Giovanni Arpino – The Shadow of the Hills
Time for memories
Winner of the Strega Award in 1964 with The Shadow of the Hills (L’ombra delle Colline), Arpino needs no introduction. His novel...
Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
The gears of destiny
Tommy, Ruth and Kathy are raised in a very peculiar boarding school, where the students are taught to appreciate and master...
Erri de Luca – Vinaigrette, rainbow
Like a seed
Sometimes a life contains many other lives. In this novel, De Luca uses four lives and a house to tell just one....
Walter Tevis – Mockingbird
Poetic Dystopia
The novel is set in a discouraging and profetic scenario - a run-down New York City, where people are uncultured and living in...
Erri de Luca – The Sky in a Stall
Like a verdict
«In his generation debacle there was a powerfuljustice hand, in the scourge there was a judgement to read. They were defeat to...
Fabri Fiacca and Denis Venturi – Stories of extraordinary laziness
Our costumary raving
Fabri Fiacca and Denis Venturi create twelve novels halfway between genres and selecting surreal registers.
Reality is presented through paradoxical and grotesque tones,...
Robert Graves – I, Claudius
The book, a fake autobiography, tells the story of Claudius' life from his childhood until the day he is proclaimed emperor.
A very appropriate literary...
Liz Moore – Heft
An intense perception of the world
Arthur is a lonely man, who is at the mercy of his obesity; Kel is a young budding baseball...
Joe R. Lansdale – The Magic Wagon
An odd saga
Texas, 1909. While the saga of the West is quite over, an eccentric rag-tag band wanders from city to city in a...
Isaac Asimov – The End of Eternity
A precious stone of shinig ethic
In order to fully enjoy this precious literary gem, we must undertake a small task, which entails going beyond...
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Rae Armantrout – With
It’s well
that things should stir
inconsequentially
around me
like this
patina of shadow,
flicker, whisper,
so that
I can be still.
*
I write things down
to show others
later
or to show myself
that I am...
