“I dedicate this book to those who think that asking questions is the first step to finding answers, to those who think that the right answers are never easy…” Seven chapters of analysis and vision on seven problems that the human race must face in the medium term, but which at best aim to procrastinate. Global issues, but also more specifically domestic ones, for which everyone is involved. Unlike other essays, here however, solutions are...
Neorealist novel, partisan short story, proto-feminist diary, psychological memoir and metanarrative reflection on writing: all this – and much more – is Dalla parte di lei. First published in 1949 by Mondadori, in the heart of an Italy still stunned by the end of fascism and the war, Alba de Céspedes’s novel remains a marginalized work in the official canon (still all-male), despite its anticipatory force and its profoundly modern voice. Like many novels written...
“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “And when the driver, suspicious of that silence, turned around […] he saw them so alone in the world and recognized them in the caprice of God and in the irremediable violence of nature.” “Old village” is one of those books that when you recommend them together you say “lucky you, you’re reading it for the first time”. Because we would like to reread it right away but we are stuck in a...
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...
Valley of Flowers by Niviaq Korneliussen is undoubtedly the novel I loved the most last year, a book capable of getting under your skin, uncomfortable and powerful just like its author. A writer who had already established herself in Greenland in 2014, when with her debut she had spoken, for the first time in her country, of queer issues. Issues so current that they return in this novel too. The story is that of an...
“We will have, for a thousand years, peace.” An intense text, in which the author relives his memories as a soldier employed in Africa during the Second World War. Linear in the memory, as if it were a long diary, in which dreams, doubts, individual daily events are reported that together marked the fate of the conflict, up to the defeat in Sudan, the imprisonment and the long period spent in India. The detail of...
Anyone who has read Sostiene Pereira by Antonio Tabucchi knows that it is a novel destined to last beyond the time and space of the fragment of history it tells. I read it just a few weeks ago, while I was in Lisbon. I read it on the plane out, on the famous tram 28 that crosses the city and then sitting on a bench, in front of the sea. And yet, although my scenario...
“The rain washed away the summer. It soaked the earth, and from the earth rose clouds laden with moisture that scattered among the rocks and enveloped the crests.” If you are looking for a narrative built on twists and turns or intriguing actions then this is not the right book. Time passes slowly, expanding like an accordion to its maximum extension, just to play a single note. A book to read from a stylistic point...
