finally post my review of a novel I've read through a chain of reading and that I had promised to review.
Title: the center of the painting Author: Virginia Parisi
Year: 2009
Publisher: Editions Domino
Collection: Cards Veline
Genre: Rosa
Pages: 137
Price: € 12.00
Fourth Cover: Elisabeth Lombardi is a real woman, independent. He has worked years to win the post of editor of British magazine Theme now represents a balance in his life. It is correct, capable. It is not a liar.
yet be found to lie, to hide his identity and to undermine everything he has fought so hard, just to make a thorny and complicated interview and earn a promotion. And that's how the trouble starts. Woe
misunderstandings that become known when the old painter Bartolomeo Sarca, which seems to see her as you did not expect to have. Woe
becoming encountering natural disasters in the tone of his inquisitor irritating and arrogant and charming nephew, Lawrence Bristol.
And then the land of Cornwall, with its rugged and isolated landscape, the cliffs overlooking the sea in the storm forever, who gives and takes away with the same cruel and reckless determination, produces its magic. The old legends of
Thatcher house, the ghost stories that tell the power of undying love that survives even after thousands of years waiting, do the rest.
And unexpectedly, the same perception of itself has changed radically through the mystique of a sacred stone circle, his teaching of balance and omniscience that encompasses the sense of time, infinity, energy of the earth, the memory of people disappeared and never forgotten. From the sophisticated
, Business-oriented London to the wild tip of Cornwall, Izzie faces a journey that starts as a challenge, and turns into a bet.
on itself. On its future. On his life.
*** For some time now I've finished reading this novel, which, frankly, I can not put in a default kind: it is sometimes pink, sometimes fantastic, sometimes yellow, things that make this book quite unique .
This lack of a general set previously, it makes me appreciate even more the novel.
beginning, as mentioned in a previous post, the reading was difficult, not so much the style of the author, as for inforigurciti who unwittingly are not completely immerse the reader in the setting. We must not, therefore, stop the first chapters, but continue. Unfortunately this is not a point in favor of the novel (for this on aNobii I gave it only four stars), because a person can be trivial or discounted the first few chapters, where there is pathos and you'll quickly you into a different world, and therefore prefer not to continue reading.
Going forward we see a rich history of events and full of insights, people more or less important backdrop to a beautiful Cornwall, full of legends and superstitions.
I'd like to say that, as regards the love story, is not obvious, but unfortunately from the very beginning you can imagine how the protagonists end up hopelessly together. You can, however, note how the author waited until the end to make something happen for "substantial" between them, as if shifting the emphasis of this particular story, leaving more than one field to another story, much more painful and hidden , which is revealed slowly in reading.
The main story, it turns out, is that its protagonist, the painter Bartolomeo Sarca, Italian artist who moved to Britain after the Second World War, when he married a young widow, his model for some portraits. After a decade of success, he retired to private life, while continuing to paint, keeping alive his passion. But fame has never completely abandoned, in fact, his paintings continue to gain popularity among art collectors.
The author is very good because it makes sense that there is something more, a plausible justification of why a famous artist has decided to abandon it, almost overnight, a world of admirers.
Elisabeth, Lawrence, Noel and everyone else are the backdrop for this story that in some ways is afloat only because the first journalist Theme, wants to write the scoop of the century, after some study and research, wants to find the old Bartholomew Sarca and find out why it is retired to private life.
I must say that Elizabeth Lombardi, I was not nice from the start, perhaps I found it a bit 'shallow, calculating, insolent, and then identify with her was not an easy task, indeed. Perhaps this was the first limit that has affected, at first, reading the book. At
discover everything about her, so one wonders why go forward when we have all the information we need, however, when you go you find that somehow this can also be seen as a Bildungsroman. Certainly much rosewater, as we are approaching a sudden change of direction of his character, almost disorienting the reader, in my opinion, the author could have spent more time on this other theme of the novel, showing something else in most of the change in character, perhaps deepening psychology.
Lawrence Bristol is the male protagonist of the story, the grandson of Sarca. Despite the initial picture, which makes it the author, we discover sides of his character by reading and learning more about the character. Behind the facade of the beautiful boy, tall, powerful, hides a tragic history parallels that of his grandfather. Despite the harshness shown to Elisabeth from the first moment in which he encountered on the way to Pandora Palace, you realize it's a sensitive boy, very attached to their bonds and the family that has grown up and hardly allows someone to violate the peace and serenity of places dear to him.
Even the secondary characters are well defined and interesting, we see that the author has studied a lot of the characters, trying to make them look as real as possible. And I must say that it has succeeded big time.
As I mentioned at the beginning, I gave up aNobii only four stars, the fifth was "eaten" by some verbal mistakes and lack of a bit 'of pathos in other parts of the novel, it is practically only at the end. Perhaps this is one of the biggest limitations of the book, because it gives the impression the reader to look at everything from outside, rather than actively participate in it, make him feel sensations and emotions rather a book of this kind should be transmitted.
summary: the book I really liked, making me think again in a genre where everything is now seen and heard, I liked it also for the different parallel stories and the fantastic tales that floated on the Cornwall. Unfortunately, some things I have made up their noses, but all is not lost, I'm sure the author can improve a lot and, especially, has a great imagination, so I renew my congratulations for this book and wait anxiously Eighth parchment, another volume of the author that was put in a chain (which, of course, I enrolled as soon as I finish this).
This lack of a general set previously, it makes me appreciate even more the novel.
beginning, as mentioned in a previous post, the reading was difficult, not so much the style of the author, as for inforigurciti who unwittingly are not completely immerse the reader in the setting. We must not, therefore, stop the first chapters, but continue. Unfortunately this is not a point in favor of the novel (for this on aNobii I gave it only four stars), because a person can be trivial or discounted the first few chapters, where there is pathos and you'll quickly you into a different world, and therefore prefer not to continue reading.
Going forward we see a rich history of events and full of insights, people more or less important backdrop to a beautiful Cornwall, full of legends and superstitions.
I'd like to say that, as regards the love story, is not obvious, but unfortunately from the very beginning you can imagine how the protagonists end up hopelessly together. You can, however, note how the author waited until the end to make something happen for "substantial" between them, as if shifting the emphasis of this particular story, leaving more than one field to another story, much more painful and hidden , which is revealed slowly in reading.
The main story, it turns out, is that its protagonist, the painter Bartolomeo Sarca, Italian artist who moved to Britain after the Second World War, when he married a young widow, his model for some portraits. After a decade of success, he retired to private life, while continuing to paint, keeping alive his passion. But fame has never completely abandoned, in fact, his paintings continue to gain popularity among art collectors.
The author is very good because it makes sense that there is something more, a plausible justification of why a famous artist has decided to abandon it, almost overnight, a world of admirers.
Elisabeth, Lawrence, Noel and everyone else are the backdrop for this story that in some ways is afloat only because the first journalist Theme, wants to write the scoop of the century, after some study and research, wants to find the old Bartholomew Sarca and find out why it is retired to private life.
I must say that Elizabeth Lombardi, I was not nice from the start, perhaps I found it a bit 'shallow, calculating, insolent, and then identify with her was not an easy task, indeed. Perhaps this was the first limit that has affected, at first, reading the book. At
discover everything about her, so one wonders why go forward when we have all the information we need, however, when you go you find that somehow this can also be seen as a Bildungsroman. Certainly much rosewater, as we are approaching a sudden change of direction of his character, almost disorienting the reader, in my opinion, the author could have spent more time on this other theme of the novel, showing something else in most of the change in character, perhaps deepening psychology.
Lawrence Bristol is the male protagonist of the story, the grandson of Sarca. Despite the initial picture, which makes it the author, we discover sides of his character by reading and learning more about the character. Behind the facade of the beautiful boy, tall, powerful, hides a tragic history parallels that of his grandfather. Despite the harshness shown to Elisabeth from the first moment in which he encountered on the way to Pandora Palace, you realize it's a sensitive boy, very attached to their bonds and the family that has grown up and hardly allows someone to violate the peace and serenity of places dear to him.
Even the secondary characters are well defined and interesting, we see that the author has studied a lot of the characters, trying to make them look as real as possible. And I must say that it has succeeded big time.
As I mentioned at the beginning, I gave up aNobii only four stars, the fifth was "eaten" by some verbal mistakes and lack of a bit 'of pathos in other parts of the novel, it is practically only at the end. Perhaps this is one of the biggest limitations of the book, because it gives the impression the reader to look at everything from outside, rather than actively participate in it, make him feel sensations and emotions rather a book of this kind should be transmitted.
summary: the book I really liked, making me think again in a genre where everything is now seen and heard, I liked it also for the different parallel stories and the fantastic tales that floated on the Cornwall. Unfortunately, some things I have made up their noses, but all is not lost, I'm sure the author can improve a lot and, especially, has a great imagination, so I renew my congratulations for this book and wait anxiously Eighth parchment, another volume of the author that was put in a chain (which, of course, I enrolled as soon as I finish this).
Eruanna.
