“THEAt Luna he had hidden behind the clouds. The wind spit oblique gusts of frozen snow. From the high black wall of the Palized, through a gash apparently too narrow for a human being, the girl climbed in the terrible vastness of the wild nature ».
This is the incipit of the last novel by Lauren GroffUS writer not yet fifty years old but already acclaimed by public and critics. In the vast wild world (Bompiani) is the story of a daring escape and the consequent life in the woods, at the mercy of a stepmother and full of pitfalls, of a young woman in the seventeenth century dawn.
The rhythm is tight, the voice of the strong and convincing writer and never leaves the reader and his heroin. I who prefer metropolitan and contemporary settings I was fascinated by the raw and realistic narrative of this adventure on the borders of survival.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
To escape a life of harassment in a ruthless world, the protagonist prefers the embrace with a disseminated environment of dangers who put a strain on the resistance of his fragile body. The dark forest, frozen and full of threats, however, is to be preferred to a so -called civilization that forced the young woman to be those who did not want.
Despite the severe evidence to which it is subjected, The girl learns to appreciate the beauty of nature and her magical power: a compelling novel that explores the cruelty of colonialism, the hypocrisy of men and reminds us of the strength that can instill rebellion.
“In the vast wild world” by Lauren Groff (Bompiani)
And a rebel calm is also the author of the book That without sinking into the Paludi della Florida where he lived he chose to fight, not crocodiles, but the no less dangerous myopia of the Trump administration that has decided to censor the books disapproved of sorceress in schools and libraries.
The escalation is under everyone’s eyes. The government programs unwelcome to the government closes and those who defend them is threatened And already in several US states, works with color or queer and narratives with reference to feminism, inclusion have been banned.
There are many rumors that raised themselves to defend the freedom of speech protected from the first amendment but Lauren Groff has thought of doing more by opening a library to Gainesville where all the works put to the index can be found. Is called The Lynx – Lynx – An extremely intelligent wild animal with an infallible view that is not afraid to challenge the powerful Tycoon.
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