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Books if you don't know your place in the world
Entering your 20s is, for many, entering adulthood. They begin as turbulent years in which you don't know where to go or what to do. You are basically lost. It's good to have a book nearby that reminds you that this is all normal.
Books to take refuge in. They talk about love, loss but, above all, they talk about human relationships. That which is infinite and lasting, for people are all we have. And what will we have? Ever.
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Normal people (normal people)
It is undeniable that sally rooney (Ireland, 1991) is the voice of a generation. Although it is true that his three novels, conversations between friends, Normal people It is where are you, beautiful world treat everyone vicissitudes of living in the 21st century at age 20It is the second that best captures her essence as a writer. It is, in a way, his masterpiece.
Normal people follow Connell It is Marianne from his time at the institute until the end of the University. Throughout this period, they continually date and break up. But every time they meet again, they are not the same. They learned from each other and grew from each other. Is conversation novel. They contain the small details that make each character a diffuse figure between fiction and reality. Rooney manages to capture on his pages obsessions and fights between two people who try, at every moment, to to understand each other. In the end, it all comes down to this.
Its 2020 television series adaptation catapulted the story of Connell and Marianne to fame, with two superb Paulo Mescal It is Daisy Edgar-Jones in the main roles, who already aimed to be two big names in the industry (the first already has his first Oscar nomination).
tokyo blues (Norwegian wood)
As painful as it is comforting, tokyo blues (Norwegian wood in the original), follows the young Japanese Toru in his freshman year of college, after the death of his best friend. Throughout the novel, Toru finds himself at a tipping point between the past and the future, not knowing where he came from, but also not knowing where he is going. Murakami represents this through two women who will be fundamental in the protagonist’s life: naoko, emotional and ex-partner of his best friend; It is Midoriyour extroverted classmate.
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The book delves mainly into the lossbut its other main engine is the sexuality. Both themes intertwine throughout the story, like two great titans fighting for control of the protagonist's life. reflections about death, sex and loneliness run through every page of the book, and are a pleasure to read for the inveterate reader.
Haruki Murakami (Japan, 1949) published Norwegian wood in 1987 and, to this day, it continues to be a reference for those readers who feel lost in early adulthood. With his own writing, Murakami is always one of the bets to opt for the prize Nobel Prize for Literaturebut it seems the prize is slipping from his hands.
the midnight library
One of the most difficult and, at the same time, most inspiring books in recent years. Nora's Seed is not happy, and makes the decision to take your own life. When you do so, it appears in the Midnight Libraryand with it the chance to live your other lives. The books in the Library will let Nora know what would have happened if I had made other decisions. Nora discovers other lives, in which she could have been an Olympic swimmer, a world-famous star, or a successful glaciologist.
Matt Haig (UK, 1975) writes an inspiring book, that invites you to live no longer stands still Defend the impossible, which only happens by living. As Nora's story unfolds, so does the reader's. It makes you question the decisions you made to get where you are, to make you realize the ones you still have to make. So take them well.
little women
It's a timeless classic. A classic among classics. Louisa May Alcott (United States, 1832) wrote the history of march sistersfour young women to reach adulthood and thus become little women.
a book of rebellious women, protagonists, and which are not a mere decorative element. They feel and, despite their disagreements, it is their sense of unity, loyalty and sincerity what prevails. Nowadays, they remain intrinsic and necessary values in any person who begins their adult phase, in a world that is increasingly individualistic It is technological. The sisters are lost, but they have each other.
The story of the March sisters was made into a film many timesthe last being in 2019, in a vindication version directed by Greta Gerwig and starring the talented Saoirse Ronan It is Florence Pugh, who opted for an Oscar for it. They also work in it Emma Watson, Laura Dern or Meryl Streep.
everything I know about love
One of the most popular books among young people last year. You may like it more or less, being for many a great revelation, but for many others an overrated book; but you can't diminish what the journalist Dolly Alderton (United Kingdom, 1988) makes everything I know about love.
The work is a set of storiesstories and even recipes that Alderton has collected over the years. anecdotes from his life that made him who he is, and that he shares for the world to know. We then follow the evolution that the author herself had as a person, during her adolescence and youth. It's easy to like him, but also go crazy. In the end, is humanand that's what it's all about.
Of all, Tottenham Court Road and buy shit on Amazon It is the most sincere story of those collected in the anthology. In it, Alderton recalls the trip he took to New York at one of the lowest moments of her life, and it made her realize what she is. AND own story, magnificently written and with the characteristic elements of moving people in just 20 pages. The author can embrace the mundanity of lifeit's him privilege of living it. In the end it all comes down to Tottenham Court Road and buying shit on Amazon.