Hello! We begin the new year with a book made in Italy or should I say made in Sardinia : Accabador to of Michela Murgia.
Title: Accabadora
Author: Michela Murgia
Year: 2009
Publisher: Einaudi
Fillus de soul.
's so they call the children generated twice the poverty of a woman and the sterility of another. Of that second birth was a daughter Maria Listru, late fruit of the soul of Bonaria Urra.
Campiello Prize 2010, is Accabadora a book as compelling. Accabadora derived from the English Acaba meaning " end, finish" and shows, in the popular culture of Sardinia, a figure halfway between the myth and reality, of which much has been discussed. L ' accabadora is the last mother, one who helps the souls who suffer on this earth to go further. A figure that refers to a difficult topic, 'euthanasia equally complex and contrasted. This figure Michela Murgia creates a story of maternal love, filial relationship and respect for tradition. In Accabadora l’autrice riversa i suoi ricordi e le sue esperienze con la cultura di una terra che mai come in questo caso appare magica e misteriosa, fatta di antichi usi e costumi, di vecchie storie e passate vicende, di segreti inconfessabili e dicerie silenziose che si perdono nei bisbigli della gente. In questo microcosmo si inseriscono le protagoniste, Maria e Tzia Bonaria , uno dei personaggi più belli che ho incontrato negli ultimi tempi. Maria Lustri è figlia di una povera vedova che pensando alla figlia più come a un peso che come a una persona, con sollievo l’affida a Bonaria Urrai, sarta del paese che il destino ha voluto sola al mondo, privata His love died in the war and the joy of motherhood. Mary, good-natured souls are two complementary, two beings who make the company and give the love they need in a world that sees little of them and that takes away from both, because the last one of a family because numerous other ancient guardian of a secret and unpronounceable. Accabadora is a touching story of a relationship between mother / daughter bonds than purely biological and that, like everything else in life, prove its authenticity and its power in the most difficult life of two women.
Suddenly it was as if he had been always so, and soul fill'e soul, a less guilty of being a mother and daughter.
The book in its first part is much better developed and told cone consistency and strong emotions. What happens to Mary when starting from Sardinia are told, however, in a light and rather indifferent, as if everything that happens outside the island does not have the same weight and of equal importance. Besides, the girl's foray into the "continent" is not that useful for a brief period of history to create a classic moment of the return of the protagonist, a return that usually means maturity and change. Despite this part a little weak, the book as a whole does not lose strength and narrative force, also made by a language rich and lively, full of popular sayings, slang terms and phrases that have the flavor of the absolute truth. All this increases the allure and charm of a country and a story, told with passion and love of the Murgia for his origins are impossible to forget.
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