“They had chased and waited for each other, only to meet again and again.” Let’s go back in time. Catania in the late 1930s, with fascism in power, winds of war ready to become a storm, cowardice and meanness tacitly disguised as nobility of soul and rectitude. Here two boys in their early twenties, Salvatore (known as Sasà) and Michele, meet one night on a beach and fall in love. A difficult love because the...
“Nobody knows anything about time, but everyone enjoys giving it a voice.” Book dedicated and directed to the world of adolescents. The writer of this review has left their late teens for a few years, so not being in the target audience of the text, they may not have fully appreciated what a young person’s book of life will be (until they grow up). Read in an afternoon without excessive effort, the text is a...
Written by Giulia Cattaneo This review is available only in the original language. ________________________________________________________ Dagli appunti presi subito dopo la lettura: “Ho un nodo allo stomaco. È stato un viaggio oscuro e potente. Sono devastata ed entusiasta”. La trama di Leopardo nero, Lupo rosso si basa su un tema classico del fantasy: personaggi molto diversi sono costretti a collaborare nella ricerca di un misterioso bambino, chiave di un drammatico gioco di potere. In effetti, non...
