QR.Staff on June 17th, 2009

Q&R is a micro publishing company. A Italish one: Q&R has roots in a meeting (a crash?) between some italian guys’ love for Ireland and… Irish literature, so a Italish project! We have published two books, we are working about a project for writers, for readers, to have good literature and to bring it in [...]

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The Mother
I Would Like To Know Why
A Short Story by Max O’Rover

Once I thought you existed.
I have seen you ’round here many times. I came here with the chisellers. With all five of them, I mean.
It’s easy to think that you are one of them. The impassive gaze. You don’t care about who kids badly [...]

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La Madre
Vorrei solo sapere perché
Un racconto di Max O’Rover
Una volta pensavo che voi esisteste. Ti ho visto qui tante volte. Sono venuta anche con i ragazzi. Con tutti e cinque, voglio dire. Era facile pensare che tu fossi uno di loro. Lo sguardo impassibile. Te ne freghi di quelli che ti prendono per il culo. [...]

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To celebrate Bloomsday and contemporaneous issue of “The Mistery Of The Abandoned Pint” by Max O’Rover, Italish Literature Project second book, on june 16th ‘09, at 00.01 the short story “The Mother - Just Why” will be online, both in English and Italian, on this blog.
“The Mother” has been published in “The Day We Met [...]

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QR.Staff on June 7th, 2009

Book Description
An Italian guy who feels irish, an Irish father immigrant in Italy, an Irish girl who does not feel irish and a very very special Irish-Italian daughter.
All of them in Dublin, in the days around Bloomsday, each of them with their own hopes and sorrows, all of them linked together by a book: a [...]

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