Monday, February 28 , 2022, at 17.00, at the Council Chamber of the Town Hall of Asiago there will be a literary meeting with the author Chicca Maralfa for the presentation of her novel "The strange crime of the Bedin sisters - The first investigation of Gaetano Ravidà", set right on the Plateau of the Seven Municipalities.
Presents the researcher Giovanni Dalle Fusine.
Booking at the IAT of Asiago.
Access is allowed only to holders of reinforced green pass as per Decree Law no. 172 of 26.11.21.
THE BOOK
After the failure of his marriage, Lieutenant Gaetano Ravidà, highly esteemed investigator of the Arma, left Puglia and moved to the north. To welcome him, the Carabinieri Station of Asiago, in the Vicenza plateau, theater of the bloodiest battles of the Great War.
On the village, apparently quiet, the shadow of an old case never solved, dating back to seven years earlier, actually stretches: the brutal murder of the Bedin sisters, recently archived. Someone, covering the walls with poems by Silvia Plath, however, seems to urge the reopening of the investigation into a story that asks for justice.
But it will not be only a case of chronicle of the past to test Ravidà's investigative skills. On the day of the Great Rogation (which everyone there calls Around the World), a procession that every year winds for thirty-three kilometers through the mountain paths and that involves the population of the area, another brutal crime will shake the quiet of the plateau, turning it into a storm.
There is another case, however, that, together with the cold case of the Bedin sisters, asks for justice with the same urgency. Ravidá finds himself in these places also dealing with a personal story of collective scope. His grandfather fought in the 'Trapani Brigade', during the 'Spring Offensive', right on the Asiago plateau. And there he died, an unknown soldier like thousands of other young fighters. On the saddle of Mount Lémerle, during the filming of a History Channel documentary on the Great War, the mortal remains of an Italian soldier are found and Lieutenant Ravidà hopes, with all of himself, that they may belong to his grandfather, wanting to assure his father that his father has never known, a more worthy burial.
The tour of the world, dreamed of by the emigrant, who cannot return to his country or remembered by the old man who no longer has the strength to face the journey, can become an embrace of love and nostalgia, an embrace of love with those who understand that life is also a walk together, an embrace of nostalgia with those who know how to find in regret a new happiness. Mario Rigoni Stern
THE AUTHOR
Chicca Maralfa was born and lives in Bari. A professional journalist, he is responsible for the press office of Unioncamere Puglia and the Chamber of Commerce of Bari.
He has collaborated permanently for years with the "Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno", writing about culture and current affairs and for the specialized periodicals "Ciao 2001" and "Music".
For Antenna Sud and Rete 4 (in the broadcast by Alessandro Cecchi Paone, Giorno per giorno) she dealt with black and white news.
He made his debut in fiction in 2018 with the black comedy Festa al trullo, and in 2021 he published his first mystery, The Secret of Mr. Willer, a finalist for various literary awards.
PRESENTS
Giovanni Dalle Fusine, researcher and collaborator of various newspapers, is a member of the Historical Association "IV novembre".
In 2014 he collaborated with Rai Storia for services dedicated to the First World War. In 2015 he was historical consultant to GA&A Productions for documentaries on food at the front broadcast by the History Channel. He is the author of various publications on the Great War.
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