagined. It is the story of a young genius named Gould, whose closest companions are an imaginary giant named Diesel and an imaginary mute named Poomerang. I love how Baricco punctuated every Poomerang's line with ...", didn't say Poomerang.
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City | Alessandro Baricco

Pero un montón de veces ocurre de este modo, casi siempre ocurre así: se descubre al final que el dolor, todo aquel dolor, era inútil, que se ha estado sufriendo como bestias, y era inútil, no era ni justo ni injusto, no era hermoso ni horrendo, tan sólo era inútil..