Tag: Valentina Leoni
Stephen King – Joyland
Let down by the end of his first love story, Devin, a college student, accepts a seasonal job in a small-town amusement park, where...
Richard Wright – Native Son
Bigger Thomas grew up in the black ghetto of Chicago where, even though he has good examples, he lives day to day on the...
James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
John is Reverend Grimes’ son, which is an upright preacher faithful until almost reaching fanaticism, inflexible until almost reaching sadism. Everyone expects the boy...
Ray Bradbury – Farewell Summer
The Enchanted Summer tells the story of Tom, Doug, John and other kids (and adults) who live in Green Town, a small town in...
Robert A. Heinlein – The moon is a harsh mistress
How a revolution is born
In 2075 the moon is used as a penal colony by the Terrans, where all types of scum are exiled....
Loren D. Estleman – Frames
A cinema detective
Valentino is a UCLA archivist and likes to call himself a film detective, since his main occupation is to find and recover...
The Sky Is Red
1944. In the slum of a rural town, Carla and Giulia, hardly more than children, live together with their grandma. Carla is tough, determined...
Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
The gears of destiny
Tommy, Ruth and Kathy are raised in a very peculiar boarding school, where the students are taught to appreciate and master...
Haruki Murakami – A Wild Sheep Chase
An ad within an online publication shows an old picture representing a herd. Some time later, the trustee of an old extreme right-wing ideologist...
Robert Graves – I, Claudius
The book, a fake autobiography, tells the story of Claudius' life from his childhood until the day he is proclaimed emperor.
A very appropriate literary...