The book: Sicily, O Dear is the journey of a young Giuseppe Culicchia, a journey preceded by his father's stories and above all by the imagination those stories ignited. And so there is the arrival at Turin station, the train cutting cleanly across Italy, the mist thinning, the landscapes beyond the window, the first hints of smells and colors. When little Giuseppe arrives in Sicily, fairy tales come to life, stories become faces, cities, words. Palermo, Trapani, and finally Marsala, where his relatives welcome him with a phrase that becomes a ritual formula: “But you're Peppe! Peppe like your grandfather Giuseppe Culicchia! Pippinu! Pippinu Piruzzu!”. The horizon widens over the sea and Turin seems to belong to another life. Giuseppe Culicchia puts his own memory at stake and relies on the gaze of a child, innocent, curious, full of wonder, to tell a journey that is not yet over. Giuseppe Culicchia (Turin 1965), former bookseller, is the son of a Sicilian barber and a Piedmontese factory worker. He has published 24 books with Italy's leading publishers and has been translated into ten languages. His long seller Tutti giù per terra was adapted into the film of the same name. His latest novel is Il cuore e la tenebra (Mondadori, 2019). He has translated, among others, Mark Twain, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and Bret Easton Ellis. For Einaudi he translated American Psycho and Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis and published Ritorno a Torino dei signori Tornio (2007) and Mi sono perso in un luogo comune (2016). In 2017 Einaudi republished, with a new introduction by the author, Il paese delle meraviglie and in 2018, with a new introduction by the author, Tutti giù per terra.
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The book: Sicily, O Dear is the journey of a young Giuseppe Culicchia, a journey preceded by his father's stories and above all by the imagination those stories ignited. And so there is the arrival at Turin station, the train cutting cleanly across Italy, the mist thinning, the landscapes beyond the window, the first hints of smells and colors. When little Giuseppe arrives in Sicily, fairy tales come to life, stories become faces, cities, words. Palermo, Trapani, and finally Marsala, where his relatives welcome him with a phrase that becomes a ritual formula: “But you're Peppe! Peppe like your grandfather Giuseppe Culicchia! Pippinu! Pippinu Piruzzu!”. The horizon widens over the sea and Turin seems to belong to another life. Giuseppe Culicchia puts his own memory at stake and relies on the gaze of a child, innocent, curious, full of wonder, to tell a journey that is not yet over. Giuseppe Culicchia (Turin 1965), former bookseller, is the son of a Sicilian barber and a Piedmontese factory worker. He has published 24 books with Italy's leading publishers and has been translated into ten languages. His long seller Tutti giù per terra was adapted into the film of the same name. His latest novel is Il cuore e la tenebra (Mondadori, 2019). He has translated, among others, Mark Twain, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and Bret Easton Ellis. For Einaudi he translated American Psycho and Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis and published Ritorno a Torino dei signori Tornio (2007) and Mi sono perso in un luogo comune (2016). In 2017 Einaudi republished, with a new introduction by the author, Il paese delle meraviglie and in 2018, with a new introduction by the author, Tutti giù per terra.
