Título: Ex-libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
Autor: Michiko Kakutani
Mês: Março
Tema: Letra E
Editora William Collins, 301p.
Sinopse: Pulitzer Prize–winning literary
critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about
books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in
today—with beautiful illustrations throughout.
In the introduction to her new collection of essays, Ex Libris: 100+ Books to
Read and Reread, Michiko Kakutani writes: “In a world riven by political and
social divisions, literature can connect people across time zones and zip
codes, across cultures and religions, national boundaries and historical eras.
It can give us an understanding of lives very different from our own, and a
sense of the shared joys and losses of human experience.”
Readers will discover novels and memoirs by some of the most gifted writers
working today; favorite classics worth reading or rereading; and nonfiction
works, both old and new, that illuminate our social and political landscape and
some of today’s most pressing issues, from climate change to medicine to the
consequences of digital innovation. There are essential works in American history
(The Federalist Papers, The Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.);
books that address timely cultural dynamics (Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth
Extinction, Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Image, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s
Tale); classics of children’s literature (the Harry Potter novels, Where the
Wild Things Are); and novels by acclaimed contemporary writers like Don
DeLillo, William Gibson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Ian McEwan.
With richly detailed illustrations by lettering artist Dana Tanamachi that
evoke vintage bookplates, Ex Libris is an impassioned reminder of why reading
matters more than ever.
Esse livro é uma preciosidade! Primeiro que eu achei que seria um livro
falando sobre ex-libris, mas quando fui ver, acaba que é melhor ainda. Além da
própria diagramação que é simplesmente linda e tem um acabamento primoroso, eu
também gostei da escolha dos autores e das obras que o autor aborda aqui. A
primeira melhor leitura do ano, muito recomendado.