Thursday, August 18, 2022, at the Forte Corbin in Treschè Conca di Roana, there will be a literary meeting with the writer Loris Giuriatti who will present his latest book: "Lo chiamavano Alpe Madre" and other novels about the Great War.
The event "Scrittori al Forte Corbin", organized in collaboration with the Libreria Giunti al Punto di Asiago, will start at 15:30 and is free of charge.
"THEY CALLED IT ALPE MADRE"
Loris Giuriatti returns to tell the mountain and the Great War through an exceptional story of courage, tenacity, friendship and passion. After the first encounter with Monte Grappa, when he was a boy, Angelo was struck by the wonder of the landscape and the many secrets kept among the peaks. Now that he has grown up, the refuge of that first summer has become his home and that of his wife Carlotta. It is late autumn and the season of tourists is now behind them when a visitor dressed in sweatshirt, bermuda shorts and sandals comes to them: the least suitable clothing to climb up there. His name is Joshua, he studies History and arrived from Austria to try to solve the mystery of three objects kept in a safe: a document with the Habsburg seal, the photo of the Madonnina del Grappa and a watercolor with a strange phrase pinned. For Angelo it is impossible not to get involved. The discovery that other similar paintings are scattered around the mountain huts begins a door-to-door search, refuge by refuge. Among legendary hosts, malgari, "recuperanti" and dodgy characters who have lost respect for themselves and for the community of which they are part, he and Joshua will end up exhuming a story of more than a hundred years before, which took place between Vienna and Grappa. A story closely linked with a contrasted love and a mystery that dates back to the First World War.
Loris Giuriatti, a writer from Padua, is an environmental hiking guide. Author of successful books such as "L'angelo del grappa", "L'urlo del male", "La perla del Brenta" and "Lassù è casa mia", Giuriatti has a very particular literary style in which the great events of history abandon the central role of protagonists, becoming only the frame of many small stories lived by ordinary people. Authentic stories, recovered from the memories of relatives, narrated by gleaning between historiographical rigor and fictional fantasies. In his books come back to life curiosities and anecdotes of a distant world that has its epicenter in the legendary Monte Grappa, the last bastion of the Great War, emblematic scenario of many small great epochal events.
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