“Lying on her side with her dead daughter on her chest, she felt her daughter slowly cooling. Then she had no more tears.” It’s a white book, with a sincere and far from banal title; skimming the table of contents, you’ll find yourself thinking: snow, fog, and so on. You’re probably thinking of a simple book, imbued with the purity to which Korean literature, and specifically Han Kang’s, has become somewhat accustomed. We’re faced with...
“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...
Written by Laura Giuffrè This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato Età consigliata: 3-5 anni Dieci uova colorate nascoste dappertutto. Toccherà a quattro coniglietti cercarle. E’ così che comincia la divertente caccia alle uova di “Sorprese di Primavera”, un simpatico libro per sorprendere i più piccini. *** Quattro coniglietti decidono allegramente di mettersi alla ricerca di uova colorate sfidandosi a chi per primo sarà in grado di trovarle. Dopo...
“So I was forced to steal the chickens […], which was first of all a shame, secondly a serious danger, but above all a necessity.” There are many ways to try to tell a family story: in the first person looking at the past; as a secondary subject who sees the story pass before his eyes and grow with it; as an omniscient voice capable of entering into the emotions and feelings of the various...
“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “I want to fly in the sudden light. I want to know what it’s like to have a reason to dance. I want all the love”. Each chapter forces you to go back a little: to those few lines mentioned at the beginning, excerpts from Milton’s Paradise Lost. He goes back to read them again and place them on the following pages, like a sheet of meaning that helps us understand. It is...
Written by Alessia Colombo This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato Tematiche principali: famiglia, ironia, fantasia Tecnica delle illustrazioni: matita e digitale Età consigliata: 3-7 anni Mamma, papà, Flavia e Noè, sono tutti a tavola per la cena. “Papà!Papà! C’è un mammut nel frigorifero!”, urla Noè. Prontamente il papà accorre e blocca il frigorifero, mentre la mamma chiama i pompieri. Neeee-nooo! Neeee-nooo! Eccoli finalmente. Oh no, il mammut è...
“Every anarchist was seen as dangerous just for being an anarchist. Ideology was dangerous, not the man.” Interesting historical monograph.To read the text, a good smattering of Italian history of the beginning of the century is recommended, otherwise you run the risk of being stranded after the first ten pages have passed. Given the importance of the city of MIlan, the history of the Milanese anarchist world is consequently that of the entire peninsula. Milan...
Written by Maria Guidi This review is available only in the original language. _________________________________________________________________________ Scritto da Steinbeck nel 1937, Uomini e topi è uno di quei romanzi che – a prescindere dal trascorrere del tempo – risultano sempre attuali e lasciano un segno profondo nel lettore. È la storia di un’amicizia, quella tra George e Lennie, che si spostano da un ranch all’altro lavorando dove capita, con l’intenzione di mettere da parte abbastanza denaro da “avere un...
“An aunt had told him that his mother was sick and when he had asked about what, his aunt had said to him: mentally ill”. Every now and then, it happens to everyone, we find a book in our hands by chance and something suggests we move it to the top of the notorious “To Be Read” stack. So it was for this NN, open between the skeptic and the lazy on this sentence: “In...
Written by Alessia Colombo This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato Tematiche principali: mare, avventura, relazioni Tecnica delle illustrazioni: digitale Età consigliata: 6-10 anni Syd va a casa del nonno e lo trova in soffitta, uno stanzone impolverato pieno di strani oggetti, dove il nonno mostra a Syd una porta invitandolo ad entrare. Oltrepassata la porta il bambino si ritrova… sul ponte di una gigantesca nave! Sotto di lui i tetti...
