00:00Thrilling books to read in a weekend, but that you'll surely think about for days.
00:04Piere Luce by Romain Rollano.
00:05Set during World War I, a boy and a girl fall in love as the world collapses around them.
00:10Touching world with a poetic and refined writing, contrasts the purity of feelings and the brutality of war,
00:16which makes everything fragile and ephemeral.
00:18The Danger of a Single Story by Cimamanda Adici.
00:20Remember that to understand the world better we need to listen to more voices and more perspectives.
00:24Because if we only know one version of the story, we risk having a distorted vision of reality and reducing everything
00:30to a stereotype.
00:31My all-time favorite book, A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid.
00:34A very lucid essay, but above all very provocative.
00:37It makes us understand how modern tourism is a new form of colonialism and above all that often behind paradisiacal destinations
00:43there are still open wounds left by colonialism.
00:47A Lost Battle by Svetlana Alexievich.
00:49This book tells the story of the war through the voices of several people.
00:52It is a story made of testimonies that shows the atrocities of these historical events and how this is reflected
00:58on everyday lives.
00:59If like me you think that the bookcase is a bit of a mirror of our personality, I recommend How to order a
01:05Roberto Calasso's library.
01:07A very interesting text in which Calasso reflects on the importance of libraries and our relationship with books.
01:12It shows how a library is not just a simple collection of volumes, but the portrait of a life and of the
01:18passions of those who build it.
01:19A text written in 43, but surprisingly current, Lewis's Abolition of Man.
01:23Progress is making us freer or just more controllable.
01:26Lewis reflects on the consequences of a society that renounces shared values and reduces everything to subjective preferences.
01:32It shows us the other side of progress and how this can actually be a way to control other beings.
01:37humans.
01:37And it invites us to question what role ethics and education have in the formation of people.
01:42Strange his Tash Au pier.
01:44Starting from his own family history, the author reflects on identity, memory and belonging.
01:49It's a book about migration, roots and family stories.
01:52and shows how understanding the past is often the best way to better understand ourselves.
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