Fabio Mantegazza Book order (chronological)

An internationally bestselling comic novel in which a man--with the help of a bunny--suddenly realizes what's important in life "Escapism at its best . . . Just pure fun." --NPR.org "Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it?" With these words from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his finger on the exhilaratingly anarchic appeal of The Year of the Hare, a novel in the bestselling tradition of Watership Down, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Life of Pi. While out on assignment, a journalist hits a hare with his car. This small incident becomes life-changing: he decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his possessions, and spend a year wandering the wilds of Finland--with the bunny as his boon companion. What ensues is a series of comic misadventures, as everywhere they go--whether chased up a tree by dogs, or to a formal state dinner, or in pursuit of a bear across the Finnish border with Russia--they leave mayhem (and laughter!) in their wake.

Ambientato nella Sicilia del 1893, sconvolta dalle agitazioni popolari dei Fasci mentre a Roma la classe dirigente post-risorgimentale era invischiata in scandali bancari e denunce di corruzione, I vecchi e i giovani è un grande affresco storico dove si esprime l'amore di Pirandello per la sua terra e la sua gente e insieme l'amarezza per il Risorgimento tradito. Non sono stati all'altezza i vecchi, i protagonisti del Risorgimento, degli ideali di progresso civile per cui hanno combattuto, e non lo sono i giovani, contaminati dall'affarismo o persi in fantasie di giustizia sentimentali e inattuabili.