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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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The God Machine | DeRank™: 7,02

The magnificence of melancholy. Unforgettable and unrepeatable. more
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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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Paul Auster — Lulu on the Bridge | DeRank™: 0,00

They say that at the point of death, every man reviews his entire life in a flash.
But who knows, perhaps in that fraction of a second we will be granted another opportunity, a second chance: the life that will unfold before our eyes will be the one we did not know, want, or could have had.
From this narrative idea begins a melancholic fairy tale that manages to become a great love story, and at the same time a "metaphysical thriller" (quote Einaudi). more
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The great charge of eleven unrestrained, intemperate, splatter-format knights of the Apocalypse in the aisles full of every good thing of supermarket Italia.
Amid everyday atrocities, fierce adolescence, and blood melancholies. (cit. Einaudi) more
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Niccolò Ammaniti — Io Non Ho Paura | DeRank™: 0,00

The story is set in the scorching summer of 1978 in the countryside of an unidentified region in Southern Italy, yet evoked with rare descriptive power. In this landscape dominated by the contrast between the blinding sunlight and the darkness of night, Ammaniti skillfully alternates between comedy, the world of childhood relationships, the language and the quirky wisdom of children, their tenacity, the strength of friendship, and the drama of betrayal. And at the same time, he outlines an unforgettable array of adults. (cit. Einaudi) more
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Martin Amis — Esperienza | DeRank™: 0,00

Like a tightrope walker facing the greatest challenge, Martin Amis stretches the rope between experience and memory and begins his walk into the void. His movements narrate the story of a life. "Why should I tell the story of my life? I know what it takes to make a good tale, and life is almost entirely lacking: structure and balance, form, completeness, measure." Yet, between 1994 and 1995, something happened; "big events" transformed the novelist and short story writer into the author of an original, eccentric autobiography. (quoted from Einaudi) more
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Martin Amis — Cattive acque | DeRank™: 0,00

All nine stories narrate of inverted or science-fictional worlds. It’s the case of the first one, where fabulously wealthy poets fly business class from Europe to Los Angeles, land of powerful poetic majors that shower them with money and put at their service legions of collaborators. Meanwhile, the screenwriters, tipsy and unrecognized, find themselves at night in the city’s underbelly to hold clandestine readings of their works. In a not-so-distant future – hypothesizes another story – the world could be predominantly populated by homosexuals, while heterosexuals, prideful to the point of arrogance, would increasingly choose to come out. In short, turned upside down worlds... (cit. Einaudi) more
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Martin Amis — Altra gente | DeRank™: 0,00

Mary remembers nothing anymore.
She doesn’t even remember her own name, which almost certainly isn’t Mary.
But she doesn’t recall more trivial things, things like clouds, and she thinks they are fat creatures with a dreamy air, in perpetual adoration of the sun.
"When you forget the past, the present becomes unforgettable," and indeed for Mary everything is an enigma and a discovery.
Beyond objects and people, she must relearn emotions and feelings from scratch, especially those that others have towards her for reasons that elude her.
And she discovers that she can hurt people, and attract wickedness, as if in a past life she herself had been perverse and evil. (quoted from Einaudi) more
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Martin Amis — Il treno della notte | DeRank™: 0,00

Jennifer was beautiful, intelligent, and lucky.
And she killed herself.
Why?
The most difficult case for detective Mike Hoolihan.
Detective Mike Hoolihan has a trucker’s bulky physique, bleached blonde hair, and a hoarse voice from too much smoking.
Detective Mike is a woman.
A fat, ugly woman, a former alcoholic.
A childhood friend, Jennifer, shot herself three times with a .22 caliber in the mouth.
Jennifer was stunning, intelligent, professionally accomplished, and romantically happy.
Her father, a big shot in the police, doesn’t believe in suicide and gives Mike a free hand. (cit. Einaudi) more
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