The Wind Blows Where It Pleases
Susanna Tamaro
By the author of the International Bestseller Follow Your Heart.
Under the silence of snow as the year ends, Clara decides to spend the holiday at home alone, to face her biggest fear. As she awaits the prognosis, she reflects on the secrets she has kept from her family and writes three intimate letters: one to Alisha, her adopted daughter born in India, who has
undertaken an identity search. One to Ginevra, her natural daughter conceived during the adoption process. And one to Davide, her husband, a man whose steadfast nature upheld the family, until shocking and inexplicable events uprooted all their lives..
Three letters written from the heart, a secret, and a generational legacy.
What if that unexpected decision was suggested to me while I slept by the same angel who had whispered my name to my mother twenty years earlier? Wasn’t this a surprise intrusion of Shivasankalpa? Had the invisible guide granted me the grace of the Spirit so that I should understand the right path to follow? Does this not perhaps happen many times in our life? To what extent does the destiny we build depend on our ability to listen to these mysterious nocturnal whispers? Is there not a very fine silk thread that links the lives destined to meet each other?
Of course, in the inevitable dark times we might sometimes think this invisible thread is woven by a spider rather than an angel, to prepare us for its fatal trap. But in the end, do you know what I think?
That we must accept our fragility, the fact that we are in any case suspended between light and shadow.
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