La Via del Bosco Una Storia di Lutto, Funghi e Rinascita by Long Litt Woon

La Via del Bosco Una Storia di Lutto, Funghi e Rinascita by Long Litt

• Woon is a new intense book published by Iperborea. I have chosen this one also because of the theme. When I was little I loved to going to the forest and closest fields of our area for picking up mushrooms with my granny. It was an activity I loved to do so badly with her; I adored her. She was so sweet, compassionate and kind. I loved to searching for mushrooms with her so much that the day she died, I was 6-7 years I remember that the thing I said her, still thinking that she was alive in her beauty black dress, I hadn't never seen a dead person before, was: "Oh granny Marietta, how beauty you are. Now we can return to search for some mushrooms as soon as possible. You are fine now."When I kissed her and felt that ice I was not just scared but I knew that also if I would have continued to calling her she wouldn't never returned in the world of the living ones. Not in that shape.

So, yes mushrooms are magicals creatures of the forest for sure as also discovered this sunny Malaysian lady for study in Norway, who later discovered love in Eiolf and decided of staying forever in that country.

Eiolf and her were a sunny couple; abruptly,  one day, once arrived at work, Eiolf died.The author explains she was devastated by this departure; she was devastated by this unexpected, incredibly sad loss. She lost weight, she didn't have appetite; she could not read anything; she felt irritation for everything friends and relatives said her, because no one understood her feelings and no one could understand what she was feeling in that moment. A new hobby could be a moment of escapism and Long Litt discovered that a mycologic course could be the proper answer. It was an heterogeneous group of people that one with which she shared time with, first mushrooms's knowledge and experiences in forests. 

But the beauty of being a mushroom passionate is also the contact with the forest, and with that wildnerness in grade of rebalancing the soul: searching for mushrooms is also a relaxing and stimulating activity at the same time. Not only: a forest brings more oxygen to the brain and body benefits a lot by a strong contact with clean air and a good healthy walk.

With the time Long Litt became an inspector, a character that it is important in Norway and she re-discovered a new re-birth thanks to this hobby, passion and work, at the moment. As it happens in all the other part of the world, Long Litt tells that there is great secrecy regarding the places where mushrooms are found, and that she was particularly upset once, when asking to a person where she had found some mushroom he replied: "Oslo." She confessed she banned him from his contacts.

You will see chapter after chapter, what mushrooms mean for the author and at the same time what it meant to her this new start and at the same time the strong, intense connection created with her husband. 

Long Litt will also share with us some quick recipes starting from starters to first, seconds and so on.

Not only: she will tell us that dear ones passed away continue to assisting us in the other dimension where they live in.

I love the illustration in black and white of several mushrooms.

A beautiful book of new re-starts and new beginnings with a heavenly touch from her husband.

I thank Iperborea for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori