“Another empty day unfolded before him.” Go to the bookstore, look for this book and read it. In case your reference bookstore does not have it, book it and await its arrival. We write it directly, without the possibility of misunderstanding, because this book causes physical pleasure to reading, both for the story told and for the writing. A caress for lovers of the Italian language, which should be read at school to make the...
The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Una sera, mesi e mesi orsono, un amico caro, cui voglio molto bene, filosofo, barbuto, collerico, libero come vorrei saper essere e controcorrente per passione e per intellettualità, con toni di entusiastico affetto mi ha parlato di questo romanzo, Atlante occidentale, del suo di amico, Daniele Del Giudice. Non lo conoscevo affatto, non si riesce che a conoscere poco,...
The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Perché leggere della Prima Grande Guerra nel 2021? Perché è utile. Perché è profondamente necessario. Perché rischiamo di dimenticarcene, assorbiti dal nostro nuovo tempo e dalla buriana dell’accadere del passato prossimo, prossimissimo oserei dire, e del futuro di domani, perché già il dopodomani è troppo in là per pensarci con adeguata cognizione di causa. Perché siamo stati quelli che...
“Something died inside me, – she tells me. – It took a long time, but now he’s dead. And you killed it, as if you had hit it with an ax.” Collection of short stories, including a very short two-page one, in which love is examined and dissected in many of its forms, with the simple story of everyday life. Family and non-family dynamics, in which it is easy to collide with the ghosts of...
Written by Micol Rizzo This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Chiunque mi segua da un po’, conosce la mia passione per questo autore che, in un modo o nell’altro, riesce sempre a portarci attraverso meravigliosi viaggi emotivi ed introspettivi, mettendoci nella condizione di porci domande e dubbi, con una delicatezza che pochi autori possono vantare. “Tutti i figli di Dio danzano” narra sei storie diverse, con un unico tema centrale a fare...
“The little bit of stoicism I have inside goes away, and the desire not to die, to never die, becomes almost unbearable.” Unique novel, to be read calmly, without haste, and to recommend to your friends as a show of affection. The narrating voice is that of Nathan Zuckerman, who tells the story of his friend Coleman Silk, senior lecturer and principal of Athena College, starting from the summer of 1998, which led to the...
“Maybe I’ll always be just this: one who has gone away.” Viola Ardone tells us a little known reality, but which is part of Italian history: from an initiative of the Communist Party, trains loaded with children depart from the South, torn from the misery in which they live in their homes, which will be temporarily entrusted to some Emilian families. We are in Italy in 1946, a country that must be rebuilt after the...
Written by Cristina Bonafede (Bookseller at Punto Einaudi Milano) Translated by Arianna Acquafredda _________________________________________________________________________ A lousy pub, The Red Goose, run by an always drunk tubby (or at least we imagine him so) who organizes different illegal activities, innkeepers who become wives or prostitutes on occasion, an abbey with moneymaker nuns with misleading features, orphans abandoned in the worst hands and a patchwork of quaint characters, sometimes gloomy, in any case malicious: let’s shake all...
“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you can never find out the rules.” A story to be read in one breath, the narrating voice is so fresh and agile. It is a first-person story; the narrator is the protagonist, Christopher Boom: a fifteen-year-old boy who has Asperger’s syndrome, hence behavioral disorders and developed mathematical skills. We were overwhelmed by this game to which we were subjected by the author,...
Written by Alessia Agostinelli This review is available only in the original language. ______________________________________________________ Ho appena terminato La città dei vivi di Nicola Lagioia e non posso nascondere il turbamento che ha accompagnato questa lettura fatta tutta d’un fiato. Pubblicato a Ottobre 2020 da Einaudi Editori, La citta’ dei vivi ripercorre le vicende umane e giudiziarie di un caso che sconvolse Roma e l’opinione pubblica italiana nel 2016, il brutale assassinio del giovane Luca Varani. Come nelle...
