The second lockdown is advancing quickly and the world of culture is also hitting hard with the closure of theaters, cinemas and museums.
The book, recognized by the government as an essential asset, resists together with the bookstores, which remain open even in the red areas, those most affected by the pandemic in our country.
And indeed, books in this moment "can help Italians to overcome the loneliness and difficulties associated with the limitations of free movement and sociality" as recalled by the president of Aie, Ricardo Franco Levi, and of Ali-Confcommercio, Paolo Ambrosini.
What better companion than reading can there be to enter other worlds and live other lives in this moment of suspension?
The world of the book, which has shown great flexibility and resilience in the first lockdown, is ready for this new challenge.
Libraries and publishers united invite, with the campaign 'Think about it now, do not queue.
In the bookstore, Christmas has already begun ', to anticipate Christmas shopping.
But let's see among new arrivals, authors and favorite books, thrillers and classics some titles to suggest for the second lockdown.
After the 'Plague' of Camus, returned to the fore in the first wave of the pandemic, among the great books to be recovered, not necessarily dedicated to plagues, 'Life in front of oneself' deserves a special place, which the writer Romain Gary published in 1975 under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar and with which he won his second Goncourt Prize, of which Neri Pozza has published an edition illustrated by Manuele Fior.
Set in the multi-ethnic district of Belleville in Paris, the moving and dramatic story of Momò, a Muslim child raised by the elderly Jewish Madame Rosa, a veteran of Auschwitz, who looks after the children of prostitutes, has become a film by Edoardo Ponti with Sophia Loren , on Netflix starting November 13.
Exploded right after the first lockdown and still at the top of the charts, it is unmissable 'Cambiare acqua ai fiori' (Edizioni e / o) by Valérie Perrin.
His Violette Toussaint, guardian of a cemetery in a Burgundian town, does not convey sadness.
Although he is in a place that is not at all happy, he always has a smile for everyone and comforts the relatives of the dead.
It has a great humanity that deserves to be discovered and which has made the writer, photographer, screenwriter, wife of Claude Lelouche, an extraordinary editorial case.
Matt Haig teaches us not to give up with 'Reasons to continue living' (Edizioni e / o), the case of 2019 in the United Kingdom, which has already become a theatrical show, a musical album signed with Andy Burrows and with a TV series coming from Fleabag manufacturers.
A memoir about how the writer managed to overcome his crises, come to terms with depression, learning to live again.
Among the most original titles released at the end of the first lockdown also deserves the 'Ballad for our souls' (Mondadori) by Mauro Garofalo, inspired by the real figure of the multiple murderer Simone Pianetti, in which the writer manages to get the crime news, myth, rumors and legends building a new narrative fabric that contemplates them all and surpasses them.
Those who want to travel with mind and heart can rely on Laura Imai Messina with her 'Tokyo all year' (Einaudi), illustrated by Igort.
The author of 'What we entrust to the wind' makes us discover a city that changes at a speed unimaginable for us, and is "in a state of perennial childhood".
Among the Italian thrillers, the second by Walter Veltroni, 'Buonvino and the case of the missing child' (Marsilio) in which we also find a few but intense pages on the first wave of pandemic.
In 'The last days of quiet' (Sellerio) by Antonio Manzini without Rocco Schiavone, we instead deal with a mother who by chance meets the killer of her son on a train.
Disasters, confinements and survivors can be found in many titles including the prophetic thriller 'Lockdown' (Einaudi Stile Libero) by Peter May where we find ourselves, among deserted streets and barred shops of a London in quarantine, following a detective in his latest investigation and a psychopathic killer on his trail.
Those who want to dwell on the school, tormented by the pandemic between distance and face-to-face lessons, can refer to a great classic by Lev Tolstoy, 'For a living school, for a real school' (Edizioni e / o) in which there are many reflections which led the author of 'Anna Karenina' to imagine an alternative school model.
And ten years after 'White as milk, red as blood' Alessandro D'Avenia in 'The appeal' (Mondadori) takes up the discourse on school as a unique experience in which to grow.
A fierce caricature of President Trump is Dave Eggers' Captain and Glory (Feltrinelli).
For young people, but also for adults, the third 'Goodnight Story for Rebel Children' (Mondadori) has just been released, the first signed only by Elena Favilli and this time dedicated to a theme: "100 migrant women who changed the world ".
And 'L'Ickabog' (Salani), the unpublished fairy tale about the power of hope and friendship by JK Rowling, is also on the way.
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