I Say Goodbye E-Book

Luigi Savagnone

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

The book tells the story of Anna and Lucia, two girls of Italian origin who after a happy childhood in Borneo, for an outburst decide to leave to settle in Italy. Arrived in Sicily encounter many difficulties in entering into a very closed society. They manage to find a job and even with a certain help a life partner. Have the opportunity to visit some of the beauties of Sicily,as the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento and Siracusa, but also in Rome with the splendid Vatican city and other monuments and places, Florence with its famous cathedral and its museums, Pisa with its leaning tower and Venice with its gondolas, the Piazza San Marco, the Doge's Palace and its famous small islands. Everything seemed to go well. Then something happens…  In the novel, which can be defined, easy to read and has a happy ending, however, are treated different topics of scientific, philosophical, architectural and cultural heritage.

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Luigi Savagnone

I Say Goodbye

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Luigi Savagnone

EPUB ISBN 9788890740640

Luigi Savagnone

About the Author

Luigi Savagnone is a freelance writer. He wrote novels about love and fantasy, suitable for audiences of all ages. In these novels compelling and easy to read, however, are inserted cultural and scientific content.


Other titles by Luigi Savagnone

Alone in the Desert, Condemned to Solitude, 2 Girls in Sicily, The Man Mermaid, Naive Girls, The Joys of Desert, Fantasies of a Single Man, I Wish Better! Bye, Imagining a Tomorrow, I Run Away, We Knew That …, The Ingenuity of Two Girls, I Say Goodbye, A Fox in the Desert, A World of Happiness

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Chapter1 The youth of two girls


 Standing on a deserted pier in a marina near my house, throw a few pebbles into the water, with my eye that wanders through the cloudy sky of late summer and the flat sea beneath me, and my fantasy imagine the ripples that formed in the water at every my throw of stone, are in fact moving clouds in the air by sending subliminal messages. I am, as usual, disappointed and embittered about my day and I wonder about what tomorrow will bring, and on which might happen or come true thing that can change my life, and finding no clear answer from the waves or clouds that are, and having no other source of inspiration that can be taken, unfortunately, I interrupt my stone throwing and I take from my backpack a novel that I bought two days ago and that I read in one breath. It is a novel that tells the story of two girls, two girls like many others, but it makes me think  how many errors we committed in our youth, through ignorance or just bad luck. Errors that can often ruin the whole life, and at best, to waste precious years of our own existence. But life is this: when you are older, if one side we have accumulated a wealth of education and experience such as to discern what is right and what is wrong, what to do and what not to do in the life of every day, and especially we accumulates a lot, but a lot of patience, on the other side it is lost, or nearly so, the enthusiasm to try new sensations, new emotions and new adventures, and, most serious and sad, is lost forever the energy and strength that only a young body has …

Anna and Lucia were born in Borneo 50 years ago and have always been good friends. From small they played with their dolls and the wild pets that were found in outskirts of the small farms of their parents. Anna was daughter of Paolo and Giulia while Lucia had only the father Antonio as the mother died putting her to the world. The small farms of the two children were contiguous to the margins of a beautiful and luxuriant tropical forest. The morning was aroused with the melodious song of birds, and after making a rich breakfast, they came back to play free and happy. Antonio had constructed an elementary seesaw with which the two children passed their time joyfully. Moreover they had received in gift from parents two little domestic monkeys with which they amused a lot. They had learned to scramble up on the trees in their continuous search of emulation of their friends monkeys. 

The village of Burugo was distant approximately 3 miles and was a small port of fishermen, but provided with all the necessary for the calm livability of its inhabitants. The population was ruled by a wise and just man named Buana and polygamy was rooted in the traditions and customs of the natives. In this regard, Buana was nicknamed Sor Chai, literally mad, because he preferred as wives and lovers, the women of the village fattest and oldest. Many of the houses were wooden huts built on stilts planted on the shores of the Strait of Makassar, strait between Borneo and Indonesia which washes these shores. 

The church was a small construction in wood encircled from a sober garden. Every Sunday the inhabitants assisted to the religious ceremony celebrated from a Christian missionary of middle age. Father Paul, this the name of the clergyman, had a fancy for the two children, taught them the Christian teachings, he fondled them as a second parent and some times he was also help from them during the course of the religious function as small "altar girls".

Paolo worked as carpenter and passed practically all the day to work for the community; Julia instead, remained to the small farm to supply to needs of the house and to cook lavish lunches for her beloveds. Antonio was a fisherman, than by day he thought to the small farm and to food, while in the afternoon he went to fish with his small boat until late night. The parents of the two children were both Italians of birth and had done a brave life choice when moving in Borneo, the poor and farthest land from the Italic coasts. I say brave, as they were left with little money, with the wives pregnant, and more knowing that they would be forced to invent a new job immediately in order to survive and in order to ensure a happy childhood to the two unborn. Just arrived in the town of Sandakan in fact had spent days of genuine anguish. They had found an extreme poverty, enormous difficulties in communicating with people, warm and very humid, and concern, increasing hour by hour and day after day, for their survival and for that of the unborn. And just when they were bitterly repented of the courageous choice to take bags and move to Borneo, here they had the chance to meet Father Paul. The priest was forty, in turn, landed in Sandakan and was about to set up a chariot drawn by two mules with his luggage, including the minimum necessary to ensure that a simple hut would turn into the church. He had been instructed by his congregation to settle in the small village of Burugo, about 250km to the east coast. And so Paul, Julia, Anthony, Anna and Lucia took their suitcases in the hovel where they had stayed in those distressing days, joined the priest. They had found hope, found a spiritual guide and a friend. The journey was long and tiring, lasted two days and two nights, and the road, the weather, had not a little impeded their path. During the day, it was a sweltering hot and humid, and at night a dense and continuous rain, as indeed is the normal climate in those parts. 

Burugo finally arrived, both Paolo and Antonio built their house in a short time, because they received the generous help of the locals, who rushed festive and hospitable to the arrival of Father Paul. The priest handing out smiles, shook hands, gave candy. The natives saw in him as a carrier of wisdom as a source of good advice to draw on all the time. But for them he was a modernizer, as coming from the civilized and advanced Western world, where, according to them, everything had been discovered, and where people lived rich and happy. Father Paul in the village, as well as having led the church, had also taken steps to set up a school to teach indigenous children all the basics that are normally teach in Italian schools. For anything suspicious, and indeed with great enthusiasm, the parents sent their children: Father Paul was helped by an Australian nun named Rose, who was also sent to assist the priest in Burugo. After the alphabet, numbers, verbs and how much children learn in elementary school. With each passing year, the students became more and more numerous, and consequently increased the classrooms as well, of course always outdoor, as the mild climate of the place. After two years, came a high school teacher named Sir Arthur, that thus allowed the villagers to be able to give a complete education to their children. The year was 1975 and Anna and Lucia had just turned 7 years old. Like all the other children went to church on Sunday, and had also begun to attend school. The two girls obviously had a basic education superior to their peers. They had educated parents, who were able to inculcate them some basic education, as well as a sound education. The childhood years then passed through the games, the school and the beautiful nature surrounding Burugo. 

At the age of 16 years, they began to study physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, philosophy, and also the art, all materials very well taught by Sir Arthur. The two friends got excited so much to these studies, which soon in their spare time, instead of playing with dolls, they found themselves to quibble among the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Masaccio, to discuss about Kant and Marx, to talk about Einstein and of relativity, talking of DNA, virus or perhaps the periodic table of the elements   of Mendeleev. The periodic table is a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements, organized on the basis of their atomic number (number of protons in the nucleus), electron configurations, and recurring chemical properties.

One evening, meeting at the home of Antonio for dinner, they discussed the reasons that led to the decision to leave Italy forever. They talked about it for the first time in the presence of Anna Lucia and only then, as it was estimated that the two girls now sixteen years old, had every right and duty to know why seemingly crazy that drove their parents to that decision so dangerous . Antonio, addressing the two girls said: "In Italy the 60s were years of profound changes. There was an economic boom with its building expansion and spread of deferred payment, the bill, which allowed a huge sale of goods, houses, cars and appliances. The structures of the public school and university designed by Gentile their cracks due to the weight of an overflowing humanity in search of education and culture against authoritarianism and dogmatism. It was the time when Mary Quant invented the mini-skirt and young people discovered the sexual freedom and became hippies, loved rock music, and especially the transgression. In Italy increased interest in the international situation, while it had something to do with all the contradictions of a country in economic and social growth that clashed against the institutions, ideologies, and especially with the mentality remained the provincial and backward, fascist and pre-fascist period. Meanwhile, the world of young people looked around in search of myths and models from which to draw inspiration, declining progressively the whole vision of the world of the fathers and adults in general, and triggering a generational conflict liberating and beneficial, which led to a surge of truth on relationships and ties encrusted with hypocrisy and empty rhetoric. There was a harsh ideological battle that led to a new labor agreement and a new Workers' Statute which saw the students take the field at the side of the proletariat. We managed to have the referendum on divorce and abortion. The student revolution has strongly supported the rugged path of women's emancipation, earning some merit also in the many constructive and fruitful controversy with the feminist movement and has spread a feeling of revulsion against imperialism, racism and fascism. But unfortunately, especially during student demonstrations in the square, there was a harsh crackdown by security forces which in turn led to real terrorist attacks. Me, my wife Clara, Paolo and Giulia meanwhile worked in a food factory in Vercelli and we were passionate about the music of the Beatles, sharing the dreams and ideals of young hippies because we are peaceful people and we could not get involved nor those with extreme disputes, nor with the ruthless repression that followed. During yet another occupation of the factory where we worked, made ​​by the protesters, there was a crackdown by the police; several people were injured on both sides, even our colleagues who had nothing to do with those protest movements. It was for this reason that we, though the pregnant women, we decided to get away from the ruckus and leave in a wild place at the other end of the world. " - " We have been always active and capable people and we never lacked confidence in ourselves, and in fact in a very short time we have managed to build a new life here, unfortunately without Clara ... " - Said Julia. "What kind of woman was my mother? " - Asked Lucia - " Your mother was a very sweet and loving woman and her death has left a huge void in my heart, my dear daughter, "- said Antonio moving away to go get something to drink, and not to speak of lost his beloved wife in childbirth. From that night on that topic not talked about it more, and not even more talked about Anna and Lucia together.

William, their contemporary and classmate, pockmarked due to an acute form of acne vulgaris, often helped them to understand the abstruse mathematical formulas, the deep philosophical concepts, combinations of chemical elements, as well as the harsh laws of physics. He with the other boys was very grumpy and often irritating, so that even Sir Arthur, while acknowledging his intelligence and preparation, stand him hard. But with Anna and Lucy, he turned, his eyes shining, his cheeks reddening and his heart began to beat faster every time, the two girls spoke to him. They, perhaps because they affect how the rest of their companions judged William, approached him to ask him something only rarely, when just could not understand something explained by Sir Arthur, or when in need of assistance in carrying out a task in classroom. But as soon as came the time of the end of the lessons, they all did, except get closer to William.