The siege of Sarajevo told on the telephone, the adventure of the last man to escape from the Twin Towers, a mother’s journey to return to war-torn Ukraine, the Pirate’s last great victory. This and much more contains “A rain of small stars”, the new book by Pierluigi Vito which will be presented at the municipal library of Terni on Thursday 2 May at 5pm.
A collection of stories that holds together memory and imagination, historical events and plots constructed to seek a common thread between different facets of human nature.
The reader is transported on the Italicus train an instant before departure; next to a thief who will find an unexpected opportunity for redemption in someone else’s house; in the middle of a football match between kids that becomes an epic challenge of values and passions.
The injustice of discrimination, the struggle to find meaning in life, the indecipherable wonder of relationships between human beings are the strong themes contained in these great little stories.
The teacher and writer Susanna Mancinelli Degli Esposti will speak at the presentation together with the author.
