Wednesday 5/8/2015 at 17:30
Books
Book presentation "the sound of wood beads" by Antonia Arslan in Asiago, August 5, 2015
The exhibition "Aperitif with author" of Asiago leads on the main stage the author Antonia Arslan – in collaboration with the Library at the point of Asiago, corso IV Novembre -which presents the book "the sound of wood beads"
Wednesday, August 5 at 2015 hours 17.30, so will the book "memories" by Antonia Arslan.
THE SOUND OF WOOD BEADS
"The memories, emerged from their boxes, run rampant in the heart and take possession of the mind."
There, in Padua, in and out of that House, Antonia for the first time he heard the Yerwant grandfather tell vital stories and then its tragic Armenian brothers.
There, he lived the war years, with the plane's bombs Foo and the Germans in the city but always together with mom, Moody and beautiful Victory, which slipped into a pig under the coat, pretending to be pregnant to hide it to the Nazis, and to his grandfather, who kept chatting with him in the dark during the last bombing in 1945.
The memories of the child aged you open, adventurous and intimate, and lead us to other places of childhood, dotted with extremely human figures. But also lead us to the heart of a crucial period for Italy . The war, its end, the 1950s and 1960s. And then the loves of the protagonist and his trips to Greece, the tales of an Armenia that has taken root in you but especially the discovery of books and their prodigious power ...
In case of bad weather the meeting will move to Teatrro Millepini of Asiago.
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