José Ramón Monreal Salvador Livres

This unique adventure, written by four young authors under a collective pseudonym, explores the significant religious and social upheaval in Reformation Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Il était une fois une enfant, Modesta, née le 1er janvier 1900, dans un monde frustre et rapidement englouti... Non, L'Art de la joie résiste à toute présentation. Roman d'apprentissage, il foisonne d'une multitude de vies. Roman des sens et de la sensualité, il ressuscite les élans politiques qui ont crevé le XXe siècle. Ancré dans une Sicile à la fois sombre et solaire, il se tend vers l'horizon des mers et des grandes villes européennes... « Pourquoi faut-il lire ce livre ? Parce qu'il est un hymne à la joie. A la joie la plus simple qui soit, celle qui émane de la conscience et de l'acceptation sereine de sa propre existence et de celle des autres, personnes et choses, sans lesquelles le bonheur serait absolument impossible. Le XXe siècle, époque de tragédies horribles et d'esprits brillantissimes, se révèle sous un angle différent et les événements qui le caractérisent - guerres et révolutions, sciences et techniques, art et philosophie - portent les stigmates d'une seule femme, Modesta, qui assume les espoirs et la volonté de toutes les autres. » Luca Orsenigo, Corriere della sera.

The 4th century BC. A village in Syria. A woman, dressed in rags and covered in blisters and sores, is seen approaching on the road coming from the north. Suspicious of her, the villagers shout and throw rocks at her. She is struck and falls. She seems dead. Her story encompasses one of the great collective acts of heroism of the ancient world

An ancient crime, with a curse that remains In the darkest hours of the night at the Museum of Volterra, young archaeologist Fabrizio Castellani is immersed in his work. He has discovered that the famous Etruscan statue known as "the shade of twilight" contains a mysterious object, seemingly enclosed within the sculpture itself. He is suddenly interrupted by a phone call from an icy female voice, warning him to abandon his research at once. A series of gruesome killings follow. The victims, who have all been involved in the desecration of an unexplored tomb, seem to be have been torn to pieces by a beast of unimaginable size. Meanwhile, as Fabrizio excavates the Etruscan tomb he discovers something extraordinary, and chilling. Will Fabrizio manage to unravel these secrets without being sucked into the spiral of violence himself?