The new book by the author of “Niente di vero”. During an earthquake, a woman finds herself in bed with a man, but that is not her bed and he is not her boyfriend. Thus begins one of these eleven irreverent, comical and bitter stories, in which relationships are full of rough edges, and women, sometimes impulsive or simply funny, treacherous yet still ready to trust, are experts in letting each other go but not in letting themselves go. And above all, they know how to take themselves very seriously or very seriously, because after all, life is short, etc. «She would never have imagined that the desire for revenge was a comical feeling». A writer in crisis gives in to the increasingly insidious requests of her elderly neighbor, with unexpected repercussions on her novel. A promising dancer discovers with her teacher the possibilities of her own body, and of her own pleasure. While a plane crashes into a skyscraper, a "good looking" girl with strange teeth plans to escape from her uncle's villa, well defended by a host of garden gnomes and an arsenal of weapons in the closet. And then, a woman wakes up after the first night in her new home and finds a threatening vegetable on the doormat. And again, two college students end up not understanding each other anymore when one of them cuts her hair. Etc. In these irreverent tales, sometimes more melancholic sometimes funnier, there is a very strong thread that unites the stories: a free look at women and their relationships. Women too lazy to be rebels, rational yet superstitious, capable of inventing imaginary worlds only to shatter them. They have sex, uninhibited or awkward, they have clear ideas or they lie, very often. They have many projects but their commitments are cages. They know what it means to desire something but not what it means to have it at heart. Here it is again, the scathing and sensual writing of Veronica Raimo, which makes us laugh and immediately after delivers a very hard blow, always demolishing our reassuring conventions.
The new book by the author of “Niente di vero”. During an earthquake, a woman finds herself in bed with a man, but that is not her bed and he is not her boyfriend. Thus begins one of these eleven irreverent, comical and bitter stories, in which relationships are full of rough edges, and women, sometimes impulsive or simply funny, treacherous yet still ready to trust, are experts in letting each other go but not in letting themselves go. And above all, they know how to take themselves very seriously or very seriously, because after all, life is short, etc. «She would never have imagined that the desire for revenge was a comical feeling». A writer in crisis gives in to the increasingly insidious requests of her elderly neighbor, with unexpected repercussions on her novel. A promising dancer discovers with her teacher the possibilities of her own body, and of her own pleasure. While a plane crashes into a skyscraper, a "good looking" girl with strange teeth plans to escape from her uncle's villa, well defended by a host of garden gnomes and an arsenal of weapons in the closet. And then, a woman wakes up after the first night in her new home and finds a threatening vegetable on the doormat. And again, two college students end up not understanding each other anymore when one of them cuts her hair. Etc. In these irreverent tales, sometimes more melancholic sometimes funnier, there is a very strong thread that unites the stories: a free look at women and their relationships. Women too lazy to be rebels, rational yet superstitious, capable of inventing imaginary worlds only to shatter them. They have sex, uninhibited or awkward, they have clear ideas or they lie, very often. They have many projects but their commitments are cages. They know what it means to desire something but not what it means to have it at heart. Here it is again, the scathing and sensual writing of Veronica Raimo, which makes us laugh and immediately after delivers a very hard blow, always demolishing our reassuring conventions.
The new book by the author of “Niente di vero”. During an earthquake, a woman finds herself in bed with a man, but that is not her bed and he is not her boyfriend. Thus begins one of these eleven irreverent, comical and bitter stories, in which relationships are full of rough edges, and women, sometimes impulsive or simply funny, treacherous yet still ready to trust, are experts in letting each other go but not in letting themselves go. And above all, they know how to take themselves very seriously or very seriously, because after all, life is short, etc. «She would never have imagined that the desire for revenge was a comical feeling». A writer in crisis gives in to the increasingly insidious requests of her elderly neighbor, with unexpected repercussions on her novel. A promising dancer discovers with her teacher the possibilities of her own body, and of her own pleasure. While a plane crashes into a skyscraper, a "good looking" girl with strange teeth plans to escape from her uncle's villa, well defended by a host of garden gnomes and an arsenal of weapons in the closet. And then, a woman wakes up after the first night in her new home and finds a threatening vegetable on the doormat. And again, two college students end up not understanding each other anymore when one of them cuts her hair. Etc. In these irreverent tales, sometimes more melancholic sometimes funnier, there is a very strong thread that unites the stories: a free look at women and their relationships. Women too lazy to be rebels, rational yet superstitious, capable of inventing imaginary worlds only to shatter them. They have sex, uninhibited or awkward, they have clear ideas or they lie, very often. They have many projects but their commitments are cages. They know what it means to desire something but not what it means to have it at heart. Here it is again, the scathing and sensual writing of Veronica Raimo, which makes us laugh and immediately after delivers a very hard blow, always demolishing our reassuring conventions.
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