" Il libro è come un cucchiaio, il martello, the wheel, scissors. not find better way to say hello to all friends of the blog and wish them a Merry Christmas suggest that once again some highlights.
"A head wild" Marie-Sabine Roger (Ponte alle Grazie) is the story of the encounter between the village idiot and an old woman. very different, he is illiterate, her reader he lives in a trailer, she has traveled the world. But they share the loneliness, the love of books, sympathy for pigeons. For he became the grandmother who has never had and that him to the understanding and use of words, which are also used to define the emotions, beginning with shame, and naturally. It 's a magical meeting in a park where it usually stops, but without pay close attention to the humanity that populates it. Very nice quote from the Ba (African writer): "When an old man dies, it's like a library burning"
"Stamp farewell" to Heloneida Studart (Marcos y Marcos) is a beautiful novel of undeniable imprint South American with its passionate atmosphere and characters that are never what they seem. Especially women, the real protagonists, both those living and those dead, fighting for his assertion, against those who only want victims. And, in the background, corruption, slums and a murderous dictatorship. But even the love that goes beyond death. And the hatred that will push the murder of her husband-master. A homicide claimed proudly, exciting as an orgasm. Writing rich and fascinating, just as the South Americans.
"When he stopped singing Nina Simone" to Jaud Darina is another story about women, for the accuracy of a Lebanese non-conformist, educated by his father (an intellectual atheist) to complete freedom, the rejection of any type of packaging, religion or sex that is. But in the civil war-torn Beirut, a woman is still a beast by Game ", which is not allowed to express feelings, needs even less. The psychiatric hospital will be the consequence of her rebellious lifestyle. It does not come out of the Shrew, but will reject the city (now semipacificata), which also has always loved to fly Paris.
And for the die-hard non-readers is a 50-page booklet, which contains dozens of novels. This is "Novels in three lines" Felix Feneon (Adelphi). One: "A Cliché a beggar seventy, some Verniot, died of hunger. Straw were found in his 2000 francs. But we must not generalize. "Or:" The former mayor of Cherbourg, Gosse, was in the hands of the barber. At one point he cried out and died. But the razor does not matter. "
Happy reading and Happy 2010 to everyone!
(by Annacarla)
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