Visionary Fiction

Un quartiere di vicoli a Napoli: Montedidio. Un ragazzo di tredici anni va a bottega da Mast'Errico, il falegname. È l'inizio della sua vita nuova, la vita che a sera, a casa, in una casa vuota per l'assenza del padre e per la malattia della madre, il ragazzo va scrivendo su una bobina di carta avuta in regalo dal tipografo di Montedidio. Ha anche un altro regalo, che porta sempre con sé, un "bùmeran", un legno nato per volare che il padre ebbe a sua volta da un marinaio di passaggio. Così passano i giorni: Mast'Errico gli insegna il mestiere e Don Rafaniello, uno scarparo che Mast'Errico tiene ospite a bottega, gli insegna a pensare sugli uomini e sulle cose.

Join Dr. Zephon and the McCallister family on a transformational journey. Using the specially designed Jet Skis, Dr. Zephon takes his quantum leap into a new metaphysical realm. It is here that they discover many hidden truths of physics, metaphysics, and the nature of existence.

19 febbraio 2080. Martedì grasso. C’è nebbia, sulla laguna deserta, i turisti non sono ancora arrivati. Affluiranno appena farà giorno, pagando il biglietto e passando dai tornelli: già, perché da quando Venezia è stata dichiarata non più agibile, evacuata e trasformata in Venice Park – la più pittoresca delle attrazioni italiane – non esistono più residenti. Solo il circo quotidiano dei visitatori e degli accompagnatori, oltre a un pugno di Resistenti che vorrebbe vederla tornare viva e abitata. In questo giorno d’inverno ci sono Michele e Sandro, guardiani che pattugliano la laguna.

Nach 17 Jahren im Gefängnis will der Kriegsveteran Melvin endlich die Vergebung erfahren, die ihm trotz Haftstrafe nicht zuteilgeworden ist. Auf den Ratschlag seiner besten Freundin Carlotta hin begibt er sich auf den spanischen Jakobsweg, um sein Seelenheil zu erbitten und zu sich selbst zu finden. Während seiner Reise auf dem Camino de Santiago macht er irdische und übersinnliche Erfahrungen, die ihm zeigen, was nötig ist, um ein glückliches Leben zu führen.

La Scuola italiana negli anni Settanta, grande parcheggio di maschi disoccupati. Valerio ambisce altro e, per giungere al Potere che procura "il posto", usa le sue conoscenze d'"influenza a distanza". Ma la Legge d'evoluzione, che è perfetta, perché è divina, "corregge", non "punisce", con il "colpo di ritorno", nella stessa vita o in una vita successiva, la grave limitazione che è l'"egoismo organizzato". Valerio è stato "corretto" in questa stessa vita.

The Celestial Compass: Navigating the Stars and the Soul is a speculative fiction novel that explores the profound relationship between the cosmos and the human spirit. A metaphysical adventure filled with philosophical insights, this story will captivate listeners with its exploration of destiny, self-discovery, and the grand design of the universe.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral: Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed—into a 155-pound breast. What follows is “terrific…inventive and sane and very funny (The New York Times Book Review).

The survivor writing to us is an empathic 18-year-old named Tommy. He’s been sealed in a three-acre biosphere with just one other person, and the outside world has been radio-silent for the three years of their enclosure. Tommy is in telepathic contact with someone living during our time who may hold the key to an evolutionary metamorphosis. The journals, entitled Parallel Journeys, have been sent back in time to inspire you to create your own metamorphic butterfly effects to help our species avoid extinction and survive in a new form.

In this dual-timeline story, two women come to terms with seeing the future. Living in one of the whitest counties in Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Jess Atwood is plagued by visions she doesn’t want and can’t control. At the same time, she struggles to keep her family’s organic farm out of foreclosure.

Don Alvaro, a young but wise man, invokes Satan in a goetic-style magical ritual. Upon seeing the young Alvaro, Beelzebub falls in love with him and assumes the appearance of a beautiful young woman. In the journey that unfolds, Satan, disguised as a woman, tries to seduce Alvaro who rejects his advances lest he lose his precious virginity.

Aliyah is a young woman with her heart in her hands who seeks to taste a bit of the various Christian denominations. Is Aliyah in the Land of Oz or is she bewildered by one truth or by a collective truth? Aliyah: What is Truth? is the first part of a two-part short story series that brings a glimpse of light to various possibilities that will speak to the soul of the listener.

During the violent 1920s Irish Liberation War, Tom Sutton becomes a sought-after revolutionary. After his wife was viciously assaulted, raped and murdered by Black & Tans, he leaves his homeland, thinking his son also suffered the same fate. Arriving by coincidence in Africa, he relapses into alcoholism after being broken-hearted and penniless. By a quirk of fate, a little girl with a bowl of soup brings him back from a living hell.

Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranean that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams? These are some of the questions posed by David Keenan's masterly fifth novel, Monument Maker, an epic romance of eternal summer and a descent, into history, into the horrors of the past; a novel with a sweep and range that runs from the siege of Khartoum and the conquest of Africa in the 19th century through the Second World War and up to the present day.

"If a fable is a legendary story of supernatural happenings," Mr. Swann says, "or a narration intended to enforce a useful truth, then these four are fables - which shouldn't be confused with fairy tales targeted only for children. These, then, are tales for kind and loving people of all ages." These fables came to Ingo Swann as a gift from a part of himself: He awoke four mornings in a row and literally had to write them.

El autor presentaba la edición italiana de este libro, que tuvo un éxito extraordinario, con estas palabras: Ésta no es una novela. Ni siquiera es un cuento. Ésta es una historia. Empieza con un hombre que atraviesa el mundo, y acaba con un lago que permanece inmóvil, en una jornada de viento. El hombre se llama Hervé Joncour. El lago, no se sabe. Se podría decir que es una historia de amor. Pero si solamente fuera eso, no habría valido la pena contarla. En ella están entremezclados deseos, y dolores, que no tienen un nombre exacto que los designe. Esto es algo muy antiguo.

Grief and nightmares haunt us all in the wake of a parent's passing. For one man, the nightmares begin to invade his everyday life after his father dies suddenly. His father's neighbor offers their help to alleviate the emotional pain, but the cost may be worse than the dreams and visions. Memories are worth holding on to, no matter how painful.

Curious? This thought-provoking and original novel blends humor, philosophy, science, and history into a captivating story that celebrates the beautiful mess of being human. A novel that promises to touch your heart, make you laugh, and leave you thinking.

In 1872, the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact, but the crew was gone. They were never found. While on a voyage to Africa, an unproven young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle hears of the Mary Celeste and decides to write an outlandish story about what took place. This story causes quite a sensation back in the United States, particularly between sought-after Philadelphia spiritualist medium Violet Petra and a journalist named Phoebe Grant, who is seeking to expose Petra as a fraud.

Se Danubio abbracciava una vastissima area geografica e storica, in "Microcosmi" Claudio Magris ci guida alla scoperta di luoghi circoscritti, via via più piccoli. Dalla descrizione del paesaggio - anche nei dettagli più sfuggenti - al racconto delle esistenze minime o grandi, dei destini, delle passioni, delle comiche o tragiche vicende che lo hanno segnato, sgorga una narrazione randagia e fluttuante che segue un suo percorso nascosto, come la corrente di un fiume.

Rejoice! A new messiah has come, and her name is Julie. Born to Murray Katz, the solitary (and celibate) keeper of an abandoned lighthouse on the Jersey shore, our protagonist arrives on Earth boasting supernatural abilities evocative of her divine half-brother, Jesus. As a child, she revels in her talent for walking on water, resurrecting dead crabs, and treating fireflies as luminous alphabet blocks. But after she reaches adolescence, her life becomes as challenging and ambiguous as any mortal’s.