“The houses are full of garbage, the streets are all secondary, all shortcuts that lead nowhere.” An ideal follow up of what was the first bestseller of Marcello D’Orta himself, the book takes up many of the issues and questions left open. The book is nice, you can read it in an afternoon, but it’s not as simple as it might seem; with a style of old times it helps to reflect on important issues,...
“We have to ask ourselves what we are willing to give up, which paths we are willing to cross.” Tabita is a seventeen-year-old girl from Novara who, during the last summer before graduation decides, driven (like all teenagers) by the need to find her way in the world, to permanently get away from the old group of friends and her boyfriend. A not painless passage towards maturity, to discover herself and the world around her....
“It is football that tells the history and it is the history that tells football.” Do you know when you’re lost in a bookstore, looking for a gift for a teenager, and you have a doubt about what to choose? This book could save you. Witty and engaging enough, Marco Cattaneo’s text turned out to be a pleasant surprise; and if to say it is a person who does not like the football, then it...
Written by Veronica Paladini This review is available only in the original language. ___________________________________________________ Il libro che ho tra le mani è stato un incontro particolarmente affascinante per essere capitato in un giorno normalissimo. Eben Alexander, l’autore di questo testo autobiografico, è un neurochirurgo del North Carolina che ha conosciuto la scrittura per necessità. Era il 2008 quando si trovò a combattere contro una meningite batterica tanto anomala quanto pericolosa che lo mandò in...
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“Because the intermittences of the heart are linked to the disturbances of memory.” Les intermittences du cœur is the beating heart of the search for lost time, a short chapter, in its own right, positioned right in the middle of the imposing and daring literary construction of the entire work, the essential keystone for understanding Proustian thought in depth. It is not a coincidence that Proust initially entrusted this title to the entire work. It was...
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...
“You should do as if the year ends every day. As if it ran out every hour. Every minutes. Every minute you should think that the year is about to end.” Uto Drodemberg. The name alone is enough to draw the charm of the protagonist of the book. An angular character, perhaps partly childish in some attitudes, but of which it is really difficult not to fall in love with the first pages already. Ironic,...
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...
Written by Elisa Lorenzini. This review is available only in the original language. _________________________________________________________ Da Bagnara, piccolo anfratto della Calabria, i fratelli Paolo e Ignazio Florio partono alla volta della chiassosa e promettente Palermo. È l’alba dell’800: il Sud Italia stiracchia le membra contadine preparandosi ad accogliere un futuro fatto di rivoluzioni, trame politiche, terremoti sociali. Commercianti astuti e intraprendenti, i Florio fiutano il momento propizio, sfidando i pregiudizi di chi, per tutta la...
