Book presentation: La guerra di Toni
Just outside the city, a young man lives in a cave; he barely speaks and reluctantly comes out of his hiding place. Who is that wild boy and how did he end up there? This is what Rolando Piras, a clumsy journalist looking for promotion in Sardinia in the late 1950s, asks himself. He sees […]
Book presentation: Bravi & Camboni
It is easy to only talk about champions, in the age of omnipresent TV. It is more difficult to preserve and pass on the epic of the “camboni”, the willing boots whose blunders are shrouded in bar legends. The history of Cagliari, made up of brief glories and long periods of purgatory, is a gallery […]
Book presentation: I giardini di Leverkusen
Summer 1972. Antero Congéra, a fifteen-year-old student, decides to join his father, a worker in Germany, and spend his school holidays in a different way. Antero is the typical teenager of his time, a mix of contrasts, doubts and certainties, which lead him to be arrogant, touchy, sometimes racist and naive, weak and sensitive at […]
Book presentation: La faccia oscura della luna
One hundred lives or perhaps a thousand in fifty stories of ordinary exclusion of women in today’s society and in the past. Lives marked by violence, poverty, denied dignity, but also by defiance and open revolt. A gallery of wives, lovers, servants, witches, murderers, thieves who live in different eras but always immersed in a […]
Books on stage: L’innocenza di Giulio
GIULIO CAVALLI with CRISTIANO BANDINI presents “L’innocenza di Giulio”, Ed. Chiarelettere “L’innocenza di Giulio” investigates Andreotti’s relationships with Cosa Nostra (from dangerous friendships with cousins Salvo and Stefano Bontade, to summits with the bosses of bosses, to the “legendary” kiss with Totò Riina), for which he was tried, he preempted, was acquitted and then found […]
La Sardegna di dentro, La Sardegna di fuori
Presentation of the book by Giacomo Mameli Journalist Paola Pilia face to face with the author – readings by Alessandro Mascia A journey to discover a little-known Sardinia that holds many surprises; the book focuses in depth on the roots, but never exhausts itself in sterile celebration.
L’amore Buono
Presentation of the book (Rizzoli publisher) and the film “When poverty enters the door, love escapes through the window” is written in a shack in Nairobi. After the theater experience with street kids that led to the extraordinary adventure of Black Pinocchio, Marco Baliani returns to Africa for a new challenge. A group of boys […]
Presentation of three books by Ulassai authors
STUDI OGLIASTRINI Indici 1984 – 2022 Private Library Edition “G. Cabizzosu” by GIUSEPPE CABIZZOSU The “Studi ogliastrini”, the prestigious series of the Diocese of Lanusei, a true identity library of Ogliastra, finally has an index. Few territories, even in our beautiful Sardinia, can boast an entire series dedicated to them. It was Father Vincenzo Mario […]
Presentation of the book: ROSSO
The historical event that inspired “Rosso”: the San Sebastiano night massacre carried out 100 years ago, on 21 January 1925, which led to the extermination of the Boi family: five adults and three children.
Libri in scena: Così in terra, come in cielo
His cathedral is the street, his teachers prostitutes, bums, drug addicts, all those lost lives that are saved souls. Don Andrea Gallo has been a street priest for fifty years, founder of the “Comunità di San Benedetto al Porto di Genova”, which welcomes those in need and those who want to find a point from […]
Angelicamente anarchico
The red priest, the street priest, the new global priest. Don Andrea Gallo is the founder of the Community of San Benedetto al Porto in Genoa, an island of solidarity that welcomes people in difficulty: drug addicts, former prostitutes, former thieves, men and women in transit from one sex to the other. He became famous […]
Libri in scena: Cuore mancino
Stories, fragments of life for a generational biography, ’77, Bologna, the revolt… Far away, in places where desire never ends, where words lose all meaning, where staying or leaving weighs equally on the will. I could have gone back. Go home, go back to bed and continue to act as if everything was as before, […]