Tag: Irene Lami
Bo Lidegaard – Countrymen: How Denmark’s Jews Escaped the Nazis
It was1943. Nazi Germany invaded Denmark.
The country was worried, oppressed and sometimes inclined to please the enemy. Popular forms of resistance with sabotages and...
Knut Hamsun – On overgrown paths
The disease against which Alessandro Lami battled with for a long time took him away on Sunday March 8th, 2015.
Alessandro had transmitted his love...
Giuseppe Ciarallo – Psychomarket
The man slowly walks along the endless corridor, preceded by a huge empty shopping cart that seems to drag him along rather than being...
Håkan Nesser – The Darkest Day
Few ingredients are required for a Scandinavian crime novel: cold, lots of snow, a mystery, a grouchy inspector and cracks in a society which...
Fulvio Fiori – All because of Innocence
Even the most wrong of the loves can heal
Fulvio Fiori Fiori writes about the most complicated feeling to explain in fourteen short stories of...
Laurent Mauvignier – The Passersby [Ceux d’à côté]
Declining aloneness
The undisputed protagonist of this short novel is loneliness. In a narrative, that is more like an unconscious exchange between two monologues, the...
Giulia Romoli – Dust
«I always have the same dream, every night» my mother says, while holding me under the blankets. «I wake up and don’t understand where...
Primal Scream – Screamadelica
For ten years, I’ve never been able to make up my mind if I’m a punk rocker
or a soul boy, so why not...
Arto Paasilinna – The Year of the Hare
In this issue of the magazine Irene Lami introduces her column Northern Lights about Nordic literatures.
What we wish to present on these pages...
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...