Olga - 9788854517530

Olga: Da Breslavia, magnifica città polacca, a un piccolo villaggio della Pomerania in Germania: l'infanzia di Olga è segnata da un brusco trasferimento in seguito alla prematura scomparsa dei suoi genitori. Una stagione vissuta in compagnia di una nonna dura e scostante e dei sogni propri dei bambini poveri: voler imparare, sapere di più. I libri ricevuti dal maestro di scuola e dal parroco, le lezioni di musica da parte dell'organista della chiesa non le bastano, tuttavia, a non sentirsi del tutto estranea a quella terra e a quel mondo. Un giorno, però, ecco l'incontro fatale. Olga si imbatte in un ragazzo diverso come lei, estraneo al mondo come lei. In quegli anni tra la fine del XIX e l'inizio del XX secolo, Herbert è orgoglioso della Germania, del giovane imperatore Guglielmo II, come pure della tenuta di famiglia, del suo considerevole patrimonio, della sua bella casa, ma è attraversato da un'irrefrenabile inquietudine. Il suo sogno è correre in compagnia del sole, andare alla conquista di grandi spazi, vivere giornate destinate a non finire mai. Diventati una giovane donna e un giovane uomo, Herbert e Olga si innamorano. Inevitabilmente, fatalmente, di un amore che non si nega niente, che non si perde dietro alla paura, che si dona senza ritegno. I pregiudizi del mondo e i folli eventi della storia congiurano però, si sa, spesso contro l'amore così fatto. La famiglia di Herbert, che considera Olga non all'altezza del suo rango, riesce a far trasferire la donna, divenuta nel frattempo insegnante, nella Prussia orientale, e a insinuare nel ragazzo il tarlo del dubbio sul su
From Wroclaw, wonderful town, a small village in Pomerania in Germany: Olga's childhood is marked by an abrupt transfer following the untimely death of his parents. A season lived with a grandmother tough and unfriendly and dreams their poor children: wanting to learn, know more. The books received by the schoolmaster and the parish priest, music lessons by the organist of the Church did not suffice, however, to not feel completely extraneous to that land and to that world. One day, however, here's the fatal meeting. Olga stumbles upon a different guy like you, stranger in the world like her. During those years in the late 19th and early 20th century, Herbert is proud of Germany, the young Emperor William II, as well as of the family estate of his considerable wealth, his beautiful House, but is crossed by an unstoppable restlessness. His dream is to run in the Fellowship of the Sun, go to the conquest of wide open spaces, living days destined to go on forever. Become a young woman and a young man, Herbert and Olga fell in love. Inevitably, fatally, by a love that does not deny anything, that does not get lost behind the fear, which gives itself without restraint. The prejudices of the world and the events of the story plot though, you know, often against love so done. The family of Herbert, which considers Olga never lives up to its rank, he transferred the woman, become Meanwhile teacher in East Prussia, and to insinuate in the boy the worm of doubt about his fate and his duties. Herbert enlisted first in the colonial troops in the bloody war against the Herero in German South West Africa and then leaves for a dangerous adventure: the conquest of the North Pole through the Northeast passage. An expedition which, in his view, is the perfect culmination of idea for which it is better to be struck down in the prime of life to accomplish their dreams that leaning on a cane after a life totally free of ambitions. While Herbert ventures in the ice of that inhospitable, Olga continues to claim with tenacity his love in a time when imperial adventure and, in the years to come, the defeat in war and the advent of Nazi barbarism will determine the shipwreck of the nation. Welcomed to his look from a resounding success with audiences and critics, Olga marks the great return on the international literary scene Bernhard Schlink, the acclaimed author of the reader and other fundamental works of contemporary fiction