A special evening for Il Circolo Bookclub, Mondo Nuovo with Olga Campofreda and Mario Desiati.
We are going to discuss “Malbianco” by Mario Desiati.
Secrets and silence envelop the protagonists of this story like white rot infests tree trunks. Among the Petrovici family, there have always been more hidden threads than shared truths. But the questions of the son who has lost his way, and for this reason turns to look at his own footsteps, gradually dispel the fog of a patchy and reluctant family memory. If “certain ghosts can only be freed by telling their stories”, first of all we need to know the past from which we come.
From the woods of Taranto to the cold of German prison camps, Mario Desiati returns with a great novel that explores the relationship between the individual and their roots, trauma and shame, courageously questioning the collective repression of our country.
The Il Circolo Bookclub is online via Zoom.
