Thinking in verse, thinking about poetry. Don’t forget: enjoy the famous “paratha wali gali” (a delicious stuffed fried bread, with fresh creamy curd and home made pickles). The city of New Delhi still bears the influence of British colonial rule, also in its buildings and propensity for high tea. Uncover its scents and flavors through narrow alleyways and crowded backstreets. …
Read More »THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARPO – Novel by John Irving / Telling a difficult life, with tragicomic events also linked to sexuality.
In his world, we are all terminal cases. The area was the domain of a sub-tribe of the Pennacook nation, which fished at the falls around which a future town would grow. Exeter is a town in Rockingham County (New Hampshire), situated where the Exeter River feeds the tidal Squamscott River. In 1965 the town earned a place in UFO …
Read More »READING NOTABLE BOOKS, BY PAKISTANI AUTHORS – A Case of Exploding Mangoes, novel by Mohammed Hanif
Longlisted for the Booker prize. Okara is a city in Pakistan, the capital of the district of the same name in the province of Punjab. The famous eatery in the city, it’s the Dawat Restaurant. According to customer and tourists’ reviews, this place https://www.facebook.com/pg/dawat.resturant/about/ not only have a wide variety in delicious food, but also has great ambiance. In this …
Read More »RUGHT HERE WAS THE OCEAN – Zehra Nigah
Serious themes and more innovative forms. Its culture is characterized by the blending of Middle Eastern, Western and Asian influences. Located on the coast, Karachi has a mild climate, with low levels of rainfall. Port Grand is an extensive food street and entertainment complex located at Port of Karachi (near Native Jetty Bridge, in downtown). Here, you don’t only get …
Read More »YOU DON’T HAVE TO TELL ANYONE – Novel by Riccardo Gazzaniga
Between an aquarium and a small mountain village. The Genoa Aquarium https://www.acquariodigenova.it/ is the first in Europe for animal species (second by surface). This huge aquarium (near the port), has species of freshwater fish, in tanks that reproduce the ecosystem. In this city, do not forget to enter the Palazzo Ducale, http://www.palazzoducale.genova.it/ one of its main historical buildings, former seat …
Read More »MEMORIES – Carlo Malinverni / Admire as the sole art, the art so-called pure, that is its end in itself
Memories over infamous sweet rocks. He was born in Genoa in 1855 in a bourgeois family, dividing his life between his work in the bank and writing in newspapers of the time. If you read a particular poem of his you will find the word “gnàgnoa”. That is the existential anguish that the poet CARLO MALINVERNI managed to soothe with …
Read More »SOLO – Novel by Rana Dasgupta
The brilliant story of one man living through the 20th century, in Bulgaria. It lies on the River Stour. Its Archbishop is the primate of the Church of England. You are inside the fabulous district of Canterbury, where you can book your accommodation (also online). Here you can find events, or choose somewhere to eat, discovering fantastic tourist attractions. Fine …
Read More »QUITE RADICAL, BUT POWERLESS TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT – John Fuller / Think about literature
Becoming poet, novelist and critic It has been a market town since the 13th century. Ashford, a town in the county of Kent, it lies on the River Great Stour, about 61 miles (98 km) southeast of central London. Its St Mary’s Church, has been a landmark since the 13th century, and now it functions as a centre for worship …
Read More »THE CARPATHIANS – Novel by Janet Frame, the woman who did not want to live the human world under false pretenses
There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water This town is home to Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world. Archaeological evidence, points to the area having been inhabited by Māori, prior to the European arrival. Its urban area lies on the central-eastern coast of Otago, and Its name …
Read More »A FEW RULES FOR BEGINNERS – Katherine Mansfield / When everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming Its oldest building is the 1858 Colonial Cottage in Mount Cook, while the tallest building is the Majestic Centre (on Willis Street at 116 metres high). Wellington it is at the south-western tip of the North Island (between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range). You can discover that this …
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