We are finally in April, spring has blossomed despite the pandemic continuing to keep us locked in the house. Also this month we offer you the upcoming books and the best news in the bookstore to alleviate this not so easy period, still made up of restrictions and red zones, where, fortunately, books are a valid ally against boredom. Alabama – Alessandro Barbero
Barbero returns with a novelty after the great success of “Dante”. This book tells the story of a massacre of blacks, of “blacks”, during the Civil War. To tell it in a fluvial, enthralling, unstoppable way, the only surviving witness, Dick Stanton, soldier of the Southern army, hunted down and prodded at death by a young student who wants to reconstruct the truth. Historical and fictional truth, because Barbero invents an unforgettable voice, comic and unreliable, talkative and irritating, painful and anguished, which drags the reader into those abysses that have once again reopened. Ranking of best-selling books of the week. The news of DinsiemE in the head
Here are the best-selling books this week. Debut at the top of the charts “The legendary journey of Erick and Domenick” The ship buried – John Preston
Among the books coming out in April, the novel by John Preston. England, summer 1939. When Edith Pretty, fascinated by local legends about a Viking treasure buried in her homeland, decides to contact the self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown, she doesn’t know that she is about to start one of the most extraordinary archaeological adventures of the twentieth century. . Soon the excavations will reveal the gigantic skeleton of an ancient funeral ship that belonged to an Anglo-Saxon ruler, which will attract the interest of the most noble academics. United by a passion for archeology and a delicate and deep feeling that binds them to each other, Basil and Edith will fight to protect their discovery. Hello forever – Corinna De Cesare
We can really say goodbye to a person, to a place that we loved or that was part of us
For the funeral of her grandmother, Margherita is forced to return to Collina d’Oro, the place where she grew up in the nineties, with the cultivated lands that give the town “that fairytale and even a little ridiculous name because gold there are only infinite expanses of ears of corn”. Waiting for her is her old house, her childhood friend that she never wanted to meet again, the first love from which she ran away without explanation. the novelty of Corinna De Cesare is one of the most awaited. The game of the night – Camilla Lackberg
Four kids, New Year’s Eve. The party, the thrill, a game where the stakes get higher and higher. Camilla Lackberg plumbs the depths of adolescence and the darkest and most threatening place there is: the family. As fires fall like colored parachutes and bright pinwheels explode into the sky, Max, Liv, Anton and Martina celebrate the end of the year among themselves. Rich, beautiful guys, spoiled for the world wear an impeccable mask, but behind which they hide hatred and pain. Life size – Erri De Luca
Among the books coming out in April we find the new novel by Erri De Luca. The narrative is solidified in the roots of the history handed down: it starts from Isaac, of course, from the lack of legitimate defense against his father – the binding of Isaac, in Hebrew so we refer to what we usually call “the sacrifice”, because that knot tightened between him and Abraham is irreparable. A knot that seems to be able to dissolve only by becoming parents in turn, “a passage that makes you forget and untie you from the state of a child”. Claw – Gu Byeong-mo
Low profile and cool. Artiglio – a name earned in the field – knows the rules of the trade perfectly: first of all, never attract attention. Gray hair, black pants, and a face that is a web of wrinkles, it looks like a lady of an age like many others, an old woman who gets confused in the Seoul subway car on Friday evening. If it weren’t for her dagger that she hides in her purse covered with a thin layer of potassium cyanide… The perfect spring – Enrico Brizzi
Among the books coming out in April, the latest work by Enrico Brizzi. Luca Fanti could not have said what was the exact moment in which things had started to go wrong. After all, he was a lucky man. A charming wife, two wonderful children, a job that many envied him: being the manager of his brother Olli, one of the strongest cyclists in the world. Then something was wrong, sure. Small mistakes, big mistakes. And the castle of his certainties had crumbled. Hozuki – Aki Shimazaki
The courageous and determined Mitsuko has finally realized her dream of opening a bookshop specializing in volumes of art and philosophy. Together with her mother and Taro, her half-caste and deaf-mute son, she leads a very secluded life. She has not yet completely cut ties with a cumbersome past: on Fridays she continues to work in a luxurious restaurant as an entrineuse, pleasantly conversing with her clientele of intellectuals and men of culture. The pursuer – Cesare De Marchi
Karl prepares to enter a new phase in life, happy to finally get away from school and his fellow teachers. He does not seem at all worried about being alone, after two marriages that have ended badly and friends lost over the years, and decides to devote himself passionately to studying: the new and peaceful routine, marked by the pleasure of historical readings, by meals of solitary subsistence and by short walks through the city of Stuttgart. Save the fire – Guillermo Arriaga
Marina belongs to the good Mexican society: she is a choreographer, married and with three children, lives in a nice residential neighborhood, attends classy restaurants and the right people. One day her friend Bernardo involves her in a project that pushes her out of her comfort zone: the idea is to bring the inmates of a maximum security prison closer to art, Bernardo does it with a course in creative writing and Marina will bring in prison one of his most daring choreographies.
