A penetrating study of passion, suffering, and loss from one of Norway’s most tenacious writers: National Book Award Finalist and PEN translation prize winner Hanne Ørstavik Celebrated throughout the world for her candor and sensitivity to the rhythms of language, Hanne Ørstavik is a leading light on the international stage. Ørstavik writes with “a compulsion for truth that feels like [her] very life force itself.” Laced with a tingling frankness, Ørstavik’s prose adheres so closely to the inner workings of its narrator’s mind as to nearly undo itself. In Martin Aitken’s translation, Ørstavik’s piercing story sings. Ti Amo brings a new, deeply personal approach, as the novel is based in Ørstavik’s own experience of losing her Italian husband to cancer. By facing loss directly, she includes readers in an experience that many face in isolation. Written and set in the early months of 2020, its themes of loss and suffering are particularly well suited for a time of international mourning. What can be found within a gaze? What lies inside a painting or behind a handful of repeated words? These are the questions that haunt our unnamed narrator as she tends to her husband, stricken with cancer, in the final months of his life. She examines the elements of their life together: their Vietnamese rose-colored folding table where they eat their meals, each of the New Year’s Eves they’ve shared, their friendships, and their most intimate exchanges. With everything in flux, she searches for the facets that will remain.
A voler sintetizzare in breve il presente libro, già da subito c’è da dire che tre sono i termini di lettura su cui incentrare la nostra attenzione: Fede, Speranza, Amore. Mentre, per dar seguito al percorso narrativo, è bene seguire la freccia direzionale di un percorso umano che da subito porta dalla morte alla Vita. Ed è questo il traguardo verso cui ci proietta Antonella De Luca che ora ci propone una narrativa vispa, ammiccante, trascinante. È un percorso di umana sofferenza, una corsa contro il tempo per uscire da un baratro scuro e profondo e correre verso la luce, verso la Vita. Una corsa ad ostacoli sempre più alti, sempre più difficili da superare, per giungere all’abbraccio finale con la Vita.
I love you like a skipping stone...I love you like a doggy's bone... "Te amo como a una piedra saltarina... Te amo como al hueso de un perrito" Celebrating the love between a parent and a child, this bilingual Spanish-English book features a host of animals and the things they love about each other. Perfect for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and as a reminder to the big kids in your life.
In 1981 Federico, a 36-year old Italian tour escort of a group of Italian students in Ireland, meets Blanche, a 21-year old au-pair girl from France. He is a radio disc jockey and also a teacher of English. They decide to meet again two months later and make love. In the meantime he accompanies his group to London and then he goes to New Jersey for one month with another group. He meets Blanche in France and then in Italy. The title comes from the car number plates of Ireland, Italy and France. The original book is written in English and Italian, with some parts also in French, and is a good opportunity for those who want to study Italian and English.
Lets together as parents help change the energy frequency of our children from negative emotions, thoughts, actions and words through the power of colour, words and images, so that their dreams can come true and help them to be the great people of the future.
Más que un libro es parte de mi vida, la comparto porque es necesario que la mujer sepa que vale mucho, no solamente como ser humano, sino, por ser mujer. La mujer debe de ser amada, respetada, comprendida, admirada, valorada y sobre todo tener un lugar especial, en los hogares y en la sociedad. ¿Si no es así? nosotras mismas nos debemos dar a valer. También hablo el de saber perdonar, para ser perdonados. El contenido de este libro los guiará a como mantener vivo un matrimonio por años o por toda la vida..... Hombres y mujeres: Atrévanse a leerlo...
“The Ulysses Butterfly La farfalla di Ulisse" is a Poetry collection in English and Italian, which tells the story of a woman who finds herself and her inner strength, and ultimately learns how to fly.In the book, joyful events alternate with moments of discouragement and abandonment, and with dreams and sweet memories that colour with tenderness the void of the present.Alongside is the great love between her parents to which she dedicates the collection, and also the love of a wife for the husband lost too soon and that of a generous and exemplary mother.“Surrounded by ghosts haunting our lives, poems allow us to lose ourselves in search of something indefinite. In her verses, the author expresses the illusion, well lived, of an oneiric life escaping banal reality. It is a soul that awakens in the writing, bringing to light intimate passions, waking dreams; it is the confirmation that the best way to escape the ordinary is poetry”, from the Foreword of the journalist Mario Azzolini. "The Ulysses Butterfly La farfalla di Ulisse" è una raccolta poetica in inglese e in italiano che racconta la storia di una donna che riscopre se stessa e la sua forza interiore fino ad imparare a volare.Nella narrazione si alternano vicende liete e momenti di sconforto, abbandoni ma anche sogni e dolci ricordi che colorano di tenerezza i vuoti del presente. Sullo sfondo l'amore grande dei genitori a cui è dedicata la raccolta e in particolare quello di una moglie per lo sposo perso troppo presto e mai sopito e di madre generosa ed esemplare.“Poesie per perdersi alla ricerca di qualcosa di indefinito circondati da fantasmi che popolano le nostre vite. L'autrice nelle sue rime esprime l'illusione ben vissuta di una vita onirica che sfugge la banale realtà. È un'anima che si risveglia nella scrittura, mettendo in luce intime passioni, sogni ad occhi aperti; la conferma che non c'è modo migliore per sfuggire alla normalità che la poesia", dalla Prefazione del giornalista Mario Azzolini. Virna Chessari graduated from Palermo University in Classical Literature, studying Latin and Greek. She is an Italian and History teacher at a high school in Palermo, where she is in charge of communication and projects of innovative teaching like Avanguardie Educative-Indire. She is also a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) teacher. She has been published in newspapers, magazines and cultural websites. Poetry in particular is a recent adventure for her. Some of the poems in the collection have been published in Straylight Magazine and Blue Lake Review. She has found in English the right notes to express her inner world and her missing words. Virna Chessari, docente di Lettere Classiche e CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) insegna Italiano e Storia in una scuola secondaria di Palermo dove è referente della comunicazione e di progetti di didattica innovativa come Avanguardie Educative-Indire. Suoi contributi sono stati pubblicati in giornali, riviste, siti e blog di divulgazione culturale. La Poesia, in particolare, è una recente avventura. Alcune poesie della raccolta sono state pubblicate nelle riviste americane “Straylight Magazine” e “Blue Lake Review”. L'autrice ha trovato nell'Inglese la melodia per dare voce al suo mondo interiore, alle parole mancanti.
Domingo Notaro’s poems struggle to fix an innocent gaze on a contemporary world that appears more and more fraught with inhumanity and cruelty. They explore themes of exile, fertility, the human body’s connection to the wider cosmos, and the corrupting influence of power. Often literally scattered across the page, the poems compel the reader to become an active participant in a quest for sense and meaning. “Halfway between lucid vision and prophetic hallucination, Notaro’s poems seem to lean over the edge of an infinite vacuum—terrifying, at times, like the undifferentiated darkness of an Hegelian night, or overwhelmingly beautiful like the azure depth of a blue sky.”
