Sei per la Sardegna. Morti favolose di animali comuni
Six for Sardinia The flood that hit Sardinia shows how much it can cost, even in terms of victims, to let one’s territory become the battlefield of a war between misunderstood development and the forces of Nature. An extraordinary flood, it was said. It was said: an unpredictable phenomenon. Not to mention that, probably, the […]
Nicolò Businco. Storia di un errore giudiziario
On Thursday, July 16, 1914, Nicolò Businco left prison after almost eighteen years of detention. With three other companions in misfortune – Giosuè Piroddi, Antonio Lorrai and Antonio Parlatariu di Tertenia – he was sentenced to life imprisonment, following a trial that caused a sensation at the time, for the murder of Ruggero Tedde, municipal […]
La teologia del cinghiale
A novel in which the smells, flavors, voices, superstitions and magic of the Sardinian land come together to create a picture of an Italy that reaches up to the present day. July 1969. During the days of the moon landing, in Telèvras, a small town in the Sardinian hinterland, two boys are involved in a […]
Le ragazze sono partite
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 […]
Chirù
Loving each other means losing your balance, stealing from each other, attracting and frightening each other, switching places: this is what Eleonora and Chirú do. Theirs is a story of apprenticeship, gift, manipulation and youth. She is a teacher, he is a student, but both are unprepared for the most difficult lesson: when love stops […]
Mia madre e altre catastrofi
A series of dazzling dialogues, irresistibly comic, that weave the story of an entire life, or rather two: that of a son and his mother, from childhood to today. With extreme grace, but without discounts, Francesco Abate has written the tragicomedy of the sweetest and most tangled sentimental relationship of all.
Gufo Rosmarino
Rosmarino is the little owl that we would all like as a friend, the brave little brother who manages to transform every difficulty into a formidable opportunity for adventure. Rosmarino has the bold wisdom of the little ones in the world of adults, he sees things with the eyes of simplicity and for this reason […]
Noi non sapevamo
Late in reading the signs of the times to make convenient choices. Incapable of valorizing their own resources that others exploit for their own profit… Just look at the events of the last fifty years to make a painful observation: we Sardinians did not know! Today, do we know what choices to make in economic […]
Su Sulidu ‘e su entu
BOOKS ON STAGE Antonio Mou with Mauro Mou, Simone Contu and Tonino Serra present “Su Sulidu ‘e su entu” by Antonio Mou, ed. Solinas
Quasi Grazia
A perfect “novel in the form of a theater” around the figure of Grazia Deledda, the only Italian woman to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. At the center, three moments in her life decades apart: the day Grazia leaves Sardinia and everything it represents, the day she wins the most prestigious award in […]
Rosmarino alla caccia grossa
There are days when you have to make choices and as if by magic from that day on, what was will no longer be. For a bird of prey it is normal to hunt prey but not for Owl Rosemary and his two little brothers. They set out to hunt and end up being caught, […]
Lo scorpione nello stomaco
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 […]