The 3 best books by Susanna Tamaro

There is some innovative genre in the Italian Tamara. It is as if the allegorical found in this author a new coexisting space between the realism closest to our feet and a spirituality made fantasy, wishes, memories, hopes. In that balance between the lyrical and the action, any novel by this author reaches that dimension only at her entire disposal, like a new world.

With a sometimes fabulous point, with its inspiration perhaps from the Italo Calvino creator of short stories, Susanna's already considerable bibliography leads us with that pause in literature that comes better with rest to discover nuances.

The question is to start with the necessary curiosity and end up taking that point of a different author who whispers her stories moved between soft summer winds, like melancholic currents or relaxing melodies, always around love, life, death and the soul, yes it is that it can become, made limpid literature.

Top 3 recommended novels by Susanna Tamaro

Where the heart takes you

There is no bitterness more marked than that of loss. Even more so when one guesses at the end of the palate, immediately before the drink, that aftertaste at will, in an effort to lose what we should love, perhaps in tune with our common and inescapable defeat of death.

That is why in the last hours lucidity can arrive, the noble intention of mending the broken towards the lost. Only in those last moments of ours we do not usually have enough strength for almost anything. Perhaps only to write and leave testimony of the errors.What we did not know how to say will hurt us eternally and only the courage of an open heart can free us from this anguish. Our encounters in life are a fleeting moment that we must take advantage of with the truth of the word and the subtlety of our feelings.

Seeing the end of her life imminent, Olga decides to write a long letter to her granddaughter to record what neither of them has known or heard or said. When the granddaughter returns, she will only find the relationship of thoughts, feelings, delicacy and hope, loneliness and bitterness that life has been weaving. Through the letter, it will be known what the family's history was, the fights with the dead daughter, the disagreements and the wounds that never healed.

With this intimate and epistolary work, Susanna Tamaro conquered thirteen million readers around the world. With great sensitivity reveals the richness of feelings that remain hidden. Dialogue that teaches us to better understand the nature of our relationships, Where the heart leads you is an exquisite narrative work: sweet remembrance of a voice that is carried away by the timid dictates of the heart.

Where the heart takes you

The tigress and the acrobat

I have always liked fables. We all begin to know them in childhood and rediscover them in adulthood. That possible double reading turns out to be just lovely.

From The Little Prince but also Rebelion on the farm going through bestsellers like Life of Pi. The seemingly simple stories in their fable-like fantasy end up being fascinating allegories that delve into the diversity of aspects of our world. In the simple title: The Tigress and the Acrobat you can already guess the impossible reality of the fable, which, however, is a great literary tool so that the reader, in some mysterious way, can empathize with the characters through their eyes. as a child.

As adult children we can see beyond what is narrated. Assuming the fable as a nod from the author, we consider great vital losses as the source of sadness from which to drink to embark on solitary paths. The fable frees us from prejudices, from the ideas forged until our adult being and we begin to live what we read from scratch. We internalize the tigress and discover parts of ourselves on that path undertaken.

Fables often share a common characteristic. And it is that they are not very extensive works. There is so much synthesis of wonderful ideas announced at the launch of The Tigress and the Acrobat that the filler would surely have been squeaky, so this great little book comes highly recommended for everyone. Since we are always taking new paths, it never hurts to stop for a while to read to rediscover ourselves contemplating the path that we have already traveled.

The Tigress and the Acrobat

Your gaze lights up the world

The age of darkness began with the first human being on earth and will end with our extinction. We move in a dark place, fallen from paradise. And the shadows of what we could be is what we have left. Hence, literature is a small flash of reconciliation. Especially in the case of the literature of a Tamaro that borders on the spiritual in each new story.

Two restless souls, two seemingly imperfect beings: the friendship between Susanna Tamaro and the young poet Pierluigi Cappello was built on a common passion for nature and poetry and became their refuge. «The years of our friendship were for me years of great freedom. The freedom to be who we are, ”Tamaro writes, thus pointing to one of the great evils of our time: the inability to accept someone who is different.

Your gaze lights up the world is a wise and moving book in which the memories of this unforgettable relationship, truncated by illness, intertwine with those of childhood and youth to compose a hymn to life and personal acceptance. A luminous text about the soul, the overcoming of death and the deep meaning of our existence.Tamaro shines once again for her talent when facing universal themes with a combination of humanity, tenderness and love that make her a unique author whose works "They have gone around the world entering that common language that is the language of the heart", ABC

Your gaze lights up the world

Other recommended books by Susanna Tamaro…

a great love story

Edith and Andrea, a young transgressor and a serious and disciplined ship captain, meet by chance on a ferry between Venice and Greece, a minimal coincidence of the many that make up life. But in his case, this fact changes the course of both forever: they do not fall in love immediately, nor can they forget each other.

What follows are years of clandestine nights, a revealing separation and unexpected happiness on the island from which Andrea now faces the promise she made to Edith. Simple and powerful, A Great Love Story raises fundamental questions about the bonds that humans forge, our ability to change, and the destiny that unites and separates. Of unusual strength and beauty, it is, above all, a story about the heart, which remains silent when we forget how to listen to it.

a great love story
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