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Giuseppe Genna – Big Red Mother
Guido Lopez, an interim detective at the Milan central police department, is playing tennis with a stranger. Immediately after, a huge explosion shakes his...
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...
Heiko H. Caimi – Alice in the mirror
After taking a shower, Alice stood in front of her mirror, without looking at it. It was a large, vertical mirror, almost occupying the...
Piergiorgio Odifreddi – The Gospel According to Science. Religions to the...
The pontificating atheist
The author, who usually feels a great sense of self-satisfaction when is fond of appearing in on TV talk shows, loves to...
George Mackay Brown – Greenvoe
What is the difference between community and society? As individuals, we recognize that we are part of a society, but every time we reflect...
Daniel Meurois-Givaudan – This Nail I Hammered
If there is a book that can really open hearts and minds, and lead to a new direction in life, is "This Nail I...
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...
Jonathan Safran Foer – Everything is Illuminated
A book full of (broken) promises
It is not always easy to disentangle the two plots making up the story of this novel, which deals...
Gérard de Nerval – The Tale of Caliph Hakim
Joy and revolution
An extremely fascinating long story, which mixes Christian culture and “The Arabian Nights” into a crucible of familiar references while avoiding sterility...
Man of Steel
In a world without heroes, the “S” of Superman stands for “Hope” of not being alone in the Universe. One day the Saviour of...