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Il viaggiatore notturno
“The Night Traveller” (title translated by AI)
Maurizio Maggiani (born 1951)
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A scholar of animal migration sits on a pass in the Hoggar desert, waiting for the swallows to pass. In that poor, essential place, where a French monk once left traces of his ascetic life, he observes the wisdom of his guide Jibril, listens to a wandering poet, buys the sweet love of a Berber woman and endures a tiresome journalist come to report on a desert people. Above all, facing the stillness of what he calls the centre of the universe, he measures his distance from a world collapsing into war, and tells stories of other wanderings: a bear in the forests of Carnia, a woman walking the roads of the world, the siege of Tuzla.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 193 pages in the original
- Genres
- War, Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Algeria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Italy
- First published
- 2005 by Feltrinelli
- Author's age
- 54 when first published
- ISBN
9788807016660 (original)
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