Tag: Ester Tossi

  Storia di un impiegato, the sixth studio LP by Fabrizio De André, written with Giuseppe Bentivoglio and Nicola Piovani, came out in 1973. Like...

The art of planning the heart This is a ruthless epistolary novel, apparently with no way out, and a symptom of the long, dark days...

During the Irish War of Independence, which ended with the 1921 ceasefire and the institution of the Irish Free State, six men...

In 1963  at nearly 50 years of age and during a really difficult period of personal crisis in her life,  the writer Elsa Morante...

American Gods is a 2017 tv series, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name. Shadow Moon, the main character, is a man...

As we climb towards the north, towards the Alps, feeling our way along the Grenoble road to get to Lyon and then up again,...

 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...

Sior (Mister) Alvise Zanatta was never seen at home and many of those who knew him,  and would see him around the “calle” both...

A difficult coming-on-age Summer 1988.  A terrible crime rocks the already difficult lives of an Indian reserve in North Dakota. Joe, the thirteen year-old main character,...

“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...