Leszek Kwiatkowski Ordine dei libri

La notte, al villaggio, uno strano, impossibile silenzio abita il buio. Anche di giorno, l'assenza degli animali lascia ovunque le sue tracce: non un cane in cortile, non un gatto sui tetti, e nemmeno una mosca che ronza o un grillo che canta nei prati intorno. Qualcosa dev'essere successo tempo fa e i bambini ogni tanto fanno domande che restano senza risposta. Fino a quando Mati e Maya non partono per la loro avventura, in cerca del mistero del villaggio dove gli animali sono scomparsi. Nel folto del bosco troveranno Nimi, il bambino puledrino ammalato di nitrillo, Nehi, il demone del bosco e una triste verità.

Tragic, comic and incomparable: an autobiographical epic and a comedie humaine for our times, which is both the portrait of an artist and the story of the birth of a nation, spanning several generations and moving with them from Russia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, to Jerusalem. Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's wartorn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations on his shoulders. And at the tragic heart of the story is the suicide of his mother, when Amos was twelve-and-a-half years old. Oz's story dives into 120 year of family history and paradox, the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel. Farce and heartbreak, history and humanity make up this magical portrait of the artist who saw the birth of a nation, and came through its turbulent life as well as his own. over.