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The shelf of last breaths

“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “Then I burst into tears. Then one always bursts into tears, I thought.” Telling life by talking about death: this is what Aglaja Veteranyi does for one hundred and twenty-nine poignant, poetic pages. The life of circus performers has always had a contradictory charm that combines the freedom of wandering with the lability of relationships; a life made of magic tricks and escapes, amazements and disappearances. Different rules, a twirling in space and time...

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Grandma’s braid

The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Comincerei così, elencandone il fenotipo. Senza scriverne titolo e autore, cosicché si scelga magari di leggerlo per quelle emozioni contrastanti che il romanzo di oggi ha certamente destato in me, e che forse in qualcuno sarò riuscito a evocare in fondo a questa breve pagina. È spietato. È ironico. È triste. È sardonico, virgineo e sprovveduto, ma pure navigato,...

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My Free German Youth

 “FRIDAY DI-VERSO” “There was no need to rage. There was no need. Life was on our side.” The eyes of memory choose what to remember; and this makes the difference. The original title of this “episodic novel” is literally “My German Free Youth”. Now: it sounds a bit like “my cool summer in the Sahara”. Because Claudia Rush grew up in the GDR, the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, which she was not really democratic, considering that that...