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QUEL LUOGO A ME PROIBITO
Elisa Ruotolo
In a South which is still archaic at times, a girl tries to grow up despite a suffocating family environment, where every gesture and every word is ruthlessly measured on social judgment; where joy, desire, knowledge of oneself and one's body are forbidden places.
The protective nest becomes a difficult knot to untie. "Family was this: a sharing of the private, a defect of autonomy, a...
SUL FILO DELL'ACQUA
Sara Rattaro
Chiara era in auto, bloccata dalla piena. Giulia era nel negozio dei suoi genitori, ne sono usciti vivi per miracolo. Anna era a casa, ma suo marito era fuori con i soccorritori, purtroppo. Angela non era in città e non sapeva che anche a lei quel devastante diluvio avrebbe portato via qualcosa. Dal terribile 4 novembre in cui ogni argine ha ceduto e Genova è stata travolta dall’acqua è...
L'ALBERO DI MANDARINI
Maria Rosaria Selo
La miseria la insegue, i sogni la fanno volare. Da Napoli a Rio de Janeiro, la lunga vita di Maria Imparato.
Un’avventura che attraversa mezzo secolo, una protagonista indimenticabile che ha la forza di tutte le grandi donne.
Maria Imparato è cresciuta in una casa piccola e affollata, con un albero di mandarini proprio al centro del cortile. Ha mani da sarta, una massa di capelli scuri,...
LA PAZIENZA DEL SASSO
Carmela Scotti
Della madre, Argia ricorda lo sguardo sereno mentre fa danzare le dita sui tasti del pianoforte. Il suo profumo, nei pomeriggi in cui le insegna a intrecciare i fili con il tombolo nella soffitta calda. In quei momenti, Argia si sente il centro dell’universo materno e vorrebbe occupare quel posto per sempre. Ma il suo si rivela presto un desiderio impossibile. Quando sua sorella Dervia viene al...
THE HOTEL OF THE SELFISH WOMEN
Débora Castillo
One morning Claudia, Clau for her friends, sees her life shattering. After a 20-year marriage, two twin children, and a life dedicated to taking care of the offspring and her husband, he has seen fit to fall in love with a much younger woman and therefore asks her to come out of the splendid mansion of Can Tranvía, on the Costa Brava. On the spot, and without adding anything else. Shortly...
ANDIAMO A VEDERE IL GIORNO
Sara Rattaro
Alice has ruined her marriage and she therefore needs time and space, she needs to put some miles in between herself and her failure. However that morning, while boarding on a flight to Paris, she runs into her mother Sandra.
In the most magical city of the world a mother and a daughter find the way to look at each other again, to deal with a gap in their past and to look for Camilla, the...
SE SON DONNE FIORIRANNO
Margherita Belardetti
"A lovely novel", Luciana Littizzetto Italian Artist and Writer
Elisa, a sixty-year-old woman, a retired librarian, is the ex-wife of a career lawyer. A passionate mother of a daughter who is now adult and resident in a large city in northern Europe, as well as an affectionate owner of a psycholabile cat, Nina - known as Prozac during turbulent times - lives her days with a girl's spirit. A...
LE VOCI DELLE BETULLE
Eloisa Donadelli
You don’t know that there are birches that remove their roots during the night, and you would never believe that at night there are trees that walk or become dreams.
Alda Merini
Bernardette Laudis has always lived with an inexplicable weight on her soul, which she tries to ease with the sound of her cello. It is a slender feeling she doesn’t manage to work out, until one day an off-key...
UOMINI CHE RESTANO
Sara Rattaro
At first they do not even notice each other, each kidnapped by the panorama of Genoa, each of them intent on writing on the clear sky thoughts that are too bad inside. Fosca and Valeria meet by chance in their city, on the roof of a building where both have taken refuge in an attempt to escape the sense of abandonment that sometimes life gives you by surprise, without asking if you feel...
L'AMORE ADDOSSO
Sara Rattaro
«La verità è quasi sempre una storia raccontata a metà.»
Una giovane donna attende con ansia fuori da una stanza d'ospedale. È stata lei ad accompagnare lì d'urgenza l'uomo che ora è ricoverato in gravi condizioni. È stata lei a soccorrerlo in spiaggia, mentre passava per caso, dice. Non dice – non può farlo – che invece erano insieme, che sono amanti. Lo stesso giorno, in un'altra...
LA FELICITÀ VUOLE ESSERE VISSUTA
Loredana Limone
IL QUARTO TOMO DELLE AVVENTURE DI BORGO PROPIZIO
La vita ti dà e ti toglie, ti ferisce e ti cura, ti abbatte e ti solleva. E non si ferma mai. Lo sanno bene a Borgo Propizio: dopo il terribile sisma che li ha colpiti nella terra e nel cuore, gli abitanti si impegnano per tornare alla vita e alla serenità e le loro esistenze si incontrano, si scontrano, si intrecciano in maniera come sempre...
SPLENDI PIÙ CHE PUOI
Sara Rattaro
BRIGHT ALL YOU CAN
They teach you not to shine. And you shine instead.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sara Rattaro tells us the true story of Emma, a young woman that after the marriage whit her beloved man, finds herself kidnapped in her own home by her husband. After years suffering this situation and having a baby from her husband, she will get freedom.
A positive message to all women, who are...
UN TERREMOTO A BORGO PROPIZIO
Loredana Limone
AN EARTHQUAKE AT HAPPY TOWN
Borgo Propizio sky is a lapis lazuli mosaic and life goes on scene under it. But life, you know, is made of both beautiful and awful things.
A bad day a violent earthquake destroys a large part of the historical centre, throwing into desperation people who so much love their village.
Mayor Felice Rondinella feels disaster like his own personal failure, and...
LE TRE NOTTI DELL'ABBONDANZA
Paola Cereda
Calabria (south Italy) in the mid 80s. Fosco is a village perched upon a rock right on the sea. To reach the beach, you need to venture along a wooden stairway.
Irene Rusto is fourteen and she always holds in her hands an orange notebook on which she draws her particular way of seeing the reality. Among the stern looks of the families, she lives her first love story with Rocco, the son of a...
NIENTE È COME TE
Sara Rattaro
NOTHING IS LIKE YOU
Nobody acts simply right or wrong. We are the light and shadow together. Two boxes full of books, puppets and many photographs. Margherita's World is contained in those few things. On her shoulders her beloved violin, in her hands a plane ticket to a far country: Italy. The contry where she was born and that left when she was a baby. But now it is there that he must...
SE CHIEDI AL VENTO DI RESTARE
Paola Cereda
A magical Mediterranean novel by Italian author Paola Cereda, reminiscent of THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS by Isabel Allende and L’ISOLA DI ARTURO by Elsa Morante.
Set on a nameless Italian island in the mid-20th century, L’ANNUNCIATA evokes a forgotten world, where the islanders live a traditional life, undisturbed by events on the mainland. They walk barefoot, symbolising their special...
E LE STELLE NON STANNO A GUARDARE
Loredana Limone
Too many are the facts reshuffling the every-day life of Borgo Propizio and his several inhabitants, such as the evergreen Aunt Letizia, busy to carry on her diary shop together with Belinda, the not-so-sweet but loved niece; Mariolina and Marietta, the two sisters always quarreling and making peace; the roughly refined Ruggero; the Carabinieri Marshall Bartolomeo Saltalamacchia…
Headed from...
NON VOLARE VIA
Sara Rattaro
Cosa accade se quella che credevi sarebbe stata la donna della tua vita un giorno torna a cercarti? E se nel frattempo sei così assorbito dalla tua famiglia da non ricordarti più cosa significa lasciarsi andare? Alberto incontra Camilla, il grande amore della sua giovinezza, sparita senza troppe spiegazioni per inseguire il suo sogno e gli bastano pochi secondi per scoprire di essere ancora...
UN MARE DI SILENZIO
Cristina Rava
One winter's night, in the hills above Albenga. Ardelia Spinola, a Genoese, is Pathologist. She is called for a double murder, two Algerians shot dead in the apartment where they lived. One was a dentist, the other was still a boy.
Not far away from the house where the the two were killed, Ardelia finds a USB stick and before handing it to the judge decides to take a look. When he opened it,...
BORGO PROPIZIO
Loredana Limone
Nearly all the tales begin with "Once upon a time", but this one is different. It begins with "Once upon today…" because today Belinda intends to start all over again and Borgo Propizio, a village on a hill, in an Italy apparently a bit out of time, seems to her the ideal place to fulfill her dream: opening a diary. The small town is decayed and it is said that a restless ghost flutters over...
UN USO QUALUNQUE DI TE
Sara Rattaro
Viola, Carlo and Luce are a quiet middle-class family, or at least apparently. Luce is 17-year-old and as such is full of energy and completely projected towards the future.Viola is a distracted mother and wife, full of doubts about her present life and with too many regrets. Carlo, instead, is a caring husband and the core of the family.
One late spring night, almost at dawn, Viola receives...
SULLA SEDIA SBAGLIATA
Sara Rattaro
Andrea è accusato di aver ucciso Barbara, la fidanzata, in preda a un raptus e sotto l’effetto di stupefacenti. Valeria ha saputo dal giornale che il ragazzo che ama è accusato di aver strangolato la madre. Una donna ha visto uscire di casa la figlia e non sa che sarà per l’ultima volta, mentre Zoe sogna l’”uomo dal naso perfetto” e attende il trapianto… Vicende che si intrecciano...