“Ladies never eat in public.” Quality. This is perhaps the only word capable of describing this book both for the quality of the text and for that of the physical object. A credit that must be divided in half between the writer and the publisher (Italian in this case); a special merit that we like to underline. The author takes us inside a modern fairy tale with an ancient smell, in which the reverberation of...
“Friday di-verso.” “There were things we expected to have and didn’t have.” How many loves does it take to give Love a name? How many times does one have to die to really feel the air in the lungs? How much pain can you endure before – how much? To some of you, this book may seem like a small thing. Not because it is ugly (indeed) or poorly written (really not), but because of...
“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,...
