Before sunrise and just after E-Book

Rosalia Messina

• Herausgeber: Teomedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Scenes of everyday life, in which the unexpected is always lying in wait, announced by a letter, a chance meeting, or an apparently insignificant detail that awakes distant memories or reveals unimaginable secrets. With irony and affection, the author describes the difficult decisions of characters who are all too human, for whom winning or losing, staying or fleeing, keeping control or losing it, is the matter of a moment. The authorRosalia Messina is from Sicily, where she was born in 1955, in Palermo. She lives and works in Catania.Before sunrise and just after, her first work, is a collection of eighteen short stories, published in Italy by Perrone editore and as an ebook by Youcanprint. Her other publications include Più avanti di qualche passo (Città del sole edizioni).

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Rosalia Messina

BEFORE SUNRISE AND JUST AFTER

Rosalia Messina

BEFORE SUNRISE AND JUST AFTER

ISBN: 978-88-9769-217-1

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Writing short stories about ordinary people doesn’t

eliminate – maybe it even increases – the possibility

that real people can recognize themselves in the

imaginary characters. As Manuel Vazquez Montalban

has said, the intent of the reader is responsible for any

similarities. In simpler words, the characters and

situations in these short, ordinary stories about

everyday people belong exclusively to the world of fantasy.

At sunrise, the blood flows slowest;

at sunrise, the silence is more comprehensible.

The spirit separates from the idle flesh,

The bird breaks free from his cage.

The eye sees – the distance becomes shorter.

The heart sees – the bond becomes less visible.

The ear drinks – the gossip becomes less audible.

Div cries over the defeated Igor.

(Marina Cvetaeva)