Tag: Ester Tossi
James Hadley Chase – Eve
Cupio dissolvi
A fraudulent and self-destructive writer, a woman who loves him, a femme fatale who, completely devoid of scruples, leads him to his cupio...
Giorgio Scerbanenco – Europe, a Lot of Love
What happens when your dad sends you home alone?
Is a chaffeur not exactly a gentlemen? With a wack of a handbag the good-for-nothing is...
Over to the word
Men create oppositions, which are not; and put them into new terms, so fixed, as whereas the meaning ought to govern the term, the...
Giuliano Bugani – How a Love Story Could Have Been
Unresolved loves
Included in the collection “The unresolved”, this book by Giuliano Bugani presents two long stories. The first, which provides the title of the...
Michela Murgia – Accabadora
She is the last mother
She who completes. This is the meaning of the Sardinian word Accabadora, the woman who facilitates destiny in the last...
Arnaldur Inðridason – Jar City
Reykiavík, Norðurmýri district. The dead body of an old man is discovered by his neighbours and an old picture of a little girl’s grave...
Danilo Arona – The Station of the Sound God
Darkness will submerge you
From a not very original start (a circle of elderly meets to tell improvised horror stories, topped by the reworking of...
Paul Auster – Winter Journal
The umpteenth memoir
Another memoir from Auster. This time, the author starts from the sensations that he physically experienced (pain, desire) and from the places...
Elena Tomaini – Breathing Masks
Masks to suffocate
Nine stories, nine borderline situations: disconnections, osmosis, betrayal, contagion, suicide, repetition, displacement, torture, overprotection. Masks are deadly pretences through which we believe...
Ambra Porcedda – Imeacht brónach. A Miserable Way Out
A wrong world
In this book from the collection “The unresolved” Ambra Porcedda presents us with two love stories with a twist in which she...