E 'intrusive ("I arrived at any time without notice, interfere in the lives of my grandchildren, treated Nico - her son, Ed - like a child. On the pretext to wake up my grandchildren with a kiss, introduced me to their house at dawn. ") and arrogant (" I bought fashionable shoes from the kitchen to replace their wipers and then threw it in the trash, never suspecting that had belonged to the deceased grandmother of Lori - the sister - and that she had kept them for twenty years. "), but also generous (" I had no doubt about that Willie - the second husband - and I'd dealt with Sabrina - granddaughter of Willie -: if Parents can not do it, it's up to grandparents, is a law of nature. ") and tender (" A question like that deserved to be discussed in the family. I cursed the distance I could not see the expression on his face. I promised that we tried to get back as soon as possible even at three in the morning I could not do much to change the plane tickets, a task that was complicated in India even during the day. ").
" The sum of days, "published by Feltrinelli, tells the story of the writer and his family after the death of her daughter Paula, put down less than thirty years from a rare disease, porphyria. In all, about a dozen years during which intertwine stories and loves that are likely to flake the family, but, thanks to the stubbornness and love of the writer-protagonist (who writes in first person, as if drawing a diary of the whole, and aimed always devoted to her daughter missing) it reinforces and even increases the own branches happy with grafts of friendship and love.
reading the book you want, in an era of single-family nucleali, to belong to a clan, a tribe, like the one patiently constructed by the writer was born in Lima, but has lived its first thirty years in Chile: "We decided that to prevent a possible medical negligence or error, Andrew - a grandchild - would never be left alone. Fifteen phones kept us connected, and also I called my parents and Pia - a 'friend - in Chile because there tenessero distance company. He started his vigil day and night, less than two or three us in the room. ").
There entr'actes fun and gags of real life:" We explained to the grandmother of Sabrina that mothers were lesbians, Buddhist and vegetarian, he did not know three words. Vegetarianism was the only thing that seemed unacceptable, but it was still their friend. "Elsewhere the passionate character of the author emerges, as when she asks the second husband (the lawyer Willie Gordon) would have that kind of love and he replies: "Monogamy, I already tried the other formula and is a disaster," and she says "Okay, but if I catch you with a lover kill you, your children and your dog."
is often questionable because the expert hand of Allende and enchanting colors and fun-filled story, as the dialogues are real, the hearts and minds of characters (friends, relatives, acquaintances or just extras) that fill the pages, but each time it performs the usual magic act of trust in the narrator: it suspends the proceedings on the plausibility and belief. After all, it is much better that way.
Germana Brizzolari
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