Suite Italiana

A book about books, travel and landscape, halfway between the newspaper and the literary essay, bathed in the wonderful light of the Italian Mediterranean. In this new traveling story, the writer Javier Reverte has followed a path that leads us to the cities of Venice and Trieste and which ends with a tour of the island of Sicily. And not only does it bring us closer to the history of the places it visits, but it does so with the help of four writers who lived in these settings and who wrote about them: Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Rainer Maria Rilke and Giuseppe de Lampedusa, four great authors who portrayed crudely, or with torn humor, or bitterness, or reverie, or nostalgia, a tragic and luminous time of human vicissitudes. Travel chronicle and literary essay at the same time, Italian Suite is a singular book, of a dazzling rarity, in which the echoes of great battles resonate with poems of deep lyricism, where smells of melancholy are smelled and loud laughter is heard , where the deepest of man's concerns beats: the meaning of life and death.