«Una woman who has lost everything can return to love? No, he can’t. And even if it could, it should not: it is forbidden by religion, by moral, with common sense. It’s a shame, it’s something monstrous. Still, a thrill agitated shameless inside her ». This is the dilemma that shakes Selina Masdaev, widow of a Ceceno guerrilla guerrilla head massacred by the Russian special forces In the 1999 war on the mountains of the Caucasus, determined to avenge her husband and children.
Together with a British and special ex-commodity of an Italian newspaper, Selina is the protagonist of The nights of Moscow (Baldini+Castoldi Editore), new novel by Enrico Franceschinijournalist and writer who has long been corresponding to the Russian capital: a thriller in the style of the Anglo -Saxon classics, in which A courageous woman finds herself in the center of a love triangle capable of deciding Russian fatea, in addition to his personal destiny.
A pitch of imagination, but very useful to understand the reality of Putin’s fly That we have more and more under the eyes of these days: because the quarter of a century in the power of the head of the Kremlin began on 31 December ’99, thanks to the brutal conflict between the great Russia and the little Chechnya in struggle for independence, a general proof for the wars that the Russian president fought later, from Syria to that of today in Ukraine.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Vangi Gilbert).
Like a Sliding Door open on the existence of an entire country, Franceschini’s novel draws the possibility of an alternative history, for Moscow and consequently for Europe, for the Westbut you have to read it until the last line to find out who triumphs in the eternal struggle between good and evil in the land of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Pasternak.
“The nights of Moscow” by Enrico Franceschini (Baldini+Castoldi Editore).
The moral of his book contains a teaching valid for all of us: In love as in war, it skips all kinds of convention. Because “Amor Omnia Vincit”; Love wins everything.
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