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SE SON DONNE FIORIRANNO
by Margherita Belardetti
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Elisa, sessantenne di fresca data, bibliotecaria in pensione, è l'ex moglie di un avvocato in carriera che ha buttato la grisaglia alle ortiche. Madre appassionata di una figlia ormai adulta e residente in una grande città del nord Europa, nonché affettuosa proprietaria di una gatta psicolabile, Nina - detta Prozac nei periodi di turbe -, vive le sue giornate con spirito da ragazza. Mille...
LE VOCI DELLE BETULLE
by Eloisa Donadelli
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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
by 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...
LA EDUCACIÓN SENTIMENTAL DE ELISABETH WILLOX
by Débora Castillo
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Elisabeth tiene que volver a Barcelona porque su madre, Brígida, ha enfermado. Durante una tarde en el hospital, a esta se le escapa que la abuela Consuelo no murió al nacer ella, como le había dicho siempre, sino que probablemente siga viva en su pequeño pueblo de la Costa da Morte.
Lizzy, Elisabeth, irá al encuentro de su abuela y esta le descubrirá aspectos de la vida de Brígida que...
UN TERREMOTO A BORGO PROPIZIO
by Loredana Limone
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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
by Paola Cereda
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THE THREE NIGHTS OF ABUNDANCE
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...
NIENTE È COME TE
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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...