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Uncommon type

by Redazione
Books6 November 20204 min

“The two whispered with the familiarity of experienced soldiers, which they were, not like twenty-two-year-olds, which they were.” Seventeen short stories, many characters different from each other, which describe the normal extraordinary nature of their lives. The American dream, seen from within, described in the routine of everyday life and in the pleasure of small conquests. A continuous series of perfect family paintings (even when they don’t want to be), in which the heart of...

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If this is a man

by Redazione
Books30 October 20204 min

“Few are the men who know how to go to death with dignity, and often not the ones you would expect.” We have lost count of the times we have read this book in our lifetime, yet it never seems enough to us. The first feeling we felt during and after reading is that of misunderstanding-anger. Thinking with a cold mind, it is difficult for us to conceive how inhumanity has reached such low peaks,...

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To have and have not

by Redazione
Books23 October 20205 min

“I’m not a Communist, – he replied. – But I’m offended. Offended and indignant for a long time.” The book focuses on the events that accompany the difficult life of Harry Morgan, a fisherman-trafficker brought to his knees by the economic crisis, which struck the United States during the thirties of the last century. Harry Morgan is the mirror of a good portion of the American society of that time, which found itself overnight without...

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Transiberian

by Redazione
Books16 October 20204 min

“When you come back home, you are no longer the same.” Some books should be read with the eyes, appreciated with the sense of smell and enjoyed with the mouth. They are the books that tell of travels to distant lands. The chapters are marked by the flavors narrated and the different degree of emotions that the writer-traveler tries to convey on paper. A difficult task because describing the beauty and difficulty of a journey...

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From one end of the city to the other

by Redazione
Books9 October 20204 min

“It is a frequent mistake that is made, that of marrying another to forget who has made us suffer.” We were lucky to have found this book for two reasons: (i) it is a first edition found in a second hand market; (ii) when you read Castellaneta you cannot help but be happy. A delicate but incisive pen, erudite but simple, which when he stops writing makes readers feel fatherless and motherless. The book is...

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Strings

by Redazione
Books2 October 20204 min

“From our parents, I say, I learned only one thing, that you shouldn’t have children.” A book destined to become a classic of Italian literature, as far as beautiful and smooth and complete and intense and unexpected it is. The easy syntax and the organic structure of the story make it a reading intended for some school anthology. The story tells the vicissitudes of a family of the Neapolitan middle class over the years. Divided...

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The Bolivian Diary

by Redazione
Books25 September 20204 min

“Bad day for me: I got over it by willpower because I felt broken.” This review is not intended to be a judgment on the historical-political figure, nor a trial on what Latin American history was during the Cold War, a field of confrontation between the USA and the USSR, superpowers engaged in multiple peripheral conflicts to avoid direct clashes, with unimaginable consequences. This is not the place and, frankly, we don’t think we are...

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At the best part

by Redazione
Books18 September 20205 min

“Sometimes I wish I was just a normal girl who can keep a dog without fear of dying.” Every good reader knows that, from time to time, it is necessary to indulge in less demanding, flowing, but not banal, readings; stories that do not pretend to upset you, but lull you with tenderness out of everyday life. Eleonora Gaggero’s book was this for us. It is a book for children, lively and generational, full of...

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Achille piè veloce

by Redazione
Books11 September 20204 min

“Even in an immobile life, many things move. I have been privileged. My mother and father gave me a culture.” Ulysses works at a small publishing house very close to bankruptcy. Without understand how, he finds himself imprisoned in a life that does not satisfy him, forced to read ugly manuscripts of budding writers who haunt him in his dreams, a South American girlfriend with whom he has a “stormy” relationship, a mother locked up...

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The opposite of one

by Redazione
Books4 September 20204 min

“Not the body was dusty, but the soul. The body was poured water, the soul the dust.” Only the opening poem is worth the cover price and the satisfaction of having read the book. Each verse a caress. A sincere statement of love dedicated to the mother. Ideally dedicated to all the mothers of the world and to all the sons that sometimes too late realize how deep and unrepeatable is that feeling. One great...

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