Wu Ming1 Loredana Lipperini - Gli Uomini Pesce

At the world's smallest theater, the Umbria Green Festival has chosen to discuss Peace, Justice, and Solid Institutions (Goal 16 of the 2030 Agenda) with a new format: ECOLOGY OF RESISTANCE.

And a great author will be doing so: Wu Ming 1, presenting his book "The Fish Men" with Loredana Lipperini.

"The war was in the newspapers again, the increasingly low river was revealing its vestiges. A German half-track had reappeared. A fifty-meter barge had resurfaced. Pontoon bridges bombed by the British had come to light. At the end of July, the shallows had exposed the ruins of the old bridge between Ostiglia and Revere. Ilario hadn't been able to see it. By then, he was gone."

It's the summer of 2022, and the Po has never been so low. The death of Ilario Nevi, a partisan, artist, and nationally renowned intellectual from Ferrara, uncovers a secret kept for nearly a hundred years, through the tragedies of the twentieth century and the upheavals of the new millennium. A secret that hides others, embedded in the past and nestled in the future, and each revelation is actually a new enigma. Antonia, Ilario's granddaughter, wants to make sense of what she is uncovering. She will get to the bottom of it, reconstructing the story not only of a life, but of an unexpected tangle of existences. From the war of liberation in the Delta to the struggles for rights and the environment, Gli uomini pesce is a tribute to the Great River and its lands. A majestic novel, a saga in which history is one with the protagonists' experiences, permeated by their loves, their adventures, their worst nightmares and their most beautiful dreams.