3/30/2023 0 Comments Rosella posterino“This is the story of how I turned love into ashes and then ashes into love again. How can he save himself, if he’s turned into his own adversary?Ī delicate and savage story, like all love stories. Gradually, Milo sees Nadia light up again and is happy, but jealous, too. In those letters, increasingly dense and intense, both of them reveal themselves as never before. Unexpectedly, she answers, giving rise to a secret correspondence. This is why he writes to her one day, pretending to be someone else. He’d like her to still be in love, curious, alive, simply because she deserves it. ![]() He goes on loving his wife helplessly and can’t bear not to recognize in her eyes the girl that he’d once known. How many people surrender to the idea that marriage can’t help but turn out like this? Milo no. ![]() As sometimes happens in couples, she stays with him out of inertia, dependence, or fear. This is the opening line of this novel, in which Milo, married to Nadia for fifteen years, notices that she no longer wants him: she doesn’t look at him, she doesn’t listen to him, she doesn’t share anything about herself with him. “I started writing to my wife when she’d stopped loving me completely.” "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Daily life – the life that perhaps escapes us in its minute details … Bussola transforms it into thoroughly absorbing stories. “A necessary book of great power that brings to mind Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved and the finest Italian fiction.” “You’ll fly into this novel with your heart in your throat and a constant feeling of identification all the way through to the final, magnificent chapter.” “Masterful.A unique story in which every reader will see themselves reflected.” At the Wolf’s Table stays with you, and for a long time.” “This book―which speaks of love, hunger, survival and remorse―will end up engraved on your heart.” Her ability to beautifully convey feelings of guilt, shame, love and remorse in a single gesture is a sign that we will be hearing more from her.” At the Wolf’s Table is Postorino’s first novel to be translated into English from her native Italian. ![]() Winner of the Premio Campiello Literary Prize "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. As secrets and resentments grow, this unlikely sisterhood reaches its own dramatic climax, as everyone begins to wonder if they are on the wrong side of history. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitler’s tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go to his secret headquarters, the Wolf’s Lair, to eat his meals before he does.įorced to eat what might kill them, the tasters begin to divide into The Fanatics, those loyal to Hitler, and the women like Rosa who insist they aren’t Nazis, even as they risk their lives every day for Hitler’s. Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking she’ll find refuge there. Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer’s parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. A legion of hunters was out looking for him, and to get him in their grips they would gladly slay me as well. As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up in his belly. They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf’s Lair. The international bestseller based on a haunting true story that raises provocative questions about complicity, guilt, and survival.
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