The Second World War told by 7 direct protagonists, and within their stories a multitude of repressed tragedies. Soldiers, prisoners of war, partisans bear witness to a sub-history that cannot be found in history books. The stories take us to different theaters of war (Egypt, Tunisia, Kenya, South Africa, Piedmont, Tuscany, Poland); all have a connection with Sardinia: more involved than it appears in that great disaster, as recalled by the massa...

On the white and blue boat a woman gives birth, Malelyn and I helped her, there was no water to wash her: the new mother is called Janeba, she is perhaps no more than twenty years old, I ask her if the father has already seen the child. Janeba replies: “I don’t know who the father is”. I am calm at Mrs. Annamaria’s, now in Cagliari, before in Rome, I think back to my life, to the night in the camper, to the hell of many like me, to my fri...

The epic of the girls who emigrated from Sardinia to the Continent to change their lives. Pietrina, Clelia, Evelina, Maretta, are just some of the names of the protagonists who emigrated especially from Perdasdefogu, […] towards the continent, to Rome and Milan, starting from the 2nd post-war period, to work as “seraccas” (maids) for some wealthy families. A weave of stories of women over the course of several generations, who leave and tel...

presentation of the book SARDO SONO by Giacomo Mameli with Paola Pilia "These stories tell of a proud Island. Capable women and men emerge, small and medium-sized companies at the forefront of new information technologies, scientific research, and the green economy, occupying prominent positions on the local and international scene. Sardinians established in Europe and Asia. Quo vadis Sardinia? There is no clear horizon. We live on daily swabs o...