Wednesday 4 February, 6.30pm
The Italian Library #21. Grande è la confusione sotto il cielo
Ornella Tarantola in conversation with Fabrizio Sinisi
IN ITALIAN
One night, in the sky above a major Italian city, a face appears: a portrait with rough outlines, as if drawn by a child. When the citizens wake up, they look up and are left stunned. Among them is Luca, the young priest entrusted with narrating this story.
What does that sign in the sky mean? Could it be a meteorological phenomenon? An artistic happening, a coded message, the signal of an imminent chemical war? Or perhaps a miracle, the manifestation of a god? Thanks to this novel, we can question ourselves: what does it mean to believe? Why does humanity continue to hope in something incomprehensible, in an invisible God?
A profound moral reflection on the world we live in, because in an era that is increasingly confused and divisive like ours, perhaps the wait for a small miracle is necessary to feel less alone, to imagine that someone is thinking of us.
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Fabrizio Sinisi. Playwright and writer, in 2012 he made his debut as a theatrical author with La grande passeggiata directed by Federico Tiezzi. Since 2010 he has been the dramaturg for the Lombardi-Tiezzi Company and artistic consultant for the Centro Teatrale Bresciano. His works have been translated and performed also in Austria, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. He has received several awards, including a mention from the American Playwrights Project, the Premio Testori for Literature, and the National Award of Theater Critics. In 2025, his first novel Il prodigio was published by Mondadori.