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Rabea Blue - Fantasyautorin
Rabea Blue is an author, writing fantasy, science-fiction and romance. She alreasy published short stories & novels.
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Children's & YAMay 2020Us
by Michele Cocchi
Tommaso is 16 years old, and hasn’t left the house for 18 months – in fact, he barely leaves his room. He is what psychologists refer to as hikikomori: literally “pulling inward, being confined”. One day, he suddenly abandoned basketball, school, and all his hobbies, and now spends his time watching old NBA matches and playing video games. There is one game in particular which determines the structure of his days, and has become his only means of socialisation. The game is called Us: a multiplayer game where teams of three players carry out 100 challenges per year, one each day. The team that completes the challenge first, while staying united as a group, wins. Tommaso’s avatar, whose head is a skull, is called Logan. His other team members are Rin: a girl who resembles a Japanese manga character, and Hud: a character straight out of a shooter game. These three do not know each other – according to the rules of the game, they are not allowed to discuss their private lives – but they soon become friends. Every day, Us provides them with a “historical” mission. They will fight either for the victims or for the perpetrators – for example, as part of the Colombian FARC, with the German Nazis, or in support of Mandela in South Africa. Every day, they must work out how to reach the end of the mission while surrounded by the horrors of the twentieth century. Every day, they will have someone to save and someone to kill. They will soon discover that history can be brutal, and that it’s not always possible to be the hero.
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January 2021Piperita
by Francesco Mila
Winner of Procida Isola d'Arturo Elsa Morante Prize With an innate yet unexpected understanding of the written word for someone so young, Francesco Mila (1996) tells a story of affection and protection. It is the story of a family reminiscent of ‘Aracoeli’ by Elsa Morante, and perfectly expresses the desire for love and the fear of embarrassment experienced by every teenager. Maybe, at some point, Lapo and Emma’s parents were happy together. But if that time ever existed, Lapo was too young to remember it, and Emma had not yet been born. It was a time when Lucrezia, their mother, who was obsessed with Hollywood actors, wouldn’t continuously disappear from their lives; a time when their father Gioacchino, a doctor, didn’t lock himself away in his silence. Between Rome, Calabria, and their house on the lake; between cheating and abandonment, accompanied by reading “Peanuts” and inventing faraway worlds in which to barricade themselves, the Callipo siblings grow up, their lives teetering on the edge of destruction. They create fantasy worlds in which Emma is free simply to be Piperita, bride to Prince Arturo: an adventurous girl surrounded by friends, with an ironic sense of humour. The passing years do not make home life any easier, and in addition to the usual teenage problems and Emma’s lack of appetite, she is forced to grow up. When he is sixteen years old, thanks to his friend Amedeo – who is more laidback and experienced than him – Lapo meets Greta. With her, he discovers sex and love. Even Emma (who had long shed any trace of Piperita) grows close to Greta. But neither of the siblings have the courage to talk about their pain, although Greta seems – in her own way – part of their ‘brotherhood of abandonment’. So when Lucrezia leaves the family home once again, as if she had been held captive, the situation worsens. It is their sibling bond which once again saves Lapo and Emma: only together will they be able to understand that the blame and responsibility for their lack of affection is much harder to attribute than they had first imagined.
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FictionFebruary 2021Saponi
by Elena Ghiretti
The war between thirty-year-olds and those in their forties has just begun: a novel of irresistible irony, with a quick-witted, cynical style of writing that will invite you to look at the world with greater suspicion but, at the same time, far less fear. Lucia has made it to her forties convinced that she has reached some sort of lifetime achievement: she has a job she loves in a marketing agency, she has a stable relationship, and she has paid a deposit on her dream house. But, one rainy day, everything starts to unravel. A chain of unfortunate events brings her perfect life crashing down. She begins to question her career, her love life, and her own identity, with an insistent thought niggling at her mind: the thirty-year-olds have taken over. And she hadn’t even realised. Because of her age, she is out of the game. She is Soap, a losing concept: a naïve new line of men’s cosmetics which the client ditches in favour of a tantalising proposal from a millennial of indeterminate gender. Reinventing herself now is impossible: it’s too late. Those in their thirties work in different ways, and have begun to shape their own alien universe. From that moment, Lucia’s certainty disappears, her life derailing. From networking events with glossy influencers and surreal evenings spent in escape rooms, to obscure spiritual practices and erotic and geographical digressions, Lucia attempts to find a new direction for her life. Instead, she discovers that, deep down, millennials may not be quite as enigmatic as they seem.
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Children's & YAMay 2012Water Revelry
by Caterina Camastra and Héctor Vega, Illustrated by Julio Torres Lara
While reading Fiestas del agua, you will walk through the streets of Tixtla, Guerrero, know its stories, attend its parties, see the masks parade, and dance “the fandango” with the rhythm of its music and sounds. In addition, you will enter a magical world of characters like La Llorona, Las Cihuatatayotas and El Viejo Ranero, who tell us extraordinary stories about this region.
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FictionThe Hours Taken From Us
by Mónica Castellanos
These are the days of Franco and Hitler. Among the thousands of refugees from the Spanish Civil War, Guillermina Giralt and Francesc Planchart, two young Catalans will live one of the most moving stories in their attempt to survive the French internment camp in Argelès-sur-Mer. But they will not be the only ones. Thousands of men, women and children, intellectuals, artists, peasants, workers will leave their homes, face inhuman conditions of life and fight to preserve the most precious thing they have: their lives. In that uncertain future a man will emerge, the Mexican consul Gilberto Bosques who risking his life and his family’s, will suffer the arrest of the Gestapo and go beyond his diplomatic functions to save thousands of people from the most cruel and harrowing persecution of history.
