“We are truly amazed and still in disbelief at how Ammare managed to conquer the large and infinite audience of the XXXVI edition of the Turin International Book Fair. We managed to convey the same emotions that we felt when writing the book to those present through our story and that of the stories contained in the writing.” This is the comment of Roberto Marrone and Giuseppe Messina authors of Ammare (Multiverso Edizioni) who presented their new book as a national preview on Thursday 9 May at 3.00 pm, at the stand of the Sicilian Region inside the Book Fair. A significant showcase for Mazara del Vallo and for the entire Sicilian territory. “For us, being inside one of the oldest and most important book events in the world represents an honor but above all a responsibility which is to carry forward the concepts that we have explored and studied in this new project of ours. Ammare must represent a warning for the institutions but for all of us.”
The key theme of the 2024 edition of the Salone is precisely “Imaginary Life”, the same in which many of the real stories told by Marrone and Messina are born. “Ammare” (in the sea) is the place where everything begins but in Sicilian dialect it also has a negative meaning which is often used to emphasize a difficulty but at the same time, in the word there is also “amare”, an indispensable prerequisite for every possible and desirable future of coexistence and peace. All this and more were the topics addressed during the event.
Now another important deadline awaits Marrone and Messina because their new book will be presented on June 18th at 4pm in the Sala Matteotti of the Chamber of Deputies in Rome. That too will be a moment of reflection and study on a sea, the Mediterranean, much hated by some but much loved by many others.
