Il vento della memoria

by Daniela Vasarri

192 pages
18 cm x 13 cm
ISBN 9791255120582

€16,00

Printed by Bookendipity · Santa Croce sull'Arno, Tuscany

The plot

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This book describes the lives of the members of a family who move from a rural village to a more industrialized one, seeking economic well-being and otherwise incredible stability, spanning from the 1930s to the first decade of the 2000s.

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I'm waiting, in this plain surrounded by vineyards and plots of land that I could describe even with my eyes closed, for a little boy. His name is Lorenzo and he's only six years old. His backpack, almost taller than him, is a heavy burden for his slender back.

Brave, at the sound of the same bell that has delighted primary school students for decades - in my day, it was simply called elementary school - when he sees me, he runs towards me, but he trips. He gets back up with a scraped knee and his palms dirty with earth.

He looks at me questioningly.

I try to hold back a smile that would humiliate him. Lorenzo doesn't know whether to cry or pretend that nothing happened. In the end, he decides to rub his hands and get up. He comes towards me.

His little palms are, yes, scratched, but there is no trace of that white dust that those who preceded him had to contend with.

Fortunately, everything has changed now. Not just the school building. And the price was high.

One day, Lorenzo will have to read this story. So he won't forget the hundreds of children who have lived here since 1932.

The publisher

Bookendipity

The publishing workshop in Santa Croce sull'Arno: books written, illustrated and edited close up, from children's stories to annotated historical novels. Two imprints, Bookendipity.com and SEPLI, and one person who follows the book from manuscript to parcel.

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Printed by Bookendipity · Santa Croce sull'Arno, Tuscany