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A Lifetime of Impossible Days

“Next to me in the bed his empty space, which leaves me nowhere to cling to today.” The protagonist of the novel is Willa, an Australian lady and her life, apparently peaceful butwhich is actually a constant revolution of feelings, joys and sorrows. Thanks to a trick by the writer that we do not want to anticipate, we come into contact with Willa at different stages of her life: first an 8-year-old girl, then a...

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Ask me for the moon

Written by Sofia Marasco This review is available only in the original language. _____________________________________________________ Aibek si prende cura della luna, un lavoro che viene tramandato di generazione in generazione. Il suoncompito consiste nel posizionare, con uno spazzolone, i granelli di luna dove sono necessari. Può accendere e spegnere la luna. Quando giunge il momento, il padre tramanderà questo lavoro al figlio, ed è qui che Aibek scopre che la luna non è solo splendore, ma è anche...

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The burning of Berlin

Written by Roberta Tamma This review is available only in the original language. _______________________________________________________ Helga, protagonista e autrice, non potrà fare a meno di entrarvi nel cuore e restarci davvero per molto tempo. Questo romanzo, che è un’autobiografia del vissuto fanciullesco dell’autrice, ci racconta la seconda guerra mondiale attraverso gli occhi di una bambina. Il libro comincia nell’autunno 1941 e termina nella primavera del 1947 ed è ambientato a Berlino. A mio parere, questa è la particolarità...

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The crescent of sand

Written by Lucia Bandini This review is available only in the original language. ______________________________________________________ Non è la trama (sebbene davvero ben costruita) a colpirmi di questo giallo. Non è il paesaggio calabrese né l’uso del dialetto. Non è il protagonista, Gori Misticò, un personaggio strano, non solo per il nome buffo: maresciallo dei carabinieri, ma in aspettativa, fa la spola tra la sua Calabria e uno stimato ospedale di Milano per curare una malattia che non sembra voler mollare...

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At the best part

“Sometimes I wish I was just a normal girl who can keep a dog without fear of dying.” Every good reader knows that, from time to time, it is necessary to indulge in less demanding, flowing, but not banal, readings; stories that do not pretend to upset you, but lull you with tenderness out of everyday life. Eleonora Gaggero’s book was this for us. It is a book for children, lively and generational, full of...

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The circumference of dawn

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...

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Factory

“Perhaps the loneliness he enjoyed was wearing him out more than he himself wanted to admit.” The book was a surprise. We approached reading, and we are not afraid to say it, full of prejudices, thinking of yet another children’s book full of clichés, to be digested reluctantly, instead it turned out to be an explosion of opportunities and reflections. When it is said that prejudices must be overcome to open the mind… The simple...

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The gazelle girl

“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....

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Challenge the sky

“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...

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‘Na botta infame

Written by Mary McNeely This review is available only in the original language. _______________________________________________________   Una boccata di fumo che si disperde nell’aria, la sensazione di quella sigaretta in piazza di notte, nel silenzio di una città diversa, onirica, un po’ spettrale. “Na botta infame” è quella che ti prende quando la testa comincia a viaggiare, in un circolo di pensieri inarrestabile, che vorrebbe andare avanti e invece procede a spirale, come tante cose nella...