Writing
Baghdad, 2005. After Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena is kidnapped by insurgents, veteran SISMI negotiator Nicola Calipari is tasked with rescuing her, but interference from US forces in Iraq compromises his mission.
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1912. Giovanni Pascoli has died, and a train leaves from Bologna for his funeral. On board, students, officials, and family, including his sister Maria, called Mariù. It is a journey of national mourning, with people from all social classes paying homage to the poet. In Mariù’s recollections, we learn how Giovanni lived: his father’s assassination, his poverty as a youth, his political activism and fraught ties to Giosuè Carducci.
Giacomo Falta is a man ignored by everyone, unable to find his place in the world. When he meets the charismatic Giason the Great, the man who embodies everything he has always wanted to be, he makes a dangerous decision, convinced that putting on a different face is all he needs to do to finally be seen. Thus begins a long night, in which the boundary between identity and illusion grows increasingly blurred, to the point where Giacomo's very existence is put at risk.
James wakes up in the middle of night after a nightmare regarding war and deaths.
The brain of a five-year-old in 110 kilos of muscle: Pino is a really stupid boxer. He has the build to win, but it is better to lose, to the delight of those in Rome who manipulate gambling -.His mother made him, in fact, the boxer who falls on command and obeys the clandestine bookmakers in a perfect mechanism: a mechanism that stops when Pino decides for the first time that he wants to win.