Subh-i Ruz-i Ba'd: Persiska (Farsi) 1403

"I've been wondering about the day after for years. We all know what it is, that awakening that for a moment is normal, but then is immediately attacked by pain." When you lose a parent, a partner, a child, a job, a decisive challenge, when you make a mistake, when you retire or move, there is always a morning after. A sense of emptiness, a vertigo. That comes over us when we realize that something or someone we had for years, and thought we would have forever, is suddenly no longer there. Because after a loss or a change there always comes a moment when we understand that life goes on, yes, but nothing is the same as before, and we are no longer the same as we were yesterday. An awakening that is inevitably a new beginning. A break from the past, a from today onwards. Mario Calabresi dedicates his new book to this delicate and crucial moment, starting from his own experience and then opening up to the experiences of others. And so it tells of different perspectives and lives, which all have in common the struggle to start over, starting the morning after. For Daniela it is after the accident in which she lost the use of her legs, for Damiano it is after the plane crash he survived, for Gemma it is after the loss of her husband. But it is also a journey into the family past, with the story of Carlo and his refusal to take the fascist membership card, which cost him his job but opened up a new happy life for him. Stories of resilience, of courage, of change, stories of people who have found the strength to look beyond the pain of today, to rebuild a tomorrow. Because, Calabresi realizes, "the day after ends when the accounts are settled, when you come to terms with things and you can try to look forward, even if that forward is perhaps very different from what you had imagined." Mario Calabresi (Milan 1970). A journalist, he was the director of «La Stampa» from 2009 to 2015 and then moved on to direct «Repubblica» from January 2016 to February 2019. At Mondadori he published Spingendo la notte più in là (2007), La fortuna non esiste (2009), Cosa ritense le stelle (2011) and Don't be afraid for us, our life will be wonderful (2015).