Gianrico Carofiglio, internationally acclaimed novelist and former anti-Mafia judge, presents his hard-hitting, morally complex novel The Cold Summer.
Pietro Fenoglio, an officer of the Carabinieri recently jilted by his wife, must simultaneously deal with his personal crisis and the gang wars raging around Bari in the summer of 1992. The case is stalled until a Mafia member, suspected of killing the son of a rival mobster, decides to collaborate. While attempting to solve the mystery of the boy’s murder, Fenoglio is led into a world of deep moral ambiguity.
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FARE SCUOLA
Fare scuola (literally “to make a school”) is an Italian idiom which conveys a wide variety of concepts, including “to build knowledge”, “to invent a new way of doing something that others will follow”, “to inspire or become a model for others coming after you”. Someone who “makes a school” is a pioneer who gains the respect and affection of his followers – and rightly so.
Throughout September, Eraldo Affinati, Federico Fubini and Gianrico Carofiglio will be at the IIC to tell us about different ways of fare scuola: creating schools for immigrants (Affinati), reminding us of the power of education (Fubini), or stressing the importance of reasoning when looking at complex social events (Carofiglio). All these authors have fatto scuola, each in his own way. Let us find out how.
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