The review “Milan to read” starts, ten ebooks to download for free
The sixth edition of “Milano to Read”, the reading promotion initiative organized by the Libraries Area of the Municipality of Milan, which offers a selection of digital books that can be downloaded free of charge from the site, starts again today. It will also be possible to download the ebooks around the city, while walking or waiting for the tram: just frame the qrcode present on the posters of the initiative or copy the link from the screens that invite you to download to access the text of the book.
Thanks to ATM SpA, the technical partner of the initiative, the download is also possible on the entire underground and surface transport network. This year the review returns to be tinged with yellow, like its first edition, offering the public of readers ten novels including detective stories, thrillers and noir, but also a gallery of singular characters who move through the streets of Milan, in recognizable places or to be discovered, witnesses of the changes that go through it. The ten titles are available free of charge thanks to the collaboration of the authors and publishers Corbaccio, Frilli, Marsilio, Mondadori, Piemme, Rizzoli, Sellerio, Sonzogno, Tea, Todaro who have made their works available.
“The last edition of ‘Milan to read’, created during the first lockdown and dedicated to ‘The Talents of Women’, was a great success with over 142 thousand downloads made – declared the Councilor for Culture Filippo Del Corno -. It is extraordinary to see how our libraries are always able to offer new opportunities for reading, even in the very particular conditions we are experiencing, and to accompany our community towards that sharing of ideas and thoughts that constitute the primary instrument of social cohesion, especially in times of physical distancing. Milan also – continued Councilor Del Corno – is always at the center of all editions, whether they are dedicated to comics or comedy, to detective stories or to female creativity; and also in this new edition Milan is not only the scenario of the stories, but also the co-star of these Milanese crimes. Once again what emerges is the multi-voiced story of the city, with its lights and shadows, a city of many dimensions and in constant change ”.
After the first release on Monday 19 April, the ebooks will be published on a weekly basis, every Wednesday until 23 June. All titles will be downloadable until June 30th.
It starts on the 19th with Enrico Radeschi, a crime reporter and hacker who runs around Milan on a 1974 yellow Vespa, on his first adventure in the thriller by Paolo Roversi, “The brotherhood of bones” (Marsilio). Radeschi, who sounds like the surname of the famous Austrian marshal, investigates at the beginning of the 2000s, in a contemporary Milan even if in some ways already distant, and unveils the mysteries of a millenary brotherhood whose mission is to restore moral order in a corrupt society.
“Nero a Milano” by Romano De Marco (Piemme) is the third novel in the series that sees in action the couple formed by the private investigator Marco Tanzi and by the commissioner Luca Betti, great friends and former colleagues. It is Milan, leaden, productive and indifferent, but not entirely devoid of a generous and charitable side, that acts as a trait d’union to the criminal stories that intertwine in this compelling noir, in the midst of a variegated and vibrant humanity. (April 28)
Commissioner Gigi Berté is the only one who does not investigate in Milan, at least not anymore, since he made a big deal and was transferred to a corner of Liguria. To relax, he writes yellow and surreal stories, which enter the narrative by interspersing the main story. “The queen of tar” (Piemme) is his first investigation after his arrival in the Ligurian village. It is signed by Emilio Martini, nom de plume of the very Milanese sisters Elena and Michela Martignoni. (May 5)
Carlo Monterossi, successful author of a trash TV program, stumbles upon his first adventure in “This is not a love song” by Alessandro Robecchi (Sellerio). Detective by chance, Monterossi moves into Milan full of modern day contrasts, from places of luxury to those of discomfort, from railing houses to hinterland villas to Roma camps. A thriller wrapped in the ballads of Bob Dylan, in which you also laugh, albeit a bit bitter. (May 12)
“The closed room” by Deborah Brizzi introduces the first female protagonist of the show: Norma Gigli, deputy inspector of the Flying Squad. We see her engaged in the heart of Brera, grappling with a very human intertwining of life stories, disappointed hopes and dark secrets, gathered under the common denominator of revenge. A polyphonic noir in an unusual and little known Milan, of the crime news and beyond. (May 19)
Revenge is also at the center of the story of “Civil death of a manager” by Alessandro Bastasi (Frilli) which tells the rise and the very rapid descent of a brilliant manager. Massimo Gerosa personifies the downward parable into which one can fall when the economic crisis bites and leaves no way out, and Milan that is no longer the drinking one of the 80s. A dramatic and very black spiral, where defeat becomes a breeding ground for hate. (May 26)
Annalisa Consolati, a thoroughbred Milanese, is Police Inspector of the Milan Police Headquarters in “Women who hate flowers” by Paola Sironi (Todaro). He works in the problem solving department, also known as desbrujà rugne, which deals with investigations with organizational problems among the police. The killer is known right away, but there is more than what it seems and the investigation leads Annalisa and her team on difficult paths and burning issues concerning the female universe. (June 2)
Bruno Arcieri has Florence as his usual field of action, but in Leonardo Gori’s “It’s not time to die” (Tea), he accepts the invitation to come to Milan to investigate the disappearance of a man given up for dead. These are the days immediately following the explosion of the bomb in Piazza Fontana and the former colonel of the Carabinieri investigates right in the rubble of the massacre, in a thrilling historical thriller that takes us back to 1969, in a Milan devastated by that atrocious attack. (June 9)
Libera Cairati, the florist-detective of Giambellino, returns to the scene in Rosa Teruzzi’s “Ultimo tango all’Ortica” (Sonzogno). It is a late Milanese summer that in which the fourth investigation of the extravagant couple formed by Libera and the eccentric mother Iole takes place. We are in Ortica, a suburb sung by Jannacci, one of the corners of the city that has partly maintained an atmosphere of other times. A murder, many secrets that sink into old family stories for an exciting thriller where the real murder weapon seems to be the unspoken. (June 16)
He is the commissioner Carlo De Vincenzi, a character born from the pen of Augusto De Angelis, the protagonist of the detective story “The shadow of the champion” by Luca Crovi (Rizzoli). With him we return to the 1920s, to the Milan of ligéra and schighera, of traditional dishes such as cassoeula and busecca, of the Ambrosiana, as Inter had been renamed in Italy. And the champion is the great Giuseppe Meazza, to whom the San Siro stadium is named. What mysteries hover around his life? (June 23)
But it does not end here: if the works presented up to now remain available for free download until June 30, the libraries will offer three other “historical” detective stories in the appendix, published in the series “Gli ebook della Sormani” with the consent of the owners. the rights: the unpublished “Damn machine, damn night. The boys next door ”by Maria Alberta Scuderi, followed by“ Tutti sul filo ”by Nicoletta Bellotti and“ The investigation of Via Rapallo ”by Raffaele Crovi.
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