Tuesday 28/7/2015 at 17:30
Books
The war of our grandparents, aperitif with author Aldo Cazzullo in Asiago, July 28, 2015
At the main stage of Asiago, Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 17.30 back "Aperitif with author".
To present the book "the war of our grandparents' will be the author Aldo Cazzullo in collaboration with the Library at the point of Asiago, corso IV Novembre 63.
ATTENTION!! The event, SCHEDULED for WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, was BROUGHT FORWARD to 28!
THE WAR OF OUR GRANDPARENTS
The great war has heroes. The protagonists are not Kings, emperors, generals. Are foot soldiers and peasants: our grandparents. Aldo Cazzullo recounts the conflict ' 15-18 on the Italian front, alternating stories of men and women: the histories of our families. Because the war is the beginning of freedom for women, that can do the same things: men working in the factory, driving trams, graduate, teaching.
The story of Red Cross nurses, prostitutes, bearers, spies, sent to war, even female soldiers in disguise, cross those of alpini, arditi, prisoners, poets in arms, great characters and other strangers.
Through letters, war diaries, also unpublished, "the war of our grandparents" leads into the abyss of grief and can help us to remember those who were our grandparents, what moral strength were able, and which we carry within us heritage.
ALDO CAZZULLO
Aldo Cazzullo after fifteen years 'Printing' from 2003 is posted and a columnist for the «Corriere della Sera». Among his books published by Mondadori : via Po boys, testament of an anti-Communist, Italy Outlet.
In 2011 he published the novel my soul is wherever you are, translated abroad. And long live Italy! is Just crying! (2013) have exceeded one hundred thousand copies; The war of our grandparents (2014) the two hundred thousand.
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