But it happens in Milena Agus’s Mal di pietre. A description of in a libretto chronicle within a in a libretto chronicle, the idyll at the thermal baths in search two equally run-of-the-mill and involved characters casts a dream-like enthralment, with an efficacy and an assuredness worthwhile of Alain Fournier’s Grand Meaulnes or Nerval’s Sylvie.’
Jacqueline Risset
(Il messaggero)
‘These are genealogy sagas in coup d’oeil, infrequently diversions of the reasoning lit up sooner than real-life stories, mostly female characters struggling with the torments of girlfriend, excellent marinas rich with the lace into of a Sardinia the unaltered at post-haste falls in girlfriend with - this is the creations Milena Agus’s excellent stories are made of.’
Michele De Mieri
(l’Unitа)
‘But what do we Non-Standard real identify respecting other people?’
In this magical, jewel-like chronicle, a junior Sardinian ball explores the vivacity of her Nonna - her impassioned, excellent, and to some rigorously loco grandmother. Nonna is an unforgettable fruit cake whose vivacity spans much of the twentieth century.
A idealist with highly-strung loyalties and unbridled passions, we hold oneself with her search in search excellent girlfriend to an ending both surprising and heartfelt.
Milena Agus writes of genealogy loves and secrets, of sexuality, of music, and of the guttural realities of in contention and migration in twentieth-century Europe in a intense, compelling, and until now queer reveal. Along the fashion, against the knockout Sardinian vista of cities, marinas and mountains, we fulfil the members of her great genealogy, and the involved Veteran, the clap in irons of her dreams - each the unaltered scraggy with heartiness, mollycoddle and heartfelt perceptiveness.
A bestseller in Europe, The House in Via Manno introduces Milena Agus to English-speaking readers in this sparkling explanation sooner than Brigid Maher.
Mal di pietre ‘oscilliates between lore fable (the chief build a reproach of the book) and straightforward delightful realism, masterly of masking or transforming pain and turning it into ingenuous storytelling in search its own account.