“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “I am who I am and that’s all I am. Popeye always says so”. It must be said that we don’t know if this Nori would like a review so much. Because writing about him knows so much about the need to give an understandable form to the things that happen, little about “I want to know what you think”. Yet in publishing a book there is a bit of this risk, that everyone...
“You fall before you fall.” Following a fall from a horse, just outside the riding school he manages with his partner, Luca discovers that he is a man on the verge of an existential crisis. The few certainties on which he had built the second part of his life, in the countryside of central Italy, crumble. The physical pain of falling opens the doors to the latent pain of the soul. After a short period...
“The Nazis never succeeded in inculcating the idea that being Jewish is a sin.” Trudi Birger is just a child when the end of the world bursts into the normality of her family life in an unexpected way. Returning from a trip out of town, her car driven by her father is stopped by a checkpoint of some Nazi military, and since then nothing will be the same as before. The family, forced to leave...
Written by Donatella Lanza This review is available only in the original language. _______________________________________________________ Si può parteggiare per il protagonista di un romanzo quando è un convinto membro dell’esercito nazista? Siamo a Cracovia nell’ottobre del 1939, Martin Bora è un capitano della Wehrmacht di stanza nella città polacca appena invasa dai nazisti. E’ iniziata la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. In un contesto completamente in subbuglio, dove gli ultimi ribelli tentano di resistere e gli ebrei...
