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"Love, šaltibarščiai and red tomatoes. Biography of a love", by Fabrizio Ulivieri. A book that will keep you engaged in Love.



On June, 2018 in Italy comes out "Love, šaltibarščiai and red tomatoes. Biography of a love", by Fabrizio Ulivieri. (Cover photo by Živilė Abrutytė). Prospero Editore, Milano.

It is the biography of Austėja, a Lithuanian girl of the post-liberation generation, which was bred in 1991 after the soviet attack to Vilnius Radio and Television tower and the killing of 14 civilians.
Austėja, daughter of that generation, loves Italy and and is naturally averse to Lithuania. But at the end of the book she will find out her love for Lithuania which is genetically inscribed in her mind and therefore impossible to be erased.
It is a beautiful description of the feelings that are established in this relationship of love between Austėja and her Italian companion who comes to live in Vilnius, driven by his strong "amore" for Austėja, a love born in Florence where they met.
A text that illustrates well the continuous contrast regarding the way of perceiving between two complex systems (Austėja and his companion) that digs deeply into the reality that underlies the falling in love, which happens according to certain historical patterns on the surface (history — we are what our history is)  and according to the quantum symmetry beneath that surface: a quantity of energy that is established as a constant form that remains and that allows the recognition of love, regardless of time and space and the individual (complex system), every time the individual becomes enamoured.
A book capable to develop a dizzying pace and keep the reader engaged by the author capacity for speculation and analysis. A narrative that is able to penetrate the fragmentation of feelings and reassemble it in its totality in a truly vertiginous way.

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