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The definitive age (novel, 2015)

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The novel is set  in Palermo, in the district of Brancaccio, where the mafia has a ghostly and invasive presence: you cannot see it, but you feell its presence everywhere. Most of the story takes …

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The Year of the Ashes (novel, 2010)

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The fatal destiny of a hopeless romance between Masino and Ninetta unfolds in a long story in a Palermo of1948, aPalermo of crossroads, joint interests, dealings which protract into the present. The connective tissue of …

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The Cambodian Room (2009)

Antoine D’Agata, a photographer from Magnum Agency, is in Phom Penh (Cambodia). Drugs, sex and errance are his autobiographical subjects, but in Cambodia his artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point. After devoting his …

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Apolitics Now! (2013)

In Italy, on 2012, the situation is serious: Monti’s technocrat government, called to save the country from the bankruptcy of the Berlusconi government, adopts the politics of austerity, provoking protests and raising the spectre of …

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The shadow of the Godfather (2016)

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THE SHADOW OF THE GODFATHER – Research for a film Di Giuseppe Schillaci (Italia/Francia 2015, 52 min) The mafia, for someone sho is born in Sicily, is a shadow, something that stays with you since …

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Cosmic Energy Inc. (2011)

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SYNOPSIS   Wild ideas can lead to wild success. Or wild failure. Convinced that the cosmos, the natural world and human beings all share the same energy waves, three enterprising Italians set up an eco-friendly …

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The definitive age at Salone del Libro, Turin

Posted by blumenlab on Tuesday September 29th, 2015  /   No Comments

The novel « L’età definitiva » (Liberaria Edizioni, 2015) will be presented at the Salone del Libro in Turin on the 15th of May (Indipendent’s Corner, h 10.30) with the writer Francesco Forlani and the …

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