THETalent is a special and precious gift. But that’s not enough. It takes determination, study and resourcefulness to cultivate it and chase your dreams. And even someone who sees you and recognize that flame to food in you. “Each grows only if dreamed»It is the last verse of a beautiful poem by the sociologist Danilo Dolci which perfectly makes the idea.
It is necessary to be seen to encourage your qualities and that’s exactly what every good school should do. The Molly Bloom Academy of Scripture was certainly made with the young debutant Sofia Assante in these days in the bookstore with a surprising novel, My last story for you (Mondadori).
Surprising because it is a dense, profound and mature book for a twenty -ninth century but at the same time full of freshness and irony. To see his talent and to encourage her was Leonardo Colombatirector of the aforementioned academy and this speaks volumes about what could be the role of the school in our country, but he shines with modesty and says that Assante is so endowed that he would make it alone.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
It is not easy to tell the plot of this beautiful novel so much is full of characters, mysteries and twists who animate the lives of Elettra and Andrea, the protagonists that the author has been following practically all their lives since they know each other, just twelfth.
Love, friendship … and Rome
The narrative voice is that of Andrea (another fairly unpublished peculiarity that a young writer “wear” a male “I”!),, Son of a Roman restaurateur, who is electrocuted by the appearance of Elettra, a girl belonging to a golden aristocracybut as far as their worlds are distant as soon as they know they become inseparable and face together the passage of the shadow line of their adolescence which, however, reserves a great pain that could separate them forever.
“My last story for you” by Sofia Assante (Mondadori).
Other I don’t reveal in order not to spoil the plot and remove the pleasure of reading that is enriched by a series of contour characters so well designed that I have always known them. And then there is Rome, protagonist like peoplea sly city that with its beauty welcomes and punctures every mood.
My last story for you Intert together as many threads as in a work by the artist Maria Lai: it is A training novel, a novel of love and friendshipa mystery that tells the various possibilities that life offers us and that we do not always manage to grasp, but also speaks to us of the hope never in vain that we can recover the lost time …
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