– At 6.30 pm at the Torrione Angioino in Bitonto
For the “Park of the Arts” – MUNICIPAL PROJECT BITONTO CITTA’ DEI FESTIVAL: LITERARY TRIPS IN THE VILLAGE – XII EDITION / “BITONTO CITTÁ CHE LEGGE”, national project to promote reading
Dario Levantino will present his latest book:
“The judge and the child”, Fazi Editore
THE BOOK:
After Falcone’s dog, Dario Levantino returns to bookstores with an exciting and never predictable novel that retraces the events of Paolo Borsellino and little Giuseppe Di Matteo, killed by the mafia at just fifteen years old after two years of very harsh and senseless imprisonment. A text suitable for children that clearly illustrates, with a committed but light-hearted tone, the years that characterized the fight against the mafia and the internal dynamics of the organization of Cosa Nostra, in the hope that a better world is always possible and that in the end, good always triumphs. «There, alone with my burden and pierced by his light, I understood that the mystery of God was love, which never separates people. That’s something fate does sometimes; death, perhaps. Never love.” Having arrived in heaven, Paolo Borsellino is tasked by God with solving particular and delicate cases. For a time, he will deal with those souls who, for various reasons, have left something unresolved on Earth. One day, however, a file of a case inexplicably rejected by all the other officials in heaven ends up on the desk in his office. As soon as Borsellino reads the contents of the folder, he feels faint. That soul, in fact, belongs to a child. And that child is Giuseppe Di Matteo, killed by the mafia in January 1996. From here begins a delicate and touching story, with fairytale tones, which reconstructs the events of the judge and the boy: a journey through the clouds full of emotions and adventures in search of the serenity necessary to move forward and a reason that can explain so much violence. In this journey for two, particularly engaging will be the meeting between the child and his horse who will be reunited in the afterlife thanks to Borsellino’s help, and will thus have the opportunity to say goodbye for the last time before saying goodbye and separating forever. A decisive meeting that will give the little one the opportunity to reconcile with the world and finally find the lost peace before saying goodbye to his judge friend and finally taking his place in heaven.
THE AUTHOR:
Dario Levantino is an Italian author. Graduated in Literature and Philosophy, he teaches Italian in a high school in Monza. His debut, Of Nothing and Nobody (Fazi Editore, 2018), won the 2018 Rome Libraries Prize, the 2018 Subiaco Città del Libro Literary Prize, the 2019 Leggo QuINDI Sono Prize and was translated in France with acclaim of criticism. His second novel, Cuorebomba, was released in 2019 and was also translated in France. With The Violence of My Love (2021) he continued to tell the story of Rosario, but with Il cane di Falcone (2022), a great success with critics and the public, he was able to win the hearts of young people. The Judge and the Child is released in 2024.
In collaboration with the “Readers’ Club” of the Theater Bookshop and the Bitonto Book Presidium “Nietta Verriello”
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