ANNOUNCEMENTS NEWS SERVICE ALPHABETA VERLAG EDITIONS Login Deutsch CATALOG travenbooks Fiction 180 Critical Archive of Mental Health Territory - Gesellschaft en Reflections on the border Materials en Educational materials for teaching and communicative learning of languages contact Languages and cultures in contact docu Intercultural projects and research Language teaching Innovative approaches to language teaching South Tyrol ... and more AUTHORS TO B. C. D. IS F. G. H. THE J K. L M. NO. OR P. R. S. T. U V. W Z NEWSLETTER Email : SEND CANCEL CARD Gianfranco Mattera The flowers of Paris I would like us to meet in a glance, with a smile, under the sea of soft clouds that furrow the sky, where there is no voice, an echo, a noise, only the scent of camellias. We are in the first half of the seventies of the last century. Georges Pompidou is president of the republic and Raymond Poulidor tries for the umpteenth time to win the Tour. On the third floor of a building at 15 Rue Saint-Vincent, on the Montmartre hill in the eighteenth arrondissement of Paris, lives Marguerite, a child tormented above all by the question: why grown-ups insist on always doing everything the opposite of what they would happy children? and Babette, a mysterious and solitary elderly lady who plays the piano every evening from six to eight. They are, constantly alternating, the narrative voices of this touching story of trauma and silence, of rebellion and intolerance, of dull everyday life and distressing fears. It is the story of two women, Babette and Marguerite's mother, who, thirty years after the war, carry within themselves, unexpressed and inexpressible, the horrors of those years that have marked their lives in a fatal way. And it is against their silence that Marguerite's will to live is broken for a long time. Only music can break it. But it is the stubborn stubbornness of the little rebel that brings secrets and fears to light and gives birth to new stories. Perhaps more serene, because "it takes so little, really so little, to be happy . " author / s Gianfranco Mattera Italian 2016 pp 168 ISBN: 978-88-7223-264-4 EUR 12.00 Buy WE ALSO RECOMMEND alpha beta verlag editions Piazza della Rena 2 I-39012 Merano (BZ) tel .: +39 0473 210650 fax: +39 0473 211595 books@alphabeta.it by EELImedia ecommerce solutions