“La madre”, by journalist and author Orietta Cicchinelli, enters the Library of the prestigious Turin International Book Fair 2021.
A noble achievement for a 64-page story (Tuga Edizioni) backed by a small publishing house from Bracciano.
Set in the Abruzzo region, in a small town in the province of L'Aquila, “La madre” offers a glimpse into the history of local customs and society that seems a little removed from the frenetic life of the city, but which is forcefully relevant again in a time of pandemic like the one we are experiencing.
Those slow rhythms, naturally marked by the seasons, in a countryside that is certainly not bucolic (but hard and rugged as shown by the hands of those who work that land every day) in the heart of the central Apennines, bring us back to the solitude of today more than ever.
But the prospect ignites hope: for those who know how to look carefully, nature – which never forgives – has its seasons.
Winter is always followed by spring and then summer arrives and flies towards autumn followed by the inevitable winter in which everything rests and only apparently dies. Because then the cycle, the carousel begins again…
The peasant mother, the protagonist of the story, has within herself the meaning of life and many things to teach (even just with her dialect sayings and proverbs) with her example, her absolute devotion to the Mother of all mothers: the earth.
“La madre”, first published in 2015 (Ned Edizioni), lives a second life with the new edition by Tuga which, released in 2020, was reprinted in 2021.
The cover and the drawings inside are the work of Martina Rossi, an artist from the Roman School of Comics in Rome.
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