QUesto month we selected 10 books to read in one breath.
The New novel by Rosa Matteucciin the balance between comedian and tragic, he begins with the frantic, tormenting aspiration of her child to receive, like all her ancestors and her fellow men, First communion. But also a book halfway between fiction and memoir, which confirms one of the most original authors of German literature.
And then a surprising novelwhich offers a perspective for many aspects unique on relationships and their power in shaping people’s lives. And a short, powerful, novel by the talented Nicolas Mathieu Which tells of a woman to whom the blows of a lifetime have brought a 38 caliber as a gift to the bag.
But also David Niven, The actor who in 1934 arrived in Hollywood from England to be a placeist and who with his tough face built a lucky actor career, which tells the Mecca del Cinema in a series of irresistible sketches.
Or a dystopia that makes you think And who brings even higher the presence of the Japanese author walled Sayaka, and then a story of injustices, manufactured evidence, false testimonies and ignored clues, within an institutionally racist context.
But there is also The story of a Sunday inside a space station In which six astronauts, memories are confided while 16 dawn and 16 sunsets are observed from the portholes. And the book of the year for the English pressfinalist at the Booker Prize, an ironic, brilliant and deeply sad story of an Irish family.
And finally A terrible true story, which happened in Naples, Used to dig into its suburbs, in a building that hides secrets and violence.
If in the description of A man dressed in a sumptuous uniform as an assistant in the field of the emperor, with silk bands and golden shows, stumbled upon a headdress of ancient Foggia “which Remember the shape of the Apulian panzerotto, pregnant with turnip greens and mozzarella“You are in the tragicomic volutes of Rosa Matteucci’s writing. Between hens prisoner of war, a father dedicated to the game that tries to Find a leather gut with esoteric ritualsa millionaire aunt who leaves everything to his foxes (but maybe not) unfolds
The story of Matteucci Bambina (and so much of what comes later) waiting for the aforementioned first communion: in a family oppressed by the debts it seems to have forgotten, salvation will follow other paths …
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Paper by Rosa Matteucci, Adelphi, 153 pages, 18 €
Of Esther Kinsky’s light and dust
A book halfway between fiction and memoir, which confirms one of the most original authors of German literature.
History is a love dedication to the cinema, she retraced through The poetic and real story of the Mozi cinema room, in a landscape of Hungary that fades into the fairy tale. The narrator acquires a disused cinema and thus ignites the memories button. He returns to the post -war period, when a man, with the help of other daily epic figures, gave his life in order to reopen the projections in that room, for love and for an almost non -existent audience. A minimalist story and great values, A reading that is good for the heart.
Giulia Calligaro
Of light and dust by Esther Kinsky, Hyperborea, 224 pages, 18 €
A job like any other by Virginia Reeves
Alabama of the early twentieth century, The progress that bursts with the spread of electricity, love, betrayal, family, racial issue. These are some of the elements of a surprising novel, which offers a perspective in many aspects unique on relationships and theirs power in shaping people’s lives. It does so with the exciting story of Roscoe T. Martin, who in electrician work finds his luck and ruin. The marriage, the economic success of the farm, the imprisonment, the return to a shattered existence. AND A poignant desire to start again.
Luisa Brambilla
A job like any other by Virginia Reeves, Clicchy, 320 pages, 21 €
Rose Royal by Nicolas Mathieu
Rose is fifty years old, a life behind and still beautiful legs. It is inclined to alcohol, melancholy and the desire of a man who is, at least, kind. It is a “strange woman, spoiled and sexy” who every evening, after work, sits on a royal stool, a bar so like this, looking around. Destiny enters the scene one evening of those: Luc has a dying dog in his arms. Rose has the solution.
This is the beginning of “Rose Royal”, A short, powerful, novel by the talented Nicolas Mathieu Which tells of a woman to whom the blows of a lifetime have brought a 38 caliber as a gift to the bag. Rose has the obsession with taking happiness and plays the last cards on a man who gradually succeeded in plundering everything, friends, work and home, but not of that gun. Not yet.
Tina Guiducci
Rose Royal by Nicolas Mathieu, Marsilio, 128 pages, 14 €
Once upon a time there was David Niven’s Hollywood
In Los Angeles “the writers got drunk, the actors became paranoid, the pregnant actresses and uncontrollable directors”. David Niven, the actor who in 1934 arrived in Hollywood from England for Being the pitch of liqueurs and thanks to the smile and to the tough face he built a lucky actor careertells the Mecca del Cinema in a series of irresistible sketches: friends (Clark Gable and Erol Flynn), legends (Ernst Lubitsch who wrote it in 1938,
For the eighth wife of Balbablù), the holidays and the Maccartism. And the women: Greta Garbo “reminded me of a little girl who lived in her secret world”. AND Beverly Hills is the place where the girls, “released lately by Marlene Dietrich”, wore the pants enthusiastically.
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Once upon a time there was Hollywood by David Niven, ed. Settecolori, 440 pages, € 26
Vanishing World of Murata Sayaka
A dystopia that makes you think and that brings the presence of the Japanese author even higher In the panorama of literature, with a special vocation to focus on the finger on little observed corners of us. To speak is a girl who, rare case in the narrated story, grows up in a family in which love is what we know, for the rest Procreation is relegated to artificial insemination and sex to extramarital relationships. The world of the protagonist, made of cartoon characters and imagination, appears more real than the reality that surrounds it. And we ask us questions about the direction of our history, which in the hands of haste is taking us away. Intimate, lucid, exciting.
Giulia Calligaro
Vanishing World by Murata Sayaka, Edizioni and/or, 224 pages, 18 €
The gentlemen luck of Nadifa Mohamed
In 1952, Mahmood Mattan young Somali sailor who goes on in small thefts and bets He is unjustly accused of the murder of Lily Volpertsentenced to death and hanged in Cardiff. In 1998, he was finally exonerated, after a long battle started by his wife Laura (Welsh, Bianca), who discovered the death of her husband when he went
to find him in prison.
The author, counted among the most promising African writers, In this finalist book at the Booker Prize, it reconstructs the history of the injustices suffered, from the tests manufactured to the false testimonies and to the ignored clues, within an institutionally racist context. And he returns the minimum life of a man who, albeit wrongly, does not want to give up the affection of his family.
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The gentlemen luck by Nadifa Mohamed, Fazi, 354 pages, 19 euros
ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey
Eutierra is a neologism introduced in 2010 by the philosopher Glenn Albrech who combines The Greek word EU (good) with the Spanish Tierra (earth) and describes the positive feeling that is felt in feeling one with the earth and his vital forces. It comes to be resorted by reading Orbital. It is the story of a Sunday inside a space station in which six astronauts train the muscles, they make experiments, memories confide while 16 dawn and 16 sunsets are observed from the portholes.
The narrative voice floats like the six who lend us their eyes to see, from up there, the prodigy of lands and waters that follow one another, no border, no war, only enchantment.
Tina Guiducci
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, Nne, 174 pages, 18 €
The day of Paul Murray’s bee
Dickie Barnes’s car dealership has undergone a collapse, The good times are over. Cassie, the university daughter, hatches the dream of fleeing the small town and is involved in a toxic friendship with friend Elaine; Together, they discover guys and alcohol. PJ, 12 years old, taken between imaginary games and videos, fears the discourse of the family.
Even if the love of parents and material security can collapse, why not the world? IMELDA is his wife, a past of desperate poverty and violence: On his beautiful face the title bee had left the sting on the wedding day. Each, in turn, tells the same period of time. Imelda opens a chapter that, from adolescent anxiety, slips into a flow of consciousness to Molly Bloom. Book of the year for the English press, a finalist at the Booker Prize is the ironic, brilliant and deeply sad story of an Irish family.
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The day of the bee by Paul Murray, Einaudi, 646 pages, 22 €
Primmamamore di Titti Marrone
It takes liver to attend the reconstruction, in a judicial classroom, of a horrible crime: The continued violence on the little Nina’s body, 6 years old, finally thrown down by a building as an old and useless rag. And it takes liver to reconstruct the story of Concettina, pregnant at 12 years old, or that of Aldina, daughter of a father who should have protected her.
The author is inspired by a terrible true story, which happened in Naples, to dig into its suburbs, in a building that hides secrets and violence. Entrust the task to Costanza who, together with the journalist son, tries to pierce the wall of silences. An investigation that takes it back to the past and penetrates into an enigmatic and brazen, ignorant and talented city, on their knees but always standing. Where love is greatmaspessomostra his perverse face.
A dry prose, a novel that affects heart and stomach.
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