From Virginia Woolf to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from Clarice Lispector to Patrizia Cavalli, the twenty stories that enliven this book are first and foremost wonderful: with intelligence, sincerity and irony they describe a world that is very much alive and always on the move. Annalena Benini composes an unexpected and contemporary canon in which women will recognize much of themselves and men, objects of love and war, can mirror themselves.