Mario Fortunato

"Attraverso nove racconti, Mario Fortunato affronta - in questo primo libro che lo rivelo alla fine degli anni Ottanta - i temi forti della diversita: droga, eversione, follia. E lo fa senza un intento di denuncia, con indulgenza e una nota malinconica, che si esprimono in una scrittura sobria e insieme intensa. I personaggi di Fortunato sono giovani uomini e giovani donne che sperimentano soluzioni diverse per uscire dall''incertezza e dal disagio esistenziale che quotidianamente grava su di loro. Ciascuno cerca, a proprio modo e come puo, di vivere o sopravvivere. E chi ha trasgredito capisce che ormai anche la trasgressione e divenuta ipocrisia, luogo comune: ""luogo naturale"". Rimane soltanto il dolore, ed e proprio nel dolore o, per meglio dire, nell''abitudine a esso, che ognuno continua a lottare, cercando una forma giusta di esistenza. Con una nota di Alberto Moravia. "

"Centro Italia, alla vigilia del Secondo conflitto mondiale. La vita di un gruppo diragazzi e ragazze si trova nel pieno di quella che presto diventera una guerra civile. Fra loro c''e Stefano Portelli, avvocato di belle speranze con la testa gonfia di utopie innamorato di Eleonora. E c''e la cognata Nina, legata in segreto a Sergio, capo partigiano quasi adolescente. Altre esistenze corrono parallele, incrociandosi poi in maniera imprevista... "

"Borges che conosce le persone attraverso le loro mani. Laura Betti che scrive a Tony Blair, Pier Vittorio Tondelli che guarda per l''ultima volta il mare della Grecia, Matt Dillon che telefona per curiosita, Franco Fortini che invece telefona alle sette del mattino. E poi Giulio Einaudi che mangia pollo con Nanni Moretti, Salman Rushdie rintanato dietro a una porta, Natalia Ginzburg che ha paura di parlare in pubblico, mentre Doris Lessing prende l''autobus per Monreale. E ancora, David Grossman che e circondato dai giocattoli dei figli, Brodskij che si rivolge ai gay durante la cerimonia del Nobel e Alberto Moravia che muore in un momento di distrazione. Ma anche l''antipatia di Agota Kristof, la dolce ruvidezza di Hanif Kureishi, lo sguardo smemorato di Bassani, la solitudine di Paul Bowles, i sussurri di Anita Desai. E la Roma del vento e dei poeti, Berlino e un Muro che cade insieme a molte granitiche certezze, New York e gli inquilini dei suoi buildings, Tangeri e il suo pessimo vino, Londra, swinging e abitata dagli squali. Personaggi, scenari, geografie reali e geografie degli affetti. Legami, passioni, litigi, separazioni, nuovi incontri. Con questa incursione nel nostro passato prossimo, negli anni in cui il mondo cambiava e la societa letteraria d''antan volgeva al tramonto, Mario Fortunato mette di fronte a una verita semplice e assoluta: solo grazie alla scrittura, la memoria puo diventare racconto e dare immortalita alle persone che abbiamo amato. Come in un romanzo. "

"Cosa accade quando un diplomatico italiano a Londra, rispettato e benestante, sposato ma senza entusiasmi, durante un massaggio scopre di avere pulsioni omosessuali prima di allora insospettabili? E cosa accade quando la sua analogamente rispettata moglie Paula si innamora di un macho giovanissimo, butta tutto all''aria e fugge con lui? Nel quartiere londinese di Montrose Place, come nelle piu tipiche commedie anglosassoni, bugie e segreti si incrociano per dare vita a un romanzo divertente, agrodolce, umoristico, scoppiettante e spietato. "

Las vacaciones de un grupo de turistas en la isla mediterránea de Djerba se ven alteradas por un crimen de trasfondo homosexual, que los obliga a prolongar su estancia mientras se desarrollan las pesquisas policiales. La búsqueda de una verdad tan simple como huidiza, presentada con un certero y original uso del salto temporal y los diferentes registros narrativos (relato en tercera persona, epistolario, diario íntimo, transcripción de interrogatorios, recetas de cocina, citas...), pone en juego la vida privada de los personajes bajo una luz imprevista: la bella Myriam, que lucha inútilmente contra su bulimia; David, un famoso fotógrafo neoyorquino incapaz de decir una sola verdad; el anciano médico Blasi, atormentado por el suicidio de su mujer y por una traición suya; dos ambiguos gemelos, hijos de una tendera chismosa, y, finalmente, el asesinado profesor Fabre, fascinado por los adolescentes. En esta atmósfera se revelan los sentimientos y los malentendidos que unen a los turistas, y aparecen en escena sus pudores, miedos y engaños. Entretanto, el arte de perder peso, que obsesiona a Myriam, se va confirmando como metáfora de la vida en su flujo hacia la muerte, sin que los intentos, por parte de los personajes, de contener ese flujo por medio del amor, la amistad o la simple comunicación sirvan más que para constatar la insostenible fragilidad del ser humano.

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La dieta mediterránea para su salud y la pérdida de peso saludable. La famosa dieta mediterránea es un plan de dieta que incorpora el consumo de alimentos de los países mediterráneos, es decir, los paises que rodean el mar Mediterraneo. No es tan solo una dieta, es mas bien un estilo de vida que promueve la salud y la perdida de peso de forma sostenible y saludable. Hoy en dia, esta siendo estudiada por un numero de cientificos de todo el mundo y ha sido reconocida como una de las dietas mas saludables del mundo. En este libro encontrara las mejores recetas de la cocina mediterranea para mantener su buena salud y un peso ideal sin tener que adoptar dietas extrañas y poco saludables para adelgazar.Esta increible dieta y forma de vida tiene innumerables beneficios para su bienestar y para su cuerpo. Entre los asombrosos poderes que se obtienen con la incorporacion de una alimentacion como esta estan las posibilidades de reducir los problemas de enfermedades del corazon. Como cuestion de hecho, la dieta mediterranea se ha asociado con un menor riesgo de mortalidad cardiovascular, la mortalidad por cancer e incluso la reduccion en el Parkinson y las incidencias de Alzheimer.Es por esta razon por la que una serie de importantes organizaciones de salud recomiendan la dieta mediterranea como metodo natural para la prevencion de estas enfermedades. Obtenga las mejores recetas de la cocina mediterranea ahora! El vino tinto es un ingrediente importante de la dieta mediterranea y es tambien responsable de una reduccion del riesgo de enfermedades del corazon cuando se lo consume en moderacion. Aunque el exceso de alcohol es desastroso para la salud cuando es consumido con mesura, puede hacer maravillas contra las enfermedades del corazon, descubra en el interior de este maravilloso libro de cocina todos los beneficios que el consumo responsable del vino puede darle a su sistema. Otros ingredientes principales de la cocina mediterranea que encontrara en este libro lo convierten en una excelente dieta para bajar de peso. No hay grasas saturadas presentes en este tipo de alimentacion y la mayoria de los ingredientes son productos vegetales fibrosos.La dieta mediterranea tambien hace hincapie en la importancia de que las comidas compartidas con familiares y amigos. Que este libro de cocina sea un pretexto maravilloso para empezar a reunirse mas con sus seres queridos y disfrutar de la vida y de la cocina saludable.Comer una comida lenta y disfrutarla es parte de esta cultura que le ayudara a su sistema digestivo a procesar todos sus alimentos de una manera natural y saludable. Que este libro sea su guia para una forma mas saludable de cocinar y la base para un cambio tan necesario en el estilo de vida para mejorar su salud y perder peso con una dieta orientada a no pasar hambre sino a la buena nutricion. Encuentre deliciosas recetas saludables de desayunos y recetas de ensaladas que le ayudaran a bajar de peso y a adelgazar.Este mayor conocimiento sobre la dieta mediterranea lo dejara preparado para tomar una decision informada sobre como este tipo de alineacion le dara buenos resultados a su salud en el mediano y largo plazo. La dieta es, sin duda, una buena solucion de perdida de peso, que, al mismo tiempo, aporta a su buena salud. Asi que no espere y haga clic en el boton de compra ahora para disfrutar de estas recetas medi...

A New York Times Best Historical Fiction Book of 2023Through the loves and losses of a middle-class family from Calabria, this heady, atmospheric saga retraces the history of twentieth-century Italy.As a young man in the Seventies, Valentino leaves home in search of a better life. With age, he begins to feel an intense regret, a longing for the world and the people he left behind, which he might not be able to recover, even after returning. Set in Magna Graecia, the sun-drenched land where ancient Greeks stopped in their travels and happily settled, now full of ruins, South takes us back to a time when notaries and lawyers were undiscussed authorities in small towns. Meet the Notaio, his lover Magda, a Polish countess and a spy, and delve into their love story in Naples; meet the Farmacista, owner of the first chemists shop in town, his wife Lea, and their children; follow the paths where these lives cross, and Tamara, Mara for short, marries into the Notaios family; get to know charming Uncle Giorgio, an extravagant loner, owner of two small Gauguins, and Gioacchino, the house ghost. Servants, drivers, peasants fully devoted and bound to their masters enliven this tale of love and loss, war and peace, politics and power, told in an elegant, affecting prose that transports us through time and space.

In this gripping coming-of-age novel, a group of young peoples lives and passions collide in unexpected ways as World War II transforms Italy and England.Central Italy, on the eve of the Second World War. A group of young Italians find themselves in the midst of what will soon become a civil war. Among them is Stefano Portelli, a hopeful lawyer with a head full of utopias, in love with Eleonora. And there is his sister-in-law Nina, secretly linked to Sergio, a partisan leader.Other lives run parallel to theirs: that of Alastair Ormiston, an English Royal Air Force Pilot, who adores Virginia Woolfs books and dreams of the ideal companion. And that of Edna, his best friend who, in a London bombed by the Nazis, discovers herself and her happiness. If their paths intersect in a shocking way, shuffling the cards of history, it will be through the work of a destiny greater than them, burning them in a bonfire where everything is consumedjoy and pain together.

An Italian teachers relationship with his male student sparks legal and personal turmoil in this compelling novel of truth, desire, and power.A group of old friends are unexpectedly reunited in Calabria for a dinner party. When the conversation turns from reminiscing about their teen years to recent allegations against a local teacher, Marco Ferro, it unsettles the narrator. Days later, still reeling from the news, he sets out to learn more, grappling with the murky facts. His search rekindles a relationship with his former high school friendFederica, beautiful and spoiled, married to Lino, and the mother of three boyswhich in turn unspools in complicated and unanticipated ways. The action then moves to Tunisia, London, and Rome, in an incessant pursuit of who tells and who is told. In the end, it is the story of Marco Ferro and his young student Yussef, played out in both courtrooms and newspaper columns, that restores truth to the complicated sentimental geometries of the narrator and Federica.Exploring secrets and entangled power dynamics, Mario Fortunatos timely new novel raises questions that rarely have simple or unequivocal answers.

Une grande saga familiale sur près dun siècle, un récit original et complexe sur un monde disparu, un microcosme attachant du Sud de lItalie.En 1976, à dix-huit ans, Valentino a quitté sa Calabre nat