Of fire and silk
Manlio Castagna
The Line that Separates Things
Coming of age
Two trains cross, on the tracks of this story, two journeys echo in each other.
The Eurostar train with which Thomas, now an adult, returns home from London, leaving a love that has ended behind him, and the old local train that thirty years earlier had brought him, as a child, from the city of Beauvais to Paris, for his first trip alone after another ended love, the one between his parents. Thomas wonders about the moment in which a boundary is crossed: that line that in life marks a before and after, a detachment, perhaps irremediable, from what we were before childhood ended, before love ended. Before we chose our path. A line that is sometimes invisible, but inevitable.
- The gentle words of Davide Calì and the poetic images of Alessandro Baronciani accompany us along this line, which for each of us runs along the tracks of today and at the same time retraces those of the past.
- A coming-of-age novel, delicately illustrated and sensitively narrated.
Publisher:
Mondadori
Target:
10+
Year:
2022
Author
Davide Calì
Davide Calì was born in Liestal, Switzerland, but spent most of his life in Italy. He is a comic artist and author of children's books, with his works primarily published in France and the United States, as well as in Italy, and translated into over 30 languages. He teaches writing courses and has collaborated with prestigious educational institutions such as the MiMaster in Editorial Illustration in Milan, Ars in Fabula in Macerata, and the IED in Turin. He has also held classes in Paris, Brussels, and Tallinn. His articles on illustration are regularly published on Frizzifrizzi and Robadadisegnatori, while his webinars are featured on Aduntratto, offering insights and reflections for the publishing world.
Author
Alessandro Baronciani
Alessandro Baronciani is a multifaceted artist: comic book creator, illustrator, art director, graphic designer, and musician. Born in Pesaro, he now lives and works in Milan, the city he calls home. Among his early works is Una storia a fumetti (Black Velvet), a collection of his self-published pieces originally sent by mail.
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