The Road Cormac McCarthy
Einaudi Editore
Pages 218
Genre Novel post-apocalyptic
PLOT
Father and son traveling through a world in ruins. They bring with them a shopping cart in which to take little food, a plastic sheet for shelter and a gun to defend themselves from predators that inhabit the streets willing to do anything for some food.
CONSIDERATIONS
The man and the child. Father and son. In a world reduced to ashes, looted, destroyed, dead. And where there is bad people, willing to do anything to survive, just everything. The man and the child along a road, alone, they are good because they bring the fire. The fire is love, the one against the other. A book that puts down on paper every parent's nightmare: what if you can not do it to survive? what happens to my child if I die before him? Who will take care of him? how he would manage alone in this world so cruel that no one can defend it?
A book hard punch in the stomach page after page, a book that will remain after you have read in forever. A novel that it is hard to read the power of words, but wonderful. A sad poem for readers disenchanted.
QUOTE
"He dug his feet for small holes in the sand by the shoulders and hips, where it would lie down, and sat down beside her and embraced him ruffling his hair in front of the fire to dry. All this as a ancient ritual. Amen. Summons forms. When nothing else left to do is tacking on anything and ceremonial soffiaci above. "
"The black void of the universe and overwhelming. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like young fox in the den. A time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which cry."
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