LIBRI
It is a novel about friendship, memory and terrorism.
It sounds heavy, but don't be scared: there's laughter, first loves, and that feeling of being young and confused that never really goes away.
We are in Cagliari, Sardinia, at the beginning of the 1980s.
Roberto and his friends just want to live, grow up, try to discuss the future and maybe manage to pass their high school diploma.
It's a shame that History, with a capital H, decides to burst into their lives without asking permission.
Meanwhile, at the Cagliari police headquarters, Deputy Commissioner Diego Piras must figure out why two known terrorists have arrived on the island from the mainland. Someone suggests he leave it alone. He politely ignores them.
From here a civil thriller is born:
There's a hunt, there are secrets, there's tension. Lots of tension!
But above all, there are real people, with fears, doubts, and a stubborn desire not to forget.
Because ultimately this book is about one simple thing:
History passes, wounds remain.
And remembering is the only way to not pretend nothing is happening and try to heal yourself.
You can find it in all the bookstores in the kingdom (if you don't find it you can order it from your bookseller and it will arrive in two days), or you can order it online
What you will browse is a book of images that tells the places and stories of Basilicata: a beautiful place and (unfortunately, or fortunately) unknown to most.
Basilicata Terra Di Mezzo was born in 2016 from the meeting between a talented travel photojournalist in love with his homeland (Gaetano) and a passionate storyteller (myself).
The spark that ignited the project was the understanding that the people of Basilicata, deep down, suffer a kind of frustration: the rest of Italy and the world, when they look at a map of this nation, see Basilicata as a blank space.
In the collective memory there are no images to fill that hole.
Some may have seen images of the Sassi of Matera.
But it is quite unusual to identify an entire region through a symbol that represents a single city.
Rome is its Colosseum, Paris is its Eiffel Tower, but Basilicata is not the Sassi of Matera.
When we designed this book we had one goal in mind: to fill that void with the extraordinary images of Gaetano Plasmati , describing the landscapes, the chimneys, the towers, the people singing in procession and the sea at sunset.
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