“Dora always said that beautiful things fail if you put them in front of people who are not up to understanding them.” The novel begins with a dismissal. A strong cut with the threads of the past unknown to the reader, which will be recomposed, in a soft emotional carpet. The victims of the dismissal, a group of four editors of a magazine, see their lives and planned lives reset to zero from one moment to...
“Sometimes a thin thread is enough to discover something.“ Fast-paced thriller, with a sustained rhythm capable of involving the reader. Even the least passionate of the genre, will not stop to read it, at lease up to three-quarters of the story. But then the trouble comes, and you start to feel the weight of the many scattered technical explanations. Military procedures, armaments, institutional procedures and street references, that are simply too much; but after all...
“This customer is the only one with whom I could have been friends. But there is no place for two in his world.” Freely inspired in the content, format and graphic part of the enchanting work Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “the little barman” succeeds in the difficult task of creating his own identity. A path certainly tortuous and full of pitfalls, which however the author manages to complete Set in a timeless night, but in a...
“As we walked melancholy towards home, a question filled us with feelings of guilt: were war, unemployment, the lack of a home, poverty perhaps a calling for us?” A story of unexpected gentleness. A slow snowfall on Christmas day when you are a child, greeted by the warmth of home and a glass of hot milk. This is the feeling we experienced at the end of reading Mangereta, with the only regret that there were...
“When relationships are based on love, in a short time many things can be forgiven.” Kimiko is a young Japanese writer. Completely at ease in the daily life inTokyo, oozing strength and self-awareness, ready to conquer the world as it is offered to her. Is this all true? Not really, this is the mask that she wear in public, but behind it, there is a microcosm of uncertainties, frayed family relationships and a lover (it...
“Since I know you, the desire to tell you things has never gone away. In fact, sometimes I thought that things existed for this reason, so that I could tell them to you.” How do we behave if the love of our life is struggling between life and death? How deep would the regret for not having lived the love story with the intensity deserved? Drops of happiness, perhaps lost forever, to chase unnecessary problems....
“They seem destined for each other: they understand and detest each other. They are both thin and voracious: at table and in bed. They are self-centered, narcissistic, overbearing, impatient and ambitious to the same extent.” Lovely book. Reading flows lightly, supported by a simple narrative style (in a positive sense), and the curiosity to find out all the rumors on U.S. entertainment and politics word from the last century. A posthumous and unofficial biography of...
“This is what is striking. The progressive indifference to the weight of the words: “And what did I ever say wrong?” The mounting wave of indifference towards those who are scandalized by racist insult.” Where does the preconception come from? How ancient is the notion of foreigner? Who is the “different”? From where it comes from the need to to dig a moral-racial-social boundary with the other people? The essay by Stella offers a vast...
“Men look at the sky and are surprised, they look at the earth and move in mercy, but, strangely, they do not notice themselves.” This book came in our hands by accident. A pleasant gift arrived from someone close to us, that had gone to visit the Casa Memoria Felicia and Peppino Impastato, on the anniversary of May 9. And we’re happy about it. The birth of the book is also related to the case, taken...
“All of us every day, when we get out of bed, we have enormous power: we can choose whether to be a help for someone or a problem.” A caress to the heart hardened by the individualism of everyday life. This was the strange effect of the book by Iacopo Melio (Iacopo with the I recommend, otherwise he could became a bit upset), once the reading is finished. So much true that we immediately read...
