Tag: Barbara Pellegrini

My name is Mukarib, but everyone calls me Mucca. Not Muka, but Mucca, just as the animal who lives in the barn and makes...

1944. In the slum of a rural town, Carla and Giulia, hardly more than children, live together with their grandma. Carla is tough, determined...

Hope is a dream within reach After having suffered the umpteenth injustice, Horty, a weird adoptive child harassed by his stepfather Armand Bluett, decides to...

“Don Pietraviva’s fences” is a milestone of Italian fiction, a choral fresco which relates the fate of the poor.  Central to the novel is...

A homage to Bird Narrated by biographer Bruno’s cynical point of view, The Pursuer is a story about the tormented genius of Johnny Carter, aka...

  A big little epic of the North How to cope with the weight and the beauty of four hundred pages of pure poetry? Only by...

Fernando di Leo bequeaths his masterpieces to Italian cinema with the noir trilogy based on Giorgio Scerbanenco’s stories, where he takes his realistic poetics...

Nadia got up at half past six, four minutes before the alarm clock would usually go off. She walked into the white ceramic tiled...

  Friday, March 13th, 1987. Thirteen workers died of asphyxiation, trapped in the holds of the LPG carrier Elisabetta Montanari. For two of them it...

  If we had to identify a leitmotiv in the short story by Silvana Grasso, this would be the intensity of the narrative ductus, which,...