Tag: Ester Tossi
Fabrizio De André – Storia di un impiegato [A Clerk’s Tale]
Storia di un impiegato, the sixth studio LP by Fabrizio De André, written with Giuseppe Bentivoglio and Nicola Piovani, came out in 1973. Like...
Jane Austen – Lady Susan
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...
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...
Elsa Morante – The Andalusian Shawl
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
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...
Silvia Accorrà – Pomerania
As we climb towards the north, towards the Alps, feeling our way along the Grenoble road to get to Lyon and then up again,...
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...
Beatrice Buonaguidi – The Two Goliards
Sior (Mister) Alvise Zanatta was never seen at home and many of those who knew him, and would see him around the “calle” both...
Louise Erdrich – The Round House
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,...
Cataldo Russo – Don Pietraviva’s Fences
“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...