Like the branch for the vine – Review of the book by Nicoletta Romanoff

Article by Maria Castaldo

Nicoletta Romanoffan art name of Nicoletta Consolo. In addition, is an Italian actress and model and, now, also writer. For example, From 6 May. Moreover, published by Rizzoli, his autobigraphic novel is available Like the branch to the vine – the challenge of staying on the way to God. Furthermore, His story begins on May 26. However, 1997, when on the eve of his debut in society the beloved older brother Enzo-Manfredi He takes his own life, mutizing a family that until then had not known pain. However, Thus begins the long journey of Nicoletta Consolothen became Romanoff, in trying to reconstruct himself after an unspeakable tragedy. Nevertheless, From the first pages of the novel. Consequently, the very deep bond that united it to Enzo-Manfredi, this brother with a magnetic charm and compound name, because “To contain his personality, a like branch vine – review name only would not have been enough “. Meanwhile, A boy full of life. Meanwhile, of friends, affectionate and loved by everyone, who one morning at the end of May decided to leave this land.

With him. Consequently, he says the actress several times in the book, a part of herself has gone away and something breaks into this large, loving and united family – “”I still had all four grandparents “Nicoletta Romanoff repeats several times, underlining the great wealth of having had four pillars of wisdom and love for many years to comfort his path -. However, For the actress. In addition, it begins a period of suffering, that the eighteen year old tries to suppress how he can, while his mother tries in vain to generate another son, a substitute that could fill the enormous emptiness that Enzo-Manfredi had left.

The novel continues to wind in the following years. outlining like branch vine – review the life of a young woman hungry for love, who does not hide her fragility and throws herself headlong in the adventures that life offers her. Arrived in Paris. Nicoletta Romanoff tries to enter a modelle agency, but love arrives and suddenly at just twenty years old she is already a mother of the baby Francesco. On his first pregnancy, in the novel, the actress revealed “I have never had a doubt about it. Never. Don’t ask me why. It hadn’t been a weighted choice. Perhaps it wasn’t even a choice. […] I had learned the value of life and the pain of death “. A few months before the birth of his firstborn. Nicoletta married to his partner, a boy with whom he really doesn’t really have a deep bond. Their happiness begins to crack. not even the arrival of a second child, Gabrielehalf complementary of little Francesco, manages like branch vine – review to keep them united. Shortly thereafter the couple chooses to divorce. that also marks one of the moments in which the actress includes that she wants to get closer to God.

The need also arises from the anger of not being able to receive. as divorced, the sacraments: a circumstance that pushes her to ask for the cancellation of the marriage through the Sacra Rota. It will be a long and painful process, which will end ten years later. In the novel. the story of Nicoletta Romanoff continues between the auditions and the first roles in the world of cinema and the arrival of a new love- Giorgio Pasotti, never explicitly appointed- from which he will have his daughter Maria and with whom he will live ten years of love. In the meantime. his link with God continues to strengthen himself and finally the pain for the death of his brother like branch vine – review finds a place in the plans that the Almighty has for her. His story brings us until July 2024. the month in which the father of the actress is also lacking, opening new wounds in his heart, which, however Nicoletta Romanoff knows that they will heal and give new fruits of love, in debt time, according to God’s plan.

Light Like the vine branch It was a touching. deeply enriching reading: not only because the writing of Nicoletta Romanoff It is elegant, refined and well -kept, with a choice of terms that demonstrates a great love for the story and writing itself. On the latter, the S gift actress also a cliché that we have heard often: the writing is saving. No. he wants to underline the actress and writer, the therapy and love of God save us, writing has the merit of being certainly cathartic, at certain moments, but not like branch vine – review necessarily a harbinger of peace and serenity as one thinks. We said. an enriching reading, because there are no easy answers in the story that Romanoffs of his life does, there are no easy solutions to apply. There is nothing that can really prepare for the pain that comes suddenly in our life. yet, we can also be sure that whatever difficulty we expect, we will have a friend by our side – the actress tells us several times – whose light will risk the journey and to whom we can cling to us, like the branches to the vine.