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Narrative Non-Fiction

La scomparsa dei colori

(The Disappearance of Colours)

Garzanti, September 2024, pp.208

The intimate, personal story of progressive loss of sight becomes a deep reflection on the conditions and rights of disabled people, in a book that is a true hymn to life.

For ten years, Luigi Manconi has been waging a “fight to the death” against the progressive darkness of blindness with the light that resists it. Forced to face the unavoidable loss, but determined never to yield to it, Manconi – without sentimentality, but, on the contrary, with a pinch of irony – leads the reader into the constantly changing world of someone who can no longer see. Someone who is regulated by a new relationship between the senses, in which hands take over from the eyes as an essential tool of knowledge and connection with others.

Garzanti, September 2024, pp.208

  • “With warm and humorous self-awareness, (…) Manconi faces blindness and ways to tackle it in an audacious manner, drawing inspiration from Jules Verne’s  Michel Strogoff.” 

    Claudio Magris, Corriere della Sera

  • “A journey into disability amid new resources he did not know he had and clumsy errors.”

    Susanna Schimperna, L’Unità

  • “A novel of rare subtlety because it deals with things that concern every age in such an intelligent and poetical way that it leaves in its wake a vibration akin to a piece of music that resonates for a long time.”

    Daria Bignardi, Vanity Fair

Luigi Manconi

Luigi Manconi, former lecturer in Sociology of Political Phenomena and Chairman of the Commission for Human Rights at the Italian Senate, is Chairman of the A Buon Diritto non-profit organisation. His most recent book is Il senso della vita. Conversazioni tra un religioso e un pococredente [The Meaning of Life. Conversations Between a believer and a not very believer  (Einaudi 2021). He is a columnist for La Repubblica and La Stampa.

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