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In the dream house

“FRIDAY DI-VERSO” None of these things exist. You have no reason to believe me … the temperature rises, it is completely unpleasant, but the frog has weakened, it no longer has the strength to go out. If it had been thrown into the already boiling water, it would have jumped out with a thrust of the kidneys. Do you know the metaphor of the frog in the hot pot? Chomsky used it to describe the individual...

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

“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...

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After the Quake

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...

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Human Stain

“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...

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The children’s train

“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...

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Grotlyn

Written by Alessia Colombo This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato Tematiche principali: mistero, testo in rima, paura del buio Tecnica delle illustrazioni: digitale Età consigliata: 4-8 anni   Per le strade del quartiere si aggira qualcuno non visto, si intrufola nelle case e fa sparire oggetti. Se ne accorge subito Rubi che sola nel letto in mezzo alla stanza buia sente dei fruscii. “Sarà solo un topo” si dice, ma neanche...

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Roderick Duddle

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...

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Grandad’s Island

Written by  Alessia Colombo This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato Tematiche principali: mare, avventura, relazioni Tecnica delle illustrazioni: digitale Età consigliata: 6-10 anni   Syd va a casa del nonno e lo trova in soffitta, uno stanzone impolverato pieno di strani oggetti, dove il nonno mostra a Syd una porta invitandolo ad entrare. Oltrepassata la porta il bambino si ritrova… sul ponte di una gigantesca nave! Sotto di lui i tetti...

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The city of living people

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...

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On sudden hill

Written by Alessia Colombo This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato Tematiche principali: relazioni, natura Tecnica delle illustrazioni: digitale Età consigliata: 3-8 anni   Uto e Leo giocano sempre insieme, portano le loro grosse scatole di cartone su sulla collina e le trasformano in intrepidi vascelli o scintillanti navi spaziali. Un giorno arriva un altro bambino, si chiama Samu, ha una scatola e vorrebbe giocare con loro. Leo lo accoglie e da...