“Every game I play is one game less than I have left. I’ve always known this.” Autobiography, in the style of the book-interview, on one of the last romantic heroes of Italian sport. An athlete covered with an aura of melancholy, capable of making even those who have no interest in football fall in love with him. Because Roberto Baggio was this: the impossible that became reality, the homey smell of Sunday afternoon, a ball...
Written by Syria Soccorso. This review is available only in the original language. ________________________________________________________ Dio odia il Giappone è un libro scritto da Douglas Coupland. Il racconto ha il merito di aprire nuovi punti di osservazione su un paese dalle mille contraddizioni, diviso a metà tra passato e iper futuro. A farne le spese in maniera indiretta i suoi abitanti, costretti ad un mascherato isolazionismo sociale. Protagonista della storia è Hiro Tanaka, un ragazzino insicuro...
“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...
“Maybe the most interesting tips are those that cannot be given in words.” “What do you mean?” “In the sense that they are like ascertainment germs of a delayed effect.” Relations between parents and children are the most difficult to build. Misunderstandings, weaknesses, communicative gaps and recriminations undermine stability over the years. Giovanni, the main character of the book, is not an exception to this natural law of the world. The long journey by car...
