UNa poetic writing tells the drama and the many streets of the rebirth in Ohio. The story of an Italian-Eritrean He follows her in search of its origins. The ecological dream of Urbanista In Paris he tries to come true.
And then a stormy and tenacious love Against the background of the history of Italy: her hysteria, the restlessness of him, the betrayals of both, but also The dilemma of a Japanese elderly: can you still hope for some happiness when the years become really many, the inevitable loneliness and the promises that we have made ourselves not kept?
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Books to read in one breath: 11 stories of women, told by women
And then, Between Milan and Colombo in Sri Lanka the story of four womenbetween modernity and ancient spirituality, or that of Asya and Manu who growing together they give voice to the estrangementwhich unites them to so much part of the Miillenial around the world.
In the end, A story of pain that collects the fate of two men and human landscape that turns around them and that of A human story made of redemption and transformation.
Here are our 9 books read it for the September days.
A long sequence plan describes the imaginary town of East Gladness, Ohiodrowned in the rain and despair. Until you frame the young man you have, hovering on the lead bridge over the river. The old grazine sees him and reproaches him until he gets him down. Thus begins an unlikely and tender coexistence, a mutual care that also includes the simulation of war memories that reverberate in the decline of grazine. Both foreigners, Vietnamese without dreams, Lithuanian escaped “two devils” (Hitler and Stalin), her, Together they give a second chance. A poetic writing tells the drama and the many streets of rebirth.
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The emperor of joy by Ocean Vuong. Guanda, 432 pages, 20 €
A head full of Raffaella Case’s curls
There is the freshness of the work before, There is a search for roots that talks about the present time and there is Zengha’s youthin the debut book by Raffaella Case. The head of the title, Zengha, owes it to his father Salomon, who escaped from the civil war in Rwanda, and then detached from the rest of the family, also fled to Italy. But when Zhenga, with the Afro head and amber skin, finds himself having to trace his origins, for a school research, he realizes that he knows everything about the maternal line, also thanks to the talkative grandfather Arturo, none of the paternal one. He then puts himself on an epic and humanly colorful journey, which speaks of the need to know where we come from.
Giulia Calligaro
A head full of curls by Raffaella Case, Corbaccio, 208 pages, € 16.90
Private property of Julia Dek
A small house with garden far away from stress (but not too much from the comforts) of the metropolis, Paris, in a new, ecological neighborhood, where couples who imagine will come to grow the same aspirations, so much so as to build a community. It is the dream of Eve, the aseptic narrative voice, which work is, coincidentally, the urban planner and her husband Charles Caradec. The incursions of the neighbors’ cat, the lecoqs, their noisy garden parties, to change it in a nightmare are enough. Or rather in a black comedy, which from the killing of “Pel di Carrota” onwards, one dead off the other, overwhelms every cornerstone of the contemporary fairy tale of the good neighborhood. In fact, we are here from the parts of Snow White’s stepmother (“Mirror of my brame who is the most beautiful of the realm?”) And for the happy ending it is not air. But for fun, yes.
LB
Private property by Julia Dek, Predistrica Editore, 180 PGG, 17 €
To me the glory of Mimmo Gangemi
She is twenty years old, cheerful, brisk, not beautiful but attractive for personality. He, he returned to Italy, is elegant, of a noble family and is fame as a womaniolo. A story that was born like many, but to wait for them an uncommon destiny. Because she is Edda Mussolini, Benito’s first -born, and he Galeazzo Ciano, son of a fascist government minister as well as one of the most dear friends of the Duce. They meet in January 1930, marry and the story of their stormy and tenacious love has all the ingredients of a novel: her hysteria, the restlessness of him, the betrayals of both, the twists and turns, the weaves in the rooms of politics, the parable of families. Until the well -known support of the father -in -law who assists and does not oppose the shooting of the son -in -law
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Glory to me by Mimmo Gangemi, Solferino, 344 pages, € 20.50
A room for Momoko in Chisako Wakatake
If mature companies only think of Longevityfor Japan it has been an attitude for centuries. Morigerated lifestyle, harmony with nature, nice toy, yes, but a question remains unavoid: You can still hope for some happiness when the years become really many, the inevitable loneliness and the promises that we have made ourselves not kept? Maybe a shy yes is the answer of A room for Momokonovel by Chisako Wakatake just published in Italy by Piemme, celebrated bestseller in Tokyo.
A minimal story, that of Momoko, who at twenty years of age leaves his mountain village for the metropolis with infinite possibilities. He lives at an accelerated rhythm, savor freedom and has great expectations for the future when love drives it on new priorities. Farewell career, the family is everything. As long as the day arrives when the house empties, dead husband and distant children, and she finds herself alone with memories.
Instead of suffering silence, however, Momoko learns to dialogue with herself, to recapitulate what she built. Obligated choices, renunciations of which he sometimes did not even notice. And while the inner voice question it, she does not regret anything but wonders if it is not the case, for the time that remains, to get back to the center of your life, to learn how to love each other … starting from a bowl of rice cooked all for itself.
Momoko has a lot in common with Chisako Wakatake. The writer, born in the mountains of tone and transferred very young to Tokyo to teach, soon becomes a virtuous housewife. And if he begins to write very soon, it is only at 55 who begins with this book that explores the third age from within, so intense as to win the Akutagawa prize, the most prestigious Japanese literary prize. It means that Momoko can also start again.
Simonetta Li Pira
A room for Momoko by Chisako Wakatake, Piemme, 144 pages, € 18.90
Dirty water by Nadeesha Uyangoda
The desire to leave is sometimes a demon who condemns to get lost in the world. Like that of a bright blue color that Himali saw his sister Neela’s ankle from the evening of the great flood that swept away all their having. Neela, from Sri Lanka, ended up for 30 years in Italy, where she worked and “accumulated”. Now he wants to return to his “beautiful island” attracted by roots that perhaps he has never had. Between Milan and Colombo the story of four women, between modernity and ancient spiritualitywhich thanks to an sharp and rich writing opens a gash on the grudges, fatigue, anger and class relationships that restless life in this and in the other world.
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Dirty water by Nadeesha Uyangoda, Einaudi, 276 pages, 18.50 €
Ayşegül Savaş anthropologists
Asya and Manu arrived in the big city, after winning a scholarship, from different countries. In pairs they became adults – He works in an NGO, she runs documentary – and writing accompanies them while in the city that want to make their own – living for rent in different neighborhoods, spending time in parks and bars – they are looking for a house to buy. It is a desired and feared landing at the same time. Because, as Asya notes, “there is no place to feel comfortable, there is no language in which, after so many years, sliding as in a deep sleep”. It is she who gives a voice to the strangle, which unites them to a lot of the miillennial around the worldand to try to reconstruct, with the acrybia of an anthropologist, the schedule of rules of their brand new tribe. In the wake of cultural authors of a generation, such as Sally Rooney and Rachel Cusk, a training novel that speaks to everyone. It comes out on September 16th.
Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş, Gramma Feltrinelli, 224 pages, 18 €
The god of the people of Carola Susani
A story that collects the fate of two men and the human landscape that turns around them. In the summer of 1985 in Carrone, in Southern Italy, the eighteen year old Giuliano witnessed the incredible scene of a young man with the body on flames, which miraculously survives. It is Italo Orlando, yellowish skin and a lot of mystery. Then, in March 2002, an earthquake crushes the roof of a gym causing the death of eight children, including Giuliano’s son. From that day italo disappears into thin air. The voice that tries to reconstruct in pain is that of Piera – the other daughter of Giuliano – which brings together clues and questions, also on any responsibilities of the collapse of the Julian brick factory. The ability to collect in a few volutes of words psychologies and soul interiors are memorable
The God of the people by Carola Susani, minimum fax, 223 pages, € 17
Our Lady of the frontier of Andrea Mella
A writing that runs along geographical and symbolic borders, to go beyond them. The Pordenone author starts from his lands – an almost metaphysical karst – and from the topicality of an eastern frontier that is still, for many countries in poverty and conflictthe door of dreams of freedom, to bring us inside A human story of redemption and transformation.
The protagonist is Loris Degressi, Passeur, smuggling of men in exchange for easy money, who has placed life and consciousness to the era of the pushing, without wanting to know too much about the powerful traffickers who pull the business threads. The meeting with Branka, a woman who upsets her life, and with Adnan, a Syrian refugee traveling with her son Nadir, change the direction of his gaze. A story of poetry and geography, which is good.
Our lady of the border by Andrea Mella, Bee, 270 pages, 17 €
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