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Francesca Melandri

Author of Eva Sleeps

5 Works 340 Members 25 Reviews

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Image credit: Francesca Melandri en 2018

Works by Francesca Melandri

Eva Sleeps (2010) 154 copies, 11 reviews
Sangue giusto (2017) 121 copies, 8 reviews
Più alto del mare (2012) 62 copies, 6 reviews
Piedi freddi 1 copy

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Writing seems too conveluted to me. Language does not flow. Wish it would have been done by a different translater.
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kakadoo202 | 10 other reviews | Jan 7, 2023 |
A nice novel about a recent Italian history of "revolution" and terrorism, and about violence in general, about high security prisons and the people that are condemned but mostly about the people having to deal with this situation : parents, partners, children. How their life goes on with relatives in jail, how they are confronted more with the damage then the actual emprisoned ones, how they struggle ... or not.
It's hard to find authors better than Melandri to describe the everyday aspects of life, the devastating details, the mixed sentiments. An inevitable lovestory mellows the drama, but it ends quite surprising. 3,5 stars for the beautiful sentences, in doubt for star nr 4 but hesitating as the story could have dug deeper but didn't.… (more)
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Lunarreader | 5 other reviews | Jul 16, 2018 |
A bittersweet story of love, romantic and familial, that will charm readers of [Corelli's Mandolin] and other WW2 love stories. It's set in South Tyrol, about an ethnic German woman who has a child out of wedlock, and what happens to that child as she grows up. It's a heartstring-puller for sure.
 
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bostonbibliophile | 10 other reviews | Feb 25, 2017 |
Mir gefällt es wie die Autorin es schafft so viel über die Geschichte des Südtirols in die Geschickte einzuflechten, ohne parteiisch zu werden, und wie sie es schafft zu zeigen, dass manche verhärtete Meinungen mit der Zeit geglättet und vergessen werden können. Die Zeiten ändern sich, und das ist auch gut so. Das Schicksal das einzelnen bekommt in der Verflechtung der Geschichte eine abgemilderte Bedeutung, das Leiden bleicht aus, die Liebe auch, und nur manchmal kommen die Sachen hoch und erinnern an was hätte sein können und was wirklich gewesen ist. Das Leben, einmalig und unveränderbar läuft währenddessen unbeirrt weiter, mildert dabei sogar die schlimmsten Gedanken und Handlungen, wie ein warmer Umschlag.… (more)
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flydodofly | 10 other reviews | Sep 15, 2013 |

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