" ... we are the sick part of society, a compelling reason to hear the good part, the vast majority, as the privileged. Do not you think? .
This statement is a bit 'the keystone of the novel by Salvatore Scalisi, a very sensitive story about an invisible world, or at least that we, in fact privileged part of society, would did not exist, but whose presence, sometimes annoying, often indifferent, we can to free from all our minimum "poverty" human, comparing them in a "winner" with those who are relegated, often by choice, occasionally by accident, the extreme margins of humanity.
is the world of the homeless, the homeless. Of those people that we meet in the waiting rooms of railway stations or in line behind the door of the soup kitchens, and sleeping on blankets or cardboard boxes that ask you a few pennies in the street to buy a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of wine .
Who among us, meeting, did not prove discomfort or at least uncomfortable?
Who did not draw a balance sheet from that meeting, hoping that their lives never become like them?
is, therefore, that the words addressed to Stephen, the protagonist of the story, by his "colleague", proves truer than ever.
Stephen leads a normal life: he has a job, a family. It does not seem very different from any average Italian.
Nurture, without success, passion for writing, but perhaps because it fails to reach the scope of consent, or perhaps tired of a routine that becomes increasingly heavy, decided to take a well-defined period of detachment from everyday life.
The family agrees to the heavy hard decision, but it hinders, perhaps hoping that the rest of reflection remains as short as possible.
Not so. It will be years before Stephen, mature slowly the idea of \u200b\u200breturning from his.
In the meantime, learn about the world of misfits and tighten sincere friendship with Charles, his true mentor in This descent to the bottom. The friend also spur him to write, letting him recover, albeit with difficulty, a renewed desire to tell the world that surrounds him.
Companions occasional couple of friends, become the pigeons stationed in the square where Stephen and Charles look at the day unfolds, sitting on the bench. Carlo gives them something to eat and this is the reason for not entirely selfless attendance, while Stefano shows a distrust of birds, however, reciprocated.
As Stephen was about to come to the decision to return by her family, two tragic events that the concern in person, prevent the meeting.
"Man of the pigeons," is certainly a novel that leads us to reflect. The reading flows easily, smoothly and with interest, supported by curiosity to find out if Stephen finally able to return to his life as a "normal".
The finale will leave the reader with a lot of bitterness and perhaps persuade him to look with new eyes those who are invisible, they raise the limits of our affluent society.
Author: SALVATORE SCALISI
ISBN: 978-88-7418-569-6
Page: 152
Price: € 12.00
Published by: PERSPECTIVE PUBLISHING Civitavecchia (Rome)
First edition: 2009
Genre: romance with a social
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