Change Cristina Ali Farah
The stations of the Moon
66thAnd2nd, 202 pages, 16 euros
One of our most awake publishing houses, with an impossible name, gives us a gift of a novel by one of our best authors, a writer and poet born in Verona to an Italian mother and Somali father and who lived for a long time in Mogadishu, until the civil war. allowed. Return here to the environments of the other novels, Little mother e The commander of the river, offering us two female characters among the most alive in our recent literature also for their relationship with history with a capital s, and with roots no less strong than their ambitions.
I am Ebla, who lived through the colony’s past, and Clara, her milk daughter. All around, a world of strong feelings and tensions, of difficult choices but on solid convictions, of contrasts between the intimate and the social different from those of many superficial novels of today, written by those who seem to lack solid foundations and solid convictions, and moves on the most obvious and repetitive paths, between autofiction and mild sociologisms, feeble feelings and yawning repetitions and, recently, adding a little investigation to give some meaning to what he struggles to find. Ebla and Clara are lively and strong characters, their contradictions, hopes and passions interest us because they have their roots in history and not in the narcissistic fog of a populist literature like so much politics.
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