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    The Break
    Ebook174 pages2 hours

    The Break

    By Pietro Grossi

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    Dino is a placid, unambitious man. Living in a small provincial town, his only passion is billiards and he spends his evenings honing his technique. One day, however, Dino's quiet life is interrupted when his wife falls pregnant. This is the first in a series of events that shake him from his slumber and force Dino to test himself for the first time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPushkin Press
    Release dateJun 30, 2011
    ISBN9781906548698
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    • 4/5
      Sparse and gentle, a short tale of Italian Billiards, inertia, poverty and the prisons we make ourselves. Dino follows in his fathers footsteps as a stone layer, a repetitive task that makes him ask "How many stones do you think it takes to make a person? " he obsessively plays Italian Billiards and talks dreamily with his wife about packing up and leaving to seek adventure. Of course things are about to change, social unrest and redundancy being only 2.It could be seen to be too sparse for some, and sometimes a bit formulaic (that ending!) but I found it a quiet and at heart charming book, the fragility and ennui of every day life, our self centred blindness. Characters are carefully constructed brush strokes, just enough there to paint the tale and somehow this fits and is in no way frustrating. They mimic the large dramatic events in Dino's life, rendered background against the small intense moments of life. It's the size that ensures none of this gets tiresome 220 pages of an understated, packed life story.“I can’t do it. I can’t spend every day in that black shit. It was different before. Before, everything seemed the way it ought to be. Before, I didn’t ask myself any questions" Recommended to lovers of understated novellas and fans of Italian tales.