Like the best summer flirts, too The short books They know how to be overwhelming and give great emotions in a short time. In both cases the benefits are the same: a limited commitment over time, little stress and an excellent company during the holidays.
There are no thousands of pages to build exciting stories and outline memorable characters: there are many short novels that, in less than 200 pages, guarantee excellent stressless reading. They are the perfect summer readingsto devour on a weekend or during a long train journey: the small size in fact allow you to bring the short books always with you, to the bag or backpack, without adding weight. Or, you can always focus on the Kindle version, to have a small library even on the road. With the right accessories, then, the reading is even more relaxing.
For those who love cynical humor
From the beginning of the unsettling this book leaves no doubt: either you love, or hate. Impossible not to fall in love with Esther Dahan, the young and pragmatic protagonist. A girl who defines herself as “right”, a lover of order and rules, born in a chaotic sixty -eight family. Esther has a sharp and ironic way of seeing the world that shines thanks to the author’s sparkling and caustic writing. But behind each laugh there is the spectrum of the drama: it is one of those books impossible to put down.
Number of pages: 196
For a train journey
Sometimes, it happens to take the wrong train. It also happens to the protagonist of this short novel, only to find out that it was probably the only possible direction. A journey to the south of France becomes the pretext for another journey, the one in search of its history. And, possibly, of a happy ending. Perfect for filling long expectations at the station.
Number of pages: 160.
For a weekend in the countryside
At the center of this short novel there is a lonely estate, surrounded by the woods, in the heart of old England. It seems one of those places where nothing can happen, and instead a crime upsets the routine of the protagonists. Peter Cameron’s skill is to be able to go beyond yellow and illuminate the most secret corners of the existences: solitude, the oscillating of the choices, unexpected loves and those who try strongly to forget.
Number of pages: 212.
For a trip by plane
In the heart of South America, Antonio José BolÃvar lives, a character with many lives and profound connoisseur of the forest. To the world he only asks to be left alone in his hut a Reading love novelsbut instead the ungrateful task of hunting a tigrillos, feline in search of revenge is found by the hands. More than a novel about the struggle between man and nature, this small masterpiece of Sepùlveda is an accusation to the blind, silly and senseless ferocity with which the man plunders the environment. In short: a touching and sincere Ecologist manifestobefore time.
Number of pages: 160 pages.
For a ship trip
Born as a reportage of a Cruise in the Caribbean, this essay then became a sagacious portrait, a very fun and at times cynical in the world of luxury cruises and the human types that attend them. Exactly how it is in the style of David Forster Wallace.
Number of pages: 150.
For yellow enthusiasts
Is it one of the most famous titles of Agatha Christie, and right and right: what does the corpse of an elegant stranger does in the Library of Colonel Balltry? Obviously it is Miss Marple, the eccentric and perspective literary creature of the Christie, to find the piece that had even escaped Scotland Yard …
Number of pages: 192.
For a day of dessert, do nothing
A book to rediscover the small things – which in the end small are not – and find the joy in the most unexpected places, even those August days in which it seems to be the only ones left in the city. A delicate (and fun) catalog of more or less common happiness e Guilty pleasure to change perspective. And enjoy every moment.
Number of pages: 136.
To read everything in one night
In the lobby of a hotel, one of those places of passage that seem so far from daily life, people meet and reveal themselves, opening the heart to strangers. This short book of Baricco tells three of it, all that happened at night, before the dawn reveals feelings and truths.
Number of pages: 80.
For nostalgic
Fans of Commissioner Montalbano perhaps do not know the very first novel by Andrea Camilleri: this is the case to rediscover it, immersing themselves in those Sicilian atmospheres and in those sinuous curves of the destiny very well described by Camilleri.
Number of pages: 160.
For lovers of science fiction
Those looking for a stimulating reading will find bread for their teeth with Flatlandiasatirical pamphlet (and traits dystopic) that imagines a two -dimensional world in which the inhabitants are divided by rigid geometric hierarchies. Born as a criticism of the Victorian society and its conventions, it still remains tremendously current as it speaks of diversity and female condition. A striking metaphor even for those who, at school, did not shine in mathematics.
Number of pages: 157.
For an escape from the city
Whether it’s a real or only imagined escape, nothing is better than the company of a book. This novel by Erri De Luca has all the ingredients to keep the reader glued to the pages: an unexpected meeting, long conversations at night, the desire for freedom and many signs scattered here and there, to which to decide or not to believe it.
Number of pages: 112.
Source: Vanity Fair
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