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-- Kirkus Reviews As this compelling novel opens, a young unnamed woman reflects on the life of her bewitching, eccentric, and fiercely emotional grandmother, whose abiding search for love spans much of the twentieth century. In 1943, as American bombs fall on the city of Cagliari, she is thirty and considered an old maid, still living at home with her parents. But when the bombing ceases, and despite her protests, her father forces her to marry the first man to propose, an older widower she doesn’t love. After suffering several miscarriages, she is sent for treatment at a spa on the mainland, where she falls in love with an injured Italian army veteran. Back home, she gives birth to a son. She never reveals the affair to her husband—but decades later, she returns to the mainland and travels to her former lover’s hometown of Milan. Dressed in her finest coat and shoes, she wanders the streets in search of the elusive veteran . . . Set against a backdrop of rugged mountains and Italian villages lost in time, this international bestselling novel is a multigenerational family saga about love, lust, and country. “Agus’s descriptions of the everyday are as beautiful and haunting as her portrayal of life’s most dramatic episodes. Add an unexpected ending and the result is a graceful, powerful book.” — -- (starred review.)… (mere)
En Mal de piedras, Abuela nos cuenta su vida, su matrimonio y sus amores. Por este orden, porque a Abuela, asà se llama la protagonista, le sucede todo con un poco de retraso, cuando ya no espera nada de la vida. Un marido que se casa con ella sólo para pagar una deuda con la familia que le hospeda. Y un amor que llega inesperadamente en un balneario, adonde ella acude para tratar su «mal de piedra», sus cálculos renales. Una novela perfecta y única, como una piedra preciosa.
Narratzailearen amona, giltzurruneko harriak direla-eta umerik eduki ezin duen emakume bat, bainuetxe batera doa bere gaitza sendatzera. Han, maitemindu, eta ezkontzaz kanpoko harreman bat izanen du eritasun bera duen gizon batekin, Beteranoarekin. Baina, azken finean, giltzurrun-harri horiek denok barrenean daramatzagun harriak dira, desegiten ez diren, zoriontsu bizitzen uzten ez diguten korapilo eta orbainak. Sendatzen ahal dira? Bizi gintezke haiekin ere? Amonak bide eta ahalegin horretan izandako gazi-gozoak kontatuko dizkigu narratzaileak.
Beautifully written story focusing on the years after WWII, of an Italian woman on the island of Sardinia. The story is pieced together by the woman's granddaughter (both are nameless) from things she has been told by her grandmother and by her found journal and a letter after her death. Grandmother was "rescued" from old maidom by a refugee during the war, though she did not love him. Beautiful and voluptuous and ahead of her time in terms of independent thought and a romantic disposition for poetry and love, "the principle thing" Grandmother is a local misfit, though she makes due in her marriage. She is also unable to have a child due to kidney stones, so she goes to the mainland in 195o to a hot springs spa for treatment. There she meets the Veteran, a war hero, who has lost a leg and who shares her love of all things romantic. They become involved and Grandmother finally feels the completion of all her longings and desires. 9 months after she returns home, she gives birth to a son (father to the narrator). A simple tale in terms of action, but complex in terms of emotional involvement, family dynamics and mores of the time. Translates well from the original Italian and the wistfulness can be summed up by the epigraph: "If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack." ( )
Aber was wissen wir wirklich über andere Menschen? In diesem internationalen Bestsellerroman erforscht eine junge, namenlose Sardinierin das Leben ihrer Großmutter, einer romantischen, bezaubernden, exzentrischen Figur und einer denkwürdigen literarischen Schöpfung. Ihr Leben ist geprägt von Ehre und leidenschaftlicher Leidenschaft und vor allem von der beständigen Suche nach der vollkommenen Liebe, die sich über weite Teile des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts erstreckt hat. Immer im Hintergrund der Geschichte dieser bemerkenswerten Frau steht die überwältigende sardische Landschaft, das tiefe Blau des Mittelmeers, die zerklüfteten Berge des sardischen Hinterlandes, übersät mit bezaubernden Dörfern, die in der Zeit verloren gegangen sind.
Mit Wärme, großem Humor und tiefer Einsicht schreibt Milena Agus über die Bräuche und die Schönheit ihrer Heimat Sardinien, über Liebe, Familie, Einwanderung, Krieg und Frieden. From the Land of the Moon ist das bewegende englische Debüt eines der wichtigsten neuen literarischen Talente Italiens.
In every family there's someone who pays the tribute, so that the balance between order and disorder is maintained and the world doesn't come to a halt.
-- Kirkus Reviews As this compelling novel opens, a young unnamed woman reflects on the life of her bewitching, eccentric, and fiercely emotional grandmother, whose abiding search for love spans much of the twentieth century. In 1943, as American bombs fall on the city of Cagliari, she is thirty and considered an old maid, still living at home with her parents. But when the bombing ceases, and despite her protests, her father forces her to marry the first man to propose, an older widower she doesn’t love. After suffering several miscarriages, she is sent for treatment at a spa on the mainland, where she falls in love with an injured Italian army veteran. Back home, she gives birth to a son. She never reveals the affair to her husband—but decades later, she returns to the mainland and travels to her former lover’s hometown of Milan. Dressed in her finest coat and shoes, she wanders the streets in search of the elusive veteran . . . Set against a backdrop of rugged mountains and Italian villages lost in time, this international bestselling novel is a multigenerational family saga about love, lust, and country. “Agus’s descriptions of the everyday are as beautiful and haunting as her portrayal of life’s most dramatic episodes. Add an unexpected ending and the result is a graceful, powerful book.” — -- (starred review.)
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El poder de la literatura per transformar la vida de les persones i fer que tot sigui molt millor del que en realitat és. Com la imaginació pot aconseguir que les vides anodines es tornin sorprenents.
La nonna és la principal protagonista però el nonno l'acompanya i la recolza en tot. (