Migliori Libri di Mr Rain

Dagli inizi davanti al computer della sua stanza – tra tutorial e video su YouTube – passando per la conquista del Disco d’oro, fino ai live da tutto esaurito… Il percorso di un artista che ha rifiutato il mondo dei talent e che da sempre segue la sua strada, anche se questo significa camminare sull’orlo del precipizio e imparare a convivere con le vertigini.

Un giorno di pioggia, Kutsuna Satoru, un geniale artigiano cappellaio, trova svenuto in un vicolo un ragazzo sconosciuto, Kashiba Ryou, e lo accoglie in casa. Ryou è di origine giapponese ma è cresciuto in America, dove si è guadagnato da vivere in modi non convenzionali. Assumendolo come assistente per un breve periodo, Satoru scopre non solo che Ryou è più giovane di quanto non sembri, ma che nasconde anche un altro segreto. Al termine del loro rapporto di lavoro, i due si salutano con malinconia e Satoru, una volta rimasto solo, capisce di essersi innamorato a prima vista del giovane vagabondo. Ma ora Ryou ha un altro lavoro da portare a termine, un compito misterioso per il cui svolgimento riceverà una ricompensa… letale!

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One – and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyses what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years and, like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true portrait of Britain told through four generations of one family ‘A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become’ Rachel Joyce __________________ In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it’s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of their friends and neighbours have worked for decades. Mary will go on to live through the Coronation and the World Cup final, royal weddings and royal funerals, Brexit and Covid-19. She’ll have children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Parts of the chocolate factory will be transformed into a theme park, as modern life and the city crowd in on their peaceful enclave. As we travel through seventy-five years of social change, from James Bond to Princess Diana, and from wartime nostalgia to the World Wide Web, one pressing question starts to emerge: will these changing times bring Mary’s family – and their country – closer together, or leave them more adrift and divided than ever before? Bournville is a rich and poignant new novel from the bestselling, Costa award-winning author of Middle England. It is the story of a woman, of a nation’s love affair with chocolate, of Britain itself. __________________ PRAISE FOR MIDDLE ENGLAND ‘Brilliantly funny . . . a compelling state of the nation novel’ Economist ‘A comedy for our times’ Guardian ‘Very funny. . . a writer of uncommon decency’ Observer ‘The great chronicler of Englishness’ Independent