Mark Helprin

Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a third his age. He forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth.

A Novel

Paris in the Present Tense

Returning home after serving in World War II to run his family business in New York, paratrooper Harry Copeland falls in love with young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, who risks everything to break off her engagement to another man. By the author of Winter's Tale. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.) 100,000 first printing.

In Sunlight and in Shadow

The New York Times No. 1 bestseller.One night in New York, a city under siege by snow, Peter Lake attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home . . . Thus begins the affair between this Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead; A New York Winter's Tale is the story of that extraordinary journey.

A New York Winter's Tale

A young prince and his beloved Odette struggle to protect themselves and their infant daughter from the evil Von Rothbart in this adaptation of the classic ballet.

Swan Lake

Sixteen stories feature such characters as a British paratrooper on a mission behind enemy lines, a teenage Hasidic Jew who joins the 1958 Yankees, and a September 11th widow who receives a gift from the contractor working on her apartment.

The Pacific and Other Stories

A breathtaking novel by the author of "A Soldier of the Great War," this is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human soul, about God, love, and justice. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Winter's Tale

Storia d'inverno

Wintermärchen

After many years of peace, a queen prepares for the birth of her first child, only to be forced to confront an impending danger, as the Usurper once again threatens her city, while her husband and his army are vanished into the wilderness, in the third volume of a trilogy that began with Swan Lake.

The Veil of Snows

Chris Van Allsburg

Driven to avenge the murder of her royal parents and reclaim their lost kingdom, a daring young princess confronts the city's conqueror, the Usurper, with the aid of two unlikely rebels. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.

A City in Winter

Poveste de iarnă

A novella and ten stories cover an extensive geographical range, from the German Alps to the Indian Ocean, the title novella pertaining to an immigrant whose over-active imagination gets him in and out of trouble. Reissue.

Ellis Island, and Other Stories

Mark Helprins phantastischer Roman ist die fiktive Autobiographie eines recht betagten exzentrischen Abenteurers und kosmopolitischen Verbrechers, dessen Leben von einer einzigen Obsession beherrscht wird – der fanatischen Aversion gegen Kaffee. Die Geschichte dieses seltsamen achtzigjährigen Autobiographen, der seine Memoiren für seinen kleinen Ziehsohn Blatt für Blatt zu Papier bringt, scheint von Anfang an voller Geheimnisse und Ungereimtheiten, die sich im Laufe der episodenhaften Niederschrift erst ganz allmählich auflösen, neu verwickeln und schließlich eine Erklärung finden. Denn Oscar Progressos Geschichte, die sich liest wie ein Abenteuerroman, ist aus einem einzigen Erlebnis heraus begründet. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

Roman

Memoiren aus einem ameisensicheren Kästchen

Winter's Tale. Movie Tie-In

“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.” —National Review online In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators. A timely, cogent, and important attack on the popular Creative Commons movement, Digital Barbarism provides rational, witty, and supremely wise support for the individual voice and its hard-won legal protections.

A Writer's Manifesto

Digital Barbarism

This “dazzling collection” of short stories by the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Winter’s Talecontemplates the human experience across the globe (The San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner). In these twenty stories, Mark Helprin offers a series of meditations on some of humanity’s most enduring and universal questions. At the hour of his death, an American priest in Rome must choose between his church and his God. A young man finds love in a hot, dirty typewriter-ribbon factory in the Bronx. A Dutch child in a Canadian orphanage carries the pain of war and her love for her family in her heart. An Israeli scout risks the safety and respect of his comrades in an act of transformative charity. Through beautifully rendered memories and moments of epiphany, “all Helprin's stories deal with essences which lead from the heart…his images are clean and sharp and bright” (Kirkus). “When you read these stories, a you must, you will, I believe, be uplifted and awed.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

And Other Stories

A Dove of the East

A New York Times bestseller by Mark Helprin, author of Winter's Tale, which is now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, William Hurt, and Jennifer Connelly Mark Helprin’s legions of devoted readers cherish his timeless novels and short stories, which are uplifting in their conviction of the goodness and resilience of the human spirit. Freddy and Fredericka—a brilliantly refashioned fairy tale and a magnificently funny farce—only seems like a radical departure of form, for behind the laughter, Helprin speaks of leaps of faith and second chances, courage and the primacy of love. Helprin’s latest work, an extraordinarily funny allegory about a most peculiar British royal family, is immensely mocking of contemporary monarchy and yet deeply sympathetic to the individuals caught in its lonely absurdities.

Freddy and Fredericka

Un venerdì mattina del 1946, in completo beige, camicia bianca e cravatta azzurra, Harry Copeland esce di casa sua, al 333 di Central Park West a New York. È una splendida giornata, e trovarsi a New York in una giornata simile dista un niente dalla sensazione di essere innamorati. Gli alberi fioriscono come nubi luminose nei parchi, e pennacchi di fumo e vapore si levano verso l’azzurro o si arricciano al vento. Harry è appena tornato dalla guerra senza sapere che cosa avrebbe trovato in patria. Dopo aver combattuto per mare, per terra e in cielo, dovrebbe sistemarsi, mettere su famiglia, ma non è ancora accaduto niente e tutto sembra uguale a prima: metropolitane, ristoranti, telefonate, conti da pagare. A Staten Island trascorre un paio d’ore seduto al sole nel giardino a picco sul mare di sua zia Elaine, vedova dell’unico fratello di suo padre, poi al ritorno, sul traghetto che lo riporta a South Ferry, si imbatte di nuovo nella giovane donna dalla struggente bellezza intravista da lontano all’andata, mentre incedeva sul ponte con la schiena diritta e la testa alta. Nella penombra dei pilastri e delle palizzate di legno, Harry si accorge di come ogni suo particolare lo colpisca irrimediabilmente al cuore: la grazia con cui si muove o rimane ferma; le mani e il modo in cui le tiene; le forme in cui le sue dita si compongono; la camicetta che indossa con un ricamo perlaceo elaborato ma sobrio; persino le pieghe della gonna; e la voce che, nitida, si sofferma su ogni sillaba. La giovane donna si chiama Catherine Thomas Hale, ma ha scelto un altro nome, Catherine Sedley, per togliere di torno la sua famiglia e calcare la scena di scalcinati musical con orchestre formate dagli scarti della New York Philharmonic e registi che agognano improbabili trionfi a Broadway. New York, però, non è più la città calma e onesta di un tempo, e tra le sue strade fumose prosperano gli affari loschi della malavita. Quando, perciò, un vecchio promesso sposo di Catherine si presenta al suo cospetto e un gruppo di gangster minaccia di far saltare in aria la pelletteria di famiglia, Harry capisce che, se davvero vuole conquistare Catherine, deve nuovamente combattere. E vincere. Costi quel che costi. Meraviglioso inno all’amore, ai mille volti di New York e all’America, New York Times Bestseller tradotto in numerosi paesi, Nella luce e nell’ombra ha riscosso, al suo apparire negli Stati Uniti, uno straordinario successo di pubblico e di critica. «Per la grande costruzione narrativa, i principi morali, la magnificenza della scrittura e lo splendore di New York, questo romanzo è la continuazione ideale di Storia d’inverno». The Wall Street Journal «La cifra di Helprin è la capacità di evocare la potenza vitale di ciò che ci circonda». Lara Crinò, il Venerdì - la Repubblica

Nella luce e nell'ombra

In a rare collaboration, bestselling authors Helprin and Van Allsburg worked for nearly a decade on this ambitious, multi-generational trilogy that pits the power of love and devotion against dark forces of greed and suppression. For the first time, this hardcover volume collects all three of Helprin's contemporary fantasies —Swan Lake,The Veil of Snows, andA City in Winter— along with Van Allsburg's sensitively wrought illustrations from the original editions. 39 full-color plates.

The Complete Swan Lake Trilogy

A Kingdom Far and Clear

An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs. An English teacher at the naval academy, he is married to a woman young enough to be his daughter and has a little son whom he loves. He sits in a mountain garden in Niterói, overlooking the ocean. As he reminisces and writes, placing the pages carefully in his antproof case, we learn that he was a World War II ace who was shot down twice, an investment banker who met with popes and presidents, and a man who was never not in love. He was the thief of the century, a murderer, and a protector of the innocent. And all his life he waged a valiant, losing, one-man battle against the world’s most insidious enslaver: coffee. Mark Helprin combines adventure, satire, flights of transcendence, and high comedy in this "memoir" of a man whose life reads like the song of the twentieth century.

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