THE MEMORY I DIDN'T HAVE
Test by Alberto Melis
Description
«... what was grandpa Gabriel doing there?
In a Roma camp? “
«... Porrajmos? ... what does it mean? What’s this?»
Alberto Melis returns with a novel of strong civil commitment to talk about racism, intolerance, prejudice, and what he has to tell us and teach us about the past.
The protagonists are two twelve-year-old boys, Mattia and Angela, who live in Rome and who face a mystery that has its roots in the distant past, at the time of the Second World War and of the tragic mass exterminations by the Nazi regime.
Mattia’s grandfather, Gabriel, an elderly gentleman of Polish origin who has lived in Italy for over sixty years, is seriously injured during the assault by a group of racists against a Roma camp. But what was Grandpa Gabriel doing in a Roma camp?
Mattia tries to find out who that taciturn grandfather is, which is the missing page of his past. He will learn of a tragedy that rarely appears in the history books: the Porrajmos, the extermination by the Nazi hand of over half a million European Romani.
This story, forgotten by history, deserves the justice of a memory.
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Author Biography
Alberto Melis is born in 1957 in Cagliari, where he resides.
Along with teaching, he worked as a journalist for many years. He cultivates two great passions: photography, of which he is an expert, and writing for children. Several of his novels and fairy tale collections have also been published in other European and non-European countries.
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- Orginal LanguageItalian
- ISBN/Identifier 9788897007869
- Publication Country or regionItaly
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 12 EUR
- ReadershipTeenage/Young Adult
- Publish StatusPublished
- Page size14x21 (14x21) cm
- Biblio NotesAges 12+
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