Of Morgan Palmas
The word for "bread balls" by Paola Mastrocola: ocean.
Pages 237, Bloomsbury Publishing.
Emilia is a forty year old ready for summer vacation starts well, his new baby sitter does not speak Portuguese and Italian languages \u200b\u200bbrought along a sewing machine. Directorate Sardinia. A girl of six months, an eleven year old son and a husband engineer in some remote place in India to open a new branch, but that call every day.
Is not life just as he dreamed, or rather, it is not bad, but it lacks something, but enough to review an incredible sight before my eyes accadutole years earlier, above the sea level at a certain point, while demand pulses, "I wonder what lies beneath."
First day at sea, so the approach, while his son Olli fishing, like every year. If you do not draw, read or draw. Only.
Lucinda, the babysitter, is dedicated to the sewing machine run-ru, ru-run, seems to have no clear concept for which she should deal with what was asked, coming from Portugal.
Friends usual Victoria are almost all present, the friend who is wise in words as to the question of the animal, "So when you come to see the goat?".
Marina is in good company with Olli. The world of goats is not known in the collective, let alone in the thinking of Emily, get used to physical contact with a goat requires curiosity and humble gestures that can improve day after day and find their natural size. An animal in the life of a family is "another" with many "others" a factor to consider because it requires human attention, that perhaps working for eleven months of the year is often forgotten. A full day on the rocks, that's the goal of Emilia. Uncluttered as it happens in life. And the fear increases.
The existence of other processes, its seems to stop, although the complaints inner space, a space that seems busy objects and responsibilities. No, the goat could no longer hold. Lucinda intervenes with a stunning proposal: "We are offering all of you to go to live with her. He says there were, you have a very big house that takes half closed. " Do not know if it will really need to think about it calmly, it is a complex choice. The end can only be a beautiful circle that closes, it all comes back now.
I read "The hen flying" of Mastrocola, and convinced me more than "balls of bread," a novel that slips in easily, without shine. It is a book ocean, to take to sea, in fact. A docile company with few pretensions.