Oggi scrivo in italiano – la mia lingua madre – perché è in italiano che ho letto “Americanah” il romanzo di Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah è un romanzo del 2013 dell’autrice nigeriana Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, per il quale Adichie ha vinto nel 2013 il National Book Critics Circle Award degli Stati Uniti per la narrativa. …
Category: Books
My favourite books in 2021
5 inspiring readings to travel from home in 2022. Is “reading more” one of your new year’s resolutions? If you are looking for inspiration, then you are in the right place. Here you will find my 5 favourite books in 2021. 2021 was a complicated year for me. I moved to a new country in the…
Book of the month: La melancolía de los feos (May 2021)
La melancolía de los feos, by Mario Mendoza “La melancolía de los feos” (the Melancholy of the ugly) was the book I picked during my second month in Bogota, as my second Colombian reading. Written in 20216 by the Bogotan author Mario Mendoza, its story is moving, exciting, inspiring. Here is why. The protagonist of…
Learning French with non-traditional methods
How I did it, and how you can do it too When I moved to Brussels, Belgium in 2018 I didn’t know any French. It took me two months to become fluent in French with non-traditional methods. That’s the story for how I did it, and of how you can do it as well. In…