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Uomini che odiano le donne. Millennium. Vol. 1 - Italian Fiction
Uomini che odiano le donne. Millennium. Vol. 1 - Italian Fiction $39.95

La Briscola in Cinque – Italian Fiction

$38.95

Marco Malvaldi

Published:  2007

Publisher: Sellerio di Giorgianni

ISBN: 9788838922190

Format: Paperback

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SKU: 9788838922190 Categories: Italian, LOTE (Languages Other Than English) Tags: Italian Fiction, MONDADORI
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Language: Italian

La rivalsa dei pensionati. Da un cassonetto dell’immondizia in un parcheggio periferico, sporge il cadavere di una ragazza giovanissima. Siamo in un paese della costa intorno a Livorno, l’immaginaria Pineta, “diventata località balneare di moda a tutti gli effetti, e quindi la Pro Loco sta inesorabilmente estinguendo le categorie dei vecchietti rivoltandogli contro l’architettura del paese: dove c’era il bar con le bocce hanno messo un discopub all’aperto, in pineta al posto del parco giochi per i nipoti si è materializzata una palestra da body-building all’aperto, e non si trova più una panchina, solo rastrelliere per le moto”. L’omicidio ha l’ovvio aspetto di un brutto affare tra droga e sesso, anche a causa della licenziosa condotta che teneva la vittima, viziata figlia di buona famiglia. E i sospetti cadono su due amici della ragazzina nel giro delle discoteche. Ma caso vuole che, per amor di maldicenza e per ammazzare il tempo, sul delitto cominci a chiacchierare, discutere, contendere, litigare e infine indagare il gruppo dei vecchietti del BarLume e il suo barista. In realtà è quest’ultimo il vero svogliato investigatore. I pensionati fanno da apparato all’indagine, la discutono, la spogliano, la raffinano, passandola a un comico setaccio di irriverenze. Sicché, sotto all’intrigo giallo, spunta la vita di una provincia ricca, civile, dai modi spicci e dallo spirito iperbolico, che sopravvive testarda alla devastazione del consumismo turistico modellato dalla televisione.

The revenge of the pensioners. From a rubbish bin in a suburban parking lot, the corpse of a very young girl protrudes. We are in a town on the coast around Livorno, the imaginary Pineta, “which has become a fashionable seaside resort to all intents and purposes, and therefore the Pro Loco is inexorably extinguishing the categories of old men by turning against them the architecture of the town: where there was the bar with bowls has put an open-air disco pub, in the pine forest instead of a playground for the grandchildren an open-air body-building gym has materialized, and there is no longer a bench, only racks for motorbikes” . The murder obviously has the appearance of a bad deal between drugs and sex, also due to the licentious conduct that held the victim, a spoiled daughter of a good family. And suspicions fall on two of the girl’s friends in the clubbing scene. But it so happens that, for the sake of backbiting and to kill time, the group of old men from the BarLume and his bartender begin to chat, discuss, argue, quarrel and finally investigate the crime. In reality, the latter is the real listless investigator. The retirees are the apparatus of the investigation, they discuss it, strip it, refine it, passing it to a comic sieve of irreverence. So that, under the yellow intrigue, the life of a rich, civilized province, with brisk manners and a hyperbolic spirit, stubbornly survives the devastation of tourist consumerism shaped by television.

 

 

 

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