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LEMONS ARE NOT THE OAKS Cosimo Calamini

Cosimo Calamini.

The oaks are not lemons.
pag294
Cover Price € 17.60
publisher Garzanti Milano
Year 2010

Montechiasso is a village perched on a hill in the heart of Tuscany, in the days of clear sky, up there, you can embrace the whole at a glance region. There lives the family Malquori: Attilio, disillusioned communist and former singer of the rock group The Timid, his wife Anita, an identity crisis in his fifties, and her daughter Sara, troubled girl, in his first year of college. Montechiasso But there is also a deep-rooted Islamic community they belong to the imam and his son Khaled Ibn Rushd, secretly linked to Sarah. A day of autumn comes a bombshell: the country will build a large mosque, an alien spacecraft built among the vineyards and the bell. ....

FROM THE NOVEL: Attilio
the end he had not cared that much, to read the news in the paper. A mosque in Montechiasso! Too ridiculous to be true.
"It's going to do some 'stage before the elections."
"Donati always invents one." Col Cresti had made two big laughs, all of those belly, which are good for health.
"Can you imagine the muezzin who wakes us up in the morning: a race with cock Casini."
"For me, the cock of the casino wins," he weighed in CREST, while shearing the hair of Attilio. And down with laughter.

Birthday Cake For Runner Woman

HAIKU.TANKA Japanese literature, NAGA-UTA

Haiku is a short poem of only three verses spread in Japan since the sixteenth century onwards. Its structure is very simple: it is composed of seventeen syllables, divided 5-7-5 in the chain, therefore, requires a great synthesis of thought and 'image. The ability of 'Haijin (The poet) is therefore to express emotions in a few verses.


Under the lash of rain in April
cherry moans.

The haiku is derived from Tanka, a poem of 31 syllables, which dates back to the fourth century. The Tanka is composed of 5 lines with a precise amount of syllables per line: 5-7-5-7-7. Eliminating the last two lines formed the Haiku.

gushes and gushes,
suit, green fountain, ivy long-standing


blackened by the cracks of a wall breached.

Finally, the NAGA-Huta, consisting of seven verses, 5-7-5-7-5-7 -. You
The composition is then to music, giving orgine to songs played on various instruments and, above all, the shamisen, which became one of the most representative of traditional Japanese music. The legend of the olive
long, that he would become wood for the cross of Jesus, could be summed up in a Naga-uta, provided, that would be impossible to translate it into Japanese culture, music ..

He knew that the olive tree and through the man tried to escape

is plucked, he bowed, his torso split open


is tortured until he was unable to cross.