Il Buongiorno si vede dal Croissant by Camille Andrea

 Il Buongiorno si vede dal Croissant

by Camille Andrea is a delicious new book published by Garzanti and with an important thematic inside: the rediscovery of the self. This book has been written by someone still anonymous: no one knows the name of this writer: Camille Andrea is just a pseudonym. No sure why I thought that maybe he/she was inspired for this pseudonym by the italian beloved writer Andrea Camilleri.

This person, the writer, tells that what told, what experienced and lived is her/his story. She wrote this book for helping other people.

After all, in fact, Il Buongiorno si vede dal Croissant is a self-help book with a lot of important lessons that can be learnt or just re-learnt again.

Someone is changed during the existence and for the worst: Pierre Boulanger famous creator of croissants. He was a sunny french. Like all french people, he had a large sunny smile, he loved laughing and when young he had many dreams and expectations: then left the country for the USA. He wanted to be a pastry chef, but he created much more: he open a chains of important stores of patisserie in the USA, producing croissants:  his ambition and motivation are endless. 

A lot of money, responsibility, lack of sleep, lack of smiles, lack of happiness. 

But Pierre doesn't know that the things are in this way, that he is another person from the old french Pierre: he doesn't know that his life, after all is miserable and "poor." Not poor of money and success and fame, but poor of other important values like love, friendship, time spent with his family and friends: his life lacks of smiles for the people he loves and for strangers waiting for an encouraging smile: values, feelings, these ones, kept aside, because there is no time. No time for living with feeling an existence. 

It is strange: a croissant has the shape of a smile but Pierre doesn't smile anymore...

In a passage of the book Pierre admits that the best existence is conducted by the staff that they have in the family, chefs, baby-sitter because they can enjoy the little moments of the day. 

Pierre one day meets along a street of Manhattan an old hot-dog vendor with a special coffee (you'll understand why the coffee was so special later...). He is a mysterious guy, but it will be this man, just with a tooth in his mouth that will change the destiny of Pierre, because, speaking with him, Pierre understands the importance of his existence and errors committed along his way. Oscar, this one is the name of the old hot dog vendor, is like a sort of guardian angel to Pierre; someone who, for a reason or another decides to save the existence of this man. 

Being an optimistic book there is the happy end of course.

I highly recommend to everyone this book! Because it is fresh, captivating.

I thank Garzanti for the copy of the book.

Anna Maria Polidori