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ranked the best something the decade 2000-2009 (the so-called zero years) is an exercise that delights many newspapers in this period.
The editors of Booksblog after lengthy consultations, decided not to offer a ranking list but a , with no shades of substance, of the 20 most important Italian books of the last ten years. If the usual warnings: nothing comprehensive or scientifically weighted. We have led the heart and memory, that we Italians are notoriously short. So yes, there's Tom absolutely deserved to be there and in its place is rather Caio, considered by many as little more than a pennivendolo. Each operation of this type is exposed to such criticism, so please bring your the review in the beloved space comments. If you'd like to also vote for a favorite among favorites, no one will prevent.
That said, after the "continue" begins the rollercoaster ride of 20 books Italian that, in our view, marked the "year zero" and seriously threatened to score even the years that, on the day after tomorrow, it will rain him. As they say in these cases: good order and good start!
Baudolino, Umberto Eco (2000)
fantasy masterpiece by Umberto Eco, the only years 2000: Read as always, hilarious and adventurous, but also very deep analysis of issues of historiography. Never before in Baudolino is understood that the winner writes the history, and often totally independent from reality.
Archaeology of the present, Sebastiano Vassalli (2001)
Worth for a way to tell the "dreams" and the "revolutions" that have driven the '68 and a little 'wrecked and a little' made, yet the aftermath on today.
Illuminata Patrizia Carrano (2001)
tells the story of the first woman to graduate, the Venetian Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia. It does so by injecting a great intensity. Emotions that the author manages to communicate, in this novel cultured and refined, are indeed very deep. Elena Lucrezia's life, his love for the culture, the communion of minds and souls with the Arab scholar whose fall in love madly, his stubborn way on the road of knowledge, which will allow it - in the 600, in a 'Italy where women were only allowed marriage or the veil - to reach the coveted doctorate in philosophy from Carrano describes in a masterly way. Splendid book.
Empire Toni Negri and Michael Hardt (2002)
"The most talked-about work of social theory in years," according Time Magazine . Empire launched its controversial author in the firmament of the major international political thinkers, making even the pole star of socialism in 2000, according to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The fame of the Italian book has perhaps weighed very turbulent past of the former workers' power strategies.
Imprimatur , Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti (2002)
The most cursed of the damned books. Monaldi and Sorti show, cards in hand, that Pope Innocent XI - in 2002 a stone's throw from the beatified - favored for their own economic interests the rise of Protestant William of Orange the throne of England. The book, published by Mondadori, disappears from bookstores a few months after release. According to the publisher because it has concluded its life cycle and does not merit further reprints. According to the authors, because the victim of an actual boycott censorship. Imprimatur abroad and its sequels are super bestsellers and soon to be Hollywood blockbuster. But to read the novel in Italian and Monaldi Sorti even need to use an edition printed in our language Dutch publisher De Bij Bezige a case unique in our publishing scene. There is also an excellent book on this incredible story, The case Imprimatur Simone Berni, published by Biblohaus.
Montedidio, Erri de Luca (2002)
Poetry comes from the stark realism. Only Erri de Luca succeeds, and makes an unforgettable story of a boy of 'low' of Naples and his first crush on the girl next door, which had to do 'favors' to the owner of a lack of money. Very nice.
Crime Novel, Giancarlo De Cataldo (2002)
A powerful write, people who read them seem real to the bone, the portrait of a world criminal but very human and anti-rhetorical. The sequel ('The the right hands') risparmiarselo better.
Seizure of Macallè , Andrea Camilleri (2003)
deserves mention for the perspective from which to look at the darkest period of history of Italy, Michilino the eyes of a child entirely subject to the dominant thought , unable, like all children, to grasp the nuances. And the ability to describe the characters, human and desperate, as well as the crackling and unmistakable language.
State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben (2003)
of Professor Agamben's reflection on the concept Schmitt's "state of exception" school has done all over the planet. From Hitler to Guantanamo, the missing link between politics and law has been examined for the first time in decades, with renewed strength from the theoretical one of the greatest thinkers of the Italian year zero.
Life Melania Mazzucco (2003)
comes to the fore a new Italian writer, one of the few worthy of the name, and among the most talented of our landscape. Strega Prize.
The Lark Farm, Antonia Arslan (2004)
written family saga with the breath of the epic, the story of an Armenian family and his destiny, which the writer seems to reveal many small details of life long before it is fulfilled. Sooner or later they will also read at school.
We will all Valerio Evangelisti (2004)
extraordinary historical novel about America union of McCarthyism. It is not enough documentation extraordinary and masterful narrative of the Evangelists: its own niche in history this novel to the conquest of its star, Eddie Flores, probably the most memorable villain in Italian literature of the past decade.
Cases Advocate Warriors, Gianrico Carofiglio (2004-2007)
not remove the focus from character Warriors of Justice and its battles nell'ordinarietà lived, can not distract from the complicated mental paths of his moral crisis.
As God commands, Niccolo Ammaniti (2006) The violent skinheads
protagonist, his friends and his criminals and disturbed child in a poor suburb are alienating the Italian company - and its new value - with great more strength and clarity of many journalistic or sociological. Strega Prize.
Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano (2006)
Opera of paramount importance both for society and for the literature Italian. A look on the contemporary literary ruthless and full, like you have never read the days of Pasolini, Sciascia. Loved and hated the crowd, and certainly a landmark book.
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio , Ahmar Lakhous (2006)
Best Sellers Ahmar Lakhous adoption of the Roman Empire, depicts the world changed (not only in the capital), in which the dialogue between people from different cultural codes is an ongoing challenge. Yellow choral and love story, a faithful portrait of a neighborhood of Rome, which Rome will resemble more and more.
Caste , Gian Antonio Stella and Sergio Rizzo (2007)
The vocation of Stella & Co. to make the accounts in your pocket to the powerful has given the passion for books 'counter' news about the evils of the country (see the success of Vatican Spa , the Caste of newspapers, and the recent armed Caro). And a better educated population can participate with more awareness in the democratic life of the state.
Economics rogue Loretta Napoleoni (2008)
Lettissimo in Italy and abroad, the wise economist Napoleoni revealed, on the brink of global crisis, the perverse dynamics that have caused the disaster. An essential book for understand the genesis and current world of zero years.
Inferno, Gianfranco Martian (2008)
Amarissimo and exhilarating fresco of Italy in the 2000s. At the same time imaginative and essential, is a novel of uncommon cruelty, that left its mark on Italian literature of recent years.
The future ruling class, Peppe Fiore (2009)
Among the novels in the formation of human insecurity and work is certainly the most representative and successful. Unanimously acclaimed by the critics, who called it "La vita agra" in 2000, has not been as successful audience it deserved.
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