Ilario Carta

He lives in Cagliari, has a degree in literary subjects and has worked for over forty years in the field of social policies in the Sardinia Region. He has published three novels for Arkadia: I giardini di Leverkusen (2015), his successful debut work, which has been reprinted several times and won the Osilo prize in 2017; Lo scorpione nello pancia (2017), in which he irreverently takes aim at current politics; Espiazioni collettive (2019), in which he explores the dark side of human beings in a polite and lucid way; and Japanischer Garten (2024).

  • 2015
  • 2017
  • 2020

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10 Aug

10 August 2020 ⋅ h 18:30

Municipal Library
Jerzu

Espiazioni collettive

Ilario Carta

Francesco Migali left his hometown many years ago. His relationship with his father – never very intense – has become increasingly frayed, leaving him with an almost unbridgeable sense of loss. So, when the university he works for presents him with the opportunity to study more closely a bloody event that occurred in the 1930s in the small community where his father was born, he wastes no time and leaves for Sardinia. It is here that the prot...

6 Aug

6 August 2017 ⋅ h 10:30

Municipal Library
Jerzu

Lo scorpione nello stomaco

ILARIO CARTA

Pier Francesco Baroncelli Dal Monte, just elected with a Bulgarian majority to the highest office in the country, announces as his first act “The Day of Conciliation”, a conference to be held in the conference room of the Secretariat of State in which the ruling class of the nation is called to express its servile assent towards the announced policies of the newly elected. And it will be precisely on the occasion of this event, destined, acco...