“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...
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...
“Even in an immobile life, many things move. I have been privileged. My mother and father gave me a culture.” Ulysses works at a small publishing house very close to bankruptcy. Without understand how, he finds himself imprisoned in a life that does not satisfy him, forced to read ugly manuscripts of budding writers who haunt him in his dreams, a South American girlfriend with whom he has a “stormy” relationship, a mother locked up...
“Not the body was dusty, but the soul. The body was poured water, the soul the dust.” Only the opening poem is worth the cover price and the satisfaction of having read the book. Each verse a caress. A sincere statement of love dedicated to the mother. Ideally dedicated to all the mothers of the world and to all the sons that sometimes too late realize how deep and unrepeatable is that feeling. One great...
Written by Roberta Tamma This review is available only in the original language. ___________________________________________________________ Gli indifferenti è il primo romanzo di Alberto Moravia, scritto a soli 18 anni, pubblicato nel 1929 ma cominciato già nel ‘25. In questo romanzo egli narra degli scorci di una famiglia borghese romana durante gli anni del fascismo. Nonostante ciò fosse fuori dal suo intento, con questo romanzo l’autore anticipò la corrente neorealista italiana poiché è implicita la critica sociale...
“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...
“The houses are full of garbage, the streets are all secondary, all shortcuts that lead nowhere.” An ideal follow up of what was the first bestseller of Marcello D’Orta himself, the book takes up many of the issues and questions left open. The book is nice, you can read it in an afternoon, but it’s not as simple as it might seem; with a style of old times it helps to reflect on important issues,...
“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....
“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...
Written by Veronica Paladini This review is available only in the original language. ___________________________________________________ Il libro che ho tra le mani è stato un incontro particolarmente affascinante per essere capitato in un giorno normalissimo. Eben Alexander, l’autore di questo testo autobiografico, è un neurochirurgo del North Carolina che ha conosciuto la scrittura per necessità. Era il 2008 quando si trovò a combattere contro una meningite batterica tanto anomala quanto pericolosa che lo mandò in...
