Tag: Antonia Buizza
Jonathan Safran Foer – Everything is Illuminated
A book full of (broken) promises
It is not always easy to disentangle the two plots making up the story of this novel, which deals...
Antonia Buizza – Orange Blossom
Even today it’s a widespread belief that a woman’s complete happiness lays in the pleasures of a Home and a Family. But for you,...
Antonia Buizza – Angela
“Angela, don’t run: you know that after you are going to have a sore throat”.“Ok, mum, I’m coming”.Mother and daughter went back...
Maurice Walsh – A Quiet Man
During the Irish War of Independence, which ended with the 1921 ceasefire and the institution of the Irish Free State, six men...
Antonia Buizza – Immortality
I met Maicol at primary school, but only three years ago I understood how worthy he was.
He went within a split time from barely...
Antonia Buizza – Friends
“What time is it?”
“A quarter to nine already”.
“What shall we do? Shall we order?”
“I would say yes. I think we have waited too long...
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...
Art Spiegelman – Maus
When History meets comics
In this graphic novel by Art Spiegelman, the past and present of his father, Vladek, are intertwined. The son interviewing several...
Emmanuèle Bernheim – A couple
The couple, without clichés
The prosaic nature of love is the sum of this story. The birth of a couple is at the heart of...
Stephen King – Different Seasons
A different King
In four short novels, King demonstrates all his talent as a narrator: four different, skilled essays among which stands out A bright...