It has always been said that between Spaniards and Italians there is an undeniable harmony rocked by the waters of the Mediterranean and hoisted over the land by the Mistral, Tramontana or Levante de este Mare Nostrun winds. So when authors like Federico Moccia write of love, their stories are equally well received by readers of this other shore that bathes the east of the Iberian Peninsula.
Romantic novels, yes, but under the light of the Mediterranean sun, love stories under the influence of those winds that are both warm and untimely, capable of rocking our boat and making us lose the entire voyage of our destinations.
Reading Moccia is like watching the movie before it opens (because everything this writer touches goes to the big screen in a few dates). The scenes of his novels and even the movements of the characters are as seen from a camera before the eyes of the reader.
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Sorry if I call you "love
Impossible love in its age side ramps up halfway between the desire for lost youth and the longing for maturity not yet fully reached. Niki is a mature and responsible young woman in her final year of high school. Alessandro is a 37-year-old successful publicist who has just been dumped by his lifelong girlfriend.
Despite the 20-year difference between the two and the generational gap that separates them, Niki and Alessandro will fall madly in love and live a passionate love story against all social conventions and prejudices. This was his third novel, of which he sold more than a million copies in Italy.
A plot that has become a true point of reference for several generations of new readers, who are reflected in the authenticity of what is told, the possibility of impossible love and the absence of borders, conventions or limits if what is spoken is of true love.
That instant of happiness
A tormented protagonist or in some kind of emotional bind is always a good resource to get a story off the ground that allows second or third chances. The seeming loser (as we have all been at some time in love) can redo himself from his ashes and end up winning the game towards happiness.
Nicco is going through a difficult time: his girlfriend has left him and since his father passed away he has to take care of the family, which seems to have lost the north: his mother does not raise her head, his younger sister changes boyfriend every night, and her elder, mother of a three-year-old boy, has fallen in love again with an old love. To make matters worse, he has two jobs: at the family newsstand in the mornings and as a real estate agent in the afternoons. Also, his best friend can't decide between two girls who are after him.
They soon meet two young Spanish women in Rome and realize that life is too short to waste thinking about the past, so they decide to have fun with the two foreigners. When Nicco realizes that his feelings are stronger than a simple physical attraction, his girl disappears without a trace. What should you do?
Babi and me
This book recently became an online reading experiment. A multimedia proposal by the author so that, from the social and literary network Flook, any reader could join in reading it. «Love is an account that does not add up, it is a magical illusion, light but strong and solid like the oldest of the churches that, however, is ready to be broken with the slightest breath of disappointment, as well as the most fine and delicate of crystals. But I am sure of the two of us, I feel our strength. »
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A thousand nights without you
Itinerant love. From city to city looking for that lost soul that offers the fleeting heat capable of becoming light forever...
After a break in Russia, the time has come for Sofia to put her love life in order. She can no longer continue fleeing from her past, from the loneliness of her marriage, nor from her passionate and broken history with Tancredi, and she decides to return to Rome.
On a trip to Sicily to visit his parents, he will discover a family secret that will affect him deeply. Meanwhile, Tancredi follows in all his footsteps; He is a man in love who has never given up the first time. But Sofía doesn't trust him... Will they end up meeting again?
