Mazetti Katarina, was born in 1944, is a journalist with the Swedish Radio. Author of children's books and novels, had an incredible success thanks to the kind of grave beside bestseller for more than 500,000 copies, translated into many languages, still in the charts in several countries including France.
Desiree is a library of thirty-five beautiful widow of a biologist and intelligent, but he never really knew. When he died, hit by a truck, she si è sentita tradita e offesa, e duranbte le ore che passa sulla panchina del cimitero davanti alla sua lapide, essenziale e sobria, più che dolore prova un inspiegabile risentimento. Benny è un allevatore di vacche da latte, rimasto solo a gestire la sua fattoria da quando la madre è morta. La sua vita è scandita dagli imprescindibili orari delle mungiture e dalle lunghe visite al cimitero, durante le quali si dedica con passione alla cura della tomba dei genitori, pacchiana e kitsch quanto basta per far inorridire Desirée. I due si rotrovano a volte seduti sulla stessa panchina e l'antipatia è tanto reciproca quanto intensa. Fino a quando, un giorno, un casuale scambio di sorrisi fa scattare la scintilla e miracolosamente tutto cambia. The two become a love full of passion but from the beginning marked by the "culture shock": he feels uncomfortable in the apartment of her aseptic, which in turn is the mother's gruesome embroidery that invade his house; Benny falls asleep at work, while Desirée does not show the slightest interest in the farm. As you spend the months it seems that instead of approaching, the two turned away more and more ... Here the first two chapters:
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This book was a real discovery! I often found myself smiling and sometimes laughing at reading between the lines! The story is nothing short of grotesque and hilarious as the characters are so inexplicably opposites attract. Already the site of the first meeting says a lot about what will be the development of events and feelings. But what strikes you most is the characterization. Two people were not so picturesque and unfriendly statistically meet, she Desirée (shrimp) is a colorless and drab little woman, but can not cook to bed (despite of appearance) is a power; him, Benny is a typical bachelor farmer who unconsciously behind the first skirt he meets, he sees the figure of the mother, devoted to home and family. The novel is divided into their two points of view, alternating between a chapter and the next. But the funny thing is that every moment trying to hurt each other highlighting the flaws of the other one, without realizing that they do just to get closer. The need to preserve their personality. is not compatible with a future together ...... until her biological clock is not set in motion ..... then perhaps the common wish of a child can be the glue, which will allow him to overcome the "culture shock".
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