5 books to read during summer holidays For a relaxing moment with the sound of the sea waves in the background

Since the dawn of time there has been a quarrel among readers about which type of books is better to take with us on the beach: from college students who use textbooks to shelter from the sun to the pretentious for whom the book is an intellectual showoff rather than the pleasure of reading, till the teenager or middle-aged woman with the latest ‘Shades of...’ by E. L. James.

Well, here is a list of 5 novels (or collections of short stories) that - even though they distinguish themselves for the beauty of the plot or the style or even just for a marked irony - we can definitely consider perfect to focus on despite the sun, the wind, the sand in our eyes and the sound of the waves.

1. ME PARLARE BELLO UN GIORNO by David Sedaris

“They say that Croats come to Italy to steal husbands. But I'm not that predictable. I'm also American, I could steal anything”

The life of the party is a dark comedy set in Milan, a little bit Sex and the city but more splatter and penniless. Mia, a young American recently expatriated in the city of fashion, is the pseudo-autobiographical transposition of Tea, a Croatian-American performer who arrived in the Northern capital in the early 2000s to dive into the world of fashion and its nightlife. Roommates who, like her, only eat junk food to save money for a cocktail, houses that look like shacks but cost like suites, very cool but super precarious jobs, unreliable boyfriends. Sex, drugs and more sex with an unbridled and brazen Milan in the background as you may have never seen it before, in a book that we could define as a memoir or the manifesto of a generation, which contains irony but also a deep sadness ( just like the generation it describes).