Biblioteca de la EOI de Oviedo

Título: The Great Gatsby

Autor: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Obra adaptada: NO

Editorial: Penguin Books

 Review: The Great Gatsby” (1925), F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, stands among the greatest of all American fiction. Jay Gatsby’s lavish lifestyle in a mansion on Long Island’s gold coast encapsulates the spirit, excitement, and violence of the era Fitzgerald named ‘the Jazz Age’. Impelled by his love for Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby seeks nothing less than to recapture the moment five years earlier when his best and brightest dreams - his ‘unutterable visions’ - seemed to be incarnated in her kiss. A moving portrayal of the power of romantic imagination, as well as the pathos and courage entailed in the pusuit of an unattainable dream, The Great Gatsby is a classic fiction of hope and disillusion. 

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Título: Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Autor: Truman Capote

Obra adaptada: NO

Editorial: Penguin Books

 The heroine of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Holly Golightly, became one of Capote’s best known creations, and the book’s prose style prompted Norman Mailer to call Capote “the most perfect writer of my generation.”

For Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s was a turning point, as he explained to Roy Newquist (Counterpoint, 1964):

“I think I’ve had two careers. One was the career of precocity, the young person who published a series of books that were really quite remarkable. I can even read them now and evaluate them favorably, as though they were the work of a stranger… My second career began, I guess it really began with Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It involves a different point of view, a different prose style to some degree. Actually, the prose style is an evolvement from one to the other—a pruning and thinning-out to a more subdued, clearer prose. I don’t find it as evocative, in many respects, as the other, or even as original, but it is more difficult to do. But I’m nowhere near reaching what I want to do, where I want to go. Presumably this new book is as close as I’m going to get, at least strategically.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Capote

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Título: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Autor: Stieg Larsson

Obra adaptada: NO

This is the third book in the Millennium-trilogy, all them available at our School Library.

Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Once a victim herself, Salander is now ready to fight back.

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Título: The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Autor: Muriel Barbery

Obra adaptada: NO

Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building on the Left Bank. To the residents she is honest, reliable and uncultivated an ideal concierge. But Renée has a secret. Beneath this conventional façade she is passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Down in her lodge, Renée is resigned to living a lie, with only visits from her one friend Manuela to break the monotony. Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the predictably bourgeois future laid out for her, and plans to commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday. But before this happens, the death of one of their privileged neighbours will bring dramatic change to number 7, Rue de Grenelle, altering the course of both their lives forever. With sales of over a million copies in French, this funny, moving and wise novel is now an international publishing sensation.

Nobody ever imagined that his tender, funny book with a philosophical vein would have enjoyed such incredible success. For some, it is part Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder, part Monsieur Malaussene by Daniel Pennac. While for others it resembles a written version of the film Amélie. Either way, readers are responding in vast numbers. –Le Monde

http://www.amazon.co.uk

Título: The Museum of Innocence

Autor: Orhan Pamuk

Obra adaptada: NO

The Museum of Innocence is the latest novel written by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, published in August 2008, Orhan Pamuk’s first novel since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.

Pamuk has been working on the novel for many years and it has been hinted by himself in many interviews during this period. “The story, which takes place in Istanbul between 1975 and today, is about obsessive passion and the great question: What is love, really?” says the writer, in a Spiegel interview back in 2007.

Orhan Pamuk is also trying to establish an actual museum based on the novel, in Cukurcuma - Istanbul, to exhibit several objects mentioned in The Museum of Innocence.

http://themuseumofinnocence.com/

Título: The Lost Symbol

Autor: Dan Brown

Obra adaptada: NO

Released on September 15, 2009, it is the third Brown novel to involve the character of Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon, following 2000’s Angels & Demons and 2003’s The Da Vinci Code. It had a first printing of 6.5 million (5 million in North America, 1.5 million in the UK), the largest in Doubleday history. On its first day the book sold one million in hardcover and e-book versions in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada, making it the fastest selling adult novel in history. It was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction for the first six weeks of its release, and has remained near the top since then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Symbol

Título: die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer

Autor: Patrick Süskind

Editorial: diogenes verlag

Obra adaptada: NO

Nivel: a partir de B1+  

 Patrick Süskind ist vor allem für seinen Erfolgsroman „das Parfüm“ bekannt, er hat aber auch interessante Theaterstücke und Erzählungen geschrieben, wie „die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer“. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte eines sonderbaren Mannes, Herrn Sommer, der immer unterwegs ist. Herr Sommer ist ein schweigsamer, in sich gekehrter Mann, der nach dem Krieg in die Gegend kam, zu dem der Leser viele Fragen stellt (warum verhält er sich so? Warum hastet er immer umher? Warum spricht er kaum? Wie lebt er?…). 

 Das Buch erzählt auch die Kindheitserlebnisse des Ich-Erzählers: das Leben im Dorf, Familie, Schule, Klavierunterricht, erste Liebe… Es handelt sich um eine wunderbare Alltagsgeschichte mit viel Phantasie, für Jung und Alt gut geeignet. Herrlich sind natürlich die Bilder von Sempé!