MILAN – There are books and books. It is not a question of a distinction depending on the quality or otherwise of a book, but to underline how there are some titles which, in terms of topics and contents covered, are those that a person should read at least once in their life. We asked you which book you would recommend reading at least once in your life and the most recommended title was ” Nothing New on the Western Front ” by Erich M. Remarque accompanied by this comment “I wondered, little girl, after reading it how was it possible that still other wars had broken out … “. Let’s find out all the books that everyone should read at least once in their life according to readers.
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. 1) “Nothing new on the western front” by Erich M. Remarque
During the First World War: Paul Borner, Italian by birth, is incited by his professor Kantorek to join the army. The professor had his own ideas of patriotism and self-sacrifice for Greater Germany, and I find it right to teach the new generations these principles. On the basis of these principles he managed to “fill his head with air bubbles”, as Paul says, leading the boys still eighteen to the recruitment desk. This was the story of Paul and his companions entering the world of war. Paul, Muller, Kat, Kropp, and all their schoolmates quickly realized the nonsense they had done, but it was too late to turn back now.
. 2) ” One Hundred Years of Solitude ” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Grandeur and decadence of the city of Macondo and the Buendia family, in an exciting succession of fabulous and grotesque events between history and legend. A novel that brings a new breath into world literature, opening Europe to South American fiction.
. 3) “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince is one of the greatest literary masterpieces of all time. It has sold over 145 million copies and has been translated into 270 languages. It is the story of the meeting in the middle of the desert between an aviator and a funny little man dressed as a prince who arrived on Earth from space. But there is more than just friendship in this surreal, philosophical and magical book. There is the wisdom of those who look at things with pure eyes, the voice of feelings that speaks the universal language, and a sincere and natural desire for authenticity.
. 4) “The unbearable lightness of being” by Milan Kundera
The novel, which takes place in Prague in the years around 1968, describes the life of Czechoslovakian artists and intellectuals in the period between the Prague Spring and the subsequent invasion by the Soviet Union. The story focuses on the group known as the Kundera Quartet, consisting of Tomas, his partner Tereza, his lover Sabina and another lover of Sabina, Franz. These four characters are followed through their lives to the end.
. 5) “If this is a man” by Primo Levi
Primo Levi, a veteran of Auschwitz, published “If this is a man” in 1947. Shocking testimony on the hell of the camps, a book of the dignity and abjection of man in the face of mass extermination, “If this is a man” and a literary masterpiece of a measure, of an already classical composure. It is a fundamental analysis of the composition and history of the Lager, or rather of the humiliation, of the offense, of the degradation of man, even before his suppression in the extermination.
. 6) “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse
This short novel about the Indian environment, published for the first time in 1922, has in fact had a tremendous success in recent years. First in America, then in every part of the world, young people rediscovered it as their own text, where they found not only a great modern writer but a subtle and delicate essay, capable of giving, through this fictional parable, a teaching on life that evidently his readers did not meet anywhere else.
. 7) “The Orange Girl” by Jostein Gaarder
Georg Roed is fifteen and leads a quiet life, like most of his peers. But one day he finds a letter that his he father had written to him before he died and which he had then hidden, so that his son could find it when he grew up. In this letter the father, Jan Olav, tells the story of the “orange girl”, a young woman with a bag of oranges met one day by chance on an Oslo tram and immediately lost…
. 8) “I Malavoglia” by Giovanini Verga
We are in Sicily in the 19th century. At the center of the narrative is the shipwreck of “Provvidenza”, the oldest fishing boat in the village, loaded with lupins taken on credit. Thus an extraordinarily complex plot unfolds which never abandons the painful unfolding of the drama; a series of setbacks, blow for blow against the Malavoglias, every time that by dint of resignation and courage they manage to get up from the previous blow.
. 9) “The darkness beyond the hedge” by Harper Lee
n a citizen of the “deep” South of the United States the honest lawyer Atticus Finch is in charge of the official defense of a “black” accused of rape; he will be able to prove his innocence, but the man will still be sentenced to death. The story, which is only the central episode of the novel, is told by little Scout. In her light and quick, ironic and pitiful narration, she relives the world of childhood that is a bit of all of us, with its myths, its emotions, its discoveries.
. 10) “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini
Mariam is fifteen. Her mind dreams of poets and wonderful gardens, the ones that her father, a wealthy businessman, tells her about when he visits her, giving her a taste of a life she will never have. Because she is a harami, a bastard, and to survive she will have to learn only one thing: endurance. Lei laila was born in Kabul the night the Russians invaded the city. Her father wanted her to go to school, because, he repeated, a society cannot progress if her women are ignorant.
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