Tag: Inkroci 18
Marinella Farella – Yellow Flowers
One step, slowly.I look at the hedge that smartly follows the curve of the sidewalk: no branches cross the freshly painted fence, no...
Jo Nesbø – The Redbreast
As always, when one browses through the pages, smells the paper, has a look at the back cover of a Nordic crime novel, they...
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt – Les Perroquets de la place d’Arezzo
Love in all its forms
For something that is advertised as a novel, this book is rather a massive anthology of short stories that revolve...
Heiko H. Caimi – Like Superman
It was 2 pm of a Sunday afternoon in Summer. The kid on the sixth floor wanted an ice-cream. He left his toys and...
The Skin
No discussion of “The Skin”, a novel published in 1949, should start without first debating the case of its author, Curzio Malaparte. This because...
Philip Roth – The Dying Animal
More alive than ever!
The story is set last century’s sixties, in the middle of the American sexual revolution. David Kepesh, an ageing university professor,...
First Voyage Around the World by Antonio Pigafetta
Antonio Pigafetta was a key player of one of the most amazing world exploration trips.He was born in Vicenza in 1492, and he was...
Italo Bonera – Nile, waste land
The limitless plain seemed to reach where a man's eye could see and all around there was no one, only the gloomy outline...
Stephen King – The Long Walk
Bachman - King: 1-0
The book is a point in favor of Richard Bachman in the hoary controversy over whether Stephen King is a better...
Antonia Buizza – Sisterhood
The alarm clock made Laura jump out of bed at seven thirty sharp. She marched to the bathroom, then to the kitchen, where...
