Mu'jizah'hā-yi Dīgar: Persiska (Farsi) 1400

With a few quick strokes, Mariolina Venezia draws a city that could be anywhere, with its schools, hospitals, supermarkets... That's where the protagonists of these stories live. Immersed in their routines, without even realizing it, they commit some small betrayal to themselves or others. Cowardice. Trifles. Not criminally prosecutable, just morally condemnable. From this "grey area," a series of increasingly powerful side effects is unleashed, revealing the plan little by little: good and evil develop within each of us and spread through the bonds that unite us. The monstrous gesture of the news is thus reconnected to its context, no longer an isolated episode, but the product of a chain of causes and effects in which everyone participates and is to some extent responsible. The author of A Thousand Years I've Been Here, in this first book, published by Theoria in '98, anticipates the wealth of characters that will be found in her novel, describing a metropolitan society in which the sacredness of life and death is being lost and the values of history and bonds between individuals. Going back to the roots of suffering and joy, against the backdrop of a rampant crisis of the family and institutions, these stories seem to anticipate certain dazzling events of recent years in Italian news.