5 Summer 2021 Reading Recommendations from Artribune
Artribune's Marcello Giannangeli recommends five novels for summer 2021. Eshkol Nevo's 'Tre Piani' (Neri Pozza, 2017) inspired Nanni Moretti's film of the same name, which premiered at Cannes with 11 minutes of applause and releases September 23. Benjamín Labatut's 'Quando abbiamo smesso di capire il mondo' (Adelphi, 2021) blends fact and fiction to explore modern science's history, focusing on the duality of light and shadow. David Diop's 'Fratelli d'anima' (Neri Pozza, 2019), winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, recounts the story of Senegalese riflemen in WWI. Bernardine Evaristo's 'Ragazza, donna, altro' (SUR, 2020) portrays twelve Black British women, using a polyphonic, punctuation-free style. Mario Desiati's 'Spatriati' (Einaudi, 2021) follows two restless characters from Martina Franca through Puglia, Milan, and Berlin, exploring identity and displacement.
Key facts
- Eshkol Nevo's 'Tre Piani' inspired Nanni Moretti's film 'Tre Piani', presented at Cannes with 11 minutes of applause, releasing September 23.
- Benjamín Labatut's 'Quando abbiamo smesso di capire il mondo' (Adelphi, 2021) is a cult book blending reality and fiction on modern science.
- David Diop's 'Fratelli d'anima' (Neri Pozza, 2019) won the 2021 Booker Prize and the Strega Europeo Prize.
- Bernardine Evaristo's 'Ragazza, donna, altro' (SUR, 2020) won the Booker Prize ex-aequo with Margaret Atwood's 'The Testaments'.
- Mario Desiati's 'Spatriati' (Einaudi, 2021) is about two characters from Martina Franca, exploring identity and displacement.
- The article was published by Artribune on July 2021.
- The books cover themes of family, science, war, Black British identity, and contemporary alienation.
- All five books are available in Italian translations.
Entities
Artists
- Eshkol Nevo
- Nanni Moretti
- Benjamín Labatut
- David Diop
- Bernardine Evaristo
- Mario Desiati
- Riccardo Scamarcio
- Margherita Buy
- Alba Rohrwacher
- Adriano Giannini
- Vincent van Gogh
- Margaret Atwood
- Marcello Giannangeli
Institutions
- Neri Pozza
- Adelphi
- SUR
- Einaudi
- Artribune
- Booker Prize
- Premio Strega Europeo
- Cannes Film Festival
Locations
- Italy
- Vicenza
- Milan
- Rome
- Turin
- Tel Aviv
- Israel
- Chile
- Senegal
- France
- Germany
- Berlin
- Puglia
- Martina Franca
- West Africa
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Auschwitz
- Treblinka
- Sobibor