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Noi Due Come Un Romanzo (2009)

by Paola Calvetti(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8804584394 (ISBN13: 9788804584391)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Mondadori

review 1: Una storia d'amore "maturo" molto dolce e tenera. Bellissima la storia della "rinascita" di Emma, cinquantenne proprietaria di una libreria fuori dal comune a Milano. Quanto l'ho invidiata per aver realizzato quello che anche il MIO sogno! Meriterebbe anche mezza stellina in pi per gli spunti di letture d'amore che offre... (da ritrovare anche nel sito internet dedicato al libro) Una nota stonata, ma magari solo per me: l'ostinazione anti-tecnologica di Emma, il rifiuto di tenersi al passo con i tempi con la sua battaglia contro cellulari, computer, internet...
review 2: When is the last time you wrote a letter. I mean a real snail mail letter? These days with email, instant messaging, and social networking why would someone pick up a pen and paper? It is a d... moreying art. Paola Calvetti takes us this very scenario in her fifth novel, P.O. Box love. Set in Milan Italy the protagonist, Emma, opens an old fashion bookstore. The inventory is kept in a ledger along with the financial books. The store, Dreams & Desires, doesn’t even have a website. Emma has filled the shelves with contemporary and classic romantic fiction. She does not send emails, doesn’t own a personal computer, and rarely carries a cell phone. My goodness could any of us survive in this manner? One day while dusting the shelves she has organized by types of love stories, she finds a handwritten note stuck between pages of a novel. Her high school sweetheart Federico, who is quite successful and living in New York City, is the writer. She has not seen him in thirty years. When he asks her to to communicate with him through ‘real’ letters that will be sent to his P.O.box.“I put the key in the lock and, before turning it, stared as the matte brass box with the same eagerness I would have felt stumbling upon a large seashell hidden in the sand. In it—so they told me when I was a child (and I believed it!)—was the pearl that would make me a rich man. I opened the box. The pale blue Smythson of Bond Street envelope was right in front of my nose. I tucked it safely away in my jacket, climbed on the Vespa, and felt like Gregory Peck, while you, my invisible Audrey, tightened your arms around your prince’s waist. I drove to Manhattan as excited as an idiotic kid; the manhole covers looked like medallions set in the cement and the patrician residences along Madison Avenue seemed like abbesses ready for evening vespers. The envelope stayed in my pocket until the afternoon. I always put things off when I have to face something important. What if you told me to leave you alone, so long and good-bye, ti’s been nice remembering the good times, and so on?” Emma believes her life is about turn into an international fairy tale between Italy and America. But Federico is married, and even though he presents himself very well on paper, will the relationship go anywhere? Should it? P.O. Box is a tribute to old fashion romantic relationships. It takes life down a notch and gives the reader breathing room. If you love a good love story, Italy, and the thought of real letter writing, not to mention books, this novel is a must for your shelves. less

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