Tag: Sara Di Girolamo
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...
Marguerite Duras – Blue Eyes, Black Hair
The indefiniteness of love
Emotions that chase each other on a stage made of nothing. Gestures told with great elegance and care, without a defined...
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...
Valerio Evangelisti – At Alphaville’s Periphery
That amazing Evangelisti!
This is a collection of thrilling essays, that, touching upon modernity and its (lack of) literary expression in Italy, deals with literature...
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...
Elif Shafak – 10 Minutes 38 seconds in this strange world
This book was a contender for the Booker Prize 2019, and IMO it should have won. The story is genius, it begins with the...
Gill Hornby – Miss Austen
In 1840, Cassandra Austen decides to show up unannounced at the vicarage of the Fowle family, that has to be vacated after the vicar's...
Kathryn Stockett – The Help
The Help is a choral historical novel with three main characters, two black women and one white girl living in the segregated Mississippi during...
Rachel Kadish – The Weight of Ink
Two timelines. In modern-day London, Helen Watt and Aaron Levy find an important collection of letters dating back to 17th Century. This discovery’s not...
William Boyd – Restless
When Ruth finds out that her mom’s name is not Sally Gilmartin but Eva Delectorskaya, and that she was a British spy in WWI,...