BOOKS OF THE WEEK

 Giorgia’s Vision by Giorgia Meloni

ABOUT THE BOOK

What does it mean to defend identity in an age of globalization? Can nations preserve their culture while navigating the pressures of modern politics and economic change? In Giorgia’s Vision, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni offers a deeply personal and political reflection on these defining questions of our time.

Structured as a series of candid conversations with journalist Alessandro Sallusti, the book moves beyond conventional political memoir into a broader conversation on leadership, national identity, meritocracy, family, faith, and the future of Western civilization. Speaking from the office of the Italian Prime Minister at Palazzo Chigi, Meloni reflects on her journey from a working-class neighbourhood in Rome to becoming Italy’s first female Prime Minister, while also laying out the ideological foundations that shape her politics.

Across chapters that broach autobiography, political philosophy, and cultural commentary, Meloni discusses Europe’s identity crisis, the tensions between nationalism and globalism, migration, the role of institutions, economic sovereignty, and the erosion of traditional social structures.

The book also offers a rare insight into the emotional and personal dimensions of political power, including the loneliness of leadership, the burden of public expectations, and the sacrifices demanded by public life. Through reflections on figures ranging from Joan of Arc to Margaret Thatcher, Meloni positions her politics within a larger conservative tradition shaped by resilience and cultural continuity.

Deeply introspective, Giorgia’s Vision is a manifesto on the meaning of identity in the twenty-first century. It is a book that speaks to the anxieties and aspirations shaping Europe and the wider West today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Giorgia Meloni was born in Rome in 1977. Politically active since her teenage years, she became a professional journalist at twenty-nine and was elected to Parliament for the first time. She holds the record as the youngest minister in the history of the Italian Republic: in 2008, at thirty-one, she became the Minister of Youth. On December 21, 2012, she founded Fratelli d’Italia, of which she is the national president. Since 2020, she has been the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR Party), one of the leading political groups in Europe. On October 22, 2022, she was sworn in by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, as Prime Minister. She is the first woman in Italy’s history to hold this position

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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

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The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories. The only clue Hana has to unlocking his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand­written notes detailing a tragic love affair.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Ondaatje is the author of several novels, as well as a memoir, a non-fiction book on film, and several books of poetry. Among his many Canadian and international recognitions, his novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize and the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize, and was adapted into a multi-award-winning Oscar movie; and Anil’s Ghost won the Giller Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.

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Called by the Hills : A Home in the Himalaya by Anuradha Roy

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http://A book about building a home and a wild garden on the edge of a Himalayan forest, illuminated by the author's own water colours.

When novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it is where they will now live. Leaving behind the freneticism of Delhi, Roy is initially bemused by the gentle pace of life in the mountains. Before long, however, she is won over: spellbound by the landscape, taken to the heart of her sometimes recalcitrant neighbours and adopted by several mountain dogs.

Over twenty-five years, as Roy becomes accustomed to living among forests where leopards roam freely, she will come to encounter nature at its most fierce, beautiful and vulnerable – and bear witness to the destructive impact of global warming on the alpine ecosystem.

Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya is an intimate portrait of a home, a community and a rugged, extraordinary landscape. Written with unsentimental clarity, humour and poignancy, this is an account of profound transformations.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ANURADHA ROY has written five novels, including Sleeping on Jupiter, which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award 2022 for All the Lives We Never Lived, a book that was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. This is her first work of non-fiction.

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