Gabrielle Zevin: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback, Italian language, 2023, Nord)
Brossura, 444 pagine
lingua Italian
Pubblicato il 28 Marzo 2023 da Nord.
ISBN:
978-88-429-3433-2
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5 stelle
(4 recensioni)
Questa non è una storia d'amore, ma parla d'amore... Una fredda mattina del 1995, Sam Masur scende dalla metropolitana e, tra la folla che si accalca sulla banchina, la vede: Sadie Green. La chiama e, per un attimo, lei finge di non sentirlo, poi il rancore si stempera nella nostalgia. Sono passati otto anni dal litigio che aveva spezzato il loro legame, strettissimo eppure fragile, come solo le amicizie dell'infanzia sanno essere. Adesso sono all'università, ed entrambi hanno deciso di trasformare la comune passione per i videogiochi in materia di studio e, un giorno, in una professione. Basta uno sguardo e il legame si rinsalda, segnando anche l'inizio di una collaborazione creativa. Presi singolarmente, i loro progetti sono frammentari e incompleti; insieme, danno vita a interi mondi. Così, nel giro di due anni, nasce Ichigo, un videogioco rivoluzionario, che spalanca loro le porte del successo. Nel frattempo, il loro rapporto …
Questa non è una storia d'amore, ma parla d'amore... Una fredda mattina del 1995, Sam Masur scende dalla metropolitana e, tra la folla che si accalca sulla banchina, la vede: Sadie Green. La chiama e, per un attimo, lei finge di non sentirlo, poi il rancore si stempera nella nostalgia. Sono passati otto anni dal litigio che aveva spezzato il loro legame, strettissimo eppure fragile, come solo le amicizie dell'infanzia sanno essere. Adesso sono all'università, ed entrambi hanno deciso di trasformare la comune passione per i videogiochi in materia di studio e, un giorno, in una professione. Basta uno sguardo e il legame si rinsalda, segnando anche l'inizio di una collaborazione creativa. Presi singolarmente, i loro progetti sono frammentari e incompleti; insieme, danno vita a interi mondi. Così, nel giro di due anni, nasce Ichigo, un videogioco rivoluzionario, che spalanca loro le porte del successo. Nel frattempo, il loro rapporto si fa più maturo, più intimo, più consapevole. Ma non per questo immune al peso della fama, della gelosia e delle ambizioni personali… Si perderanno ancora, Sam e Sadie. Però ogni volta ritroveranno la strada che li ricondurrà l'uno all'altra. E ogni volta ricominceranno. Perché, nonostante le liti e le incomprensioni, esistono spiriti affini uniti da un sentimento capace di superare ogni ostacolo: un amore che non è amore, ma è molto di più. Col suo stile delicato e profondo, che coniuga magistralmente leggerezza e nostalgia, Gabrielle Zevin ci regala un romanzo che è un inno al nostro bisogno di amare e di essere amati.
This book ticks all the boxes for me. It's not only about game development and unrequited / platonic love, it touches on so many things. Honestly couldn't put it down, for good reasons. I kept raving about it for days after finishing it, still think about it sometimes.
Could have done without the communication issues creating unnecessary drama – they made the characters feel really frustrating at times, but those are the flaws they come with, I guess.
The characters and their relationship as it evolves over time are the highlight of this book. It's a great tale of a strong friendship as it ebbs and flows over the decades. Felt very real and very human. I appreciated it for how much it made me consider my life and relationships.
The overall plotline and where it ends up are less compelling. I liked it but wouldn't read it again.
This is one of those books that attracts you from the very beginning and you can't stop reading (until you realise that you don't want it to end that soon, either!). An interesting and well-written story that follows the successes and failures of its complex characters, driven by their passion for video games and full of lights and shadows. This is a story about gamers, and video games. But it also about life, passion, success and failure but, above all, about human relationships, and lives and worlds that could be but are not. Like a video game with the greatest engine: our imagination. Like a book.
Review of 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' on 'Goodreads'
5 stelle
This is the first book in a while that I've had trouble putting down, it kept me reading later than I intended more than once. It's a complex, touching story about friendship and the value of play, which spans several decades. During that time Sam and Sadie meet, have quarrels, make up again, quarrel again, fall in love with other people, and make video games both together and separately.
It's set in the world of video game development so knowing some of those terms probably helps a little but I don't think it's really necessary; it's more about creating art together than the games themselves. (The game making is a little simplified, and as someone who works in the game industry I found it a little unbelievable in places - making an MMO with the staff they appeared to have? No way.) But waving those beside in suspension of disbelief, …
This is the first book in a while that I've had trouble putting down, it kept me reading later than I intended more than once. It's a complex, touching story about friendship and the value of play, which spans several decades. During that time Sam and Sadie meet, have quarrels, make up again, quarrel again, fall in love with other people, and make video games both together and separately.
It's set in the world of video game development so knowing some of those terms probably helps a little but I don't think it's really necessary; it's more about creating art together than the games themselves. (The game making is a little simplified, and as someone who works in the game industry I found it a little unbelievable in places - making an MMO with the staff they appeared to have? No way.) But waving those beside in suspension of disbelief, I doubt they'd bother anyone who doesn't actually make games for a living.
Really the book is about friendship, and flawed, complex characters, and art, and loss, and being human. It's refreshing to read an entire book about a couple that is about friendship rather than romance. It was sweet, and touching, and thought-provoking, and also occasionally annoying when the characters are clearly being idiots, but they're so well written that at least you can understand why they're being idiots. I would highly recommend this book.
Trigger warnings: there are a couple of violent deaths mentioned, and there's non-graphic description of an inappropriate teacher-student relationship with non-consensual bondage elements. These are not dwelled on any more than needed for the story's purposes, but are unavoidable elements of the plot.
