Si inizia a tirare le somme dell’anno. Classifiche e best of.

Ecco i dieci migliori libri del 2006 secondo il New York Times. Senza considerare la non-fiction, fra i 5 romanzi citati 4 non li ho mai sentiti, né titolo né tantomeno autore: *Absurdistan* di Gary Shteyngart, *The collected stories of Amy Hempel*, *The emperor’s children* di Claire Messud, *The lay of the land* di Richard Ford. Il quinto, guarda caso, è *Special topics in calamity physics* di Marisha Pessl:

The antic ghost of Nabokov hovers over this buoyantly literate first novel, a murder mystery narrated by a teenager enamored of her own precocity but also in thrall to her father, an enigmatic itinerant professor, and to the charismatic female teacher whose death is announced on the first page. Each of the 36 chapters is titled for a classic (by authors ranging from Shakespeare to Carlo Emilio Gadda), and the plot snakes ingeniously toward a revelation capped by a clever “final exam.” All this is beguiling, but the most solid pleasures of this book originate in the freshness of Pessl’s voice and in the purity of her storytelling gift.

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