Take a look at the (real) library of The Writer’s Mountain Hut, you will find Italian books, books in English, books set in Friuli Venezia Giulia, and books that I like (and even those that I don’t like).
Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief offers a new perspective on the Holocaust and on life. Both the book and the film are wonderful.
Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci needs no introductions, The Useless Sex does. A vivid and descriptive reportage that would make you reflect and travel with the mind.
Can a Russian boy born in 1821 and an Italian girl from 1991 can experience similar emotions? Absolutely yes. In White Nights Dostoevskij accompanies us to the discovery of magical creatures: dreamers.
A book set in Friuli Venezia Giulia that tells the love between a Sicilian soldier and a Carnic Carrier.
The Witches by Roald Dahl is a classic of children’s literature that I never tire of reading. It tells the story of a child who, due to several close encounters with witches, discovers that evil is much closer than what he thinks.
Like the edelweiss, the story of the Carnic Carriers is inaccessible to most. In Fiore di Roccia Ilaria Tuti narrates the incredible courage that led the women from Carnia to be unstoppable allies in support of the front.
My brilliant friend by Elena Ferrante is one of the most successful Italian books of recent years. Set in Naples, it finally tells a different kind of Italy, but is it enough to make it a good book?
For a long time, Chimamanda has been just a voice in a Beyonce song, then Americanah came. The difficulties of being a woman in a men’s world, and of feeling foreigners in one’s own home. Chimamanda spoke of herself but in reality a little of all of us in some phases of her life.