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Alessandro Sponzilli
IL SIGNORE DEL SOLE NASCENTE
(The Lord of the Rising Sun) |
| Piemme Edizioni, 2010 |
A novel set in ancient Sumer, the book’s historical plot tells the story of Sargon, founder of the Akkadian dynasty and the first king to unite the peoples of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. But the close-up focus is on the king’s adoptive father, an anti-hero called Akki. The narrative is thick with epic friendships, love stories, treachery, cruelty and war – all told by ‘humble’ Akki, an endearing and realistic character with a weakness for alcohol and whores that even his son becoming king cannot eradicate.
He starts off as an apprentice gardener at the hanging gardens of the Temple, but then finds a baby in a channel along a rice-field and eventually adopts him.
The baby will grow to be the hero history will remember as Sargon (the author’s inspiration was a stele recording that Sargon’s father had been ‘Akki the Irrigator’). |
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Vauro Senesi
LA SCATOLA DEI CALZINI PERDUTI
(The Box of Lost Socks) |
| Piemme 2009 – 336 pages |
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On March 5, 2010, Vauro's third novel was among the six winners of the Premio Selezione Bancarella, one of which will be awarded the Bancarella Prize in Pontremoli on July 18.
The frightened screams of a child disrupt the Yuletide atmosphere in a crowded mall. The black bogeyman is Madut, a young Sudanese...
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Carlo Pizzati
TECNOSCIAMANI. Viaggio alla fine del mondo tra spiritualità e tecnologia. |
| FBE Edizioni 2010 - 200 pages |
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Technoshamans is a humorous, illuminating narrative non-fiction book which answers these questions, and many more, as the author roams the world searching for places where technology and spirituality intersect. The driving force of the book is the narrator’s quest for relief for a bad back which has tortured him for twenty years. Armed with his notebook, his experience as a veteran ... |
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