Many readers, consider it as the most encyclopedic and erotic of all the books ever written. Thomas Pynchon and his “Gravity’s Rainbow” a novel published 40 years ago – still is a masterpiece of American fiction. With your eyes (but also with all of yourself), you will discover the city of London, in 1944, bombed by the Nazis. You’ll find …
Read More »THE BRIEFCASE – Novel by Hiromi Kawakami
The succession of the seasons, a special way to measure the time of writing, developing the characters that drive the story. Page after page – as well as in the seasons – you too will know the love affairs, stories that are tying in the season of ice and flowers, stories that feed the dissatisfaction and storms, but also the …
Read More »THE WALL – Novel by Jean Paul Sartre
The wall, the front of which the condemned will find death. The wall, the walls of the rooms that close tragic mysteries and sexual offenses, the distortions and hypocrisy which poison social consciousness at its birth and preparing for a sort guilty. The wall, the one that hides the multiple aspects of a hallucinatory reality. This novel, published in France …
Read More »FALL ON YOUR KNEES – Novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald
It is a story of inescapable family bonds, terrible secrets, and of miracles. The start, beginning in Nova Scotia, through a battlefields. James Piper sets fire to his dead mother’s piano and heads out across Cape Breton Island to find a new place to live, knowing Materia Mahmoud, and he becomes increasingly frustrated by her resulting strange behavior. http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Your-Knees-Oprahs-Book/dp/0743237188
Read More »THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN – Novel by Paula Hawkins
Maybe, often you happened to observe people from a window, imagining their lives. Rachel – the protagonist of this novel – whose life (apparently perfect), has recently been shattered, she observes two people every morning, for a few minutes (from a train window), and that couple is become for her an obsession. Those two people, living to her old house. …
Read More »THE LIBRARIAN – Novel, by Mikhail Elizarov
That geometrical way of the mind, could live with where joy, surprise, expectations and approval. Also reading this novel (THE LIBRARIAN – Novel, by Mikhail Elizarov), you need to temember that what you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way: the Vitruvian approach to life. At the dawn of Perestroika, around particular books by countless names, …
Read More »THE PIANIST – Novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
The atmosphere of a country, and that of a nation, is also made of its language. Only by reading, you can “feel” what the eyes do not see. Visiting Spain, you can read this novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán: The Pianist. This is “The Meeting Benches way”: a perfectly proportioned man, created by Leonardo da Vinci, correlating the symmetry of …
Read More »THE LOST ARMY – Novel of Valerio Massimo Manfredi
THE LOST ARMY > Through the eyes of Abira, women become the protagonists of the great History. This you will find out by reading this historical novel, along with ages adventures of a remote time. Ten thousand Greek mercenaries and a long march (through dangers and adventures), along with the desire to return home. Xenophon, wrote his “Anabasis”, Valerio Massimo …
Read More »THE TURKISH GAMBIT – Novel by Boris Akunin
Reading Russian words during your trip, you can do more: do not forget to read an novel of Boris Akunin. That is the Meeting Benches way to travel: a perfectly proportioned man – created by Leonardo da Vinci – correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all …
Read More »THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM – Novel of Heinrich Boll
Knowing a nation, it is also “feel” its literature. Welcome to the German-language literature. The Meeting Benches way: a perfectly proportioned man, was created by Leonardo da Vinci, correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. That geometrical way of the mind, could live with the simplicity of the sides of a charming square, where joy, …
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