A short illustrated book retelling the lives of the only five women mentioned in the generations of the Book of Matthew (Tamàr, Rahàv, Ruth, Bethsabée and Miriam-Marie), all of them scandalous in some way.

As usual with Luca, he writes as if he's thinking out loud, in free associations, and everything is light despite relying on Hebrew etymology.

That said, the two stories that stay with me are at the beginning and the end of the book. The illiterate housekeeper who brings her lover's letters to the village teacher so he can read them for her with one condition: he has to put his hands over his ears while reading. The Yugoslav poet, Ante Zemljar, who, in order to enjoy breaking rocks in forced labor, decided to believe every rock hid a spark he had to break free.