2021 book reviews – Adriatic
Tuesday 30 November 2021
Two books look at a tiny corner of the north Adriatic from two very different perspectives.
Pignolo
Cultivating the invisible
Ben Little
Self-published
ISBN 9791220071765
€35, or €45–€55 (depending on location, shipping costs included)
I think I’ve written, and rewritten, this review at least five times. Nothing I say can do this book justice. It’s a book like no other book I have reviewed. It’s poetry. It’s a fairground. It’s Alice in Wonderland meets Robert Frost on the road less travelled. It’s Muriel Barbery lost in an amphora, Einstein with anthocyanin-stained hands, a self-help hack, a work of art...
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