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In both periods of the year when people think they have more time to read or want to do it – Christmas and summer holidays – newspapers publish lists of books to read with more method and determination in relation to other periods. It is not always easy to find a sensible criterion for these lists: those who speak only books can be useful for those who frequent the bookstores and who read all year, but a little reductive for those who do not usually have the time and he wants to use what he has to read something that is really worth it. For this reason, the rules we have set for these tips are very simple: 1) we recommend any book that we really liked; 2) do it in one paragraph at most. Some publishers violated the second rule, while the first respected everything.
Francesco Costa
Moments of negligible happiness by Francesco Piccolo
Choosing the book to take on vacation you risk focusing only on the content and not on the container. Serious error. Are you sure it's appropriate to take you on a trip – and so in your backpack, in your bag, every day – this 400-page novel? And even if you're using an e-reader, are you sure the romanzone is the most appropriate book for reading inevitably fragmented, carefree and subject to beach distractions? This book, published a few years ago, is 136 pages long and weighs 40.8 grams. It's also very nice, and perfect for the holidays: it will also give you many topics of conversation with which you will have next to you. If you like it, there is also a kind of sequel.
Emanuele Menietti
The Problem of the Three Bodies by Liu Cixin
A highly secretive military project works to contact an extraterrestrial intelligence from a basic space, put in place by China during the Cultural Revolution, but things are going very differently than expected when the signal is resumed. This is Liu Cixin's most famous novel, which has introduced new themes and perspectives in science fiction, with special attention to China's future.
Giulia Balducci
Red Watches by Leni Zumas
You like it if you like: the cities on the ocean far from everything where the wind blows, it rains a lot and the legends of the sea are still part of people's lives, coastal roads and houses in the woods, novels with more protagonists, all equally important, The history of the girl, the defense of reproductive rights, the stories in which – in the end – the character you like most chooses to do the right thing (I badure you it's not a spoiler because the main characters are four and they all do the right thing, from the very personal and not necessarily shared perspective of Giulia Balducci.)
Stefano Vizio
The North Waters by Ian McGuire
Someone said that the whalers did not tell them if well since Melville, and indeed this new Ian McGuire novel l e compares to the first pages. But at some point it is forgotten, because whaling only takes a small part of history. The waters of the north tell clearly and explicitly about the indescribable human degradation of the Volunteer crew, as the ship goes further and further north into the polar circle in search of cetaceans who are not there. . One of those novels where the bad guys are not really good, and the good guys are just a little less bad characters. It was finished in the ten best books of the year New York Times in 2016 and Einaudi published it a few weeks ago in time for your beach vacation.
Alessandro Lusitani
Museum of Dead Fishes by Charles D Ambrosio
These are eight short stories, all remarkable and at least two perfect. Ambrosio, who has published only four collections in 23 years, is best known to readers of New Yorker appreciated and commended by many writers, always wearing checkered shirts and often approached by Raymond Carver for sober and clean style, but whoever understands it calls dirty realism. It's hard to talk about a collection of stories without making super-general summaries (he's talking about Americans in various ways vanquished in life, unsuited or resigned, who get angry in their anonymous lives) or back cover lists (there is a family reunion in a mountain lodge, fishing and hunting in the woods of Washington, the nerve break of a writer, a carpenter of badgraphy, between Seattle and an Indian Reservation), so I did both.
It can be interrupted and resumed, and is good for those seeking something contemporary in American fiction; advised by someone who is neither a fan of Carver, nor short stories, nor checkered shirts.
Arianna Cavallo
Lonely City by Olivia Laing
If you also end up buying a book, pbadionate about 50 pages, start another, forget the first and end up with dozens of stories started and left in tatters, you might find some relief in Lonely city : for me one of the few in recent months won the distractions of the many movies, articles and novels at your fingertips. Perhaps because it's already a ragged book held by the voice of the author, who has long been alone in the human, chaotic and ruthless mbad of New York as the artists whose life is said to be , insights and loneliness: Andy Warhol, Edward Hopper, David Wojnarowicz, Henry Darger, Josh Harris and others. They will link you to anecdotes about characters you thought you knew, stirring or comforting unknown or rediscovered works of art with new eyes, and you'll understand something more about the world, on you, who is watching you from afar. It's both a memoir, an essay and a collection of stories, involving storytelling and writing as the best of novels and illuminating as the most scrupulous search; is perfect for taking a solitary weekend, and full of anecdotes to share with those who accompany you on vacation, but above all it's a book trip, which will make you travel the world while you will face heat with half-opened windows and lowered blinds
Gabriele Gargantini
What matters is the bicycle by Robert Penn
It is written by a bicycle enthusiast who decides to To have a bike made to measure. But he wants the perfect bike, choosing every piece among the best in the world to make this piece. In the meantime, he talks about heroic cycling, the eruption of the Tambora volcano in 1815, welding with tungsten electrodes, Campagnolo di Vicenza and its concatenated movements. History, physics, mechanics, aesthetics, chemistry and sociology, but especially bicycles. I'm missing about fifty pages, but I do not think it suddenly becomes ugly.
Luca Misculin
The River Law by Colum McCann
If you like Irish novelists talking about Ireland and wind-swept cigarettes and tragic family stories, this book is for you. Add to that that McCann is a true talent: he has long collaborated with New Yorker and has written novels since the age of twenty. The story mainly concerns a very old father and a distant son. They live together for a week in a lost village, but they do not remember how to do it. The mother thought of mediating between them, that one day she left and nobody saw her again. In two hundred pages, we do not know how, it ends that the protagonist becomes her. I recommend it to those who retire as hermits in the second home of parents or grandparents: it is a book that must be read in silence.
Giulia Siviero
On the Edge of Time ( Women on the Edge of Time ) by Marge Piercy
Science fiction is often considered a masculine literary genre, but many authors have instead considered it a refuge from which to build a radical change and imagine another world. The authors of science fiction have thus helped to make the links of power obvious, to deconstruct them
In her novel, written in 1976, Marge Piercy works on different levels, present, past and future: Connie , the protagonist, is a woman who was forced to abort and who was sterilized against her will. She is locked in a psychiatric hospital because she is not believed when she reacts to violence. Here, in addition to being deprived of the freedom to decide one's own body, they try to control and shape their minds and emotions, but find an escape when, by another woman, they come into contact with a utopian society respectful of the environment. all decisions are made collectively and in which the reproduction has been separated from baduality: rethink and organize the work of care, the division of labor, the identity references and thus empty any racist and badist motivation. This utopia corresponds to the New York dystopia of the future with which Connie comes into contact because of an error: here women have been divided into two categories (the reproducers and the entertainers) and the technology has become an instrument of power and oppression.
Pietro Cabrio
Tokyo Express by Matsumoto Seicho
This is a Japanese black written and set up in the fifties and originally published in episodes in a newspaper . The story follows two investigators, a young from Tokyo, the other older and local, convinced that it was not a suicide to find in a bay the poisoned bodies of a man and from a woman. With very long times following the rhythms of a country still late, the couple's last days are rebuilt on schedules, routes and rail links, given that the last time that they were seen together, both climbed on a fast. The amount of detail put together to piece together the case is impressive and brought back to the art of Japanese precision. He releases a relaxing story that travels through Japan, and finally any background
Davide Maria De Luca
A Very British Bang by Chris Mullin
What Happens When People Elect a government that has a program of awakening for all those who have common sense, like going out of NATO or nationalizing the railways? There is only one solution: the wisest and most suspicious of the establishment organizes a discreet and discreet move. According to many, this fictional novel by Chris Mullin, written in 1982, anticipated Jeremy Corbyn's rise. But some might say that he also speaks of Italy in 2018.
Ludovica Lugli
Laetitia or the End of Men by Ivan Jablonka
Have You Ever Felt Guilty to have shown interest in a Chronicle case? This book talks about it and shows how we can talk about it to understand things about people and society. The case in question is that of Laetitia Perrais: an 18 year old waitress murdered in 2011 by a prejudice that she barely knew. There has been a lot of talk in France: Perrais's body was not found for weeks, Sarkozy tried to toughen prison laws by exploiting the case and there was a big strike of the magistrates. Then it was discovered that Perrais's twin was badually abused by the man who was an adoptive father of both. With the working method of historians, Jablonka has reconstructed all the history and the context in which it occurred, "Peripheral France". According to him, Perrais died and his murderer killed him too because the society – social services, justice, school – could not avoid him
Giovanni De Benedictis
Chronicles Volume 1 by Bob Dylan
Because the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 also wrote a great novel, an imperfect and sometimes lame autobiography, but really cars and therefore even more interesting. He had already written another book when he was small, Tarantula where he was performing in a time of unreadable prose. Instead, he published it in 2004, when he was 63 years old. It's a person's book at the end of a trip, which returns without nostalgia, telling three moments and three places of his life (New York, Minnesota and New Orleans), in three chapters that look like three paintings, where the says fills the reader's head with pictures. It is called Chronicles Volume 1 because there must have been a Volume 2 but maybe there will be some never: another unsaid, another empty space on the canvas
Gianni Barlbadina [19659003] All that is a Man by David Szalay
This is not a book that changes life (do they really exist, then?) But if it is taken in the right direction stays in good company for a few days and gives sobering. The right verse, in this case, is the one in which one does not get bored by the unpleasant characters and their unpleasant thoughts; from the story of the little hateful things that a little 'everything happens sooner or later to do or say. It's a book that can be guilty or absolute. Stories of males at different times in their lives, told for a few pages before moving on to the next. It works best if read from beginning to end without forgetting on the bedside table. A parenthesis to open and close like the short chapters of which it is composed
Elena Zacchetti
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
For those who like me do not remember the stories of the books that are the most He read six months at first, The road is wonderful for two reasons. 1) Because in 10 years I will remember what I thought: how do you write a book so beautiful only talking about a father and a son who walk in a world that doesn? does it exist anymore? 2) I read the last page on a beautiful Greek beach, with no one around, and there was plenty of reason to be right but really happy;
As the sixteenth book, a counseled by the director of Post :
Luca Sofri
The Count of Montecristo by Alexander Dumas
Ok, I n had never read The Count of Montecristo and there plant it. I limited myself to two great ideas about the book: that it was a book and that he would talk about it in this cave on an island. I was wrong about both: it's a LIBRARY and the island is just an episode of a lot of romance. It happened that two summers I devoted myself to knowing something of the many things of which I am ignorant, taking advantage of the function "send the extract" of Amazon, and after having started The count of Montecristo I've failed to leave (and never finish!), As it happened only years ago with Grisham and Crichton.
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