Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali Fall 2020
[email protected] www.consulenzeditoriali.it @ConsulenzeEd Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali 2 FICTION Andrea Ricolfi L'ULTIMO MARINAIO (The Last Sailor) A book for those who, bravely enough today, choose nature over human beings, but still can’t help hoping in a better, more gracious humankind. Matias lives on the island of Noss, a desert rock in the Norwegian sea. That very ocean, ❝ Let's hope he'll write more. ❞ which took his father away when he was Lidia Ravera, Tuttolibri just a child, means everything to him. His only inheritance is the Marlin, a hand-built wooden sailing boat. This is the origin of his dream: to create a sailing school, to shape sailors as they used to be. This is how Matias meets Tomas, a mysterious sailor who came to Noss to share with the students the ocean’s hard lesson: the sea is dangerous and no matter how many storms you have faced, the next one will still scare you to death. It is a cruel law, though never as cruel as the law of men. About the author Andrea Ricolfi, born in Torino, studied Tomas is a silent man, as hard to decipher Mathematics in Torino, Padova and Bordeaux. as the words of a distant song that is fading After obtaining his PhD at the University of away. But day after day Matias discovers in Stavanger, Norway, he was a researcher at the Max-Planck Institut für Mathematik in Bonn. him a pure soul, capable of the most vigorous He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at SISSA strength, as well as of the most unexpected (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi tenderness.