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Love, šaltibarščiai and red tomatoes - text analysis and the nature of love

This book was written between 2016 and 2017, in six months. Published in 2018. One of the advantages (or disadvantages) of talking about a book that has been given to the press almost one year ago is that you forget (at least me) all of what you wrote. In this lapse of time you took a break from the tension that created you to write the book, because of reading the text ad infinitum to find errors, mistakes and things that did not work, which almost led to hate what you wrote; because of proofreading, which collapsed you into the stress you seemed to have forgotten - and which perhaps, in my case at least, causes you more stress than when you wrote it. Finally, this long pause brings you out of that excessive accumulation of energy and concentration that prevents you from any detached reading. But reading again this text one year later leads you to evaluate the text according to a range of possibilities that you didn't have before, brings you in a universe that you didn'...

"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 co...