"Just about every thirty seconds someone passing in front of my bench, but no one deigned to give me a greeting, or a nod, or looked at me. Indeed, whenever I tried to make eye contact with a passerby, or was about to say something, they hastened to avert their eyes (but it is "reverse" the Italian translation appropriate for this movement of the eyes? Would not it be better to "distract"?) , explicitly, and hastened the pace. One would expect this to be true especially for women, but no - the men seemed equally alarmed at the prospect that a stranger was trying to get in touch with them, if only fleetingly. I clear my head to see how even the little spark of humanity that I was trying to switch between them throw us into a panic, put them on the run "(p. 85). So Maxwell Sim ("sim card as the telephone," he says when it occurs) describes his return from Sydney, lively and colorful, the town of Watford, Hertfordshire in the UK, gray and sad. Maxwell from six months earlier when his wife and daughter left him, no longer works, is looking for a new identity, new relationships, new commitments, but slowly, with caution. The long, forlorn isolation it has experienced. The trip to Sydney in search of a dialogue with his father who had always considered strange, if it fails on that level, but gives him a meeting with two female figures who, while not the protagonists will have a key role in carrying out its romance stories: a girl and a mysterious Chinese English like him. The return home was in Serbia for Max a new job - as a representative of a new type of toothbrushes, ecological and indestructible - and a long car ride to the extreme tip of the island. The real journey proceeds Max parallel to another trip down memory, aided by the passage through the places of his childhood, from meeting people of his past or his family. On the way Maxwell learned a lot about himself and his loved ones, from the parents, and, at the end, unexpectedly, comes to really know their own truth. A truth always denied and removed, a self very difficult to deal with, to accept, but that after a full awareness, will finally know happiness. But the libroha in Serbia, after this final another final, surprising. This was explained by the author during a meeting with the public at the Festival of Tuttestorie Cagliari: Jonathan Coe said, in fact, that he was very fascinated by Italo Calvino and, in particular, "If a winter's night a traveler, "the novel that contains other, endless like a magic chest.
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