La cugina americana - 9788833925288

La cugina americana: Hampstead Garden, nordovest di Londra, è il quartiere della buona borghesia ebraica, ricca, istruita, liberal, solidale: tutti conoscono tutti, tutti frequentano tutti, tutti sono pronti a soccorrere chiunque si trovi in difficoltà. Adam e Rachel si conoscono da sempre, si amano dall'adolescenza, e stanno per fidanzarsi. La comunità segue l'evolversi della relazione da quando è nata, aspetta il matrimonio, i figli. Tutto va come dovrebbe andare fino a quando, da New York, città di liberi costumi e strane usanze, arriva Ellie, la cugina di Rachel: bellissima, fragile, dolce, infelice, anticonformista. Tra Adam ed Ellie è amore al primo sguardo: entrambi resistono, si evitano, si cercano, irresistibilmente attratti e irrimediabilmente divisi. Francesca Segal ci regala un romanzo ricco di suspense per l'amore proibito, e di indulgente ironia per le regole di una comunità meravigliosamente descritta.
Hampstead Garden, North West London, is the neighborhood of middle class Jewish, rich, educated, liberal, solidarity: everyone knows everyone, everyone attending all, everyone is ready to rescue anyone in distress. Adam and Rachel have known each other forever, love each other from adolescence, and are about to get engaged. The community follows the evolution of the relationship since she was born, everyone is waiting for marriage, children. Everything goes as it should go until, from New York, city of free costumes and strange customs, get Ellie, cousin to Rachel: beautiful, fragile, gentle, unhappy, Maverick. Ellie is a survivor, like so many of the older members of the community: not to the concentration camps, but her mother's death in a terrorist attack in Israel, and the subsequent decision by the father to roam the world carrying the baby with her. Between Adam and Ellie is love at first sight. Both are resisting, avoiding, you seek, irresistibly attracted and hopelessly divided. Until Adam, Rachel's father's lawyer in the study, is mandated to resolve the situation is highly regrettable, dangerous, that Ellie was left behind in New York. The two are forced to come together, to work, until an illness of Ziva, Ellie and Rachel's grandmother, provides two lovers impossible an opportunity to break the rules.