ARTHUR JAPIN

Years later, as the twentieth century dawns, the elderly Kwasi, now owner of a coffee plantation in Java, sits down to write his autobiography. Based on a true story, The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi is both a brilliant piece of storytelling and a moving portrayal of the search for identity and belonging.

"Texas, meta ''800. Granny, una donna bianca sposata, felice e con una numerosa famiglia, un giorno un po'' per sfidare il futuro, un po'' per ragioni missionarie, decide col marito di superare, insieme a figli e nipoti, i confini del famigerato West, per spingersi come pionieri in una terra aspra e ostile, ma soprattutto sconosciuta. La donna sa che li abita la tribu indiana dei Comanche, nota per violenze e crudelta, ma ha fiducia nelle proprie qualita umane e buone intenzioni. In realta le cose non vanno esattamente come lei pensava. Presto i Comanche attaccheranno il suo gruppo, uccideranno alcuni dei suoi cari (fra cui il marito), ne rapiranno altri. Granny sopravvivera miracolosamente alla strage, pur dopo essere stata ferita. Piu dolorosa della violenza fisica, e pero per lei la scoperta che poco a poco i suoi stessi familiari sopravvissuti si arrendono (o adattano) alla vita indiana, tradendo ai suoi occhi la cultura occidentale e cristiana in cui sono cresciuti. "

Lucía, una muchacha de 14 años, es sirviente en la casa de un noble italiano. Allí conoce a un joven seminarista, tan inocente y virginal como ella, llamado Giacomo Casanova. Inician una dulce historia de amor que se ve truncada cuando ella contrae la viruela y abandona a Giacomo, avergonzada. Años mas tarde, sus destinos volveran a unirse, aunque la vida les ha cambiado a ambos: la candida jovencita es ahora una afamada cortesana y el antaño seminarista es el seductor mas reputado de Europa.

Amsterdam 1758, and a man is artfully seducing a woman. He is, to all appearances, Monsieur le Chevalier de Seingalt, she is a courtesan, well-known in Amsterdam for the fact that she never removes her veil. He sets her a challenge: if she can find a woman who has suffered after falling in love with him, she is entitled to resist his charms; if not, she should play his game. What Seingalt doesn''t know is that he has already met the veiled woman many years ago, in another life. What Lucia doesn''t know is that Seingalt will go down in history as one of the world''s greatest lovers, Casanova. A deliciously entertaining and moving story of innocence and experience, love and sacrifice, In Lucias Eyes takes the reader on an entrancing journey from the canals of Amsterdam to those of Venice, painting a glorious portrait of the eighteenth century.

Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanovas legendary diaries, here is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed from the author of The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi. "Intelligent, poignant, and yes, sexy.... A literary page-turner for those with a brain as well as a heart." San Francisco ChronicleLucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at the theater when she recognizes her long-lost fiance, Giacomo Casanova; and she cannot resist the opportunity to encounter him again. Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanovas legendary diaries, Lucia emerges as a brilliant woman who becomes every bit his match. In Lucias Eyes is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed.

Based on a true story, Arthur Japins new novel is a tale of consuming love and artistic creation that reimagines the last romance of the legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini.In Directors Cut we enter the mind of Snaporaz, the lion of Italian cinema, as he slips into a coma in his final days. Having always drawn inspiration from the world of his dreams, he welcomes the chance to take account of his life and, in particular, his most recent love affair, with a beautiful but tempestuous young actress called Gala. Here is the story as Snaporaz tells it.Lured by the glamour of Rome, Gala and her boyfriend, Maxim, an actor as well, are hoping to be discovered when they manage the impossible: entree to the studio of the great master. Despite an age difference of four decades, Gala soon becomes Snaporazs mistress, leaving Maxim, guardian of her secrets and her fragile health, to be an anxious and helpless observer of her physical and spiritual decline. As Gala becomes increasingly dependent on Snaporazs attentions, her desperation never to disappoint him leads her down a reckless path to anorexia and prostitution before the one true bond in her life is restored.Snaporazs intoxicatingly baroqueFelliniesqueaccount of the affair slyly challenges us again and again to ask what is dream and what is reality, and to conclude that the difference is irrelevant when such a genius immerses himself in his most natural element: the imagination. A dazzling tale from one of Europes most celebrated writers.

In 1837, two young African princes arrive at the court of Willem I in the Netherlands. They have been given to the Dutch by the King of the Ashanti as surety in a deal over illegal slave trading. The two boys think they have been sent to acquire a European education, but time passes. They forget their native language and become exiles. Treated as curiosities by white people, their friendship suffers and their paths diverge. Years later, as the twentieth century dawns, the elderly Kwasi, now owner of a coffee plantation in Java, sits down to write his autobiography. Based on a true story, The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi is both a brilliant piece of storytelling and a moving portrayal of the search for identity and belonging.

La primera novela del escritor holandés, que reconstruye magistralmente las vidas de los jóvenes príncipes africanos, Quame y Aquasi, cuyo padre, el rey de la poderosa tribu africana de los ashanti, los encomienda en el año 1837 al rey Guillermo I de Holanda con la decidida ambicion de desentrañar las costumbres del hombre blanco y asi poder salvaguardar a su pueblo del yugo de los colonizadores europeos