What does it mean to remember? And how painful can it be to remember what everyone else seems to have forgotten? The village of Montequadrato is haunted by a ghost, a ghost that only young Emma (and her cat Malpelo) can see: it is Pietro, a former soldier of the Second World War who cannot find peace. He remembers little about his life, but among those memories is a letter he never managed to deliver to the woman he loved. Thus, Emma, Malpelo, and Pietro embark on a journey between past and present, between erased memories and memories to be rediscovered, through one of the most inhumane periods of our history. Everything they discover will be painful, inevitable, and necessary. A book about the importance of remembering.

An introverted little girl who talks to a cat (who answers her!) and does not want to learn how to swim. A mysterious letter brought by the wind, and a thin thread that connects that crumpled piece of paper to a story from the past, complex and difficult to uncover, but even harder to accept. A story from the time of the Second World War, the historical moment that split the world in two. Manuela Santoni narrates with a rare delicacy the way in which the youngest should remember the horrors of the past, to promise themselves never to let them happen again.

La Lettera Perduta, by Manuela Santoni – January 2022 – Bao Publishing
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