Hi everyone!
The book this month is one of the leading books of U.S. independent bookstores (as read by the band with which the book is sold): The girl who stole the stars of Brunonia Barry .
Title: The girl who stole the stars (orig. The Map of Places True)
Author: Brunonia Barry
Publisher : Garzanti
Year: 2010
Negli anni in cui il suo soprannome era Guaio, Zee aveva l’abitudine di rubare barche. Il padre non aveva il minimo sospetto e le lasciava massima libertà in quei primi tempi dopo la morte della madre. E poi era occupato a impersonare il ruolo del pirata, un passatempo eccentrico per un uomo che aveva trascorso la vita a studiare letteratura. Ma quelli erano giorni disperati, ed entrambi erano stanchi di portare sulle spalle il peso della perdita, incapaci di scrollarselo di dosso se non nei fugaci momenti in cui riuscivano a buttarsi in qualcosa fuori dalla portata dei ricordi.
If I were to suggest a reading light but at the same time an exile from various schmaltz and excessive romanticism, today certainly recommend The girl who stole the stars . The title itself is very attractive - though that is true The Map of Places True - and inspires the reader to buy immediately, but while in many cases, these decoy lead to disappointment in Here you can feel satisfied with your purchase. The book tells the story of Zee young psychoanalyst about to marry her man perfect, that with the death of one of his patients, Lily , lanciatasi from a bridge after years of therapy, drugs and suffering, will find himself confronted with a past never fully addressed. The history, clinical and personal, its the patient back to the memory of his mother Maureen , she committed suicide and she suffers from bipolar personality. In the grip of guilt for not being able to help his patient, Zee decides to break from his work and its report increasingly poised and goes to Salem, the town where she grew up. It is here that the life of Zee will undergo a change. In addition to a still mysterious past to solve, the young woman will face a difficult present and problematic disease Finch, his father, a failed romance, the question of where she is conducting her life, the riddle of the death of Lily and perhaps a new The love ...
Barry tells us everything with great participation, without being missed moments of suspense typical of the kind which wraps up the story of Zee and corollaries of the characters in a veil of mystery and magic. Among witches, pirates, sailors and stories of women passionate , Massachusetts has never seemed so fascinating. The characters move between past and present, between dream and reality, looking for what a bit 'all men seek is happiness. All the players are well characterized: the reader can figurarseli from the first page and already half of the book has a specific, thus creating a sense of familiarity between the reader and characters and, consequently, greater emotional involvement. I found particularly successful characters Melville, Finch's partner, a person I'd like to know, but from the soul tormented with a big heart, and that of Justina that performs its function perfectly secondary character able to tone down where necessary.
The girl who stole the stars is a book that definitely has the aim to join the trend of best-seller, but, despite having all the characteristics to be, I feel I can say that there is something more and that the book has good literary ideas that will be explored in subsequent works by the author. As long as she agrees. Meanwhile let's enjoy reading this novel, without changing his life, he will give us a few enjoyable hours and dreamy.
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Link to read the first pages of the book by Brunonia Barry, The girl who stole the stars, translated by Alba Mantovani, Garzanti, in bookstores by November 25, 2010:
http://www.10righedailibri.it/prime-pagine/ragazza-che-rubava-stelle
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