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The Book of Venice
An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate – the way so many of the city’s residents already have – to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’... An ageing painter rails against the liberties taken by tourists, but finds his anger undermined by his own childhood memories of the place... The Venice presented in these stories is a far cry from the ‘impossibly beautiful’, frozen-in-time city so familiar to the thousands who flock there every year – a city about which, Henry James once wrote, ‘there is nothing new to be said.’ Instead, they represent the other Venice, the one tourists rarely see: the real, everyday city that Venetians have to live and work in. Rather than a city in stasis, we see it at a crossroads, fighting to regain its radical, working-class soul, regretting the policies that have seen it turn slowly into a theme park, and taking the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink what kind of city it wants to be.
The Book of Reykjavik
Reluctant to observe a new family tradition, a boy finds himself stranded outside a graveyard on the night before Christmas... Three farming brothers, forced to relocate to the city by poor harvests, discover an unexpected demand for their green-fingered talents... Residents of a new apartment block are woken in the early hours by the eerie sound of a table saw that once operated on the building’s grounds... Iceland is a land of stories; from the epic sagas of its mythic past, to its claim today of being home to more writers, more published books and more avid readers, per head, than anywhere in the world. As its capital (and indeed only city), Reykjavik has long been an inspiration for th...
The Book of Barcelona
A slighted wife escapes her wealthy family for the evening and stumbles into the city's red-light district... The head of security at Barcelona's container port searches for a figure that only he has seen sneak in... An elderly woman brings home a machine that will turn her body into atoms, so she can leave behind a city that is no longer recognisable... Historically, Barcelona is a city of resistance and independence; a focal point for Catalan identity, as well as the capital of Spanish republicanism. Nestled between the Mediterranean coast and mountains, this burgeoning city has also been home to some of the greatest names in modern art and architecture, and attracts visitors and migrants from all over the world. As a result, the city is a melting-pot of cultures, and the stories gathered here offer a miscellany of form and genre, fittingly reminiscent of one of Gaudi's mosaics. From the boy-giant outgrowing his cramped flat on the city's outskirts, to the love affair that begins in a launderette, we meet characters who are reclaiming the independence of their city by challenging common misconceptions and telling its myriad truths.
Fuochi sull'acqua
Rimasta orfana di madre in tenera età, Alma viene cresciuta dalle amorevoli cure del padre Memo, maestro vetraio socialista e credente, e di una nutrita schiera di “genitori putativi” che, come spesso accadeva in passato nelle piccole comunità quale era l’isola di Pellestrina all’inizio del Novecento, fanno a gara per sopperire alle mancanze che la vita talvolta dispensa agli innocenti. C’è Fiammetta, la levatrice che l’ha fatta nascere, madre per vocazione se non per natura; c’è l’anarchico Samuele, che si prende in carico la sua istruzione quando ancora una presenza femminile alle scuole superiori suscitava meraviglia perfino in una città moderna come Venezia. Ci sono ...
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Alla fine degli anni Sessanta del Novecento i lavoratori industriali e di altri comparti produttivi riconquistarono la scena pubblica con una serie di agitazioni nuove nei contenuti e nelle modalità organizzative della protesta. Quel ciclo di lotte, che coinvolse i lavoratori di diversi paesi del mondo, si affiancò e si intersecò con l’ondata di contestazione giovanile e studentesca che scuoteva le società industrialmente avanzate e non solo. Il volume presenta, in modo chiaro e rivolto anche ai giovani che non hanno vissuto quella stagione, alcune grandi questioni che caratterizzarono l’autunno caldo del 1969: le modalità della nuova conflittualità operaia (autonomia e radicalità); le forme di organizzazione; i temi alla ribalta (salario, tempi, nocività). Ma in Italia ci fu anche un altro 1969. La strage di Piazza Fontana, la ‘madre’ di tutte le stragi, proprio nel dicembre di quell’anno impresse una svolta drammatica alla storia del nostro paese.
