At the Moderna bookshop the presentation of Gianluca Peciola’s book “The line of silence”

RIETI – The presentation of the book “The line of silence – Stories of family and armed struggle”, published by Solferino, will be held today, 15 May, at 6pm, with the author Gianluca Peciola, at the Moderna bookshop in via Garibaldi. Gianluca Peciola, a writer but also a very active social figure, tells a story kept secret for over twenty years, which intertwines his family with one of the events that have most marked the history of our country, that of the kidnapping and subsequent killing of Aldo Moro.

A novel incredibly halfway between intimacy and current affairs, in which Peciola frees himself from a family secret held back for too many years and at the same time traces the folds of politics and history. Gianluca has a very vague memory of his father, who died when he was little. There is little talk about it in the family and on the other hand there are other problems to face, since his cousin Laura ended up in prison, they told him, for a traffic dispute. With her mother, the boy goes to visit her often and his adolescence is punctuated by conversations in the visiting room, by the mysterious allusions of the guards, by a climate of secrecy and suspicion. He will discover that Laura, in reality, is among those responsible for the kidnapping which then led to the killing of Aldo Moro: she was his “prisoner”.

And above all she is not Gianluca’s cousin: she is his sister. So how do you grow up, how do you find your way, when half your life turns out to be a lie? Precisely the relationship with Laura, however complicated by silences and bars, will be a key for him to direct his gaze and then his steps towards other possible destinies. An intense novel, written in a chiaroscuro of light and shadow: between Peciola’s lines not only silences and constraints due to a secret to be kept at all costs, but also the light given by the rediscovery of a father, by the dialogue with a sister. Against the backdrop of a sentimental and political education which is also the story of a generation, the last to face the temptation of armed struggle.

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