Tag: Ester Tossi
Attention! Bandits!
On the hills of the Ligurian Apennines, next to a ramshackle house, there is a sign that says «Achtung! Banditen». Carlo Lizzani's debut on...
Marinella Farella – The Gift
The elegant blond woman lingered long in front of the gift shop. Several times she was about to cross the street and leave, but,...
“The Shahs of Old” by Ferdowsi
Kaiumers first sat upon the throne of Persia, and was master of the world. He took up his abode in the mountains, and clad...
Heiko H. Caimi – Poems in the Wind
The square. The portico. The clock tower, standing out from the city hall behind the square, reminds the townspeople of the uncertainty of time....
Mark Thompson – The White War: Life and Death on the...
A British vision on an Italian war
This is an outstanding book on the First World War on the Italian front, the so-called “White War”,...
Georges Simenon The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Too simple to call it a Noir
An ordinary man suddenly becomes the master of his own existence. But his normality, like every other, is...
Snowpiercer
In 2031 a new ice age will exterminate nearly all the population. The last survivors, on a train in perpetual motion, will have to...
Anthracite by Valerio Evangelisti
Coal will bury them
An excellent historiographic novel, although less exciting than subsequent ones. Valerio Evangelisti, unattainable in his Eymerich saga, struggles to find his...
Marco Vichi – Death in Florence
To Die of boredom in Florence
In "Death in Florence" by Marco Vichi it is clear from the very beginning that the investigation conducted by...
Francesca Nodari – Dolores’ Story
A missed opportunity
This is a story of the conflicts between the author and her father, with a small provincial town near Brescia - indifferent...