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The love of lonely men

by Redazione
Books7 November 20255 min

“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “Things happen, they don’t need us.”   It’s truly difficult to separate the author’s biographical details from the powerful sadness that permeates these pages—the same sadness that drives us to greedily absorb every single word, to reach the end without missing a single detail, a single vibration, a single gesture. Rio de Janeiro, 1970s. “The temperature of this novel is always above 31ºC.” Little Camilo, a pale bourgeois in a dusty, impoverished neighborhood, witnesses...

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The bitter life

by Redazione
Books31 October 20255 min

“I knew a secretary who only knew how to lick envelopes and stamps, yet she became indispensable […].” Approaching the text was not easy. The book calls to attention all potential and future readers; it forces them to patiently interpret, with a touch of wit and irony; and it condemns them to follow the protagonist’s ebb and flow of thoughts and reflections: we are in his head, and we must deal with this from the...

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The Gunners

by Redazione
Books24 October 20255 min

“At certain times in life we ​​are more or less close to who we really are.” Let’s start by saying that there’s something extremely essential about this book: everything revolves around a funeral, and—with the exception of the church where it takes place—we move from one house to another, almost without ever changing characters. Now, having said that, I challenge anyone to choose this book, but the author’s power lies precisely here, in our opinion:...

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Day off

by Redazione
Books17 October 20254 min

“If they had loved me, maybe I would have been beautiful too.” We weren’t ready to read such a beautiful book. We weren’t physically or emotionally ready. A full-throttle dive into melancholy, with no desire to climb back up. Some passages moved us like we hadn’t in a long time; but this shouldn’t make you think it’s a sad book. It’s a text capable of opening the heart like a child, letting in all the...

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The Left Hand of Darkness

by Redazione
Books10 October 20256 min

“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “We are equal, finally, equal, alien, alone.”   Ursula Kroeber Le Guin—a woman who, to quote Whitman, contains multitudes. Not only because of her immense literary output, but also because of her exuberant, exuberant wealth of thought, capable of developing as many insights in a single book as an entire library. Each word is the seed of a concept that will be free to germinate in the soil of our minds: the imagery Le...

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Il muro e il silenzio

by Redazione
Books26 September 20254 min

“Rome knew. It didn’t know where, how, or who, but it knew.” We heed the author’s warning at the beginning of the text: this is a book that, while drawing inspiration from true events, tells a fictional story. The connection to true history concerns the March 1944 attack on Via Rasella and the subsequent massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine; while the fictional stories are those of the various characters who, following parallel paths, will vicariously...

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The man who did not believe in God

by Redazione
Books19 September 20254 min

“Only the victors have a destiny. The irrelevant do not, they are deprived of it. They are not recognized.” A challenging read; to be honest, some complex concepts deserve a second period of reflection, which we intend to dedicate to in the future, to catch our breath from the depths of certain concepts. Philosophy, history, theology, and sociology intermingle in the author’s torrent of words, memories, and reasoning. This is not surprising, considering that the...

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The island where the females fly

by Redazione
Books12 September 20254 min

“Caterina is alone. How alone, Maria’s bed next to her tells her. She falls asleep on it.” A book you’ll never put down: and it’s exactly what you’re looking for. A writer who emerges in the Italian cultural landscape like an island in the ocean, ready to rescue disillusioned shipwrecked sailors. A gripping story, but not because the plot is particularly intricate or full of twists and turns: quite the opposite. What keeps you glued...

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Gentelmen children

by Redazione
Books5 September 20255 min

“VENERDÌ RE-VERSO” “Imagination does not mean lying.”   This is a book for children; this is a book for adults; it’s a book for teachers; it’s a book for dreamers: this is Daniel Pennac, ladies and gentlemen. Not all of the French author’s works reach such heights, yet this book should be read and reread at all ages, laughing (sometimes bitterly) and reflecting on many small, important themes, without seeking “easy solutions.” As always, Pennac...

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Steve Jobs no longer lives here

by Redazione
Books29 August 20254 min

“…the idea belongs to whoever develops it, and I will pretend I never had this idea of ​​becoming a startupper.” The book is a collection of stories (we can’t say whether they’re autobiographical or free reworkings of stories the author heard), some of which appeared as newspaper articles, others unpublished, written during his long stay in California. This long period allowed Masneri to gather life experiences and testimonies that help us understand the American world,...

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