Ming Wu

Altai

Manituana

An epic novel about the birth of a nation and the extermination of utopia.

Adele e Guido Cantalamappa hanno girato il mondo, e ancora lo girano, a piedi o in mongolfiera, su un cammello o con il treno, raccogliendo nel Librone dei Viaggi le mappe, le foto e le tracce delle loro fantastiche avventure. Tra una e l'altra, vivono a Borgata Pozzangherone, vicino alla casa del bibliotecario, che ci racconta le loro peripezie sfogliando insieme a noi il loro album dei ricordi. Ventotto storie, affascinanti e bizzarre, ispirate a luoghi reali, leggendari, immaginari o letterari: per la prima volta raccolte in un unico volume, le imprese di Adele e Guido Cantalamappa tornano a incantare lettori e lettrici di tutte le età. Dall'Assurdistan allo Stato del Lambruska, dal monte Scrocchiazeppi al paese di Fessacchiopoli, dalle prepotenze dei Bulli crociati al dittatore Mascellone, dalla storia di un cane che non è un cane a un viaggio in Sudamerica in sella a due motociclette, il Librone dei Viaggi si apre e si riapre, e mentre ci parla del passato, ci mostra il presente e anche il futuro.

Cantalamappa

Previsioni del tempo

The year is 1954, the height of the Cold War. The world is divided into East and West. In Naples, Lucky Luciano and his minions are busy fixing horse-races, and overseeing the creation of the global heroin trade. In Hollywood, members of Her Majesty's Secret Service have a bizarre and dangerous mission for Cary Grant. And in Bologna,, a lovelorn young barman, is about to embark on a painful odyssey in search of his missing father. Bringing together all these strands and more is a missing television set, a McGuffin Electric, an appliance with a very special secret-At once a political thriller and a touching romance, 54 has a cast ranging from Italian partisans to KGB agents, from American Mafiosi to Parisian lowlifes, and features appearances by Alfred Hitchcock, Marshal Tito and the Emperor of Indochina. Wu Ming - the collective formerly known as Luther Blissett - have produced another tour-de-force that paints a dazzling picture of a past age while slyly commenting on our own. Praise for Q 'If ever there was a novel that deserved to win prizes, accolades and plaudits, it is Q- A great novel, one that tells us about ourselves and how we came to be here.' Scotland on Sunday 'Serves up a feast of heart-pounding, mind-stretching thrills... The mud and blood, visions and ideals of 16th-century Europe come back to gruesome, glorious life.' Independent 'Q is a rowdy, scatalogical novel... Bracingly reanimates an era of frenzy that longed to burn the world clean.' Guardian

Fifty Four

From the authors of the bizarre and extraordinaryQcomes this equally bizarre and powerful thriller. Set in the former Yugoslavia in the 1950s, the new novel by the members of the Luther Blissett Project, now calling themselves the Wu Ming Foundation, tells a story of the intrigue, spying and paranoia around the hiring of Cary Grant to play the lead role in a Yugoslav propaganda film. Truly bizarre, truly culty.

Ming Wu

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