Bøger af Maurizio Ascari

La tragedia di Antonio Ascari, deportato in Germania come lavoratore coatto nel 1944 e morto dopo la liberazione sulla lunga e faticosa strada del ritorno. Una tragedia che si riverbera su un intero nucleo familiare in una comunità sconvolta dalla guerra. Sullo sfondo l'Italia fascista, l'Italia delle vanaglorie imperiali e delle leggi razziali del '38. Un racconto, tra storia e ricostruzione della memoria, che è anche un viaggio introspettivo per comprendere i silenzi, il non detto e le parole appena accennate. Una storia che andava raccontata e che l'Autore racconta con sensibilità utilizzando testimonianze familiari e documentazione storica ma lasciando spazio alla creatività. Il bisogno di non dimenticare, di recuperare quelle pagine cancellate, da parte di chi, forse con meno dolore, può e deve ricordare il passato.Andrea Del Cornò - Londra 20.11.2021

1944, Northern Italy. Antonio's life is shattered when he is deported to Germany as a forced labourer. Thereafter, his joys consist of small things: being able to breathe, to feel the plaster of a wall with his fingers, and the hope that perhaps, one day, he will return to his world. The book, partly in the form of letters and postcards, reconstructs that former world and is itself an act of commemoration...

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