When we were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Christopher Banks’ life changes over night when shortly after his father’s disappearance his mother goes missing, too. In early twentieth...
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Apr 19, 20223 min read
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
“Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly,” is the brutal opening line of Elena Ferrante’s most...
Jan 25, 20222 min read
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
L’Isle des Cheavliers is a tropical paradise where the rich American candy manufacturer Valerian Street has chosen to retire with his...
Oct 5, 20212 min read
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The family Gifty remembers from early childhood is a family of four, that quickly became a family of three and way too soon was cut into...
Sep 21, 20212 min read
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
Moll Gladney is a quiet girl, not known to cause troubles to her devout and hardworking parents. But one night she disappears from her...
Sep 14, 20213 min read
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Frederic Henry, known simply as “tenente” by most, is an American lieutenant fighting with the Italian Army in World War I. He meets the...
Aug 24, 20212 min read
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Desiree and Stella Vignes are identical and inseparable. Only those who know them well will be able to tell them apart: Desiree, the...
Aug 17, 20212 min read
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The social laws of high school dynamics govern Connell and Marianne’s behaviour. He is the popular star of the school’s football team,...
Jul 27, 20213 min read
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Moscow, 1922. Count Alexander Rostov – member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – faces a Bolshevik tribunal and the end to life as...
Jul 6, 20213 min read
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Frank and April Wheeler’s life in the suburbs of Connecticut might look very typical to the untrained eye: two children and a charming...
Jun 29, 20212 min read
Voices of the Lost by Hoda Barakat
Five letters that will never reach their destination, written by five unnamed people who come from an unnamed, war-torn country form the...
Jun 15, 20213 min read
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The pain of growing up is the main character in Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Woods. Toru Watanabe finds himself at a crossways, having to...
May 11, 20212 min read
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
“The black baby’s crying wormed and bloomed.” When a pale and black-eyed baby is born in its black caul, Rue hesitates before freeing it...
Apr 20, 20213 min read
5 Things I Loved about To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I have finally (!!) read To Kill a Mockingbird, after it had waited on top of my to-be-read list for years. Books with so much history...
Mar 16, 20212 min read
Fiction and Non-Fiction by Chinua Achebe
Last week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...
Mar 2, 20213 min read
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
"Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it."
Feb 16, 20213 min read
Un Tempo Gentile di Milena Agus
English version below Un Tempo Gentile di Milena Agus è ambientato in un piccolo paese della Sardegna contadina, dimenticata e isolata....
Feb 2, 20213 min read
Scherzetto by Domenico Starnone
English version below Scherzetto di Domenico Starnone è la storia di un incontro di quattro giorni tra un nonno scontroso e suo nipote di...
Jan 14, 20212 min read
Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
Nina is 32, a successful food writer working on her third book, finally owns property in London – even though it is a bit shabby and has...
Dec 30, 20202 min read
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Imagine you had the opportunity to try on different lives – parallel (or perpendicular) to the one you lead. Who and where would you be,...
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