“When a deep desire has been fulfilled, the woman is willing to forgive. If not, she will never forgive.” An intense novel, dedicated to the exploration of the female soul, without any kind of cliché or, even worse, a search for easy consensus. Delicate but hard at the same time, difficult to digest in some passages and yet equally light. The book represents a milestone in the path of self-awareness and acceptance, especially in those...
“But what’s the point of being right, when you are faced with the blank, unperturbed gaze of satisfied ignorance?” A divisive book, defined as both a masterpiece and an impossible brick to absorb. Before saying what we think, we specify that it is a book that must be understood, that is, contextualized on the one hand within the historical period told by the author, on the other within the period in which it was printed...
“Sad houses, even without a particular reason, end up making those who live there sad.” An intense book with good feelings. An invitation to behave well and do good in order to live a life to the best of one’s ability, because even when we have winter inside us, a rainbow is always ready to reveal itself on the horizon. The protagonist, Eiko, is a hypersensitive girl, who grew up in a Japanese seaside, where...
Written by Giada Marino This review is available only in the original language. __________________________________________________________ Protagonista di questa avventura è Cecilia, una ragazza di dodici anni dalla lingua tagliente e con un carattere carismatico, sebbene a volte superficiale. Il suo unico obiettivo è quello di conquistare Flavio, un ragazzo molto biondo di cui la nostra piccola eroina si è invaghita per via del colore dei capelli. Per accalappiarlo è pronta a qualsiasi mezzo, e quello che le sembra...
“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...
Written by Nicoletta Baldini This review is available only in the original language. ____________________________________________________ Ho letto “La circonferenza dell’alba” in due giorni, l’ho letteralmente divorato, anzi arrivata alla fine del libro non avrei voluto lasciare Giorgia e gli altri personaggi, avrei voluto ricominciare dall’inizio. Giorgia lavora per una ONG internazionale e vive in Asia. Da molto tempo non torna a casa dalla sua famiglia, ma è costretta a tornare perché la villa di famiglia sul lago deve...
“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...
“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...
Written by Donatella Lanza. This review is available only in the original language. ________________________________________________ Un viaggio deciso al compimento dei 60 anni, quando il 20 dicembre 2007 la Slovenia entra nell’area Schengen. Durante la notte di festeggiamenti per l’abbattimento della sbarra che “aveva tagliato Trieste fuori dal suo naturale retroterra”, Paolo Rumiz realizza che proprio l’esistenza di quel confine aveva originato la sua irrefrenabile spinta alla ricerca di un “Altrove” oltre la frontiera. Decide così...
“There is no image in the world where you don’t appear. You are always there.” The book is a collection of six stories. Six stories of hearts and memories. Six wandering souls, each with a past too heavy to bear, a present to sink into and a future to draw. Three short stories are written in the male first person, and three in the female, demonstrating the versatility of the writer and her profound humanity....
