Il romance "Beyond the Darkness” touches deep emotional chords, exploring human fragility and the constant confrontation with life and death.
The author's captivating and engaging writing Vincenzo Valtriani transports the reader through a range of emotions, from unconditional love to heartbreaking grief.
“Beyond the Dark” stands out for its ability to treat delicate subjects with sensitivity, inviting readers to reflect on the complexity of family relationships and the resilience of the human soul in the face of life’s challenges.
A touching and well-written story that will stay with the reader long after reading.
Synopsis
The novel focuses on the sentimental portrait of Emanuele, the protagonist, who has lost his wife, thus becoming a widower, and who is also about to lose his son, hospitalized at the end of his life as a drug addict. The two emotional levels of husband and father are both about to be painfully emptied.
Emanuele, the first character who appears and the protagonist of the novel, is the father. Through him, a perfect representation of pain, expressed in a paternal way, of suffering and grief is provided.
In those moments of agony spent in the hospital where his son Giacomo is inexorably dying, Emanuele can do nothing but abandon himself to the memory. The first of all: the moment in which his son was conceived by him and his wife Luisa.
Shortly after, another memory surfaces in Emanuele's mind: the scene of his wife Luisa. She had fallen ill with depression: Emanuele had seen her different, destroyed, far from what she had been. Even in that case, he had wondered if he had some responsibility for her now irrecoverable condition, which had forced her to be hospitalized.
The sentimental description of the world of the inmates and their dramatic hospitalization is significant.
Through his story, a relationship opens with the other guests of the nursing home that do not leave him indifferent and with whom he sets up a generous exchange of humanity with a curious gaze and humanly capable of closeness.
And just as Emanuele had witnessed his wife's death as a helpless husband, he now found himself witnessing his son's death with the same helplessness as a father.
Overcome by sleep, he will wake up when his son has just passed away. Emanuele will raise a prayer to the sky: "That beyond the darkness there is always light".
The author Vincenzo Valtriani was born in Pisa in 1940 and is a former Merchant Navy Officer.
Graduated in "Peace Sciences" at the University of Pisa, he specialized in International Cooperation and Conflict Mediation and is an Expert in Islamic Law
He has published so far:
– Ancient Life
– Mom, there's a poor man at the door
– From no global to new global
– Islam, this unknown of ours
– Beyond the Darkness
– Dialogue between a Muslim believer and an Italian layman on the relationship with God in his divine practice
Passionate about photography, he collaborates with various associations to promote Human Rights and Facilitate Integration, he was part of the "Tavola Della Pace" for the Gandhi Center.
The novel Beyond the Darkness was published with PubMe, it is available on the best online stores.
Article published on November 17, 2023 - 17:23
