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Belcastro Agency is a full-service literary agency representing authors writing adult and young adult fiction. We are a passionate, hands-on, editorially-focused agency and work closely with our writers in developing manuscripts and proposals for submission. In addition, we actively manage subsidiary rights for the projects we represent including foreign translation, audio, and film/television rights.
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February 2023Aus ihrer Sicht
Roman | Das hochpolitische Schicksal einer Frau im von Faschismus und Patriarchat beherrschten Italien
by Alba de Céspedes
Rom, 1939. Alessandra wächst in bescheidenen Verhältnissen auf. Ihre Mutter – ein außergewöhnliches Klaviertalent – wird vom Ehemann ständig in ihre Schranken verwiesen, und so wird Alessandra früh eingebläut, welche Rolle für Frauen vorgesehen ist. Nach dem plötzlichen Tod der Mutter wird sie vom Vater in ein Dorf in den Abruzzen geschickt, wo sie lernen soll, sich zu fügen. Doch Alessandra ist ein freier Geist, sie politisiert sich und fordert nichts weniger als die Gleichberechtigung von Mann und Frau. Als sie zurück in Rom den antifaschistischen Philosophen Francesco kennenlernt, scheint sie endlich am richtigen Ort angelangt zu sein. Doch es wird ihr viel zu spät klar, was ihr für die ersehnte Freiheit abverlangt werden wird. Dieser radikal »aus ihrer Sicht« erzählte Roman ist die Geschichte einer großen Liebe und eines Verbrechens. In einem von Faschismus und dem Patriarchat beherrschten Italien entspinnt sich das intime und hochpolitische Schicksal einer Frau, die das Unmögliche möglich macht: Resignation in Rebellion zu verwandeln.
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April 2004Die Verbindlichkeit des Vorübergehenden: Paradoxien der Mode
by Alessandra Corti, Elena Esposito, Elena Esposito
Elena Esposito lehrt Soziologie an der Universität Modena e Reggio Emilia. Elena Esposito lehrt Soziologie an der Universität Modena e Reggio Emilia.
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March 2002Soziales Vergessen
Formen und Medien des Gedächtnisses der Gesellschaft
by Elena Esposito, Alessandra Corti, Jan Assmann, Elena Esposito
Unsere Gesellschaft hat den traditionellen Sinn von Gedächtnis der antiken und vormodernen Gesellschaften verloren: die Vorstellung, daß das Gedächtnis – noch grundsätzlicher als zur Aufbewahrung der individuellen Erinnerungen – dazu dient, dem Kosmos eine Ordnung zu geben und Richtlinien für Denken und Handeln zu liefern.Formen und Stärke dieses Gedächtnisses hängen mit den verfügbaren Kommunikationsmedien zusammen: von der Schrift bis zu den Massenmedien und den jüngsten elektronischen Technologien. Diese Medien, die viel mehr zu erinnern und zu vergessen erlauben, verlangen immer komplexere soziale Strukturen. Wie zeichnet sich dann aber das Gedächtnis unserer informatisierten technischen Gesellschaft aus? Wieviel muß es vergessen können, um noch eine Orientierung in einer chaotischen und selbstreferentiellen Welt behalten, also um noch erinnern zu können?
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January 2024Dian Fossey
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Alessandra De Cristofaro, Svenja Becker
Dian Fossey war eine brillante Zoologin. Mit Leidenschaft und eisernem Willen kämpfe sie gegen Tierhandel und Wilderei an. Sie rettete eine einzigartige Spezies vor dem Aussterben: den Berggorilla. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Persönlichkeiten: Jede dieser Frauen, ob Künstlerin, Pilotin oder Wissenschaftlerin, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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THE WOMEN'S JOURNEY
SMALL FEMININE MANIFESTO ON THE JOURNEY OF LIFE
by ALESSANDRA BELTRAME
“How many times have I heard myself ask with wonder: are you leaving alone? Female independence in Italy also has to make its way into the mindset. There is a femininity in travelling, a particular gait, a different way of using the body, the mind, sensitivity. The woman moves differently, she has different eyes, she looks at things that only have meaning for her. She has a sense for the journey, the feeling she feels, the wonder for all that is in motion, for what is transformed; she has a desire for adventure, but without being overwhelmed, she knows the measure. Each woman is on a journey, the clam fisherman, the peasant woman, the woman with the veil, the bus driver, the nurse, the carer, the ecologist, the refugee, the politician, the journalist... she follows in the footsteps of those who have gone before her, of the hard-earned rights, and then advances, with courage, into the unknown”.
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Foglie sparse
by Alessandra Jatta
The October Revolution described through the incredulous eyes of a noble Moscow woman who sees her whole world collapsing in an instant. And her determination to try to save at least her family and her dignity in the midst of the disaster. Alessandra Jatta gives us an unusual perspective on some of the most dramatic moments in Russian history over the last century, revealing the thoughts and concerns of an entire social class at the moment of its decline. A true story, in which the use of photos, excerpts from diaries and documents belonging to the author’s direct ancestors adds value to a narrative that will leave you breathless.
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September 2018The Little Yellow Bird
by Alessandra Marconato
“The bird in the cage, does not sing for love but for rage.”A room, a window, a yellow bird in a cage.A woman and two books.Alessandra Marconato’s novel invites us to open the cages around and inside us, in order to conquer authentic freedom. The freedom of critical and conscious thinking, of clear eyes looking upon the world and people. The freedom acquired through an intimate knowledge of ourselves.Alessandra Marconato’s fluent and evocative narrative leads us outside the cage we build around ourselves.A fairy tale following the success of the publication of her novel "La foresta delle Illusioni": an intimate path of growth and reason to not stop dreaming, to keep growing inwardly and socially.The novel is pleasant and consuming reading, and suggests some avenues to be explored.Her direct style – simple but engaging – captivates not only an adult audience, but also preteens and teenagers. The novel is, in fact, a motivational path and an opportunity for personal growth, which encourages young people to develop and use critically linguistic/communicative and interpersonal tools to interact constructively.
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February 2017The Forest of Illusions
by Alessandra Marconato
“The time came when Taras had to start to train herself to become a ruler of the kingdom...”In this way an allegorical novella begins, a story with medieval taste and references to Zen Philosophy. This novel written by Alessandra Marconato is dedicated to adults, inviting them to keep growing and working on themselves.“Taras made her farewell to Maestro and left, she entered into the Forest of illusions...she had the gaze of a person who knew where to go but, at the same time, she lived in a thoughtlessness way..”What will happen along the way? Encounters, adventures, silences, choices.A suggestive path of growth during which magical elements weave together to discover a personal identity and a “social role”.Among fantastic places, animal totems and visions, Taras will lead us along the Forest to conquer our personal Kingdom...Through an evocative and direct narration, Alessandra Marconato traces a path thanks to which the reader can come back home with a different self-consciousness and a new vision of the world and others. This is not a handbook or a course: it is an original and interesting text, which needs to be deciphered and devised while reading.The novel is pleasant and consuming reading, it captivates not only an adult audience, but also preteens and teenagers. The novel is, in fact, a motivational path and an opportunity for personal growth, which encourages young people to develop and use critically linguistic/communicative and interpersonal tools to interact constructively.The main character is a non-gender specific person– we do not know if Taras is a boy or a girl; the author has decided not to sexually classify the main character in order to overcome stereotypes and to promote a personal growth which has nothing to do with gender.Young readers can easily empathize with Taras and his/her personal experiences, adventures and meetings in order to understand their own growth and social and affective relationships.
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A Tale of two towers
by Alessandra de Paula and Graham Meaden
When the neighbor’s sun shines always brighter ... Mr. Mouse and Mr. Hedgehog both loved lying in the sun and having tea. One day, being disturbed by Mr. Mouse’s cherry tree, Mr. Hedgehog builds a tower in order to lie in the sun without any shadows. As Mr. Mouse discovers the tower, he has the idea to make one for himself and being nearer to the sun. But this means new shadows for Mr. Hedgehog ... So the two towers got taller and taller – until they finally collapsed because of an earthquake. Now, the two friends try to find a solution together...
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ALE AND THE OAK
the extraordinary life of trees
by DANIELE ZOVI
Alessandra is an inquisitive girl, she likes walking in the woods with her parents. While they look for mushrooms, she sits under a big oak, follows the race of a squirrel and…she talks with the tree. Rovere (“Oak”), this is the name of the tree, speaks through its vibrant trunk and so Ale learns some secrets about the life of the wood: the wood is not a bunch of trees, but a world of close relations between plants and between planets and animals, and these relations are built on solidarity. Plants interact and help among them. A tender illustrated tale that blends magic and love for nature and will surprise and move kids through the words of Daniele Zovi, one of the m
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Food & DrinkSeptember 2016Sweet Venice
Storie di Mori, amori e buranelli Stories of Moors, amours and epicures
by Alessandra Dammone, Colin Dutton
The pastry shop in Veneto it is a complex issue. If at first glance it may seem little represented, on closer inspection it shows ancient roots and holds incredible wonders.Tiramisù, pandori, bussolai buranelli, zaleti, San Martino biscuits, fave dei morti, fritole and galani. A simple pastry. Made of few raw materials, but really good. Sometimes a bit rustic. Completely devoid of superstructures. Just like people. Concrete. Punctual. And straight to the heart. From the same series:• Sweet Sicily. Storie di Pupi, amori e canditi – Sweet Sicily. Sugar and spice, and all nice things
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Travel tips & advice: generalSeptember 2020Sicilia
Personal Jo - Journal
by Alessandra Dammone, SimePhoto
Part journal, part sketchbook, part tongue-in-cheek guide to iconic sights and landmarks, this innovative series of notebooks includes stunning photographs and fun factoids. Visual Notebooks from SIME Books helps you save and organize your notes and memories to treasure forever. The combination of beautiful Photography with blank pages gives you scope and potential to transform this object into a distinctly personal visual journal; the unique natural paper of the cover and inside pages give this notebook a special contemporary feeling that makes for an enjoyable writing experience.
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PoetryMicrodoses
A poetry book written by Enrique Bunbury, focusing on his personal life and microdoses as a form of self-discovery.
by Enrique Bunbury
MicroDosis is a diary written during the last two years in which Enrique Bunbury decides to experiment in his conscience the ingestion of microdoses of psilocybin. The genre chosen by the author to narrate this inner journey is poetry. In this way Bunbury consolidates his incursion into literature after the appearance in 2021 of his first collection of poems Exilio Topanga (La Bella Varsovia) adding to the aesthetic features present in that one an atmosphere of psychedelia and a critique of "the mental norm" of the system. MicroDosis is an experiential and intimate book that contemplates the daily routine with eyes that open without hesitation the doors of another perception. Space and time acquire a new depth, just as they do in Krishnamurti's diaries, grafting onto its passages the heritage of the American beat generation, the oneirism of David Lynch and a very filmic plasticity that runs through Los Angeles with a neural network in flames. Taking the words of Vicente Gallego in his prologue: "Of that extinction of oneself in the cosmic amplitude, of those inner journeys where the familiar becomes unacceptable and the prodigious dawns to its prodigality the pages of this book written with his underpants off, but full of affection for everything, including the always vain spectacle of this world, speak to us." Four editions since March 2023 6000 copies sold
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The ArtsBauhaus Women Designers
History of a silent revolution
by María Vadillo
In 1919, Walter Gropius founded the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar (Germany): a place for construction. The project was born as a utopian school in which to train, integrating various artistic disciplines through the object and architecture, the new craftsmen that would be demanded for a sweeping beginning of the century. An idea that would evolve into design from its headquarters in Dessau with the famous "art and technology: a new unity". However, the intellectual recognition of the Bauhaus is a fact that historically focused on its male protagonists, forgetting a number of women artists, designers, set designers, painters or architects trained there who contributed decisively to this "revolution", and whose work in the imaginary about the Bauhaus has remained invisible, despite developing their respective careers with an unquestionable international impact. With this work, Marisa Vadillo fills this gap, completing the reality of the school by recounting the outstanding role of these fundamental authors in an unrepeatable episode of twentieth-century art.
