Come aboard the Sea Paradise the place all the things is risked. The brand new novel by Eleonora Lombardo

At seventy you’ll be able to see the second of claiming goodbye on the horizon however there’s usually nonetheless an excellent want to become involved. And to danger, even to the intense penalties if obligatory, simply to stay a dream kindly provided by the State. And so Elvira and Amanda, the previous far more average than her buddy, discover themselves one fantastic day on a type of Love Boat – boomers will keep in mind her effectively – along with 1000’s of different friends to expertise an Arabian Nights cruise realizing that it is also the final.

The Sea Paradise is a unbelievable ship and positively doesn’t betray its identify: you’ll be able to eat like God, the crew – they name them “Impeccable” – is on the full disposal of the passengers, you’ll be able to have intercourse and take medication to your coronary heart’s content material, you’ll be able to breathe within the environment so intense as to overlook any type of modesty. Not dangerous, on condition that you do not pay a cent and you should purchase all the things on board with out having to succeed in into your pockets. However you need to respect the foundations of a really strict protocol and the shock is at all times across the nook. As a result of every so often, to present a couple of examples, one of many friends disappears or falls from a bridge, leaving their lives. That’s the worth to pay and Elvira and Amanda, like everybody else, understand it effectively.

Sea Paradise, which has been out there in Sellerio bookstores for a couple of weeks, is a poetic and cynical story on the similar time. It was written by Eleonora Lombardo, a Sicilian journalist who obtained a Grasp’s diploma in principle and strategy of narration on the Holden Faculty in Baricco. After Sentimental Disobedience, this new novel marks a check of maturity and amazes with the originality and energy of the dialogues between the protagonists and the universe that revolves round in a narrative filled with creativeness, amazement and twists. The creator is ready to entice the reader by telling the distinctive and overwhelming expertise that the passengers bear: right here each want, each vice or advantage can discover satisfaction. The whole lot dazzles, seduces, however ultimately the punch within the abdomen arrives: it’s nearly a pure choice, an atrocious manner of eliminating aged people who find themselves “not productive” as a politician with few scruples carelessly mentioned a while in the past. After all, there’s at all times the potential of not accepting this “Russian roulette” in the midst of the ocean. However those that say no will not have any help from the State: no medical care, no hospital admissions, no residence possession which will likely be pleasantly expropriated to be handed over to a younger couple, far more helpful to society.

Elvira and Amanda have at all times been buddies, though they could not be extra completely different from one another: Elvira was married for a very long time to a person who left too quickly, she labored as a coach, now she is numb from the passing of time however he has no worries. And she or he in all probability would by no means have wished to go on a cruise like this if it weren’t for the truth that Amanda, who did not actually have a very profitable previous as an actress, virtually dragged her alongside. It might be the farewell journey, which is why the 2 buddies completely wish to be collectively till the tip. They attempt to have enjoyable, not to consider it, to numb themselves with luxurious and privileges. They know effectively, nevertheless, that darkness may cover behind that golden dream: as a result of on the Sea Paradise, ultimately, on this or the following journey (as much as ten might be accomplished in a row), darkness will arrive. But they’re two free ladies, infinitely younger regardless of their age, prepared to alter and rework to at all times be completely different, new, alive. A problem, that of Elvira and Amanda, which is value studying till the final web page.