THE STRAY DOGS
“THE STRAY DOGS” EL Edition ” Frontiers ” 1999 A short story, deliberately short, I think. And about the stream of memory. It concerns the synthetic,articulate reconstruction of a longed trip which turns into tragedy… It’s a dramatic, hard book, as is its language which, without falling into the common and trite youth slang, has its own dry, rough, almost “irritating” quality. A language, by the other hand, skillful in its pauses and in some just hinted but very vivid described digressions… It’s a painful book but honest, I think....
Read MoreTHE MAN WHO GREW COMETS
“THE MAN WHO GREW COMETS” 1st Edition: EL Edition ” The treasure” 2002 2nd Edition: Einaudi Children Ed. “Stories and Rhymes”, 2004 Illustrated by: Germano Ovani “That night the sky was full of stars. They were so many, hiding the dark under the veil of light, as if the moon was there. ” The stars can see me” thought Arno, his face pressed against the window-pane… The stars are the eyes of the sky – Myriam was saying – the moon is its mouth and the sun is its crown. And the comets ? What were the comets...
Read MoreTHE DREAM OF CRISTINA, BELGIOIOSO’S PRINCESS
“THE DREAM OF CRISTINA, BELGIOIOSO’S PRINCESS” Giunti publishers junior Illustrated by: Grazia Nidasio Reissue the previous title “Cristina Belgioioso, an Italian princess” “It was still dark, the wet and cold darkness of early December, when the coach left the stables and, going slowly up the path, stopped in front of the large staircase. The coachman pulled on the reins, He rebuked he horses for their impatient neighs and he got ready for the wait. He knew it might be long. The facade of the country house was plunged into darkness, only one window was...
Read MoreDEAR RACHEL… DEAR DENIS…
“DEAR RACHEL… DEAR DENIS…” Ed. EL “Letters and diaries”, 2004 Illustrated by: Costanza Favero “This is the report, made by Adalberto, Veronica, Ulrich, Valentina and Denis, of a holiday at the camping “Falling stars”. If you find it a bit confusing at first be patient. When you get together for the first time your ideas are never clear. On top of that take into consideration someone who plays vampire nightime, someone else puts nibbled cores all over the place and others get lost in the wood… Published in: Italy, Greece, Thailand...
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“AZZURRINA” Ed. Einaudi Children “The Golden Shelf”, 2004 Illustrated by: Octavia Monaco The beautiful and blond lady of the castle loves life and knows that her daughter, completely white and nearly transparent inspite of her name, has got the extraordinary gift of singing, she can talk with birds, flowers and tree leaves; unfortunately the prince warrior, husband and father, doesn’t appreciate his daughter’s gifts and he believes, on the contrary, that she is the source of the sharp and deep pain that makes him mistrustful, insensitive and cruel. The...
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“GORGIUS” El Edition, 2006 – illustrated by Gabriella Giandelli A summer with yellow snow, an uncultivated and negleted space, a stretch of asphalt “as empty as a desert” called square and a bulding that refills itself whit its inhabitants only in the evening. One day, under the only green bush of the area, Danilo, the chief character, find Gorgius. “Just imagine… It’s hard to describe, not becouse I don’t remember it, but because thinking over it after a long time it seems even more crazy… almost impossible… Yet it’s...
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