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- The charm of the deep and subdued voice of his poetry clarified me to myself;
- The calm tone of his verses penetrates the reader's soul in an unmistakable way."
- This is how Sergio Solmi expressed himself in the preface... (Einaudi) more
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- A small duchy by the ocean, at the end of the 1600s. It is a kingdom of stone and water, crumbling under the weight of time and melancholy. The Duke Gonzagues, lord of the city, is a man just out of disinterest, tolerant out of inertia. He has no character or passions; only the pleasures of the body, the young virgins, manage to distract him for a moment from the boredom that consumes him. His court thrives on envy and gossip, while in the lower city, the markets bubble with tempting and secret goods. Only the clocks seem alive in the halls of the palace.
- From Poland comes Arturo, and imperceptibly something changes. The new "lord of time" requests to reside in the palace, imposes his own rules, brings rigor and presence. His skill captivates the court, the lower city, and the duke. (Einaudi) more
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rasna

Madonna | DeRank™: 0,00

Good God, why doesn't he just go FUCK HIMSELF!!!!! more
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Smashed
One of the best debuts in recent years. more
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Stanlio
The novel unfolds over the course of a single night and is the final act of the triptych that includes "La giovinezza della signorina N.N." and "Nina." It is now late when Nina, sitting in a bar in her small town, encounters an old friend to whom she entrusts the story of a three-way friendship that concludes in the brief span of a summer at the end of high school. This novel is a dynamic, vivid reinterpretation of the themes of adolescence and friendship, in this case a female friendship among Nina, Nora, and Sonia. (from ibs.it) more
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Stanlio
Stanlio

Silvia Ballestra — Nina | DeRank™: 0,00

A simple love story.
Nina and Bruno meet by chance in a record store.
She is 20 years old and attends university in Bologna, while he is a journalist at the editorial office of a daily newspaper in the same city.
A week later, their life together begins.
Moments of serenity are accompanied by those where existence suddenly seems to force the two young people into complicated choices, into abrupt changes of direction... (Rizzoli) more
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Stanlio
Stanlio

Silvia Ballestra — Gli Orsi | DeRank™: 0,00

A collection of stories about youth subculture, between provincial punks and rebellious college students.
(Feltrinelli) more
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Stanlio
The book consists of a long story (or short novel) "La via per Berlino" and five other stories. The first three stories share the same environment and the same references. The protagonists are young people from the province of Pescara, misfits in a small-bourgeois provincial reality, closed and devoid of stimuli, where feeling on the margins becomes a virtue of a different moral code. A code that arises spontaneously from an instinct of opposition and destruction, rooted in the English punk of the '70s. (cit. italialibri.net) more
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Montesilvano, province of Pescara, October 1990.
Four young punks are trying to fight against the monotony of provincial life.
Antò, known as Lu Purk, wants to escape and decides to go study in Bologna, but the lectures do not excite him, so he heads for Amsterdam.
He will be joined by Antò Lu Zorru, who, upon receiving his military draft notice for Iraq, where the Gulf War is underway, decides to desert.
In Amsterdam, they manage to get themselves into all sorts of trouble until the police send them back to Italy. (Einaudi) more
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Stanlio

Eraldo Baldini — Mal'aria | DeRank™: 0,00

In October 1925, Carlo Rambelli, an inspector from the Ministry of Health, is sent from Rome to an area in the province of Ravenna on the border with the Valli di Comacchio to investigate a suspected malaria outbreak. As soon as he arrives in the village of Spinaro, he finds the dead body of Dr. Bonini, the local physician who could have provided him with useful information about the health situation, probably from suicide. In Spinaro, Oreste Bellenghi, a former squadrist and personal friend of Farinacci, calls the shots, and despite polite phrases, he appears to be uncooperative with Rambelli, as is most of the population; among the few exceptions is Elsa Corzani, the young maid of the deceased doctor. (from Wikipedia) more
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- To find malevolent creatures or bloodthirsty monsters, it is enough to move into the Po Valley. Among swamps full of secrets, winter mists, threatening woods, or renowned beaches lurks a dark demon...
- Combining fantasy and unease at will, Baldini's tales are a magnet that captivates and does not let go until the last page. (Einaudi) more
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Stanlio

Tullio Avoledo — Mare di Bering | DeRank™: 0,00

"Once you open the first page, you can't stop reading it."
(la Repubblica)
"Tullio Avoledo pins you to the wall to tell you each time the best story possible."
(La Stampa)
A near future but not too close, a world similar to ours yet different from ours, a European Union that seems like the final outcome of the worst secessionist hypotheses, a society dominated by ambitious women.
This is the scenario in which the life of twenty-five-year-old Mika Ganz unfolds, who makes ends meet by pre-packaging theses... (Einaudi) more
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"How all this jumble of facts, characters, mythologies, and unsettling persistences manages to blend into a captivating novel is something that evokes wonder and admiration."
(Antonio D'Orrico, Corriere della Sera) more
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Anna Blume recounts her hallucinatory adventure in an unnamed and devastated land: she has arrived in the Country of Last Things, in the apocalyptic city of terror. (Einaudi) more
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Stanlio
Stanlio

Paul Auster — Timbuctù | DeRank™: 0,00

An eccentric, globe-trotting poet, Willy G. Christmas, and his companion Mr. Bones, a four-legged Sancho Panza always ready to lend him his attention.
(Einaudi) more
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From this story came "Smoke" starring Harvey Keitel & William Hurt, directed by Wayne Wang in 1995, followed by "Blue in the Face" featuring Harvey Keitel, Michael J. Fox, Jim Jarmusch, Lou Reed, Mira Sorvino & Madonna.
Film tag-line:
Five strangers.
Four secrets.
Three schemes.
Two best friends.
And a neighborhood hangout where the world still makes sense. more
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Stanlio

Paul Auster — Trilogia di New York | DeRank™: 0,00

Originally published between 1985 and 1987, the three novels City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room, which make up the New York Trilogy, have become classics of contemporary American literature. (Einaudi) more
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dago
dago

The God Machine | DeRank™: 7,02

The magnificence of melancholy. Unforgettable and unrepeatable. more
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luckasozzi

Matteo Renzi | DeRank™: 0,00

That little love of Rèèèèxie. He had the sole merit of modernizing institutionally, without stealing, his Province back in '04 p.s. I am not and will never be a keyboard warrior...rather, a keyboard animal from Cafaggio PO-e-sia: Ei fu. Since motionless, given the mortal sigh, the lifeless body remained, unaware of such breath.° = ° °-° more
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What happened to Hector Mann?
The star of a brief and dazzling career in 1920s Hollywood, the actor vanished into thin air.
His silent comedies are now part of cinema history, alongside those of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd.
But what drove, or forced, him to flee from a bright future on a January day in 1929?
When David Zimmer sees a Hector Mann film for the first time, he rediscovers the smile he hadn't worn for many months. (cit. Einaudi) more
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